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Zm Graphic _11 — A very quiet, meditative book about a Mexican woman adrift in Berlin. Tatiana is alienated from her family and her friends, cut off from the rest of the city, uninterested in forming a relationship with anyone. She gets a part-time job doing transcription work for a historian, goes on a few lacklustre dates with a fairly nondescript meteorologist, becomes slightly obsessed with a mentally ill woman, avoids her neighbours, develops insomnia. The book meanders along like this for most of the 200 pages, as aimless as the passage of a cloud across the sky, before something quite dramatic happens almost out of nowhere. History plays a major role in the book, particularly the dark stories that lurk beneath the surface. There are plenty of those in Berlin, both from the Nazi and the Communist era, buildings in which people were imprisoned or tortured, now converted into schools, apartment buildings and water towers. Right at the beginning of the book, Tatiana sees what she believes is an aged Hitler dressed as a woman on an underground train. Then there’s the underground Gestapo bowling alley that Tatiana explores late at night and almost gets trapped inside when she runs away from her group to go and rub out the chalked scores from the board. There’s the upstairs part of her building, where nobody seems to live but from which strange noises appear. She goes up there, looking for ghosts perhaps, and finds a dark stain on the wall which reminds her of the scores she rubbed out: “wondering whether this dark imprint was somehow mocking me, reminding me of the inevitable, which was, of course, that nothing can be truly rubbed away or blotted out, and how the more your try to rub something away the darker it becomes.” This, it seems, is a major theme of the book. There’s not too much background about Tatiana’s life in Mexico so it’s never very clear what she’s trying to blot out, but she is definitely trying. I read in an interview that an earlier draft of this book had more of the Mexican backstory included, but was cut out from the final version. The effect is to leave much unanswered, which can be a good thing, but it also made it difficult to understand the character’s alienation. Overall: beautiful, dreamy writing, lots of solitary musing and a good sense of the city of Berlin and its history. But the character is essentially solitary and self-absorbed, which can be frustrating. If you’re prepared to let things meander along, enjoy the elegant writing, appreciate the sharp observations and muse on the possible truths hidden in the shapes of the clouds, this would be a good read. But if you want a plot that develops or characters that interact with each other in comprehensible ways, this is probably not the book for you.

Jeffrey Wong jeffreykhwong — I've always enjoyed Agatha Christie. This is apparently her first ever novel featuring Hercule Poirot (also her first novel, period). I thoroughly enjoyed the story. Well-plotted and well-written.

Gopi Thambirajah gopia73c — Fiction. Three men take a boat trip up the Thames. They also bring a dog, and have some difficulties with a wheel of cheese. I read this because of Connie Willis' novel To Say Nothing of the Dog, which takes some inspiration from Jerome's book. Three Men in a Boat isn't so much a novel as a series of funny anecdotes. The narrator is supposedly telling you about a boat trip up the Thames, but every detail he mentions then reminds him of a story he has to tell that often has little to do with a boat trip up the Thames. The language Jerome uses is crisp and ironic, and I can see why he's been compared to Mark Twain. He has the same dry wit and gift of understatement, but on the whole the book's more of a stand-up routine than a novel, with the boat trip simply a vehicle for Jerome's humor. Two stars, because it was funny enough, but maybe you have to be British to really appreciate this boat trip.

Santosh Dash dashsk — I enjoyed this series a lot when I first read them years ago, and I did enjoy them now, re-reading them, but perhaps not as much. I skimmed a bit and rushed, and for whatever reason I really wish Harper and Manfred had been a thing, because while I understand on moral grounds, why Tolliver Harper isn't bad (they weren't really related, and met in their teens rather than as children and never considered each other as siblings) but I just didn't feel it this read.

Maricruz Hernandez summer2204 — i love this book and generally re-read it at least once a year. it's the fictional account of Elijah and it examines the question of what you do when the path God sets before you seems to entail only suffering and pain.

Carla Espinoza-saenz krlaespn — Possibly the worst book I have ever, ever read. I wanted someone to invent mass transit to a degree that Carrie would get hit by a bus.