It's March and I am reading
A Tale of Four Dervishes by Mir Amman, before I start translating it.
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.
Love, love, love that book!
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
Should be finishing up 813 by Maurice Leblanc soon.
I had a whim to try standup comedy the other day, so I figure I'll try "Comedy Writing Secrets" by Mel Helitzer, again. It's considered one of the best books written on the subject.
That sounds like fun, Mike.
Gonna try and view that video of your niece tomorrow. Finally got time to download a program to view it. And don't apologize again. I really think she's a cutie! Looking forward to it.
Cool. What kind of stuff would you talk about?
I'm going to build my foundation on some personal anecdotes. And if that doesn't work, I'll just talk about poop. Brown comedy gold.
You know what's funny? Turtles. Turtles are funny.
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See? Comedy gold.
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A Generalization of Synthetic Division and A General Theorem of Division of Polynomials
while doing the dishes i thought about how romantic the phrase "synthetic division" sounds, so i decided to read something more about it.
Polynomial makes me think of polyamorous.
I'm a one-nomial guy, myself.
Just finished Heropa. I gotta roll it around in my head a bit. I'll just say that I will definitely be buying a physical copy of this when it comes out.
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Also. I don't know what I want to read next.
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Love, love, love that book!
I am loving it!!!
Doing Harry Potter 7. Time to close that chapter.
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I am still reading The Devil in the White City.
Sort of neglecting my reading, is what have been doing.
That's a great story!
Just finished Heropa. I gotta roll it around in my head a bit. I'll just say that I will definitely be buying a physical copy of this when it comes out.
I discovered the word "polyamorous" watching Bravo channel a few months ago. On some real estate reality show. Fascinating.
I'm really enjoying it so far.
Polyamorous people are invariably unpleasant to look at.
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Spiritus by Ismail Kadare.
Well, the poly guy was good looking. Very L.A. plasticy with all the extra dental and a perfect tan that only italian farmers have a god given right to have.
He's made a big thing that he's completely gay now.
Anyways, how awesome would it be to to make tens of thousands commission on a rental?
I'm reading Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin.
And yes, I'm reading a rock biography. 
Extinction Journals by Jeremy Robert Johnson. I've read his short story collections and there's some really good stuff there but I' enjoying this even more.
Target Blue (Robert Daley), the true story of the NYPD in the early 1970s. Would fit with Mr Brown's old avatar, because Serpico is in it (and was a pretty annoying guy, it seems).
I finished 813 now I'm reading another Thriller/mystery, The After House by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds by Ping Fu is on hold for me at the library.
Double Dexter by Jeff Lindsay. These have been a bit of a guilty pleasure for me but they're starting to get a bit tiresome.
A Random Street in Bucharest, a sociology research project.
What's it about?
A random street in Bucharest and the houses and the people on it.
Should've known.
That just seems so obvious.
I figured it must be some other not obvious thing.
It's a sociology book, it was as simple as the title made it.
Your book sounds like the most boring book in the history of books. Is there at least like a serial killer living on the block? Someone's wife sleeping with the neighbor's husband? One house refusing to get their number repainted leading to crazy mailman mix ups?
Everybody has a story, everybody's story is captivating. It's about the time after the war, when most houses were nationalised and there was no property, everyone was living on rent, and about the following decades, the earthquake (a 7 Richter one in March 1977) etc. I'm loving it, I have 60 more pages but I'm leaving them for tomorrow - making it last longer.
I love Bucharest, what can I say?
Have you read Life, A User's Manual by Georges Perec, Irina ? Your book made me think of this one.
I haven't read anything by him.
So I am still reading The Devil in the White City and also Haunted. About halfway through both.
I have been slacking so much on my reading in recent weeks and a bit disappointed in myself over it because I have pretty laid out plans for what I am going to read this year and all and a schedule and all that, allowing for digressions for random things that strike interest.
But I just haven't been reading the past couple, or few, weeks at all really.
But I picked up the Devil City book yesterday and today and god damn it is good. There a few inconstancy's that have annoyed me as far as the author pushing it trying to make the one person seem more monstrous than necessary. I mean it is supposed to be a non fiction historical/biographical account of events and so far the author is quite proficient in the beauty of the narrative, but also taking a little bit more artistic license than is reasonable to truly call it a non fiction, imho.
Even with the slacking on my reading, I am really just loving this book so much every time I do pick it up and read a chapter.
Gonna get back on track here with the reading, asap.
Holy shit, Devil in the White City sounds so good. I just skimmed Holmes wikipedia page. MURDER CASTLE? I don't have a thing for serial killers but that's insane and I must read this book before the movie comes out.
You should read it, it is pretty darn good. The writing itself is quite quality.
I'm not particularly into serial killers myself, but I do get very fascinated and interested in one or two here or there for some reason.
If you PM me your address I will mail you my copy when I am finished reading it.
I am sort of on a psychological gorish sort of kick right now. Theme wise.
I am also reading a book called Why They Kill and Strictly Murder, a writers guide to criminal homicide.
Along with having read The Halloween Tree, Of Mice and Men and Ironweed (a fucking brilliant novel, one of the best I have read in years. (Focusing on the imaginary ghosts of the ones who have died in a destitute mans life over the course of a lifetime)
Death seems to be my theme right now, from every angle you can go at it.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Imke was raving about it at some point, now it's time to try it.
I was raving about it too!
I've never read a book the delved into the depths of a woman's capacity for love, and what love means to a woman better.
in every aspect of what love is, not just romantic. Romantic, yes, but every other form as well. And the lengths we are willing to go to preserve that love.
And amazingly, it was written by a man.
I can't wait, then.
Come tell your thoughts on it when you finish, please.
I am interested in the thoughts someone who is not a mother has on the story.
I finished The After House now reading The Angel of Terror by Edgar Wallace. 3 thrillers down 22 to go.
I'm not particularly into serial killers myself, but I do get very fascinated and interested in one or two here or there for some reason.
If you PM me your address I will mail you my copy when I am finished reading it.
I'll probably check it out this weekend. You're the best though. 
Solar by Ian McEwan. I've never read anything by McEwan before. It's not bad so far.