Books

Here's the low-down on a few books I've read recently. Future posts about books will probably be in much more detail, but rather than have a zillion posts today, I'll give you the condensed version:

The Time-Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
A strange quasi-fantasy book about a guy named Henry with a genetic disorder that causes him to leap backwards and forwards through his own history (and future). It's a love story, since he meets his wife when she's a child, and not as confusing as I thought it would be. For me, stories about time travel are always complicated (unnecessarily so), but this book was excellently written and extremely difficult to put down.

Eragon by Christopher Paolini
I read 8 pages and all I could think was that it was written in the same manner that I used to write when I was a teenager. I know he was a teenager when he wrote it, and usually I can overlook stuff like that, but I found he was using words awkwardly and I found it hard not to correct the text with a red pen. Perhaps I'm getting old, perhaps the horrible movie ruined it for me. I was hoping I would like it, but I didn't.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Read it. Oh my god, go read it now. I've become addicted to Neil Gaiman.

That's it for right now. Next vice post will be about knitting!