i am re-reading the half-mammals of dixie bc it makes me nostalgic by gently mocking while simultaneously appreciating my home state.
― te,he (tehresa), Saturday, 31 October 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
loving graham greenethe brief wondrous life of oscar waothe fire engine that disappearedexile on main st: a season in hell with the rolling stoneshell of articles
― jergins, Sunday, 1 November 2009 05:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i dragged a file called "FUTURE READING" halfway around the world, to ab out the remotest place you can get, and i had the funny feeling of wait why did i bring this crap all the way here?
― jergins, Sunday, 1 November 2009 05:50 (fourteen years ago) link
oscar wao in his speech reminded me of nedddddddd
― jergins, Sunday, 1 November 2009 05:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i feel like i need to read that bc EVERY SINGLE PERSON on public transportation in the last year has been reading it.
― te,he (tehresa), Sunday, 1 November 2009 06:12 (fourteen years ago) link
tender is the night - fitzgerald (even the back cover calls it an immature work. yep)i started but didn't finish a philip roth book about nixon. it was written in 71-72 and i'm sure it was 'incisive and hilarious' then but whatever it was boring.1/3 of nostromo by joseph conrad. still carrying it around so i guess i'll finish it at some point.brave new world. had never read it.clandestine by james ellroy. i read it in a day.just started snow country by yasunari kawabata. love the cover.
― jergins, Sunday, 22 November 2009 03:55 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/photo-5.jpg
― jergins, Sunday, 22 November 2009 03:56 (fourteen years ago) link
what a beautiful cover!
― tehresa, Sunday, 22 November 2009 05:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i have just received the new (SIGNED!!!!OMG!!!) alice munro book from my lovely husband as a super early b'day present!!!
― smoove operator, Sunday, 22 November 2009 05:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i have recently readiron & silk - mark salzman. anecdotes from his 2yrs teaching english in a remote little chinese town in the early 80s. light weight, a little to0 not-very-modest-at-all but entertaininganother you - ann beattie. like a companion piece to richard ford's independence day. pretty good.
and i just startedgood faith - jane smiley. i love her stuff. sort of epic, really slow moving yet absorbing. v v intelligent.
― smoove operator, Sunday, 22 November 2009 05:34 (fourteen years ago) link
peter hessler (ny-er man in china) wrote a cute funny light book about living and teaching in china. not that u would want to read two likethat so close together, but maybe of interest to someone
― jergins, Sunday, 22 November 2009 07:06 (fourteen years ago) link
lol rob just told me about that book
― lxy, Sunday, 22 November 2009 07:23 (fourteen years ago) link
might be in the basement!
― jergins, Sunday, 22 November 2009 08:32 (fourteen years ago) link
jergins you go to library there or what?
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 22 November 2009 13:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i finished medical apartheid by harriet washingtoni started the execution of willie francis by gilbert king (it's about a thing that led to a supreme court case in 1947, louisiana ex rel. francis v. resweber in case u were wondering)i want to read cousin bette but i got all these long nonfiction library books i gotta finish
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 22 November 2009 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I just finished reading Little Women for the first time and am all teary-eyed.
― jaq, Sunday, 22 November 2009 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
god little women is so great!!! one of my favourite books from my childhood. you should read the sequel, little men, next! it's also great (and sad, too).
― smoove operator, Sunday, 22 November 2009 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I wouldn't have read it, smoove, except for your recommendation - after we did that facebook list of books you've read a few months ago - thank you so much for that! I wish I'd read it when I was 10 or 11, but I'm so glad I found it now.
― jaq, Sunday, 22 November 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
oh wow - that's awesome! as a kid, i got little women/little men as part of a set of 'companion series' books, along with heidi (so so so great), black beauty (terribly sad) and call of the wild (also heartbreaking) - they were my favourite books and i read them a million times.
― smoove operator, Sunday, 22 November 2009 19:25 (fourteen years ago) link
harbs what i did was go to the biggest city in fiji and then track down the best bookstore. which is a little underlit shack in a market. then i spenttwenty backbreaking minutes going througj all their stock. lottatom clancy and NEBRASKA! and shit like that. the classics section was gold tho. now ive been hauling aroumd a dozen books, getting rid of each one asi finish it.
