Vico, New Science

Guy Delisle, Shenzhen

Chris Ware, Acme #17

Craig Conley, One Letter Words: A Dictionary

and some Powells gift certificate money, to be spent soon.

Actually something of a light year for books so far!

I got no books at all.

I got a macaroni & cheese cookbook, while Mr. Jaq made out like a bookbandit: Goncourt Journals, Library of America Henry James short stories volume, Goon Show scripts, Pet Shop Boys Catalogue, Spy: The Funny Years, plus something called “Crap Towns”. There are Amazon gift certificates waiting to be used, however.

david kamp, the united states of arugula

witold gombrowicz, ferdydurke

the collected stories of katharine anne porter

the complete hothead paisan

richard blake, street smart: the new york of lumet, allen, scorsese and lee

the king arthur flour cookie companion

edward gorey, amphigorey too

joan didion, the white album

nik cohn, awopbopaloobop alopbamboom

and some others

(time it’ll take for me to read all of these books: oh, about six years, i imagine)

No, the cookie book is a real page turner.

i want that nik cohn

it is tho casuistry! i want to steal my grandma’s old pizzelle oven.

Let me know if the cookies are any good. I need a greater variety of cookie recipes. I basically have two that I always make, both from Cooks Illustrated.

By “let me know if the cookies are any good” I might mean “bring the cookies to me!” or “make me cookies! now, bitch!” or something, though. Or I might just be post-holiday punchy.

king arthur is about 500 pages of cookies! tons of greatlooking recipes! i really need to make some rugelach soon, homemade rugelach is so ace. if i love cooking starts up again (has it?) someone really ought to start an ilx cookie exchange thing. maybe i will?

Moomin comic collection!

Also, Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion, which I know nothing about, and Jon Stewart’s Naked Pictures of Famous People, and this collection of pre-war blues lyrics.

ILC is here on the hold, yes.

it took me about three posts of reading it to process the word “cookie”, i just thought it was some twee form of ‘cook’ or ‘cookery’ or ‘cooking’, which now i’ve written them also look like made up words. boxing day torpor.

i got my nephew the book about moomin, mymble, and little my. and also who will comfort toffle?

my mother got me ‘the historian’ by elizabeth kostova. it’s some kind of da vinci dracula business.

viz.

“are there any books you’d like?”

“well, i’d really like brian cowan’s book on the emergence of the english coffee house in the seventeenth century, actually.”

“oh, i already got you a book.”

Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in 1950s Animation

Special Topics in Calamity Physics (through a mishap in which the copy we ordered for my sister that was not supposed to arrive before Christmas arrived after we had already went to the local bookstore to get her a copy)

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People who Love Books and for Those who Want to Write Them (bought it for my sister but she already had it)

Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl (purchased for self while buying gifts)

and a $50 gift certificate to Amazon, with the express instructions not to buy any “more” Cds

I got Casino Royale and the Talented Mr. Ripley. They both have fantastic redesigned covers.

William Trevor—Collected Stories

James Elroy—The Big Nowhere

two newest DFWs

used box of 60 Minute Gourmet and More 60 Minute Gourmet

sort of got Grace Paley’s and TC Boyle’s collected stories, too (need to find out if they were given or loaned)

and John Barth—The Floating Opera and—The Friday Book and Chris Adrian—Gob’s Grief and some Charles Baxter books from the library.

Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth

The New York Times, New York: 365 Days

Ansel Adams, Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail

Bought for Self

The Rough Guide to Andalucia

Insider’s Guide to Sonoma Valley: The Secret Wine Country

Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

Gary Hart, The Courage of Our Convictions: A Manifesto for Democrats

Bruce Babbitt, Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America

Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney, Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape

The new Peter Ackroyd, ‘The Fall of Troy’. I like his recent novels—surprisingly straightforward literary fun compared to his huge, bizarre biographies.

I haven’t gotten these yet, but I know I’ll be getting them soon:

Foucault/Chomsky debate

33 1/3 Series Greatest Hits

John-Paul Sartre Nausea

now i have Deborah Eisenberg—Transactions in a Foreign Currency and Donald Barthelme—Sixty Stories, too! sweet

the Marshall Fine Cassavetes bio

Gotham: A History of New York to 1898

Japanese Portraits by Donald Richie

Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World by David Rieff

I also got a Labyrinth gift card.

Samuel Johnson—Selected Essays

Frank Kogan—Real Punks Don’t Wear Black

Rory Stewart—The Places In Between

Also a B&N gift card.

Just exchanged some stuff in return for:

The Confidence Man; his masquerade

Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret

Eric Schlosser’s Reefer Madness (discounted to $4!)

Of the many millions of books that are on my wishlist, I got one. I got one other book too. But don’t worry, because I got plenty of fucking cappuccino mugs with sachets of crap cappuccino in them, that probably cost more than a book.

I don’t understand why people just don’t bloody well buy me books.

today i bought:

‘logic: a very short introduction’

collier, ‘the art of ingeniously tormenting’ (17th (18th?) century treatise on nagging)

browne, ‘urne-burial’ (new penguin great ideas ed.)

gass, ‘omensetter’s luck’ (looking for this for a while now, £2 in oxfam)

mayhew, ‘london labour and the london poor’ (£2.50 in oxfam)

can anyone recommend a textbook on logic once i get through the oup thingy on it?

Brothers Karamazov _ Dostoevsky

People of Paper—Salvador Plascencia

Carry Me Down—M.J. Hyland

And apparently some more on the way for me in the mial.