Book Post? Sorta...

I'm sure none of you are surprised to find out that even after two weeks, I still haven't finished another book. I am half way through Eifelheim and am loving it, but that's not what we're here to talk about today.

I really want to talk to you all about why this kind of blogging is difficult. It seems that most blogs out there really have a theme. They are about comics, or even more specifically manga, they are about TV, or movies, or music, or whatever. I am trying to do all of that here on my little blog, and I am not an expert in any of it. I am truly just trying to share things that I enjoy with my readers and try to share with my readers the things in pop culture that are truly enjoyable and worth experiencing.

I enjoy all of the things I blog about immensely, but enjoying a broad variety of media doesn't allow me to delve too deeply in anything. I enjoy it all and have a pretty eclectic taste in all of in (although admittedly with a geeky bent). I also am really digging blogging and writing about this stuff daily!

I hope this broad overview is as appealing to my readers as it is to me. If there is something I write about that you really enjoy or really hate, please leave me a comment. I definitely want this blog to be a place that you check out every day.

Okay, Thursday is book day, so let me change it up a little bit. This isn't going to be a full review because I read the book so long ago. It is also different because for once I won't be praising something. I read Case Histories by Kate Atkinson about a year ago. First, let me say that I don't usually read crime novels, but I checked this one out because of a glowing review in Entertainment Weekly and from my favorite author Orson Scott Card.

This was one of those occasions where I was quite disappointed with the book after the reviews. The story is basically about a detective who tries to solve three cases. These are all crimes that had taken place in the past and I had assumed they would somehow be connected. They were also all graphic and disturbing crimes. I have nothing against crime novels and stories. I do watch the occasional movie (but skip the procedural TV shows, they all bore me), and the graphic nature of most pop culture doesn't bother me most of the time.

However, this book had long sections that bored me and was overall very depressing. It wasn't moving emotionally as I had hoped. I didn't feel an emotional connection to any of the characters. I also tend to lean toward books with antagonists with a strong moral background (which is part of why I like OSC's books so much), but I didn't really feel that in this book. Anyway, feel free to check it out if you are in to mysteries and crime novels, I guess it is a pretty good one, as these things go. But, it really wasn't for me.