Just finished Vicki Hendricks' Miami Purity, twisted noir with an extremely horny main character. I liked it so much I just checked out 2 others by her from the library. They haven't got the latest Richard Marinick or Archer Mayor novels in yet.

Yes, but I associate it with my college sophomore lit class (I was an English minor) and studying it was not as enjoyable as reading it. Bad memories.

I ordered Brandon Boyd's books White Fluffy Clouds, and From the Murks of the Sultry Abyss, for Christmas and they arrived yesterday. Fantastic books. Talented guy.

I'm reading it for non-school related, me-related purposes. It's excellent.

Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran.
Really good travel writing - focuses in on the history and Persian art, and skims much of the off-putting modern day politics.

I started this a long time ago and for some reason reason didn't finish it.

yesterday i've received in the mail a cheap copy of a book called junkie by a certain mr. william lee.

Kimberly Akimbo.
Actually one of the funniest things I've ever read.

Naked Lunch. I read parts of it at a younger age, but gave up. People tend to develope a better understanding and appreciation for literature at a more mature period in life.

The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

should be finishing that up today and then moving on to Goethe's Faust.

finished turgenyv (or however his name is)- fathers and sons
very good book. liked it better than gogols dead sould
(both of which i am reading fior a russian lit class)
also reading, some dante and boccacio and anintroduction to structuralism book.
lots of reading to do in a lit degree

I'm reading a couple at the moment, taking some of them really slowly though.
I'm almost finished the Rick Mercer Report book. It's pretty hilarious. (for the non-Canadian (I don't really think he's aired in the US...), Rick Mercer is a Can. television comedian/personality. Comparable to like... Jon Stewart's Daily Show I guess.

Yeh...

And the others:
J.G. Ballard's Kingdom Come and John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath.
The Grapes of Wrath is incredible so far, but I'm taking it really slowly, and rereading a lot of the sections. I find it's written so beautifully that I can't help but reread certain bits.

Anne Somerset - Unnatural Murder
Michael Dibdin- Ratking

just finished:

After I finish those two I have this one lined up:

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

*fonz* eyy

so far, i'm liking it.

i'm only on page 15 and already he has this to say about his memories of being sworn in as a senator:

"Afterward, I watched the girls skip down the east Capitol steps, their pink dresses lifting gently in the air, the Supreme Court's white columns a majestic backdrop for their games."








he's talking about looking up his daughter's skirt!

Currently Furious Gulf by Gregory Benford. "Hard science fiction" to be sure, but plenty of action at the black hole in the center of the galaxy.