At this rate, I’ll read 365 books this year. 🙂 Anyway, had a lovely New Year’s Day, where I watched some hockey and just sat and read. I finished Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. I don’t really understand why, but I liked this book a lot. I guess it’s because I liked the characters and the weird things that happened to them, but I can’t really say for sure. This is now the second book by Murakami that I’ve read. I read 1Q84 a couple of years ago and liked that one as well. So I guess I’m going to add Murakami to William Gibson and Isabel Allende as authors that I really like.

I haven’t spent an entire day reading in a long time. The first time I did this was a very long time ago, when I stayed up all night reading Cuckoo’s Egg by Cliff Stoll. I’m glad I finished this book at a reasonable hour because I do have to go to work in the morning and would be very cranky if I had been reading all night. I’m quite happy that the book sucked me in, since I had been worried that I was no longer able to read an entire book. Now that I mostly read short magazine articles and blog posts, a novel seemed slightly insurmountable. But I’m glad that I can still do it. Happily, I just got email from the library that a book I requested there has arrived, so I can pick that up tomorrow. I shouldn’t spend another full day reading, since I have to go to work AND should be working on my kitchen. But I’ll see if I can grab a few hours here and there.