A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk My rating: 5 of 5 stars “I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop, I cease to think; my mind works only with my legs.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau “I will sell boza until the day the world ends.” Mevlut Karatas (p. 584) This book is long and meandering, its power like that of a fire built slowly from a bit of kindling and a single spark. From the beginning, it is carefully tended and coaxed along in a quiet but steady fashion until Whoosh!, it ignites in full glory. A Strangeness in My Mind did not particularly grab me, in a dramatic sense, with its opening but it did interest…
