NR

needing a break from the above:

T.H. White -- Mistress Masham's Repose

this description of the vicar made me laugh out loud:

It was difficult to see his eyes, partly because they were of the same general color as the rest of his face, and partly because he wore thick spectacles, behind which the lurked like oysters.

i am happy i picked this up tonight.

...behind which they....

of course

for fans of Mary Norton's The Borrowers series, or Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle, or Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm:

Mistress Masham's Repose is a must-read!

so after being reminded of them, i reread I Capture the Castle and Cold Comfort Farm. satisfying.

now i'm reading a dippy Kate Fansler mystery. may not finish it.

hi old thread, old friend. i've read a lot of stuff since last we visited.

currently am reading Old School by Tobias Wolff. thus far noteworthy for this passage:

"Always on the scout for new venues, I smoked in freezers and storage lockers and steam tunnels. I joined the Classical Music Club so I could smoke in the bathrooms of the concert halls we visited, and went out for cross-country so I could smoke while running in the woods."

A Walker in the City -- Alfred Kazin

"Nowhere but on Belmont Avenue did I ever see in Brownsville such open, hearty people as those market women. Their shrewd open-weather eyes missed nothing. The street was their native element; they seemed to hold it together with their hands, mouths, fists, and knees; they stood up in it behind their stands all day long, and in every weather; they stood up for themselves.

oh no. one of my favorite mystery novel detectives died. that's not supposed to happen.

i've been reading old articles from various magazines and newspapers, lots of them on the topic of architecture. they make me want to go everywhere.

today i finished flow my tears, the policeman said. it's actually the first fiction book i've read in a really long time!

i am trying zadie smith's white teeth. we will see

just read Middlesex, kind of loved it.

now i'm finally reading Sweet Thursday. here's something from it that made me laugh:

"It was his observation that when women had access to money they got nervous. To his mind, a healthy woman was a broke woman. A dame with money was a kind of a half-assed man. She stopped working at being a woman, and, as everybody knows, the finest thing about a woman is that she is a woman."

would like to read or look at this

A Century of Olympic Game Posters

nr: bangkok 8 - john burdett

gonna read at work in a few minutes!!!

look who finally finished a book and held a job at the same time

ball four jim bouton

Shantaram book about 4 hours ago from txt

eugenides middlesex
sitting next to bed but yet to be read.

was tearing through this but now haven't made much progress in over a week. will return to it today.
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new colson whitehead

guess who finished an actual not very good book? for the record: jamaica kincaid "a small place"

book FOR you coming from DL

:)))