read a new book every week for the rest of the year

The Club Dumas was enjoyable, albeit freaking weird. I have another Perez-Reverte here, but I think I will hold off on cracking its spine for a while.

I like the pace of switching between fiction and non-fiction, so for this next week (and I am a bit behind, so I will have to trudge bravely through this one) I have chosen Imagining Numbers by Barry Mazur. I may be the only person who could read a discussion on number theory and mathematical development with the same interest as a teenager with a Harry Potter or Twilight novel, but that just equates to more reading material for myself.

Finished Coronary, then I promptly got sick. I’ve never been so hesitant to call a doctor in my life. If you’re paranoid, leave the book alone. Otherwise, it’s a fairly important retelling of a serious issue in the American health care industry.

On to a new book, originally in Spanish, The Club Dumas relates a tale of the apparently cutthroat and dangerous, seedy, underground world of… wait for it… book collecting. If you’re trying to relate the book to the movie The Ninth Gate, stop. The author and the screenwriters have already done that for the reader. Arturo Pérez-Reverte is one of the most popular Spanish authors in the world and several of his novels have been adapted for the silver screen. Here’s to reading a book about reading books about reading….

If it has “True Story” in the subtitle, it must be good, right? RIGHT?

I started this book a few days ago and put it down mostly out of time constraints, but to fulfill this goal, and my ancillary goal of reading for pleasure daily, I must begin somewhere. For the purposes of this goal, I consider a week to last from 12:00AM Monday to 11:59PM Sunday. This week’s book is Coronary by Stephen Klaidman.

And I’d hardly count my early start as cheating because I am literally only 9 pages into the book.