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
i love that photo, i have a clear memory of standing at that exact spot and looking at that exact view while someone told me a long not very good joke with a pun-ish song lyric punchline (but now i can't remember the song because it was a long time ago but it was something old but well-known like for example the night has a thousand eyes) (which always makes me think of possums in trees illuminated by car headlights)
― estela, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
margaret mahy died ;_;
― smoove operator, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
estela
estela!
estela!!
estela!!!
ESTELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLA!!!!
HI my boss brought me two packs of CHOCOADE biscuits from nz, do you remember them? do you like them?
― smoove operator, Saturday, 22 September 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
also 2 pixie{lxy} caramels and 2 perky nanas
and a "souvenir" tea towel (??)
― smoove operator, Saturday, 22 September 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
hrmph
― mookieproof, Saturday, 22 September 2012 05:14 (eleven years ago) link