March

Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, JK Rowling
Romance of the State and the Fate of Dissent in the Tropics, Ashis Nandy
Subalterns and Sovereigns, Nandini Sundar
Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami

March has been a thoroughly long, complicated, busy yet slow month. I'm pretty sure I don't like months like these. And clearly, I've been reading way more fiction than I've read for my proposal, so don't let me complain much about work not getting done, okay?

Also, one new and one old Murakami! He's getting slightly predictable and less quirky by the book, I feel. Wind-up just wasn't all that. And I definitely prefer Birnbaum to Rubin. With Graveyard Book, I think Gaiman's just getting old, and I-the-reader have to just accept this as a fact of life and not expect an American Gods to happen everytime I read one of his books. Bryson was enjoyable and quite a laugh, as usual. (Oh, also, what is with these new Pratchett covers? They're so boring and monotonous! What is that elephant doing on that cover. Psh.)

I loved Sundar's book, and seeing as it's full of post-it flags, have also made much use of it. And Nandy is tedious as usual. I felt like I was missing the point through most of the book, but I honestly wasn't even trying, except for towards the end.