What I am Reading

I am horrible with formality. The formal nature of this blog, or at least the formal nature I had ascribed to it, was killing me. I cringe when I think about sitting down to write a casual book review. It seems so uncasual. So, I am attempting a change. The biweekly type of reviews will still come - hopefully now on a biweekly schedule. However, now I am also going to write about what I am reading and just stuff to do with literature as well.

I am currently about a hundred pages in to Umberto Eco's The Prague Cemetery. I am finally beginning to see where we are going now in the story and I have to say I think I am going to love it. I wish my Italian was good enough to read this in the original. I will write a review when I finish it, but so far so good.

I am also delving into a new comic series that comes highly recommended called The Manhattan Project. I have only read the first issue of the trade paperback which contains the first five issues. However, the premise of a historical science fiction tale about Oppenheimer's evil twin - and his many personalities - killing Oppenheimer and taking over the project and all its top secret experiments in so far an awesome premise. Its getting weird and crazy. Luckily the art is up to the challenge. I was super excited to finish work today so I could come home and read some more of these.

I also started Consider Phlebas, but I got stuck at the end of the first section. It was a really big week at work and I get antsy when I spent a few days not progressing on a book and switch to something else. I am going to return to it. Iain Banks has a great world created that I am sure is going to provide me with a lot of awesome stories to read.

That is all for now!

Goodnight.