Update

So I haven't posted on here for a while. But that doesn't mean I haven't been reading! Here's what I've finished since I last posted:

1. History of Love by Nicole Krauss
History of Love was a wonderful novel. It was heartbreaking and heartwarming all at the same time, discussing how we can react to our decisions and how disappointment and regret could take over our lives and when we finally attempt to make amends, we can let everything go.

2. Choke by Chuck Pahlaniuk
Pahlaniuk novels are my in-between, I need a reading break, kind of books. I know that sounds crazy and his writing has so many layers but his novels are easy for me to read. His writing style is just the kind of style that I can immerse myself in and the kind of style that makes me want to actually read on the el when I'm coming home from work. It's flowing but short and captivating. Not always the easiest to follow, but if you just roll with it, it's wonderful. Choke was not my favorite Pahlaniuk novel I've ever read, it had even more graphic content than some of his other novels, but it was definitely a nice break from the dense material I've been going through this summer.

3. The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
I knew this would take me a long time to get through, just by sheer size, but I wasn't expecting to take me as long as it did. The pulitzer-prize winner had a deeply-interesting story and was well-written but there was so much content that, by the end, I couldn't wait for the story to finally finish. There were also many places in the novel where the story could have finished, to a pretty good result, but the final ending was the right choice. It would have been much more climactic if the story hadn't been so bulky, but Chabon must have been writing a novel about how real life works, not a story.

Right now, I'm reading Luminarium by Alex Shakar. I'm not into it yet and I'm almost half way through the book. It was recommended to me by a friend and I hope it redeems itself by the end!