Monthly Reading: May 2009

June 1, 2009 at 2:56 pm | In Books, Monthly Reading | 1 Comment
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Cover of "When We Were Orphans"

Cover of When We Were Orphans

Good month of reading, with two 4-star books! As always, click the link for my review or reading notes.

four_starsWhen We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro — crime

four_starsThe Unit by Ninni Holmqvist — dystopian

three_starsThe Night Country by Stewart O’Nan — horror

three_starsGuided Tours of Hell by Francine Prose — literary fiction

one_starUp in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell — abandoned

My rating scale:

  • 1 star: Abandoned before finishing. Don’t waste your time.
  • 2 stars: Poor. Avoid with extreme prejudice.
  • 3 stars: Average. Read it, have a good time and move on. Or not.
  • 4 stars: Great. Push it on your friends and family.
  • 5 stars: Excellent. Keep it, treasure it, reread it.

Disclaimer: My ratings are very personal and may have little to do with the book’s artistic or commercial merit, or its place in the literary canon. Rather, the rating reflects how the story, characters and writing spoke to me and augmented my understanding of the world.

And here are some reviews of favorite reads from around the blogosphere:

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  1. nice list, I see you’ve read something by Stewart O’nan; I haven’t but I attended the Cornell Reading Series a few months ago. He read from one of his books, but I don’t remember which one it was.

    Comment by zawan — June 4, 2009 #


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