conor.

After reading Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy (which, unfortunately, I ended up being quite indifferent to), I now start the trecherous 5-10 minute process of working out which book amongst the bags on my floor and piles on my shelves and desk I will read next.

I think today was a much needed reading day for me. I finished Middlesex and then started and finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

I had been reading Middlesex for a few weeks now and it was great to finally finish it because it started to get to the stage where I loved it so much I wanted to keep reading on and on.

(Side-note: the phrase “catatonia without; frenzy within” has been cemeted in my brain since I read it on pg 326. This was probably the point where the book went from being really good to amazing.)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was just really depressing. Relentlessly so, I think. It was very well written and the voice of Christopher, in terms of his grasp on the world, brought to mind Oskar in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, so I really admired Haddon’s ability to get inside the head of his character.

Now I move onto the behemoth that has been sitting on my desk since Tuesday, Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves. And exam/assignment time is just around the corner. I wonder whether this will have as much an impact upon my study as reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo all night instead of getting a good night’s sleep.

Right - I’m gonna stop writing about books now. Cool cool.

I have an awful habit of packing way too many books. There is no way I’d even finish half of them during this semester. But because I’m not sure what I’d want to read at what time, I have to pack everything!