the pages are falling outofthe sartre as i turn them. kindof lovethat
― jergins, Monday, 7 December 2009 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
do u guys ever lose control of yourself in the library and get 10x more books than you will read in 6 weeks
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i had a dream last night that estela had written a book called THE RAVE and it was really dirty and violent!
― smoove operator, Thursday, 17 December 2009 02:04 (fourteen years ago) link
tsk
― estela, Thursday, 17 December 2009 05:27 (fourteen years ago) link
good title tho
― jergins, Thursday, 17 December 2009 05:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i finished effi briest and thought it was just oki finished closely watched trains and thought it was GREATi 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 mainstreami am going to start a flannery o'connor book
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 20 December 2009 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
estela:
jordan gave me first editions (in very lovely condition) of carver'swhere water comes together with other waterultramarine
they are so so pretty!
― smoove operator, Sunday, 20 December 2009 06:08 (fourteen years ago) link
lovely <3
― estela, Sunday, 20 December 2009 10:35 (fourteen years ago) link
my stepdad likes to tell stories about hanging out with his wife. what a name dropper, to his own stepson even!
― vance labar (jergins), Sunday, 20 December 2009 12:38 (fourteen years ago) link
wait what does that make me
― vance labar (jergins), Sunday, 20 December 2009 12:39 (fourteen years ago) link
his wife = your mom?
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 20 December 2009 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i want to find this book, estela http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swan_(novel)
what books did everyone get for xmas
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 28 December 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
my mum sent me two of tove jansson's books for grown-ups (because i'm a grown-up)
― jabba, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 05:07 (fourteen years ago) link
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 storiesmiddlemarch
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 05:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't think i got any books but i did get an envelope full of recipes.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 05:51 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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
― max max max max, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 11:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― max max max max, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 11:28 (fourteen years ago) link
jarrell
started brothers karamazov again. i'll never really read this book, it's too long.
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― smoove operator, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
<3 neuromancer
ive probably read it a dozen times
― max max max max, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
i finished the piano teacher and i didn't think it was so great
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
the only other gibson i've read is burning chrome, which i liked a lot
― smoove operator, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah neuromancer is basically a 300-pg version of the burning chrome short story, but better
― max max max max, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
will make you disappointed at how boring the internet turned out to be
― max max max max, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
it's funny, but reading it (altho i'm not v far in), it doesn't seem as dated as i would have imagined
― smoove operator, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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'
― jabba, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 00:54 (fourteen years ago) link
poopsocking?????
― smoove operator, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 01:18 (fourteen years ago) link
u know.....poopsocking
― jabba, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 04:57 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, poopsocking
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 12 February 2010 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:01 AM (3 weeks ago)
yeah i keep reading other books instead of this
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 12 February 2010 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 12 February 2010 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― jaq, Friday, 12 February 2010 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i have that too and i know i would love it but i'm always afraid of long books
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 12 February 2010 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― smoove operator, Saturday, 3 July 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i was thinking about this thread!
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 3 July 2010 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― max max max max, Sunday, 4 July 2010 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm reading the collected stories of alice adams, i think you might like her, ruby.
― estela, Sunday, 4 July 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i prefer her short fiction to her novels, but i am pro short fiction as you know.
― estela, Sunday, 4 July 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― smoove operator, Monday, 5 July 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i have, but it was so long ago i don't remember properly. but i know i liked her.
― estela, Monday, 5 July 2010 07:28 (thirteen years ago) link
have you read/heard the wellington poet kate camp? I like her.
― estela, Monday, 5 July 2010 08:43 (thirteen years ago) link
thinking about her [fiona kidman] made me decide to email her and ask if she'd be interested in publishing something small with us. i probably won't hear back, or at the most i'll get a polite 'no thanks' but i figured it was worth a shot.
i don't know kate camp, but i never really got into any nz poetry, i'll check her out.
― smoove operator, Monday, 5 July 2010 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, i also just read the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime. it was okay, but seemed pretty juvenile to me. the writing was very good, in that it at least seems to capture the voice of an autistic teenager pretty well, but the plot and the intent made it seem like it was an educational book for children to teach them about asperger's.
― smoove operator, Monday, 5 July 2010 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
hey max, the fifth woman was pretty rad, gonna take a break with something totally different tho before i read the next one. super unusual style of writing: short precise sentences, few adjectives, lots of minute detail... but it all works, somehow.
― smoove operator, Monday, 12 July 2010 06:06 (thirteen years ago) link