Anyone who is a fan of Haruki Murakami’s books (e.g., The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore), has been anxiously awaiting the English translation of his new book, IQ84. To bide my time, I decided to speed through his short non-fiction book, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running while I waited. Murakami’s novels …
By November 2009, after over a year of living in Germany (with a lifelong soccer fan), I was more or less pretty up-to-date with what was going on in the German soccer world. I certainly knew that Robert Enke was the star goalie for Hannover 96, which is mein Schatz‘s home team. His pint-sized soccer-obsessed …
I bought Julie Orringer‘s first novel with a gift card from mein Schatz as a get-well gift shortly after getting laid up in bed for awhile. Not only did The Invisible Bridge garner rave reviews from friends, but with 600+ pages, it promised to keep me entertained for a good long while. And that it did. Really, …
Just the other day I was posting about my reading list for the new year, so it’s only fitting to follow through with Resident on Earth‘s challenge to take 15 minutes to list 15 authors who have had the most impact on my life. I’ll admit to being totally dependent on browsing back through my …