hey estela guess what

this thread probably!

i never tried these books by people like lorrie moore. maybe i should but not right now. still stuck in the 19th c. as far as fiction goes :o
intrigued by trashy mysteries though, because i like to watch trashy crime shows on the tv

;)

estela how do feel about janet frame

saw 'owls do cry' in the bookstore and felt nostalgic so i bought it

cmon lx

yeahh lxy it's ok to post about trashy novels

i willingly admit i have read and ENJOYED
the da vinci code and other d.brown books
TWILIGHT - not just one but the WHOLE trilogy!

altho 'enjoy' isn't really the right word for twilight.... that shit is on some other level. i was totally conscious the whole time i was reading all 3 books that the writing was terrible, the storyline predictable, the characters boring and one-dimensional, yet i was totally compelled to read them

oh, in no way am i embarrassed about my reading choices.

i had a funny moment with a book an hour ago.  i must have read about it on ILB's best of the 00's and then read the back and it sounded good. Andre Aciman's 'Call me by Your Name.'. i started in on this summer love story in 1st person and it all seemed fine until the third page. that's when i had my "wait, this is a dude talking about another dude" moment. whoops. no indication on the back cover, whatever i'd read about it hadn't mentioned man-on-man love. ha, i guess i'll give it to kyle. not that he finishes books, but he'll get further than i will.

started SWAY: the irresistible pull of irrational behavior. it's y'know nonfiction 

are you saying you dumped a book when you realized it was about gays

about gays FUCKING

new info about jergins life: started book about dudes doing it, couldnt finish

oh god that's awful! xp

that must have been the irresistible pull of irrational behavior

^_^

kyle might finish that one. xp.

xp also: is it about the musical artist SWAY?

cuz i would be surprised if you read a book about that guy.

okay people, here it is:

Illicit, Moisés Naím
Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear << there's your trashy mystery
Leaving Tangier, Tahar Ben Jelloun
The Day of the Owl, Leonard Sciascia

that's the last 4 books i read.

it took me months to read illicit because i suck at reading non-fiction. so instead of reading, i was doing crossword puzzles.

the winspear i read in about 6 minutes, that's how trashy it is. i chose it to remind myself that i can actually read more than 10 pages in a day. it's true, i do <3 trashy mysteries. mainly british ones.

jergins gave me leaving tangier. he bought it but then didn't read it, i guess on account of it is about the gay. (it's also about a lot of other stuff, btw.)

the sciascia is reportedly the first fictional account of the sicilian mafia. written in 1961. even though it's a murder mystery, it doesn't count as trashy because of its historical significance.

that enough for now?

the day of the owl looks like i would like it as long as no gays are fucking

does mary higgins clark count as trashy mysteries? i used to be into her after a bunch of her books were at this beach condo we rented, but it's been years.

no gays fucking, nor straights fucking either. at least not yet. only 12 pages left, so i doubt it'll come this late in the game. xp.

dunno, t, i've never read her. i always had the idea that they were sort of supernatural phenomena based? maybe not correct?

the only one i remember well was about a girl with multiple personalities that i think was murdering people and also did a lot of weird sex things maybe?

haha and ai yi yi! i think i have been wise to avoid mary higgins clark!

oooh for good and not-that-trashy mysteries you should try maeve binchy

i read one by her a long time ago but i don't remember it as a mystery, more like a romance?

oh no way, defintely psychological thriller styles

ok u are right i just checked wiki

i must be confusing here with someone else??

hmm, wonder who you're thinking of

the writer i'm thinking had a lot of her thrillers turned into mini series and she's british. goddamnit i can't remember any of the titles!!

was ordered to come to this thread. I just finished Alice In Wonderland and am like 5 pages into Through the Looking Glass. I've been boring lately and have also been re-reading my favorite bits of Calvino's Cosmicomics instead of seeking out trashy summer thrillers like I should be doing.

i started reading that janet frame book today but couldn't get into so instead i'm gonna read another a.m. homes

oh lxy you might like muriel sparks??

xp: thank you, unr. i'm sorry i didn't say please, i meant to but then i had to go make a drink.

thanks for the rec., ruby!

something about reading unreg's post made me choke and then i spit wine everywhere which was not so classy but kinda trashy so maybe it fits.
anyway, i was gonna say i should read those this summer, unreg. why bc <3 them.

you're drinking spitz!

hey estela guess what

chickenbutt

xpost

hahaha. er, sorry, I guess. is there a special type of wine you're supposed to drink while posting on ilx? (need this for my records)

I <3 them as well but feel a little cheated for not having read Alice as a kid — like I'm missing a lot of its magic by reading it with an adult's mind, stopping to figure out how x passage has made its way into pop culture, and not getting totally immersed in it the way I expected. but a giant, hookah-smoking caterpillar is AWESOME no matter how or when you read the book, so no great loss there. Cosmicomics is highly recommended etc.

