Brother Odd

Dean Koontz isn’t a writer that I would put on the top of any summer reading list, but his Odd Thomas series has really captivated me. Last summer I started listening to the first book in audio format while I was wasting hours of my life on Halo. I’ve recently purchased a copy of Brother Odd, the third book in the series, and I will say that I am halfway through it and it hasn’t disappointed. One of the themes I’m really picking up on in this particular installment is the idea of confronting our identity in its entirety. Odd has chosen to move to a monastery and live secluded, and there he meets a group of memorable people who have left behind everything from riches to mob life. I’ve had the forth book for a while, which has been taunting me on the shelf because I couldn’t get my hands on the third. Well, in reality I suppose I could have, but the summer is a perfect time for popular fiction.

Also, I ordered a copy of Polaroids from the Dead, by Douglas Coupland. I found it at a very good price, too. Hopefully it will be in before my three-day vacation to Dennisport.

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I don’t like it when people give me a lot of shit for reading popular fiction. It’s one thing for a college student to get crap reading teen-vampire novellas, but to see me reading a Stephen King book and tell me I’m ‘reading in the wrong direction,’ is very sad (especially given the slim number of people that do still read on campus).

I’ve also started reading this book my mother snagged for me called When the Wind Blows. It’s a mystery novel with a vague bit of science fiction mixed in. The writing isn’t too spectacular and the plot doesn’t exactly have me hooked so I’m not going to recommend it.

On average I get 0-2 people who read this blog on a given day. Not very thrilling. I’m going to change that.

There is less than a week left on campus, and with two final projects coming up, it’s really feeling like it’s spiraling down.

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