After Hours

I had always wanted to read something by this author. :) And this one was a weird one to start with. The book is incredibly bizarre and it follows 3 seperate stories with a few coincidences. In one, a girl runs into someone she knows at a late night diner. She is just trying to read and he comes over to her table because he recognizes her as his ex girlfriends sister. They hit it off then someone needs to her to transalate something for someone in a love hotel and she spends the rest of the night there.
The other story line is the girls sister who is sleeping in room and it pretty much revolves around that only it gets really creepy.
And the third story line follows a business man.
The author has a BEAUTIFUL style of writing, but I couldnt get past the weird themes his storylines played around.
I would like to read something by him again, though.

Some People, Some Other Place

Mmhmm, ok. I picked this up because the picture on the cover of this book is probably one of my favourite photographs of all time. The street, the car. We used to have a 1949 Chrysler Highlander and I used to dream about it all the time. Not dream about it when I fell asleep, but wide awake. I would dream about a time in the 50's when this car would be around. I would wonder if James Dean ever saw this car, etc. Silly dreams like that. Yes yes, I love that picture. A week ago, I was in a bookstore cemeted to the poetry section and the man next to me had a pile of books. I look at him and asked to see a book in his stack without actually saying anything. His eyes said yes. The book in the stack was a book of photographs with this one of the cover.
And then he and I talked about photography for a little while. :)
This book however, came to me in a period where I immersed myself the civil rights movement without trying to. It was written really well though it bummed me out. It isnt something I would normally pick out for myself though...that darn cover moved me!

Life Of Pi

Oh Pi, it was lovely re-reading your adventure. Thank you.

Le Città Invisibili

Mmhm, this book was lovely. I felt like this book was more imagination than book. If I look back on this book, I remember images like dreams caught in the swirls of my imagination.
I must re-read this one. A chapter right before bed, see what happens.

On the Road

On the Road. Wow. Ok,I get that everybody in the book represents a real life person. The names are somewhat changed, yadayadayada. But what did Jack Kerouac see in Neal Cassady? If he was anything like Dean in the book...then I don't understand it. I thought he brought some life to the party, but he was out of his mind, wild, crazy and just extremly out there. Can a person really be that non-sensical?
I always felt really sad for the character Sal. To me, he had such potential and Dean was always sort of a bad influence.
The entire book was not lost on me, not in the slightest. I loved the actual "on the road" theme. I love the chapter where Sal is a cotton picker. I really loved that chapter, actually. But the book and the characters were just not something i could relate to in the slightest. :(

The Lost Diary of Don Juan

I read this one in April of last year. I picked it up because of Johnny Depp and the character he portrayed in the movie "Don Juan De Marco" I thought it was a very interesting subject. One man who is loved by many--and he is capitivated by one woman. I mean, it IS interesting.
The author did a good job with the character, but the one Johnny Depp portrayed will always be my favourite-if only for that part in the end when he tells the truth. Johnny Depp was remarkable in that scene--in that transformation. I love it!

Dream: A Speech that Inspired a Nation

This book was all about one speech. And every page of it was amazing. It moved me so much. Around this time, I was going through a really strange 60's phase. The Kennedy's, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Sandy Koufax, The Graduate, etc. It was really strange because I read this book, and then watched the movie, "Bobby". I was moved beyond words. I wasn't expecting there to be such influence from Dr Martin Luther King, jr-or baseball (GO DODGERS!) And there are two Graduate references!!! One of the two references broke me a little bit. I think I felt my knees buckle. Let me just say that The Sounds of Silence will forever hold a place in my heart because of the two movies it has been portrayed in. And the way Emilio Estevez added Kennedys voice over the song? His last speech. And the topic of the speech!!!!! I did not feel quite the same after I watched that scene. It changed me a little bit as a person-it was that powerful. I wrote a song about it in the end. And this book revolves around that period in my life. :) Amazing.