What are you reading?
We’re reading The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. It was recommended to us by our friend Ricky.
“Brian Selznick?” we thought. “The guy with the hair and the swing orchestra? Who used to be with the Stray Cats?” No, that’s Brian Setzer. Brian Selznick is an author and illustrator.
Hugo Cabret is a children’s book that contains 300 pages of illustrations. Martin Scorsese is turning it into a 3D movie. The truth is if Scorsese were turning a take-out menu into a movie we would be interested in the take-out menu.
The book’s protagonist Hugo Cabret is a 12-year-old orphan who lives in a Paris train station. Lots of people live in train stations—at least that’s what the movies tell us.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret is available in hardcover at National Bookstores, P1049.
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July 3rd, 2011 at 02:43
I was just browsing through this Time summer reading list by some writers:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2080867_2080832_2080835,00.html?iid=moreontime
Okay…this summer, I resolve to finally finish Cervantes’ “Don Quixote”, Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” and Bertrand Russell’s “History of Western Philosophy”. I also wanna read Hitchen’s “Hitch 22” memoir.
Anyway…I just realized that is such a Dead White Men list (Hitch is very much alive and kicking cancer, though) that I feel like balancing it out with Murakami and my favorite, Ishiguro, although I know he’s more British than Japanese. And Patti Smith’s “Just Kids.”
Good luck to me.
July 3rd, 2011 at 05:34
I’m getting my mind off school this weekend, so I’m reading Suzanne Collins’ Mockingjay, the third in the Hunger Games series. A light, fun, and meaningful read.
July 4th, 2011 at 13:04
I would have wanted to answer here “Blood Meridian” but I can’t find a damn copy ANYWHERE. Can someone please point me to where it’s still in stock?
That said, I’m reading “Clash of Kings”.