Katherine's comments (member since Dec 30, 2008)

Katherine's comments from the Reading is Sexy group.

I really just couldn't get into this book, and actually didn't get very far in it at all before I set it down and moved onto something else. I'm not sure if it was the story itself or Chabon's writing (this is the first book I'v read by him) or something else, but I just didn't find myself at all interested in what was going to happen next.

I may give it another try later on, when I have more time to just sit down and read.

I'm Katherine. Right now I'm a stay-at-home mom with my newly born little girl Milena. I (re-)read Water For Elephants in early January before she was born, which is good since now I barely have time to sit down and do anything other than eat or nurse.
I really didn't read much while I was pregnant (even though I LOVE reading!), so I'm excited to be a part of this group and get back to reading some good fiction!

I find novels with Unreliable Narrators really interesting. I'm always curious why the author would chose such a device - why give us a narrator who confesses right from the start that (in this case) he has trouble remembering even simple things like his age. It immediately causes us to question the story in the Prologue as well as the rest of the book.

Do you think it's important to the story that we know Jacob is an unreliable narrator, or do you think Gruen, Sara was just trying to emphasize the fact that he's a very old man and everything we're about to read happened a long time ago?

Obviously I think it's important (or I wouldn't be mentioning it!).

(copied from Megan's blog)

Here’s our book list. There’s no real theme this year; these are just books that I’ve heard about and want to read.

Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen (Jan. 1 - March 5)
Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon (March 19 - May 21)
The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood (June 4 - July 16)
The Wind-up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murikami (July 30 - Aug 27)
Farthing - Jo Walton (Sept 10 - Oct 22)
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman (Nov 5 - Dec 31)

You’ll notice there is time between each book - we’ll use that time for discussion and reviews.