hey estela guess what

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.

[...]

― 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

the pages are falling out
ofthe sartre as i turn them. kindof love
that

do u guys ever lose control of yourself in the library and get 10x more books than you will read in 6 weeks

i had a dream last night that estela had written a book called THE RAVE and it was really dirty and violent!

tsk

good title tho

i finished effi briest and thought it was just ok
i finished closely watched trains and thought it was GREAT
i 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 mainstream
i am going to start a flannery o'connor book

estela:

jordan gave me first editions (in very lovely condition) of carver's
where water comes together with other water
ultramarine

they are so so pretty!

lovely <3

my stepdad likes to tell stories about hanging out with his wife. what a name dropper, to his own stepson even!

wait what does that make me

his wife = your mom?

i want to find this book, estela http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swan_(novel)

what books did everyone get for xmas

my mum sent me two of tove jansson's books for grown-ups (because i'm a grown-up)

thank you for participating jabba, no one else will. i got:

i am a fugitive from a georgia chain gang! by robert e. burns (no my mom didn't just find this, it was on my wish list lol)
sherlock holmes selected stories
middlemarch

i don't think i got any books but i did get an envelope full of recipes.

my mum sent me two of tove jansson's books for grown-ups (because i'm a grown-up)

― jabba, Tuesday, December 29, 2009 12:07 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

ari just read one of these, the one about the girl who cons the older woman, or something

i got books i may or may not ever read

and books i have already read

i get books every xmas because my mom makes me ask for things (or will buy things i don't want if i don't) but it takes me 2-3 years to read them after i get them because i read other books i have or library books. so i'll read middlemarch in 2012 maybe

if the world doesn't end

reading 'portraits from an institution' by randall jarrel, it his actually, genuinely hilarious, i feel like i am reading a book by estela

jarrell