waiting for the barbarians
j.m. coetzee
coetzee, as always, writes a book short and full, elegant and complex, potent and poignant.
i don't want to be seen as a pretty thing;
it's the pretty things we're always breaking
it's the pretty things we're always breaking
harry potter and the goblet of fire
maybe it’s just because i haven’t read this book in a long time, but i didn’t really feel like i had any idea of where this movie was going. it was fun, and still worth seeing — just unfocused.
hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world
haruki murakami
i’m not really sure how i feel about the way murakami explicitly lays out at the end all the existential questions this book implicitly raises throughout its course. still, a fun and interesting read.