Over the holiday break I ended up reading Murakami’s Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Had I known how great the book was going to be, I would have reserved a spot on the ol’ year end list. As it stands, I’d probably bump Raw Shark Texts, which feels ok as the two books are kinda similar.

I’m midway through Junot Diaz’ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and I’m loving it. If I can eek out the rest of it in the next few days it too would make the list.

Along with ed books, I’m toying with the idea of tackling some of the bigger classics I’ve been putting off: Moby Dick, Brothers K. as well as a couple of Vollmann books I’ve yet to read (usually weighing in at the 600 or 700 page mark). As a result, I don’t think I’ll exceed the book a week mark I did this year. Not a race, obviously, but it’s nice to have that sense of completion every five or six days.