Recommended reads - and not about derivatives or financial reform!
Those of you who know me personally know I like to read – A LOT. So, as usual, I spent my summer on the beach, book in hand. I did have good intentions to read the US financial reform legislation, but it just didn’t seem to go as well with a G&T as the novels I took to the cottage. I’ll get back to the recommended derivatives reads next month, but I thought I would share my three favourites from the more than 20 novels I read this summer (and no, I didn’t read any of those girl with the tattoo novels – those are SO last summer).
The Passage by Justin Cronin. Yes, I know this is a book about vampires, but it was good. Really. Well written, compelling, fun – well as fun as a book about mass plague wiping out all life in North America can be. Bet they make a movie of this.
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall (2007). One of the most inventive novels I’ve read in eons. There is a 50 page flip book in the middle with an approaching shark. Need I say more? Yet in case you think that sounds pretentious, it’s a great story with all kinds of allusions to films, other writers etc. That actually sounds pretentious too, but it’s not. Bound for moviedom as well I’m sure.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell. This author is a genius and this book is great. It’s set in 1799 in a Japanese Dutch trading post which in and of itself is interesting. Love story, coming of age story, adventure story (yes, there are samurai).
