Category: books
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Stanfords, the London mapseller
Stanfords on Long Acre, Covent Garden is one of my (Chris) favourite shops in London. The shop has been at that same location when I was a student in London in the 80’s. It seems to have expanded as it now has a coffee shop. I like this shop because 1) completeness in geographic coverage…
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Micro by Michael Crichton
MICRO is probably Michael Crichton’s last book. It was the second book published after his death in 2008. Richard Preston was selected to complete it. I finished reading it in a weekend plus a few nights. It is a classic techno-thriller. I have not read his books before but saw movies based on his books…
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Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland
Summer reading. Just finished Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland. It was a more emotional and engaging read than I expected. The story is told in the voices of 4 related victims of a Columbine-style high school massacre, each with a different narrative and focus. Covering feelings and beliefs more than 1o years after the tragedy,…
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New year resolutions (again? so soon)
Every year in early January, many of us are thinking about new year resolutions. What happened to last year’s ? Since this is the first post of 2012, I will indulge a bit on this exercise here. The graphic above and one at the end are borrowed from the web site of Alain de Botton, a…
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Reading Generation X – twenty years later
A colleague of mine and I discovered that we both liked Douglas Coupland’s writings. After my admission that I have not yet read his debut – Generation X, he promptly lent me his copy of it. Thanks, SKA. This book has been printed many times and that is probably the reason behind the different covers. …
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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro (石黒一雄)
This book is my holiday reading for this Asian trip. We bought it in Zurich in one of our binge of buying English language books. In the beginning, I did not expect to have time in HK or Macau to sit down and read this book, but I brought it with me anyway. The day…