Ian McEwan – Jericho Brisance

Reading List from the Year 2015

December 29, 2015 by Matt 33 Comments

It has been a great year for reading. I found it gratifying and a little surprising when I assembled the entire list of books that I consumed over the past 12 months. Formats ranged from paperback to hardback to Kindle to Audible. I’ve divided the 39 books into the four categories listed below.

Novels
Books about Writing Books
History and Religion
Still Reading

Each book cover links to Amazon for the publisher’s synopsis. I’ve added my own micro-commentary below each book, not to substitute for a longer synopsis, but simply to highlight what I found notable about each. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George R. R. Martin, Grant L. Voth, Harper Lee, Herodotus, Holms, Homer, Hugh Howey, Ian McEwan, James Joyce, John Steinbeck, John Zande, Joseph Conrad, Josephus, Ken Kesey, Lightfoot, Lindsey Davis, Margaret Atwood, Markus Zusak, Neal Stephenson, Neil Gaiman, Paul Maier, Paula Hawkins, Peter Carey, Richard Carrier, Thomas Paine, Veronica Roth, VOLTAIRE, Yann Martel

32-F

October 2, 2014 by Matt 9 Comments

Raising the plastic shade on my porthole disclosed little but a grey-white blur. Shaking off my dozing grogginess, I stopped the audiobook drone that had napped me away. The low jostle of turbulence needed some libation and a reminisce through familiar old tunes. After the cobwebs began to fully clear, I seconded my check of the world outside, just as those slow jogging chords began to lilt from the lower middle keys. I found myself transfixed by a vision. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Ian McEwan, John Lennon, Mythology