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Tuesday, April 15, 2003
Time for my Spring Break
It's time for me to take a little time out to attend to other things I need and want to do. At least until next Monday. Maybe longer...who knows.
I'm halfway through three different books and I want to finish them and move on. When I have an extended amount of time to read, I'm reading Philip Roth's The Human Stain. At night, when I don't know how long I'll stay awake, I'm reading Anthony Lane's Nobody's Perfect. When I'm stuck in traffic or waiting in the car for some reason, I'm reading a copy of Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia that I keep in the glovebox.
Being a compulsive book-buyer I have Robert Stone's Bay of Souls, Russell Bank's Cloudsplitter, Richard Kramer's Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life, The Selected Stories of Philip K Dick, and Greg Palast's The Best Democracy Money Can Buy all sitting on the "read me, dammit!" shelf.
Seven hundred pages of John McPhee's Annals of the Former World can also be heard screaming "I'm not going to be ignored!". Nicholas Shakespeare's biography of Bruce Chatwin sits next to the McPhee, muttering under it's breath, while The First Man by Albert Camus sighs and waits and waits.
So I have my work cut out for me.
Earlier today I mentioned At Play in the Fields of the Lord as recommended reading. Here's a few more books that I strongly recommend for various reasons (avoiding the obvious ones):
The Origin of the Brunists...Easily the best work of fiction that I have ever read. Hands down.
Underworld
Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges
Winners and Losers
The Fatal Shore
Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright
Becoming a Man : Half a Life Story
Going After Cacciato
A Massive Swelling
Continental Drift
and Attack Of The Snow Goons
If you decide to read any of these (and you really really really should read Origin of the Brunists) remember to purchase them either at an independent bookstore or, if you must use Amazon, get them through Atrios, The Hamster, or any other like-minded blogger.
And remember...there's going to be a quiz.
One last thing...as you know I have a petition up here regarding J-Lo and her boy-toy du jour. Because of it, I received the following e-mail which I hope you will find as amusing as I do. Enjoy:
i did not sign this petition....i think who ever puts this much effort into something that will clearly go nowhere should get a life.....and on top of that....stop being such a hater....oh..and one more thing...think about it.....if youre so convinced that these people hold no talent...why do i know who they are yet ive never heared of you....
kirby
Bless his sloping little forehead....
See you all next week...
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