03.29.08
Hourglass
Please note: this is the first time I’ve actually sat down and ‘reviewed’ a CD. We’ll see how it goes, okay?
Hourglass is the second solo full-length album from Dave Gahan, the lead singer of Depeche Mode. My background with Depeche Mode is limited; I own two CDs and have heard a few other’s at friends’ houses. The biggest draw for me was the fact that their lyrics are written by keyboardist Martin Gore — meaning Gahan’s distinctive voice, which I’ve always associated with a certain lyric style, may be engaged in something entirely different when the words are from his own pen. Read the rest of this entry »
03.24.08
After Dark
Now that that’s over with, I can review the backlog of things I read in between chapters and while avoiding the BAM challenge review. We’ll start with After Dark, by Haruki Murakami.
This reading choice began as a New Year’s resolution – I would spend 2008 reading 50 fiction titles from the New York Times “100 Notable Books of 2007” list. (Since that works out to about a book a week, I’m already ten behind, and it’s become increasinly clear that this is yet another resolution failure.) I’d already read Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore and enjoyed it, so it seemed like another of his books would be a good starting point on the list.
03.20.08
Book-a-month challenge: February
Yeah, yeah, I know: this BAM challenge review is heinously late. I put off choosing a book, because the “Heart” theme wasn’t doing it for me: I’m not a mush-and-smush reader; in fact, the whole month of February and its attendant holiday themes just make me cranky. (I think good relationships take more communication and self-perception, less ‘expensive gift in exchange for sex’ crap.) As nothing non-fiction related to the heart jumped out at me, I took the route of the Valentine’s Day equivalent of Scrooge – I finally threw “Heart” in title keyword and “horror — fiction” in subject, and went with the one and only result in the library catalog. The Course of the Heart by M. John Harrison.