― jergins, Monday, 23 November 2009 07:04 (fourteen years ago) link
i like cousin bette, harbl
― t. silaviver, Monday, 23 November 2009 07:23 (fourteen years ago) link
i love balzac, t. silaviver
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 23 November 2009 13:57 (fourteen years ago) link
;-)
― max max max max, Monday, 23 November 2009 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
who DOESNT love "balzac" am i right
― max max max max, Monday, 23 November 2009 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link
ball-sac
(scrotum)
oh yeah you know me i love scrotums
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 23 November 2009 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link
(ball sacs)
― max max max max, Monday, 23 November 2009 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i might read effi briest instead of cousin bette bc i just have a feeling baout itstill gotta read 114 more pages of willie francis though
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 28 November 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
harbl & i have similar tastes, i really like the fontane stuff i've read
― t. silaviver, Saturday, 28 November 2009 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i just know i would love effi briest! i'll read cousin bette later. i remembered because i want to watch the fassbinder (<333333) but i prefer to read the book first so it's not ruined
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 28 November 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i also have to read closely watched trains so i can watch the movie. when i used to have netflix i kept it for 5 months and didn't watch it because i do that.
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 28 November 2009 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link
effi briest is v good
― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i finished snow country, liked it in a way, very cinematic, the main female character reminded me a little bit of estela and a little bit of harbl.then i read Picadilly Jim by Wodehouse. not as funny as bertie and jeeves, but i ended up caring about the characters, which was strange for a wodehouse.i read half of alain de botton's Architecture of Happiness. it's the problem i often have with non-fiction: taking three hundred pages to say what could be said in three pages.then i read a few pages of virginia woolf's The Waves and thought oh no way fuck this shitnow i'm reading Sartre's The Age of Reason and liking it very much.i'm getting to the danger zone, i only have 3 or so books left. gotta find a bookstore.
― jergins, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
i have the age of reason but i have not read iti started a virginia woolf book once and couldn't get more than 20 pages before i gave up
― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
hey, if you're into a book, and read it before bed, how long after you wake up do you start thinking about it?
― jergins, Tuesday, October 20, 2009 6:00 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Permalink
i hate (like) when i wake up on a saturday or sunday and pick up the book again right away and lay in bed for 2 hours being really hungry and really having to pee.
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― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, October 20, 2009 8:49 PM (1 month ago)
did this this morning
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 6 December 2009 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i finished snow country, liked it in a way, very cinematic, the main female character reminded me a little bit of estela and a little bit of harbl.
ha i totally missed this! <3
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 6 December 2009 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
she is very impetuous <3
― jergins, Sunday, 6 December 2009 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
the pages are falling outofthe sartre as i turn them. kindof lovethat
― jergins, Monday, 7 December 2009 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
do u guys ever lose control of yourself in the library and get 10x more books than you will read in 6 weeks
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i had a dream last night that estela had written a book called THE RAVE and it was really dirty and violent!
― smoove operator, Thursday, 17 December 2009 02:04 (fourteen years ago) link
tsk
― estela, Thursday, 17 December 2009 05:27 (fourteen years ago) link
good title tho
― jergins, Thursday, 17 December 2009 05:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i finished effi briest and thought it was just oki finished closely watched trains and thought it was GREATi finished let's get free: a hip-hop theory of justice and it was not that good or i have read too many books on this subject and am not impressed anymore.i am reading blood and politics: the history of the white nationalist movement from the margins to the mainstreami am going to start a flannery o'connor book
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 20 December 2009 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
estela:
jordan gave me first editions (in very lovely condition) of carver'swhere water comes together with other waterultramarine
they are so so pretty!
― smoove operator, Sunday, 20 December 2009 06:08 (fourteen years ago) link
lovely <3
― estela, Sunday, 20 December 2009 10:35 (fourteen years ago) link
my stepdad likes to tell stories about hanging out with his wife. what a name dropper, to his own stepson even!
― vance labar (jergins), Sunday, 20 December 2009 12:38 (fourteen years ago) link
wait what does that make me
― vance labar (jergins), Sunday, 20 December 2009 12:39 (fourteen years ago) link
his wife = your mom?
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 20 December 2009 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i want to find this book, estela http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swan_(novel)