April 2010
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October 2009
3 posts
@dinalohan
just wanted to post some favorites. HOLY CRAP.
wHO criminally hacked my blog Alexis said it’s not her then WHO? I will not sit for deframation I have always FOUGHT and will now I’m a mothabout 4 hours ago from web B*TCHES AROUND HERE DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT I HAD TO GO THROUGH12:59 PM Aug 31st from web this is a red alert please be silent i do not want her to know where i am, i...
autumn.
i finished my harlan ellison book a while ago, maybe four days? FUUUCCKK, so good. and i found an amazing vintage paperback copy of
that’s not the cover but i can’t find it online. SO STOKED TO START IT. but i haven’t yet. and i only got through the first introduction in leatherfolk. i’ve been trucking through the famished road (that ben okri book i mentioned a while...
stasis.
so the trouble with making this a blog about the books that i’m reading is that since i’ve been reading the same book for the past little while, there’s nothing new to add. i don’t want to rehash what exactly is happening in any of these books, i mostly just want to keep a record of all the reading i’m doing nowadays, so…yeah. still reading paingod and other...
September 2009
5 posts
airport.
i read a little over halfway through paingod and other delusions (the harlan ellison book i told you about) while waiting in the columbus airport for four and a half hours waiting for roy to get here. i think maybe i read really slowly, i dunno, cos it’s not that long of a book. but it’s awesome! is it weird or dumb that my favorite parts are not the stories but the little...
forgot.
i realized i forgot to tell you about
i read it about a month ago, when i first got to ohio.
so lovely. unsettling and substantive and excellent. the edition i read had an introduction by tennessee williams in which he discusses the “gothic” style. i’m annoyed that i haven’t read this before now, considering how long i’ve been a fan of mccullers. what can you do....
bus rides.
i’ve been getting used to the bus but decided to walk home today. it took me almost exactly an hour and cost me a blister on each big toe. the weather was nice and i feel ok about it.
i finished the alexie book, sad to finish but really did enjoy it. now i’m digging into:
my goodness, it is already really beautiful. the chapters are short and i’m already on the seventh. no...
attentions.
i’ve been reading this book on my lunch breaks at work and i’m about halfway done. i already knew i really liked alexie so it’s not a surprise, but he’s incredibly solid and reliable in his prose. every story is well paced, well presented, different enough from the last to propel the book together as a whole in parts. not a chopped-apart novel, not a mash of…story...
word-food.
from the intro:
“When you discover that the black natives of Lamborene hated Schweitzer, you begin to suspect noble individuals have some secret need in them to be loved, to look good in others’ eyes, to succor themselves or dissipate their guilts with benevolent gestures.”
i wonder how it is that i can always smell out my new favorite author based on arbitrary criteria....