Book Chatter

Fairy Tale by Stephen King Did you know that Stephen King has a new book coming out September 6th? Fairy Tale sounds amazing! It comes out a day after my birthday so I must prepare now and ask for time off. Ha!

Here’s a synopsis:

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours. ~ Indiebound

I don’t have much scheduled for this week which is how I like it. Besides some work projects, my ME time has been spent with the cat and pup. There’s a routine now and sometimes that routine involves me taking the cat with us on walks. But, the pup doesn’t like it when I have the stroller with us so my one attempt was comically observed by many neighbors. Root Beer kept throwing all her weight to the back of the stroller so it would tip over. The Otter Pup thinks she is a show off. They are both very dramatic. I have NO idea where they get that from.

I finished Greenwich Park and scheduled the review for this Friday so I immediately picked up Ocean State. If I don’t have another book lined up I tend to get distracted so off I go to spend some time with O’Nan. I love his writing. I am curious about this one, it seems very short.

Later today I am going to go through review copies to see what’s available. That is always dangerous. I could end up with dozens of review copies but I haven’t looked lately and need to see what’s coming for summer.

That’s all I have. I hope you have a great day!

Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love
By Haruki Murakami
Knopf, 9780593320426, November 2021, 192pp.

The Short of It:

A very different type of Murakami read.

The Rest of It:

Anyone who knows me well, knows how much I love Haruki Murakami. I love everything he has written. Not because his work is perfection but because his writing is ALWAYS a palate cleanser for me and always so different from what I’ve been reading. Murakami T – The T-shirts I Love delivered, as promised.

Among other things, Murakami collects T-shirts and decided to write about some of his favorite pieces. This might sound as interesting as cleaning the lint trap of your dryer, but let me tell you, it is all very interesting. His musings about why a shirt is memorable range from his admiration over graphic design, the message it’s attempting to convey, or how it captures a certain moment in time, like his many marathon t-shirts. I’ve never been a big graphic -shirt wearer but with each page, I could easily appreciate his observations.

My only criticism is that I read this review copy on my Kindle Paperwhite so the many photos were in B&W which took away from some of the design aspects he was attempting to call out. If you pick up this book, and you should, get a physical copy or read it on on iPad with the Kindle app.

Murakami’s books come every two years or so due to them being translated so I was happy to see this one while I wait for new fiction to drop.

Source: Review copy provided by the publisher.
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