July 2009
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RT @tushfestival Came in at #12 on the library hold list for Inherent Vice. Get in now, guys. This’ll be good. Maybe.
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June 2009
61 posts
I was sandwiched in between two ladies reading racy romance novels with discreet covers on the train today..
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FREE BOOK
Nagles and I just scored free trash books off the Bergen G stop. I got Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policeman’s Union and she got one that had a really simple nice cover. SCORE!
I love finding free books! They’re like a present from the universe. Once, I stopped at a book stand on the street and inquired as to the price of a certain tome, and was told more than I had. I...
RT @michelehumes Whenever I read ‘Crime and Punishment’, I want tea and toast. I blame that hapless character, Marmeladov.
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TOP TEN POLYAMOROUS BOOKS: →
I’d like to add David Markson’s Going Down, which I do not recommend reading whilst on public transportation. Ditto his novel, Springer’s Progress. I haven’t read ANY of the books described in the top ten list, but I’m definitely going to reserve Hemmingway’s Garden of Eden. I love smartly written erotic fiction.
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FART PARTY
THIS COMIC MY BOYFRIEND SHOWED ME TODAY BLEW MY MIND.
It was like looking at pictures and reading words that came out of my own brain, but out of someone else’s brain. I love and feel strange when things like this happen, but mostly love. Julia Wertz, author of FART PARTY, moved to Brooklyn, NY the same month as I did, lives in the same neighborhood, played Narnia as a child, loves...
RT @BostonBookGirlAm starting THE LAZARUS PROJECT for my book club. It has a really cool website! http://bit.ly/ZLqdp (Warning: has music)
I finished a book last night: I liked it. http://booksijustread.tumblr.com/
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THE WHITE ALBUM, THE BOOK
I finished Joan Didion’s The White Album last night. This collection of essays, though separated by chapters, seemed so fluid as to make me understand the author. I definitely knew she was curious, determined, disciplined. I began to admire her around the fifth chapter. Or maybe I had been secretly admiring all those qualities and then all of a sudden it hit me- she tried really hard,...
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“1969: I had better tell you where I am, and why. I am sitting in a...”
– Joan Didion, The White Album
RT @booknerdnycJust snagged THE ART OF TIME off the shelving pile - series ed. Charles Baxter, written by Joan Silber. Covet!
RT bookavore How good is @alexanderchee’s EDINBURGH? So good that I almost just walked right past the bookstore, I was so engrossed in it.
RT @SWrittenWord Im 50 pages into an ARC of The Magicians by Lev Grossman @leverus & am impressed. I can’t wait to continue reading tonight!
Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #reading #writing #books
RT@booknerdnyc I’m reading Kate Walbert’s SHORT HISTORY OF WOMEN and kind of obsessed with it. Can’t wait to meet her at Wednesday’s reading
RT @gryphoness: reading Kay Kenyon’s Bright of the Sky & unable to put it down, having dreams abt it. Must-read if you like sci-fi or not.
LIFE SAVIOR →
It was Pride and Prejudice. Of course. And yes I also love the movies. http://booksijustread.tumblr.com/
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I RE-FINISHED PRIDE AND PREJUDICE!
One of my favorite books of all time is Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. I read it for the first time in high school as summer reading when I was abroad. I was lost without English language books at my beck and call, and Austen’s words were such a comfort I read them twice in as many weeks. Since that summer, I’ve read Pride and Prejudice many more times; each time I find...
I wonder if you can tell based on other books I’ve liked what one of my favorite books of all time is?!
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“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. ...”
– NAME THE BOOK WHENCE THIS QUOTE CAME!
This rainy weather is perfect for re-reading one my favorite books ever…
I went to the library looking forward to having two books waiting for me only to find zero books waiting for me! : (
reading about publishing! http://booksijustread.tumblr.com/
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A BOOK ABOUT BOOKS
Well, a book about making books. I just read Indie Publishing: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book, which my boyfriend bought for me. I found it useful and informative- as well as well made and artsy looking. The colors, layouts and creativity of the book served as an example for readers… There were sections about DIY bindings, selling your book, editing, print it yourself services...
David Foster Wallace is in my top 5 favorite authors. http://booksijustread.tumblr.com/
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David Foster Wallace.
I am a huge David Foster Wallace fan. I should probably get that right out there.
I read Brief Interviews With Hideous Men. It was an experimental collection of short stories, many times reaching out directly to the reader. Wallace used an unconventional method of one-sided interviews to engage the reader- we can imagine what the questions are and we can pretend we’re asking them. The...
This is preemptive- it’s my turn to pick the book for book club! Any suggestions?
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“She was rolling all her dice on these daffy-sounding beliefs in connection and...”
– David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
I wish the BPL website would save my library card number so I didn’t have to get up and get my wallet every time i want to reserve a book!
RT @ lifeinspoons@booksijustread Do comics/graphic novels count? Just finished volume 1 of Y: The Last Man. So good, I’m aching for more!
RT @bryanwoods @booksijustread *Finally* finished Sam Harris’ The End of Faith last night. Everyone should read that book.
RT @ami_with_an_iI am reading a book right now I like too much to even talk about, for fear of ruining it.
I just read The Mole People, on the train. And I was creeped out a little. http://booksijustread.tumblr.com/
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The Mole People
My book club book, that I didn’t read in time, was The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beaneath New York City, by Jennifer Toth. I finished it last night, after scarily reading it on the train for about half an hour. Mistake. Living in New York City brought more gravitas to a grave situation- on the train I kept thinking about the stories I’d read, the electrocutions, the violence...
RT @monikamagdalena my boyfriend bought me a book! i am so happy!
I went to book club yesterday without having read the book- for the first and last time, I swear!
RT @mawbooks Reading in bed last night = bad idea. Not doing so hot on #48hbc.
LIBRARY
I’m really excited about my last library trip… I picked up two amazing looking books and I can’t wait to get started, which i will do RIGHT NOW!
RT @ BookWorm71@booksijustread I am reading Dune Road by Jane Green
Bumper sticker character sketch- http://bit.ly/18fUzr
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