March. St Patricks Day is on it's way and I am reading...
Working on "Written on the Body" as suggested by the lovely Irina. I'm 60 pages in and totally fucking loving it.
Please tell me what you thought of it when you're finished.
Finished The Deadheart Shelters and I merely liked it until the last few chapters. And then I thought the ending was perfect. And for some reason I didn't see it coming. It was awesome.
Today I started These Dreams of You by Steve Erickson. It's a little longer than I thought it was going to be.
Grudgingly trying to finish off The Ritual by Adam Nevill.
Loop by Koji Suzuki.
Black Boy by Richard Wright (for class)
Some non fiction stuff.
It is going much better than any of the fiction I have tried to read recently. I'm really enjoying it, not wanting to toss it aside.
I love Richard Wright and I thought Black Boy was amazing.
I love this guys books.
I love Richard Wright and I thought Black Boy was amazing.
It's actually a book I have been wanting to read for a while so I'm glad I got it. So far I really like it. I'm just not looking forward to writing a research paper on it. I really want to write about the irony within the story but I'm not sure what sources I'm going to be able to use(most of them are about racism).
Finally finished 11/22/63... I was annoyed because I guessed how the plot was going to be resolved but loved the ending (I usually hate Stephen King endings). Great book for those who didn't read it. For those who did...
SPOILER
I think this is more a throw away line than a spoiler but...
King mentioned Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" for obvious reasons but did anyone see similarities with Dandelion Wine?
END SPOILER
I read three stories out of Jesus' Son this morning (I get why people like this but it's really depressing). And I'm going to start reading Dandelion Wine to my six-month-old tonight.
I love Richard Wright and I thought Black Boy was amazing.
It's actually a book I have been wanting to read for a while so I'm glad I got it. So far I really like it. I'm just not looking forward to writing a research paper on it. I really want to write about the irony within the story but I'm not sure what sources I'm going to be able to use(most of them are about racism).
I wrote an essay about a Richard Wright story and I found it so hard to find supporting texts. But then, our library is bloody awful. I'm glad you're enjoying it too! It's so much better to be studying books you like than ones you're not fussed on.
I love Richard Wright and I thought Black Boy was amazing.
It's actually a book I have been wanting to read for a while so I'm glad I got it. So far I really like it. I'm just not looking forward to writing a research paper on it. I really want to write about the irony within the story but I'm not sure what sources I'm going to be able to use(most of them are about racism).
I wrote an essay about a Richard Wright story and I found it so hard to find supporting texts. But then, our library is bloody awful. I'm glad you're enjoying it too! It's so much better to be studying books you like than ones you're not fussed on.
That's exactly what I'm having trouble with! Fuck. I'm gonna try to talk to my professor about it to see what I can do. I seriously don't want to focus on the racism in the book because there is way more to talk about then just that.
Started White Noise by Don DeLillo today. I'm not far into it, but the barn photography chapter that I just finished was quoted in a book about writing. I can't for the life of me remember what that book was called.
Step back. Evaluate. Recognize.
Wild Thing by Josh Bazell. I'm 100 pages in and pleasantly surprised considering it got mixed reviews.
Note to Derek: Don't trust reviews.
The Cold Six Thousand (James Ellroy)
Note to Derek: Don't trust reviews.
You better come back here and post your thoughts when you finish!
Note to Derek: Don't trust reviews.
Never trust reviews.
Read Memory of My Melancholy Whores by Garcia Marquez today in school.
The Second Sex is going slow because all that part about history is making me rage so much that I can't read more than a few pages at once.
I'm reading that! I love the grocery store chapters where he compares them to mental asylums.
It's been so long since I read that. I remember loving it. And it's another one that I've been meaning to reread.
Just finished Moby Dick. A great haunting, classic novel. Now I'm on to Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. A much needed switch-up.
nobody move, denis johnson
Welcome back, baby !
haha cute.
Barbara, what happened to your old SN?
I wasn't sure if it was really you...
Stranger Than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk.
Barbara, what happened to your old SN?
I wasn't sure if it was really you...
it´s me alright.
what´s a sn, petey?
Your Screen Name.
Also glad you're back. 
uh, i'm such a forum philistine.
Dermaphoria
I really want to read The Second Sex faster but every few pages I have to stop because it's so damn outrageous. I finished the history section (and boy was I appalled) and now I'm on to the myth section. I don't know what's better - considering women are inferior because they have breasts and big asses, both technically useless to the body (although they didn't count lactation), or having your tribe gang rape you with TOOLS before your wedding night because men were afraid of virgins.
Crazy world.
On to the 5th volume of Remembrance of Things Past, The Prisoner. My French Translation Theory professor made me feel kinda weird today in class, when he asked me in front of everyone which volume I was reading now and mentioning my reading Proust two other times during the same lecture. I felt pretty ashamed, like I was bragging with it.
Finished House of Leaves. It took me all of this month but it was well worth it.
I need to reread House of Leaves.
Started The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir.