Márquezakami: Haruki Murakami & Gabriel García Márquez

I recently finished "The Stand," by Stephen King, "The Complete & Unabridged Edition," a.k.a. This Monster Should Really Be Abridged. Whenever I got bored¹ with the book, which basically happened whenever it was in my hands, I'd typically start daydreaming about what I could read next, and then I'd go for a walk. Inevitably I'd end up wandering the aisles of used bookstores² and buying more books than I need, especially considering that I already owned 40+ books waiting to be read. But whatever. Some people buy too many shoes. Others buy too many drugs. I buy too many books. I don't really care.

[I'll get to Haruki Murakami & Gabriel García Márquez in a minute. Bear with me. Or don't.]

I was amazed and also kinda embarrassed³ when I counted my fresh pile after finally finishing King's quote-unquote masterpiece: 27 new⁴ books. That's how many I bought from my start of "The Stand" until its finish. For reals, that is a serious amount of bored wandering.

Ok. You've been patient. Thank you. Now it's time for Haruki Murakami & Gabriel García Márquez. I wish my name had an accent. Anyway, my boy Davy and I⁵ started the hottest San Francisco book club, son.

Márquezakami!

Hit-up the above Facebook link for more details (and to join the group, yo):

Book club that reads Haruki Murakami and Gabriel García Márquez. Bring your own beer and books. Murakami and Márquez have been described as "kinda strange" and "like candy" and "WTF?" and "fucking awesome" and you should join us once a month on Sundays at 2:00 p.m.

1: I wasn't going to quit. I borrowed it from my friend Lace and waited two months to start. I wasn't going to return it after two-plus months and say, "Oh, I never read it." On the Super-Official Literary Weakness Scale, that's one step above borrowing a book and never returning it.
2: Mostly Aardvark, Bibliohead, Dog Eared, Friends of SFPL and my favorite secret bookstore that I won't link-up because it's that awesome and cheap and the selection is amazing and it's tucked away and really hard to find so you're going to have to dig it up yourself, yo.
3: Not true.
4: New to me: technically 26 used, one brand-new. Basically the top shelf-and-a-half.
5: Along with the Professor a.k.a. the 'Fessor.