The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped In An IKEA Wardrobe by Romain Puertolas [Paperback, Little Shop of Stories, $17]

Recommended by the staff at LSOS, this is a short, but entertaining romp of a novel. The blurb on the cover describes it as a “comic strip of a novel”, and that seems appropriate.

An Indian Fakir contrives to go to France to buy an IKEA nail bed (I’m not sure if it’s naive to assume that doesn’t exist or that it does), and the situation gets away from him.

Full of coincidences, but that’s okay. Well-written, even though translated from French.

Worth a read, but perhaps $17 was a bit much. I read it in my 2 hour flight from Phoenix to Sacramento. A two hour movie costs $10. Usually, I expect the hours of entertainment/cost ratio of a (non-graphic) novel to be much higher than a movie. But, oh well.

Books to Weeks ratio: 19/12 = 1.6