hey estela guess what

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

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

started brothers karamazov again. i'll never really read this book, it's too long.

i am still on a jane smiley kick, but am taking a break to read neuromancer by william gibson (i hardly ever get round to reading sci-fi so it makes a nice change)

also i am pulling a sickie today, for maybe only the second time ever

<3 neuromancer

ive probably read it a dozen times

i finished the piano teacher and i didn't think it was so great

the only other gibson i've read is burning chrome, which i liked a lot

yeah neuromancer is basically a 300-pg version of the burning chrome short story, but better

will make you disappointed at how boring the internet turned out to be

it's funny, but reading it (altho i'm not v far in), it doesn't seem as dated as i would have imagined

neuromancer so amazing and so prescient....doesn't he even anticipate poopsocking at one point??!

both the tove jansson books were really good, esp the short story collection 'a winter book'

poopsocking?????

u know.....poopsocking

yeah, poopsocking

started brothers karamazov again. i'll never really read this book, it's too long.

― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:01 AM (3 weeks ago)

yeah i keep reading other books instead of this

i think i am gonna read all day. i have been watching movies all day every day this week due to unexpected winter vacation but today i will read, estela

I'm way farther into War and Peace than I've ever been - didn't make it past the first party last time. It's surprisingly engrossing.

i have that too and i know i would love it but i'm always afraid of long books

and now you can go - vendela vida. it was okay i guess. a quick read. not exactly remarkable, but sort of interesting.
love invents us - amy bloom. i liked this. but this is the kind of stuff that most people i know, hate. it's very 'female' and emo but she's a really good writer. on the same lines as mary gaitskill.
babel-17 - samuel r. delany. terrible writing but mindblowing ideas. really made me ~~think~~.
girl with a dragon tattoo - steig larsson. not sure what all the fuss is about tbh.

have just bought a couple of henning mankell books on max's recommendation, since i felt like some more crime fiction after the larsson book.

i was thinking about this thread!

larsson sucks

which mankell did you buy smoove? i just read his most recent one--something abouta red ribbon? and it was terrible. the wallander series is pretty reliable but the rest of his stuff can be pretty ehhhhh

i'm reading the collected stories of alice adams, i think you might like her, ruby.

i prefer her short fiction to her novels, but i am pro short fiction as you know.

i got the fifth woman and sidetracked. yeah the larsson was just... average? i mean, it kept me turning the pages, but the writing itself wasn't particularly good. i really don't get why the series has become such a huge thing.

estela, i'll put alice adams on my book list! i'm on a bit of a search for new author with a decent back catalogue i can get into. oh, i meant to ask you (have i asked you this already??): have you read any fiona kidman? she's an amazing wellington writer, reminds me a little of alice munro.

i have, but it was so long ago i don't remember properly. but i know i liked her.