November Pleasure Reads
★★★★☆ - Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
★★★★☆ - Patti Smith, Just Kids
★★★☆☆ - Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast*
★★★☆☆ - Philip Larkin, Jill †
★★★★★ - Jack Kerouac, On the Road
★★★☆☆ - Paul Murray, Skippy Dies ‡
*: Given Hemingway’s mental state when it was written, the amazing thing is that it isn’t worse.
†: Juvenilia, especially compared to his later poetry (he wrote it at age 21), but it accomplishes what it sets out to do.
‡: See this review by “The Staff Recommends”.
