A wry look at Wall Street, told in the voice of a outsider who has a much bigger problem than mere money to deal with. The world of investment banking may be even more dodgy than we thought. Now they tell me.
Articles about books
Amrita — Banana Yoshimoto
The story of an extraordinary few months in the life of an unusual family in Tokyo. The narrator is engagingly curious, with a tendency to wax philosophical; the plot starts off conventionally but then comes over all mystical. Quite fun to read.
Slash with a Knife — Yoshitomo Nara
This artist beautifully captures the angst of disaffected youth. (Like, 8-year-old youth.)
Botchan — Natsume Soseki
A teacher from Tokyo gets posted to a country town and spends his time getting into misadventures and complaining about the shifty country folk. Quite fun! Maybe one day I will be able to read it in the original Japanese.
A Closed Book — Gilbert Adair
The air of menace isn’t as, well, menacing as I would have liked, and there are a few implausible plot points. But the different voices in the book work well together, even if things get a bit banal towards the end. Or do they?
War of Words — Elizabeth Mapstone
“What is going on when some other person is so misguided as to disagree with us?”
There are some interesting ideas in this book, War of Words: Women and Men Arguing.
Continue readingDoctor Sally — P. G. Wodehouse
My first Wodehouse. So quaint, yet so hilariously clever. I want to read more, but he only wrote about 90 books so I’ll have to pace myself.