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I think Red Harvest is the first one in the collection. Its 4 novels all bound together in one. Picked it up at a second hand store a while back for about $2 I think. Seemed like a good find.

About 2/3 of the way through The Wind Up Bird Chronicle and I'm so intrigued about how all these little seemingly disparate stories are going to come together (if they even do). This is shaping up to be my favourite Murakami yet.

Next up I wouldn't mind some suggestions. On the shelf right now I've got a collection of

I do like those footnotes. Especially the ones that drag on for 4 pages and you lose track of the actual story you were reading.

How many times have you read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell so far? I read it earlier this year and definitely enjoyed it, but I found it went up and down in terms of enjoyment for me. I don't know if I could ever read it again.

I'm reading Never Let me Go right now by Ishugiro. So far pretty interesting, yet I have no idea where it's going (I deliberately avoided spoiliers for it). It seems like its building towards some pretty profound realizations for its characters which I'm sure I will appreciate when the time comes.
Next is The Wind-Up

Timothy Findley, Stephen Leacock, Robertson Davies, Margaret Laurence

Checked out a few more movies at TIFF this past weekend. Saw the Unforgiven remake starring Ken Watanabe in the Clint Eastwood role. It was pretty good and definitely still entertaining, but it didn't stray from the source material very much so I always felt like I knew what was coming. Also, samurai swords make an

Checked out Dallas Buyers Club (great), Labor Day (pretty decent) and You Are Here (garbage) at TIFF, with a few more to come this week.

The best recent movies from Canada that are good are all from Quebec. Monsieur Lazahr and Incendies were both good films, Lazarh especially.

Finished up Kafka on the Shore and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry last month. Currently working through The Tenth of December. I just read Escape from Spiderhead last night, which I think might contain one of the greatest sentences ever about a happiness so uniform the shoots of other desires can't even disturb

When I started reading The Trial I had forgotten that it wasn't fully finished by the time Kafka died. So there were definitely parts confused me more than the entire book already did in other spots. I've never read anything that kept me in the dark so much and never really let you see the light.

Currently finishing off Kafka on the Shore by Murakami. I have about 15 pages left, and I'm still not positive where its headed with some of the main characters. I'll hold off on my opinion until then.

After that I'm going to start The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry which I know almost nothing about but found a

Just finished up Inferno, which was precisely what anyone could have expected, only a lot more Dan Brown-y than any of his previous books I've read. I think I was still clinging onto the memory of my 13 year old self just loving The Da Vinci Code. I guess my taste in books has evolved over the last 10 years.

Also read T

That explains why she's leaving the show at least.

I think Chris O'Donnell would make a fine Tormund Giantsbane.

I like being frequently reminded these days that Varys and Illyrio Mopatis truly are the only two who are really looking out for the good of the people. I hope we eventually get to find out more about why that is exactly.

If this is incomplete, I think even less people will read the full complete list.

There hasn't been an episode that followed so closely to the books since season 1 I think. So many scenes that popped up in this episode were pulled straight from the pages. And I haven't been happier that they've kept a whole scene intact than I was with the bathtub scene.

Roose even mentions him by name when he tells his men to take Jamie there.

Yeah I guess that work's just fine. All that matters in the long run is that Tywin knows it wasn't Bolton that commanded Jaime's hand being cutoff. I will still miss that beautiful lithp though.