October 2009
25 posts
HUGE PROJECT
I have recently undertaken a ginormous project- by starting Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon. I am very excited about reading a huge tome again, which I haven’t done since Infinite Jest two summers ago. (Man I cannot believe it has really been that long!) My former policy with this little blog I write is to only chronicle Books I Just Read- to have an accurate running tally of books I...
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OK, after this I won’t talk about Dawkins for a while… http://booksijustread.tumblr.com/
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DAWKINS BOOK: FINISHED FINALLY
It took me a long time to read Richard Dawkins’ The Greatest Show on Earth because I’m not used to reading non-fiction. I was incredibly interested in the subject matter and read my little heart out. I felt like I was in college again, reading non-fiction! It was fun, and inspired me to be more educational with the books I choose to read from now on. And then I got to see a...
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“I recently established a charitable foundation dedicated to promoting...”
– Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth
These kinds of crazy conundrums can dominate my brain if I’m not careful.
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Books I just got signed: Richard Dawkins’ The Greatest Show on Earth. ps- Richard Dawkins touched my hand!
This is what happens when I try to read… http://twitpic.com/lvl5z
This Dawkins book is taking over my literary life… Even though I haven’t written in a while about books, I am reading and thinking a lot.
I just bought booksijustread.com… now i have to figure out what to do with it!
GOOGLE BOOKS →
This project is near and dear to my heart. The digitization of out of print books is a worthy and daunting task… The thought of a book literally disappearing from mankind forever when we have the ability to stop that from happening is a depressing one.
STORY →
Here’s a link to a story I wrote for 52stories, and I am only posting the link because the title is “Disgusting Things Story” and that is self explanatory.
I thought “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” was a novel when I picked it up, so the short stories kind of threw me for a loop.
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FORAY INTO MURAKAMI
I read a short story collection of Murakami’s, called Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. For some reason I was not prepared for the simplicity of these stories. I don’t know what I expected. Regardless, Murakami surprised me.
Murakami writes calmly. His stories all ended unresolved and with lingering questions, but they were still calm. His characters were collected, ethereal at some...
"Why Good Writers Can Be Bad Conversationalists -...
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“That’s Vladimir Nabokov on my computer screen, looking both dapper and disheveled. He’s wearing a suit and a multibuttoned vest that scrunches the top of his tie, making it poke out of his shirt like an old-fashioned cravat. Large, lumpish, delicate and black-spectacled, he’s perched on a couch alongside the sleeker, sad-faced Lionel Trilling. Both men are...
I hate finishing a book out of the home and not having a back up. Especially if I have a lot of reading time… BLERG
“Among the women a man meets in his life, there are only three that have real...”
– Haruki Murakami, The Kidney Shaped Stone that Moves Every Day
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