Happy New Year, everyone! So far this year I have finished one book.

 

If you’ve ever read the Humans of New York FB page or blog, then you know what that’s about. It’s pretty great, actually. Highly recommend.

I am also making my way through Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary Wolf. And, yes, that is the book that the delightful Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is based on. Spoiler alert: the movie is better.

My biggest issue is that the writing style is terrible. For example:

“He made my money vanish with a skill that would have impressed Mandrake the Magician and gave me a duplicate of the long, hard going-over I get from patrol cops when they catch me hanging around a decent neighborhood at an indecent hour.”

AND

“His gumball flipped back and forth between his cheeks like he had two competing Mister Tooth Decays in there engaged in a cannon battle over his few remaining molars.”

Both of those are from the same page. So. You can see how the prose can be annoying. However, I am intrigued enough by the book to keep reading.

I also checked out Marcus Samuelsson’s autobiography to listen to as part of the Read Harder challenge (which I haven’t posted about which challenges I’m doing yet, but, well, that’s one I’m doing).

 

He narrates it himself! So I’m looking forward to that. His voice is melodious, so I hope his narration is good.