i like bleak house a lot so far but i wonder if i have the endurance to read 900+ pages when i read so little during the week. i had a nice time reading in bed the last 2 mornings and got to page 65 or so.
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 13 December 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i have been on an amy bloom kick and just read the last of her books. i do this, i find an author i really like and then read all their stuff in quick succession and then get really bummed when there is no more left to read. i did this with siri hustvedt and jane smiley also. the only person i didn't do this with was alice munro, who i paced myself on for like 3 years but i finally just finished the last one ;_;
now i'm obsessed with jonathan dee.
― smoove operator, Monday, 13 December 2010 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i am never goign to finish a book, i just read parts of multiple books. i'm back to the warmth of other suns. only 190 pages to go. i have a borders gift card, what should i buy?
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 1 January 2011 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
an itty bitty book light and a tin of mints.
― estela, Saturday, 1 January 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
lol. i randomly selected 3 of those nyrb books.
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 1 January 2011 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
never you read books?
― lxy, Sunday, 2 January 2011 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
new york review of books! there is a thread on them http://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=55&threadid=74055#unreadi wonder if i will succeed at finishing more than 12 books this year. i've already finished the warmth of other suns, that's one for 2011. and a couple i read almost all of in 2010 and never did. i can do that. i'm just too tired most of the time.
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 2 January 2011 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
there are 5 books that i read about 80% of, including crash. i need to just suck it up and finish that awful thing.
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 2 January 2011 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i wouldn't, i never force myself to finish books i don't want to read, it's a waste of reading time. reading time is finite and there are millions of books out there.
― estela, Monday, 3 January 2011 12:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't know why i have this hang up. i tried to get rid of it and tell myself that very same thing. but i feel like i wasted time reading most of it and the time would become unwasted if i would finish.
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm with estela on this one. ditch it if you don't like it.
― lxy, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
The 50 page rule rules.
― jaq, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 05:08 (thirteen years ago) link
ok ok ok
― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 11:55 (thirteen years ago) link
lol, did we browbeat you into abandoning all 5 unfinished books?
― lxy, Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
not all 5. there is one i just re-borrowed. our library doesn't give enough time for slowpokes. i have like 100 pages left. i just finished the true deceiver by tove jansson!!!
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 17 January 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
i read the first kurt wallander book and the first martin beck book, they were ok
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 27 June 2011 11:07 (twelve years ago) link
ruby, i'm reading amy hempel's collected stories and finding her brilliant. if you have not read her i think you would like her.
― estela, Saturday, 19 May 2012 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
that is the one i have, too! i started reading it a while ago, but then i got distracted. i think i liked it??
― smoove operator, Saturday, 19 May 2012 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
i got a library card last weekend btw
― smoove operator, Saturday, 19 May 2012 03:01 (eleven years ago) link
i did that too-- started reading, liked it, got distracted, and now i'm loving it.
i bet you have a good library there.
― estela, Saturday, 19 May 2012 11:58 (eleven years ago) link
it's super tiny bc our city is super tiny. also i now officially live in contra costa county, not alameda county, so i guess i can't access berkeley's library with my card.
― smoove operator, Saturday, 19 May 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
estela i am reading a novel right now, and the female protagonist's nemesis is the spitting (word) image of your 'friend' you told me about.
― smoove operator, Friday, 25 May 2012 02:43 (eleven years ago) link
how lovely
― estela, Friday, 25 May 2012 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
hey e-stale-a
― t. silaviver, Friday, 25 May 2012 06:28 (eleven years ago) link
hey estela and what
^^ a good thread for a parallel ILX was mentioned repeated ages agokinda like the when pato met estela thread but with a sharper foil
― t. silaviver, Friday, 25 May 2012 06:31 (eleven years ago) link
hey t.skilaviver<3
― estela, Friday, 25 May 2012 07:09 (eleven years ago) link
hey estela, have you read any mona simpson? i'm reading 'off keck road', it's pretty good.
― smoove operator, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 02:06 (eleven years ago) link
no i haven't read her but i always like to get a reccommendation from you.
― estela, Thursday, 21 June 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
i was trying to figure out why her name was so familiar to me in this backwards province and it's because she's steve job's sister.
― estela, Thursday, 21 June 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
omg
estela made a mistake <3
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 June 2012 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
are you referring to backwards because that was deliberate, this place is too sunny and sky blue and beachy for backwoods.
― estela, Friday, 22 June 2012 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
or are you querying how we spell recommendation around here<3
― estela, Friday, 22 June 2012 02:10 (eleven years ago) link
or is mona simpson not really steve job's sister.
???
― estela, Friday, 22 June 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
steve jobs'
― smoove operator, Friday, 22 June 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
or is it steve jobs's
i forgot that she is his sister!
i'm almost finished with it, it's quite bleak, sort of like richard yates but without the actual hardships i suppose? idk i have quite enjoyed it so far. it's a funny sort of novel, though - it's more like a series of short stories that are about the same group of people, but it took me like 3/4 of the book to to get a grip on who is who.
― smoove operator, Friday, 22 June 2012 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
lol job's is a(nother) mistake, i am being a disaster. also i jist spelt lol as lot but i caught it in time.
― estela, Friday, 22 June 2012 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
just
― estela, Friday, 22 June 2012 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
i like linked stories.
― estela, Friday, 22 June 2012 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
I am reading this book about the Dust Bowl, and it is horrifying and amazing and completely engrossing.
― jaq, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
Hey Estela guess what
I gave some marmite to my american friend and she LOVES it
― smoove operator, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 06:14 (eleven years ago) link
i would never have guessed that.
― estela, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
at our grocery store there's a sad little sign next to the vegemite apologising that marmite is presently unavailable due to earthquake damage at the christchurch factory and i always laugh and think of you when i see it, it's the only lol i've had from that whole terrible ongoing nightmare.
― estela, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
there's an alley near me named christ church
― spite n ease (harbl), Thursday, 12 July 2012 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
did i tell you already that i had 3 stupid jars of marmite and now i (technically) have none??
- i lost the first through airport security- i checked the BB date of the other 2 for lolz and one expires this month and the other already expired LAST YEAR
i gave the least-fucked one to my friend so now i'm down to one expired jar. still tastes normal.
― smoove operator, Thursday, 12 July 2012 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
aw if i see any anywhere i'll grab you some, nz ran out far quicker than australia did because the crisis got a lot more publicity over there.
― estela, Thursday, 12 July 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
oh i'm just gonna keep eating my expired jar - it's actually a 'best before' date, not a 'use by' date, so it's fine. and a small jar lasts me years!
― smoove operator, Thursday, 12 July 2012 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
next time you're in wellington you can check to see if the jar we left at the top of the cable car is still there
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3478/4013168312_2efed0c112.jpg
― lxy, Thursday, 12 July 2012 03:01 (eleven years ago) link
lol u <3
― smoove operator, Thursday, 12 July 2012 03:21 (eleven years ago) link