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The 24 in 20-10 Book Challenge is going well! Right now, I’m reading Der Vorleser, Catch-22, and I’ll start Dancing on My Ashes (and here) tomorrow, hopefully with the workbook. (I’m reading three right now mostly because Der Vorleser will take me longer since it’s in German. I don’t want to get behind.) Here’s my [...]

I’ve set the goal to work through 24 books in 2010, and by the end of February, I’ve completed 5 books, so I’m slightly ahead of schedule. In this post, I’ll share what I thought about another book on my 24 in 20-10 Book Challenge List. You can see the list here, and you can [...]

I finished Kafka on the Shore last night, and I have repeat what I said last time about Haruki Murakami being an artist with words. He polishes his craft in this book. The main characters–Kafka, Nakata, Oshima, Hoshino, and even Mimi the Siamese cat–are so well designed, without feeling forced, that I really believed they are real people living in this world. After reading two of Murakami’s books, Kafka on the Shore and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, he has

I finished Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk about Running on Tuesday, January 26, meaning I’m 26 days into my 365-day Book Challenge and have already checked two books off the list. This is good.
But Murakami also wrote a little book called Kafka on the Shore, which Rob read last year and [...]

Be sure to check out the first post in this series, TwLFL: Book Challenge 24 in 20-10.

16 days in and done with the first one–that’s not a bad pace to be on so far.

Sarah and I planned to meet at Sequiota Park to run this morning and I was ready a few minutes early, so I read while waiting for her. She had some car trouble, so I ended up having enough time to finish Is the Mormon My Brother? before setting out on a 5 miler. Here’s a brief review of the book, plus a little glance ahead at what is next on my Book Challenge List.