- Martin Amis - The House Of Meetings
- Haruki Murakami - After Dark
- Salman Rushdie - Shalimar The Clown
- Dave Eggers - What Is The What?
- Jay McInerney - The Good Life
- Mario Vargas Llosa - The Bad Girl
- Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policemen's Union
- Thomas Pynchon - Against The Day
- Jeroen Brouwers - Datumloze Dagen
- Dave Mitchell - Black Swan Green
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Boeken Top 10 van 2007
De meeste boeken die ik dit jaar heb gelezen, dateerden van voor 2007. Hier dan het lijstje van wat ik het beste vond, in bijna willekeurige volgorde
Mario Vargas Llosa - The Bad Girl (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2007) ****

Een zeer aangrijpend verhaal. Meer dan eens had ik de krop in de keel. Een prachtig personage, die bad girl, de "niña mala", en het geheel steekt meer dan vernuftig in elkaar, ondanks de wat oubollige vertelstijl, maar die is uitermate functioneel in deze roman. Niet zijn beste, maar wel de moeite.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Jeroen Brouwers - Datumloze Dagen (Uitgeverij Atlas, 2007) ****

Saturday, December 15, 2007
Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policeman's Union (Harper Collins, 2007) ****

- "Landsman wakes from a dream of feeding his right ear to the propellor blades of a Cessna 206".
- "An invisible gas clouds his thoughts, exhaust from a bus left parked with its engine running in the middle of his brain".
- "Surrender unfolds across Landsman's heart like the shadow of a flag".
- "Hertz is crowding Landsman, exhaling his breath of plum brandy, the undertone of herring so oily and sharp you can feel the little bones in it".
- "She looks like hell, only hotter".
- "'Uh-huh', Spade says amiably, a little distracted, maybe, like someone pretending to take an interest in the minutiae of your life while surfing some inner Internet of his mind".
- "The weariness of her voice seems to flow into her shoulders, her jaw, the lines of her face".
- "The tea bags surrender their color unwillingly to the tepid water".
- "He used to keep a museum, maybe it's still there, up at the tired end of Ibn Ezra street".
Om duimen en vingers van af te likken.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Richard House - Uninvited (Serpent's Tail, 2001) **

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