The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Well, it's summer time. During the summer is when I do the bulk of my reading, averaging around 2 books a week (including graphic novels). I usually track what I'm reading on Good Reads but I think I'll do it on this blog as well as well, just to get some stuff posted. Of course, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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I finished The Yiddish Policemen's Union yesterday. It was a fantastic book but I think it suffers from being Chabon's follow-up to Kavalier & Clay, one of my all-time favorite books. It seems like a lot of the themes from Kavalier & Clay were reexplored in a new environment and genre. It was still fanciful and heart-wrenching and clever as all hell, it just felt like it went back to the well a couple of times. Does that mean it's a bad book? Of course not. If this book was written by anyone else I think I would have been praising it to no end. I guess I just wanted a little but more.

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Read This Summer:
The Yiddish Policeman's Union
Cairo
Shortcomings
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Currently Reading:
The Men Who Stare At Goats
War Fix

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