Thursday Links
A Brooklyn Loft Transformed on a Budget [NY Times] Building a Sukkah with Jonathan Safran Foer [Forward] Brooklyn Family Keeps Latino-Jewish Traditions Alive [CNN] Robot Monkey Fighting Comes to Brooklyn [NBC New York] 8 Million Stories: Brooklyn’s Own Delphi [NY Press] D.A.’s Office Welcomes Attorneys from City’s Biggest Firms [Brooklyn Eagle] Photo by Several Seconds,…
A Brooklyn Loft Transformed on a Budget [NY Times]
Building a Sukkah with Jonathan Safran Foer [Forward]
Brooklyn Family Keeps Latino-Jewish Traditions Alive [CNN]
Robot Monkey Fighting Comes to Brooklyn [NBC New York]
8 Million Stories: Brooklyn’s Own Delphi [NY Press]
D.A.’s Office Welcomes Attorneys from City’s Biggest Firms [Brooklyn Eagle]
Photo by Several Seconds, Brownstoner Flickr pool
I’m in PS, so count me in for a book club. I think we need a few more to really get started.
Also a huge fan of Middlesex!!
norwegian wood it is then, thanks
middlesex was a super read, preferred it too the sound and the fury
have you all read middlesex by jeffrey eugenides? that might be my favorite book ever. or a very odd tie for first with faulkner’s the sound and the fury.
delepp, above a few of us recommend starting with norwegian wood. 🙂
I love Never Let Me Go. It’s one of those premise novels that shouldn’t work… and yet it does.
wasder and cg ups, the movie…don’t even know what to say. I can’t imagine a large audience.
Can either recommend a starter murakami book? Never read him and would rather ease into it.
ooooh and the wonderful charlotte rampling is going to be in the movie as well! 🙂
i’m the odd one out; i thought never let me go was one of his best and most beautiful books. the unconsoled on the other hand… holy frustrating! agree with wasder that norwegian wood is one of the shorter and less weird murakami books. i started out with the windup bird chronicles which at first i thought was completely weird and freaky and wtf it was so long but then it really stuck with me. i heard gwyneth paltrow is going to play kathy. scratch that, just checked imdb. keira knightley to play ruth. odd casting choice in my opinion but should be interesting.
i’d consider a book club! where are people located? i’m in carroll gardens but can do BH / BoCoCa or PS fairly easily.
maybe someplace central to trains 1x/month or so?
Tiptoe–ease into Murakami with “Norwegian Wood” which is the least weird book he has written. Then do Wild Sheep Chase and Dance Dance Dance, which are meant to be read in succession. Then dive into the crazier stuff.
DeLepp–Never Let Me Go is brutal and depressing. Hard to see that as a movie.