time to read

Airplanes are a good time for reading. Two books I've recently finished on flights are After Dark by Haruhi Murakami and Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. After Dark is a book with such vivid and haunting imagery, and such clever progression (there were not chapters, but rather, the book was divided into times of the night, how cute is that?) that I spent a lot of the time while reading just gawking at the beauty of it. Not an emotional or touching book. More like a painting of night time and the strange beings that come out at night. Also, makes me want to go to a Love Hotel in Tokyo with a friend just to see what they look like =P

I've heard so much about Cat's Cradle. It's very funny, and intelligent, and at the same time incredibly sad. I found myself feeling empty at the end of it, but also, laughing. I liked the occasional interjection of Bokonist proverbs, and also the fact that chapters were very short. I was amused that it mentioned ice-nine, since I just recently learned about the different crystalizations of water.