An Abundance of Katherines

An Abundance of Katherines

Borrowed – unread – unreviewed

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
This is one that i’ve been meaning to put up for a while now, even tho I’m not sure why. This is a book that’s been taunting me for ages…. I first heard about it years ago… then stumbled upon it in Waterstones one day. Its not normally appealing, the formating is very standard, apart from the diary form ‘chapters’. I recall narrow margins and pages of text, which makes it very unappealing. However the story of a nobody observing the world and school he exists in, reminds me a little of myself. I don’t know if I’ll ever read this… but its a grower for sure… this is probably one of my favourite books that I haven’t read yet.

oh I’ve just checked my phone: 200 pages, Good paper & font, cheap but bad kerning.

One Red Paper Clip

One Red Paper Clip
I don’t really remember too much about the formating on this one, but the story is so good it’ll really appeal to non-readers. It starts with a sale of a paperclip on ebay and continues on and on with various sales getting big and better…until.. well you’ll have to have a look at it to discover where it leads. I recall decent margins, the occasional picture and easily managable chapters. But as I’ve already said…. the unbelievable, incredible, fantastic story is the selling point here. A really mesmerising read.

Life on the Refridgerator Door

Life on the Refridgerator Door
This is probably my first true ‘girly’ book, which I’m regretfully proud of. Regretfully, because I guess I should have found one a lot earlier. But anyways… not very many pages, and short well formatted chunks of text. Basically this is what it says it is, notes left on the fridge door about the relationship between a mother and daughter (if I remember correctly). Whilst I didn’t read much of this book in the shop, it did make a large enough impact on me to ‘phone-it’ … hate reading? you’ll love reading this.

The Long Dry

The Long Dry
119 pages, big margins & paragraphs. Good linespacing, font and the paper was reasonable. Odd story, but a quick read. I’m not sure what caught my eye about this read, there was possibly a bunch of them together on the shelf which did it. Anyways… i sat and scanned the pages whilst making notes in my phone. It looked like it was all descriptive, but hidden within the blocks of paragraphs, there is dialogue, which is nice. Tho I’d rather it be sectioned off personally. This is a quick book, the story didn’t grab me at all, but it could be one of those life changing reads… if only we give it a chance. Seek it out, and give it a thumb.

Last Light

words don’t sell books, pictures do!
(guns don’t kill people, rappers do!)

Last Light
The way to promote mountains of text is through mountains of pictures. Here’s a book that might attract a few visionaries, who happen to ‘gleee’ at the thought of being scared to death about what happens to humanity when the worlds oil runs out.

http://www.scarrow.co.uk

The Raw Shark Texts

The Raw Shark Texts
This book took a bloody long time to get on here. Why I’m not sure, because I’ve been stalking it in Waterstones for aaages… waiting for it to come up in a ‘3 for 2′ offer no doubt (like it did in Leeds, when I ’should’ have bought it) Grrr. anyways….

this is like a picture book with text… formatted wonderfully… loads of effort gone into making it diverse and interesting. With each turn of the page you’ve no-idea whats coming next… and that’s without reading a word of the story. This is a grand book. A real non-readers book. I will buy this in its hardback version, cause I’m not 100% certain that they’ll continue the formating in a paperback version (I hope they do cause its kinda key to the storyline) … click the cover above and read about it. The story has got flavours of the Matrix and Memento.  

Shorty Loves Wing Wong

Shorty Loves Wing Wong
Bit of a late find this one, I was almost out of the shop. 90 pages, half of them pictures of odd looking cat figures in modern poses and humanal(?) situations. Read the back cover and it sounded really good, contemporary and relavant to todays world. Easy on the eye. didn’t notice any thing about the paper (so it was probably average) … a little hardback tho if I recall. The only bad point imo was the standard formating of the text (small font, tight kerning, standard linespacing etc) and a complete absence of paragraphs. One could argue that the ‘chapters’ are only paragraphed sized, but c’mon, a little sentence break in the odd place would have helped people (ie: me) a little. That minor detail prevented it getting a full 5stars from me. However, I’m more than happy to give it a generous 4. Turns out it was written by michael smith who also wrote The Giro Playboy which looks equally as readable.

The 5 people you meet in Heaven

The 5 people you meet in Heaven
230 pages, not particularly good paper, and a bit smelly too. Not sure what made me pick this one up, probably didn’t look too thick to read and if I recall the title was a bit odd. Turns out a guy dies and instead of being embraced by everyone at the pearly gates, he’s confronted with 5 key people from his life. Might read this if I get loads of time on my hands.

Snow

Snow
A dinky book, easily readable at 90 pages (ish). I bit like a little hard back with a cover and all that. A nice story too, its about a coming of age story whereby this dude is supposed to become a monk or a warrior, instead he decides to become a poet. I like little books, but I probably won’t buy this. Its a bit lovey for me. Paper was ok, nothing stunning, cheap book, and I don’t recall many paragraphs tho, so a bit fiddly on the formating for my eyes.