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Holiday reading: I was out of the habit of reading, so I was looking for books to inhale; things that would slip down easily, for a week on a beach in Greece.
So I took these:
Neal Stephenson Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
Mieko Kawakami Heaven
Ryu Murakami In the Miso Soup
James Ellroy This Storm
Stephenson was a slog and I resented its size/weight against my luggage limit. Murakami a waking nightmare (quite a palate cleanser tho!). Ellroy I was trying hard to care about these characters - feels like it was written by Ellroy AI. This happens right? Kawakami I haven't touched yet but given my jaded responses to the above, maybe I'll avoid.
Next thing is to try to find a cheap copy of Camporesi's The Land of Hunger to dip back into and lay off the fictions for a while.