hey estela guess what

i really liked 'what i loved'!

i finished two alice munro short story collections (she is amazing, maybe the best short story writer ever, can't wait for the new book coming soon!), 'the things they carried' by tim o'brien (v v good kind of war-story vignettes), and 'bad behavior' by mary gaitskill. now onto a collection of essays by siri hustvedt and 'another you' by ann beattie.

i like that excerpt!

hey, if you're into a book, and read it before bed, how long after you wake up do you start thinking about it?

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. i don't know the answer to your question but i think it is 0 seconds. i'm going to go read a book and drink rum drink in my bed.

sounds like the life

drink rum drink is fun to read

i really liked 'what i loved'!

closest i've come to crying @ a book in a looooong time

sandbox book club pick

crying because it moved you or crying because you hated it so much??

i think i mentioned this on an ILB thread, but one of my favourite things about hustvedt's writing is how she slips in all these really sinister events and stuff, but in the end they're really only marginal to the story - they're never what the plot revolves around.

i am very intrigued by this book.

if i still have my copy i will send it in yr care package that i still have not sent but will hopefully make it by xmas <3

i finished because it is bitter, etc. i liked the first 2/3 but the last 1/3 made me wanna barf. it was all about this girl's exquisite fairytale wedding. i wanted more disasters to happen to her instead.
then i read balzac - le colonel chabert. i wouldn't care if all the non-balzac books in the world got burned and only balzacs were left tbh

i am re-reading the half-mammals of dixie bc it makes me nostalgic by gently mocking while simultaneously appreciating my home state.

loving graham greene
the brief wondrous life of oscar wao
the fire engine that disappeared
exile on main st: a season in hell with the rolling stones
hell of articles

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?

oscar wao in his speech reminded me of nedddddddd

i feel like i need to read that bc EVERY SINGLE PERSON on public transportation in the last year has been reading it.

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.

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/photo-5.jpg

what a beautiful cover!

i have just received the new (SIGNED!!!!OMG!!!) alice munro book from my lovely husband as a super early b'day present!!!

i have recently read
iron & 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 entertaining
another you - ann beattie. like a companion piece to richard ford's independence day. pretty good.

and i just started
good faith - jane smiley. i love her stuff. sort of epic, really slow moving yet absorbing. v v intelligent.

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 like
that so close together, but maybe of interest to someone

lol rob just told me about that book

might be in the basement!

jergins you go to library there or what?

i finished medical apartheid by harriet washington
i 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

I just finished reading Little Women for the first time and am all teary-eyed.

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).

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.

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.

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 spent
twenty backbreaking minutes going througj all their stock. lotta
tom 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.

i like cousin bette, harbl

i love balzac, t. silaviver

;-)

who DOESNT love "balzac" am i right

ball-sac

(scrotum)

oh yeah you know me i love scrotums

(ball sacs)

i might read effi briest instead of cousin bette bc i just have a feeling baout it
still gotta read 114 more pages of willie francis though

harbl & i have similar tastes, i really like the fontane stuff i've read

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

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.

effi briest is v good

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 shit
now 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.

i have the age of reason but i have not read it
i started a virginia woolf book once and couldn't get more than 20 pages before i gave up

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

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

she is very impetuous <3