September 2008
42 posts
“the general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine...”
– lucy grealy, autobiography of a face
238. Read before bed every night.
rulesformyunbornson:
A book every two weeks is a good goal.
i’m a bit of an addict. i finished 3 last week. yikes.
mary: so i finished a farewell to arms last night
me: so good huh
me: and depressing
mary: that's the worst ending ever
mary: death death the end
“so that’s how we live our lives. no matter how deep and fatal the loss, no...”
– haruki murakami, sputnik sweetheart
“but any number of times i’ve seen people who say they’re easily hurt...”
– haruki murakami, sputnik sweetheart
run.
run, by ann patchett.
not sure if i have just been reading too much patchett (is there such a thing??) but 100 pages into run i am not loving it. i keep getting the feeling that she really wanted to try something different, and as a result the narrative feels stiff and contrived.
hopefully the book will hit it’s stride. ha.
currently reading:
1. run, by ann patchett
2. in defense of food: an eater’s manifesto, by michael pollan
in my to-read stack:
1. autobiography of a face, by lucy grealy
2. sputnik sweetheart, by haruki murakami
The New Yorker Festival →
anyone?
“women have always moaned about men,” Birbal said, “but it turns out...”
– salman rushdie, the enchantress of florence
“he was the scientist of her soul. in the smallest motion of an eyebrow, in the...”
– salman rushdie, the enchantress of florence
“while you were anesthetized to the tragedy of your life you were able to...”
– salman rushdie, the enchantress of florence
“I’m interested in what people do with the chaos in their lives and how...”
– Philip Roth
philip roth and a world of forbidden pleasures →
“now he wanted the most comfortable bed that could be had, and a woman,...”
– salman rushdie, the enchantress of florence
“the self may be royal, but it hungers like a pauper. it may be nourished for a...”
– salman rushdie, the enchantress of florence
James Franco Will Star in Allen Ginsberg Biopic... →
(via coffeehousejunkie)
david foster wallace found dead →
“perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is,...”
– milan kundera, the unbearable lightness of being
“we forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. we forget...”
– joan didion
“When Mr. Sendak received the 1996 National Medal of Arts, President Bill Clinton...”
– patricia cohen, “concerns beyond just where the wild things are”
Concerns Beyond Just Where the Wild Things Are →
Mr. Sendak is pleased with the coming birthday celebration, just as he is about his awards and honors, but in the end, he maintained, they don’t add up to much. They “never penetrated,” he said. “They were like rubber bullets.”
It’s not that he isn’t grateful. “They made me happy, but at a certain point in your life, you see through them,” he said. “You don’t mock them, you don’t hate them, you...
“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of...”
– P.J. O’Rourke (via 52books)
my life in sales →
Perhaps I should put my novels in a sample case, the expensive new hardbacks on one side, the smaller, friendlier paperbacks on the other, and go door to door through some neighborhood in St. Louis with my wares. If someone wanted me to stand on the sidewalk and read to them, I would read. If somebody wanted his or her book gift-wrapped for the holidays, I would wrap. If they wanted to cry in my...
“what she wanted was love, and the best way to go looking for it was through sex....”
– ann patchett, truth and beauty: a friendship
“i always knew that my life would be tied to books since i was 6. i write because...”
– junot diaz
“having troubles with your fucking partner? travel not.”
– junot diaz
junot diaz reading
for those of you who couldn’t make the reading tonight, i sincerely hope that at some point down the line you have the opportunity to hear junot diaz read. the brief wondrous life of oscar wao is probably my favorite contemporary fiction novel of the last five years, so today’s date has been triple circled on my calendar for weeks in anticipation.
diaz did not disappoint. after a...
Book reading tomorrow!
52books:
Who: Me, Bailey, you and you and you.
What: Junot Diaz reading from his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Discussion afterward.
Where: Barnes and Noble, Union Square, 17th st.
When: 6pm to get a possibly good seat (It actually starts at 7, but I’m getting there waaaaaaaayyy early.)
Why: Because it will be awesome and we’ll probably get a drink...
A few of the books Sarah Palin tried to ban from...
glitterati:
soupsoup:
rach:
(via librarian.net)
A pretty standard book-burners list, but I really think Bristol should have been able to check a few of these out. No?
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Canterbury Tales by Chaucer Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Forever by Judy Blume Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling James and...