It's November and I'm reading
Did I say I started Dora: A Headcase? It's fucking great so far. Just what I was in the mood for. Now I wish I had more time to read.
I got The Killing Joke and finished reading it the same day. Waiting for a couple other books now.
Fucking hate my reading list this term. Interview With the Vampire, Dead Until Dark. Should start reading The Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson ASAP too but that should be alright. Seriously though, I've had vampires up the wazoo this term and I'm sick of them. I do not consider Anne Rice worthy of close reading at degree level and I don't believe this is a snobby thing to say, merely a true thing.
I like them both but I love Jeanette Winterson. I don't have The Powerbook, though. I wanted to start Gut Symmetries yesterday on that 4-hour break between classes, but I was distracted.
I might like Dead Until Dark so I shouldn't pre-judge, I used to enjoy True Blood. I'm just sick of vampires is all.
The Sookie Stackhouse books make Anne Rice look like Ernest Hemingway.
This is why we can't have nice things.
i liked interview 
back in the day, there was a lack of vampire novels so this was more or less one of the few books that re-ignited the subject matter for better or worse. i thought it also gave characters depth. anne rice is great at establishing location too. her descriptions of new orleans are rich although they can be long-winded.
although some of the characters may be one-dimensional, characters like louis and claudia are nuanced and layered (one is dealing with humanity when he is no longer human while the other is dealing with being a child forever while she grows in age mentally).
Figure I may just as well finish the series out at this point.
I thought four was worse than five for that.
here is the thing, Harry, he is actually really lame. people tend to think that people into Harry Potter are all gaga over Harry himself, when mostly he is just a selfish cranky teenager. Granted one who has been through hell and back by the end, so you have to have some endearment for him, but under any other circumstances he would be as annoying as Holden gets after a while. It is the entire encompassing story and the other characters and their merit that make the tale a cherished thing.
Book six is my favorite.
This weekend I read The Virgin Suicides and now I am halfway through Friday Night Lights.
I realsied when I did those book spine things how many books I was letting back up that I really wanted to read, I mean that is why I bought them. I've challenged myself to read a minimum of two books a week off of my own shelves that I have not read yet between now and the end of the year.
Friday Night Lights has me hooked so bad.
Estudios sobre el amor by Jose Ortega y Gasset and Collected Stories by William Faulkner.
I never liked any of Anne Rice's books....except the ones about The Mayfair Witches. Those I adored. The first one was the best (The Witching Hour).
Harry Potter 6: Harry Potter and the Something Something Something.
This is why we can't have nice things.
I started The Way of a Pilgrim today and Edvard Munch last night.
I'm savouring Stay Awake by Dan Chaon: Short Stories. It's amazing. I might save the rest for my holiday.
almost finished:
jesus` son by denis johnson.
.I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the agony of living it.
My Work Is Not Yet Done by Thomas Ligotti. I'm struggling to get into it.
I'm after ordering this. Thanks for the heads up.
Very smart, very clear.
Alden Bell - Exit Kingdom. I'm excited like Tebow about this one.
The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G.Ballard.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt.
I love that book!
Every time we go look at houses, my husband refuses to have an extra room for a library.
That depresses me.
I feel like he tricked me. He had a few shelves of books at his old place, that he said he read or was going to read.
I suggested we have a night where we just sit in separate corners and read. He looked at me like I have 3 heads.
I haven't seen him read more than 2 books (and I think he was skimming how-to books) in the 2 years we have been married.
I've been duped.
BTW.
This thread, made me realize why I love this site.
You guys are an oasis.
Ha, I really feel your pain. My boyfriend never wants to read at home. I try to but he always distracts me (not on purpose). This means I only ever get to read on my commute to work or when he's out of the apartment. To be honest, he hardly buys books and when he does they're coffee table size and mostly filled with pictures.
Uh, I've read this wonderful book I can't even talk about, because it won't be out until next year, but it was great!
And oh man, how I love Faulkner.
Been so busy reading short stories for a LitReactor competition, haven't had time for anything else. 64 in two weeks.
I found three new science fiction anthologies, so I'm reading those. Can't get enough of those kind of stories.
How is it?
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Ha, I really feel your pain. My boyfriend never wants to read at home. I try to but he always distracts me (not on purpose).
Yeeees.
Awesome!
On to... TV Snorted My Brain.
Irina let me know what you think!
Also I love Gatsby. It's either my favorite book or my second favorite.
Sure will. I mean, I *paid* for this one, I have high expectations.
Pascal Bruckner is coming to our university on Friday, I hope I'll get one of his books signed.
Ha, I really feel your pain. My boyfriend never wants to read at home. I try to but he always distracts me (not on purpose).
Yeeees.
oh god. i feel really sorry for you guys. thankfully the frenchie likes to read, too.
my mum on the other hand can´t deal with being with someone in a room and not interacting in some way. i remember before the wedding my in-laws, my mum, ludwig and me spent a week in mallorca. one day after lunch the french and me just sat around, reading or doing some sudoku and my mum almost went up the walls. for her reading is just a complete waste of time and growing up and loving to read she always made me feel like i´m lazy, just wanting to sit around and do NOTHING! so when my in-laws very perfectly fine JUST READING i almost had a giggle fit because she could´t do anything about it.
Pascal Bruckner is coming to our university on Friday, I hope I'll get one of his books signed.
i loved "the thieves of beauty" and "bitter moon" was not too bad either. does he have a new book out?
I don't think so, the press release says he's going to speak mostly about L'amour du prochain (don't know the English title). Which, incidentally, is my favourite.
Someone left a copy of Gatsby laying around the lab. Should i snatch it? It's been here for months. Or i could just put it by the shitter for everyone to read.
Take it!
60% into it, Pete, I like it a lot. More than Rico Slade, much more.
Sweet! I think I'm going to read that next after Dora.
I wish I found her books in Kindle version.
My Losing Season by Pat Conroy. I'm finding it kind of hard to get into. I think I'm just too buggered with work and Lucy.
That depresses me.
I feel like he tricked me. He had a few shelves of books at his old place, that he said he read or was going to read.
I suggested we have a night where we just sit in separate corners and read. He looked at me like I have 3 heads.
I haven't seen him read more than 2 books (and I think he was skimming how-to books) in the 2 years we have been married.
I've been duped.
I feel your pain.
Except, eleven years.
Also, there was no dupping. I knew these things.
Not being able to share any literature or just quiet reading aside, he would never deny me a library, however, if he had it in his power to give me one.
I started on Libra by Don Delillo and it's very good. Like intimidatingly good.
Finished Dora: A Headcase and loved it.
Starting TV Snorted my Brain by Bradley Sands.
Exactly! But what I meant is that it finally has my interest peaked.