hey, when's your birthday?
― jergins, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link
That would be - TODAY!!
Hello, 47!
― Jaq, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link
hey happy birthday!
― jergins, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link
yay, hurray! happy day, jaq!
― lxy, Thursday, 24 May 2007 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link
Joan Didion - Sentimental Journeys
I'd never read anything by here, and I'm enjoying this, essays from the 80s.
― jergins, Thursday, 24 May 2007 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Lonely Planet Hong Kong and Macau
― lxy, Thursday, 31 May 2007 04:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Gilead -- Marilynne Robinson
Thanks for bringing this back for me, Jergins. It is sad and sweet.
― lxy, Saturday, 2 June 2007 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link
yes, both
― jergins, Saturday, 2 June 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Lurker, are you reading anything interesting? Please tell us about it!
― lxy, Friday, 8 June 2007 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link
finally finished Gilead. loved.
now reading:
Towards A New Architecture -- Le Corbusier
― lxy, Saturday, 16 June 2007 23:34 (seventeen years ago) link
i find this passage, from the Le Corbusier on the topic of regulating lines and primitive structures, very charming:
In order to construct well and distribute your efforts to advantage, in order to obtain solidity and utility in the work, units of measure are the first consideration of all. The builder takes as his measure what is easiest and most constant, the tool that he is least likely to lose: his pace, his foot, his elbow, his finger.
― lxy, Friday, 29 June 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
needing a break from the above:
T.H. White -- Mistress Masham's Repose
this description of the vicar made me laugh out loud:
It was difficult to see his eyes, partly because they were of the same general color as the rest of his face, and partly because he wore thick spectacles, behind which the lurked like oysters.
i am happy i picked this up tonight.
― lxy, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 05:08 (sixteen years ago) link
...behind which they....
of course
― lxy, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 05:09 (sixteen years ago) link
for fans of Mary Norton's The Borrowers series, or Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle, or Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm:
Mistress Masham's Repose is a must-read!
― lxy, Saturday, 7 July 2007 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
so after being reminded of them, i reread I Capture the Castle and Cold Comfort Farm. satisfying.
now i'm reading a dippy Kate Fansler mystery. may not finish it.
― lxy, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 03:31 (sixteen years ago) link
hi old thread, old friend. i've read a lot of stuff since last we visited.
currently am reading Old School by Tobias Wolff. thus far noteworthy for this passage:
"Always on the scout for new venues, I smoked in freezers and storage lockers and steam tunnels. I joined the Classical Music Club so I could smoke in the bathrooms of the concert halls we visited, and went out for cross-country so I could smoke while running in the woods."
― lxy, Friday, 24 August 2007 02:34 (sixteen years ago) link
A Walker in the City -- Alfred Kazin
"Nowhere but on Belmont Avenue did I ever see in Brownsville such open, hearty people as those market women. Their shrewd open-weather eyes missed nothing. The street was their native element; they seemed to hold it together with their hands, mouths, fists, and knees; they stood up in it behind their stands all day long, and in every weather; they stood up for themselves.
― lxy, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 01:30 (sixteen years ago) link
oh no. one of my favorite mystery novel detectives died. that's not supposed to happen.
― lxy, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 22:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i've been reading old articles from various magazines and newspapers, lots of them on the topic of architecture. they make me want to go everywhere.
― lxy, Friday, 4 January 2008 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
today i finished flow my tears, the policeman said. it's actually the first fiction book i've read in a really long time!
― Lingbert, Saturday, 5 January 2008 04:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i am trying zadie smith's white teeth. we will see
― jergins, Saturday, 5 January 2008 04:37 (sixteen years ago) link
just read Middlesex, kind of loved it.
now i'm finally reading Sweet Thursday. here's something from it that made me laugh:
"It was his observation that when women had access to money they got nervous. To his mind, a healthy woman was a broke woman. A dame with money was a kind of a half-assed man. She stopped working at being a woman, and, as everybody knows, the finest thing about a woman is that she is a woman."
― lxy, Saturday, 19 January 2008 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link
would like to read or look at this
A Century of Olympic Game Posters
― jergins, Thursday, 19 June 2008 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link
nr: bangkok 8 - john burdett
gonna read at work in a few minutes!!!
― jergins, Thursday, 19 June 2008 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
look who finally finished a book and held a job at the same time
― jergins, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 06:45 (fifteen years ago) link
ball four jim bouton
― jergins, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Shantaram book about 4 hours ago from txt
― newjioke (jergins), Monday, 19 January 2009 06:20 (fifteen years ago) link
eugenides middlesexsitting next to bed but yet to be read.
― tehresa, Monday, 19 January 2009 06:24 (fifteen years ago) link
was tearing through this but now haven't made much progress in over a week. will return to it today.http://i39.tinypic.com/qs0ab8.jpg
― harbl, Monday, 19 January 2009 12:49 (fifteen years ago) link
new colson whitehead
― max max max max, Monday, 19 January 2009 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
guess who finished an actual not very good book? for the record: jamaica kincaid "a small place"
― jelky (jergins), Monday, 29 June 2009 05:59 (fourteen years ago) link
book FOR you coming from DL
― jelky (jergins), Monday, 29 June 2009 06:01 (fourteen years ago) link
:)))
― lxy, Monday, 29 June 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link