The Tourist, Olen Steinhauser

is what i'm reading now. it's about SPIES!

recently read

Roseanna, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö

this is the first in the acclaimed Martin Beck series, which is apparently the measuring stick for all second half of the 20th century detective-genre fiction.

i had to make a book cover for it because there is a yucky picture on the front. but the story was good.

now reading

Inspector Imanishi Investigates, Seichō Matsumoto

Sjöwall and Wahlöö are referenced in the accolades. I love the description of the protagonist on the cover:

"Inspector Imanishi... Haiku poet, gardener, and the most dogged homicide detective on the Tokyo police force."

i just started i was amelia earhart, which my friend left for me because she said it was quick and fun. it is quick but so far not fun and more ehhhhhh. i am not having good book luck!

i started the janet frame but didn't like it so i put it down

i started some book by ishiguro but i didn't like that either so i put it down too

i then started 'democracy' by joan didion but that wasn't working out for me either

then i got halfway through steve erikson's 'our ecstatic days' but it was weird and not that well written and i was only keeping on reading it because i felt bad about giving up on the last 3 books

now i'm REALLY reading 'another you' by ann beattie which is okay and also 'los angeles' by a.m. homes (who is currently my favourite writer) which is really good

I started the newest China Miéville The City & The City on the bus ride home tonight. Just the right tinge of strangeness and something-not-quite-rightness so far. The imaginative leaps in Perdido Street Station will be hard to top.

lxy i LOVE the beck novels. what do u think of the wallander books?

max i haven't read any but, like the beck series, wallander has been on my list for a long time. i will go to the book store at lunch. my supply is running low and today is pay day!

you might want to consider the imanishi mentioned above. his detective work is rather more naive than beck's, but there is a similarity of disposition, i guess, between the two.

i will! i got into beck & wallander last year while ari was studying sweden & we took a trip to stockholm.

i highly recommend the bbcs wallander series w/ kenneth branagh too.

and obviously the matthau laughing policeman movie even tho its set in SF not sweden

true confession: it turns out i have read a wallander. jergins reminded me. i never remember that detective's name, just the author.

i liked how grimy it is, and i like the detective a lot. i found it to be a bit more gruesome than i normally like, though, so i haven't read any more.

it was One Step Behind that i read.

i need to hook up my printer so i can take the paper to the library that will get me a library card but i'm using the printer box as a bedside table right now. choices.

max i am unrecommending that imanishi book. it's annoying me.

Man in the Dark, Paul Auster

we by chance saw a haka on tv in nz. it was utterly thrilling.

mookieprof, our estela is too good AND she is true. another reason to move west: she will surely visit again some day (i hope!!!!).

ps. amazon is hiring.

i met a hologram of estela that insisted on calling me "sug"

maybe it wasn't really my hologram ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjsh2j7W6Bo

our busy hotel keeper looks like ruby. she's spent the morning rushing around helping people with coffee and wifi, which always concludes with an "et, voilá." kinda funny since we're in spain.

does that mean she looks young, fun and awesome? or frumpy, boring and grumpy?

pretty, sweet, helpful, smart, funny, young, fun and awesome <3

look who's smoove, now!! <3

ruby there's a woman ranting outside my office window who looks just like you. are you here?

i am a bit of a ranter but unfortunately (or fortunately??) it wasn't me!

i dedicated the cadbury caramello egg i just wolfed down to you, dearest ruby, if you had been outside my window i would have gladly handed it over.

hey estela guess what i heard about georgette

that i love her, is my guess. i was having a very sad weekend and then she suddenly appeared in my thoughts so then f. and i looked at some pictures of her (including a couple with ted) and they were a genuinely cheering sight. i like how when you look at her face you can recall her voice and also her ridiculous fluffy hairdos.

estela, we were in portland on saturday and we stayed at the inn at northrup station<3

yay, i <3 that place, i hope it was wonderful.

hey estela guess what

there is now jelly tip chocolate and biscuits!! my sis got me one of each, i get to try them out in 3 days

https://i.imgur.com/la0QbBf.png

I would think that the mound at Dodger Stadium right now is the loneliest place in the world.

http://www.salon.com/1999/10/12/scully_koufax

miss u

otm

congratulations to the brisbane bandits for claiming the claxton shield

hey

cheers to the good guys

the other day i was walking to the wine store and a little white dog was on the sidewalk running away from its owner and she said "can you catch her?" and i picked her up and she said she's 14 years old and going deaf whenever i call her she goes away from me and i gave her the dog and it reminded me of harry because it was small and white and a rotter

also i was like 1 foot taller than the owner

aw, harry is small and white and a rotter and also he is 14 and a little bit deaf now too:( but he is in good and sturdy spirits and he still runs around a lot and is greedy and cheerful so that is as much as we could wish for. i can't even imagine what sorrow lies ahead so i hardly ever let myself think about it.

some dog advice given to me by a dog lover:

when your dog is elderly, that's the time to bring a young pup home; sometimes having that youthful energy around will give more energy to the older dog and extend its life. and when your beloved eventually passes, you'll have another little creature that needs all that same love and care from you and will help you move on.

that is good advice, it must be very quiet and lonely to suddenly be living in a house with no noisy little animal charging around.

i Double Dog Dare estela to post a poll of her 50 favourite albums

mookie

sorry i cherish you and everything but you've been double dog dared

i am pretending to be very disappointed

but even so

i’m working on this at my own pace, having noted on dare day that no deadline was provided. any postdated changes end this dare immediately and disqualify any new ones. sorry i do make the rules

i am extremely patient, and indeed stipulated no deadline, and am certain that you are posting this interim notice in the best of faith(s) <3