Synopsis: Two Korean babies are adopted by American families with different approaches to ethnicity. My Take: I only picked this one up because I thought the little Asian girl on the cover of the Australian edition was cute – and yes, you can judge a book by it’s cover. A totally lightweight book targeted at [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Trash'
"Norwegian Wood", Haruki Murakami
June 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Asian, Japanese, Trash
Synopsis: Boy meets girl. Boy commits suicide. Boy’s best friend falls in love with girl. Girl loses grasp on reality. Boy meets another girl. Metaphysical angst ensues. My Take: The cover blurb of Norwegian Wood describes the novel thus: “When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend [...]
Tags:Haruki Murakami
"The Watchmen", Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
May 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Sci-Fi, Trash
Synopsis: Set in a dystopian 1980s cold war alternative reality in which superheros help America win the Vietnam war and Richard Nixon stay in the White House well beyond constitutional term limits, a group of out of favour and long retired superheros investigate a series of attacks on ‘masked adventurers’. My Take: I can’t say [...]
Tags:Alan Moore·Dave Gibbons
