Welcome to this week's blog. The lovely picture of A Million Little Pieces on this piece was submitted by 47giffarfes to our Flickr group If you'd like to share a picture of the book you're currently reading, please do upload it to What are you reading today?
Thanks to everyone who regularly comments on TLS, and a warm welcome to all the new voices in the thread. Here are a few of your comments from last week's post.
Just finished 'The Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole...I appreciate it's a book that by it's very nature will divide opinion but crikey I really loathed it.
I'm reading Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes, which I'm really enjoying. He writes economically and you never know where the story's going next. A friend put me onto him and I read Little Hands Clapping, which is delightfully bizarre.
About to start reading The Dark Object by Katrina Palmer.
I'm also just finishing up a collection of Robert Walser's 'microscripts'.
I am currently reading Drifting House, the new collection by the Korean Krys Lee. All the critical attention seems to have gone to another book set in North Korea, Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master's Son, which I think is a pity (not that I have anything against the Johnson novel, I am looking forward to reading it, but the Lee didn't deserve to be swallowed up in its shadow, I think. It's a very fine book.)
Drifting House is on our review list this week, do let us know if you agree with our writer.
And here is the rest of the book review list for this week. These are a selection of some of the titles we'll be reviewing this week (subject to last minute changes).
Non-Fiction
• Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
• Perfect Rigour: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century by Masha Gessen
• Get Real: How to Tell it Like it is in a World of Illusions by Elaine Glaser
• Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 and Letters by Paul Hendrickson
• The Arch Conjuror of England: John Dee by Glyn Parry
Fiction
• A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale
• The Origin of Violence by Fabrice Humbert
• Drifting House by Krys Lee
• Intrusion by Ken MacLeod
• This Is Life by Dan Rhodes
• Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles
Children
Soonchild by Russell Hoban
If you have any ideas or suggestions for topics, books or authors we should be covering on the site, please tell us in the thread below.
