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Currently reading "Cloud Atlas" [David Mitchell] and "London: a Biography" [Peter Ackroyd], loving them both.
Have you read Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec?
The opening motto of the book: "Look with all your eyes, look" is one I love to be reminded of. If curiosity is its own philosophy then this book contains all of life.
The story takes place in a parisian block of flats. Each flat has its own tale and is never visited twice, but all stories are linked together through the analogy of a jigsaw puzzle. The obsessive description that characterises these stories within stories I can only describe as witnessing a genius' fetish for life, not an easy read by any means in fact it makes your head explode by opening your mind to the complexity and beauty and wonder in every. little. thing.