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Hm. No Summer Without Men. I used to have What I Loved, but it got ruined in a flood. Sorry.
I had no idea her rep was so solid. |
I am reading "The Blazing World" now and ordered the stuff she wants us to have...
But after the one I am reading now I'll probably read Summer Without Men. Cause that's been sitting on my bookshelf for ages now! Thanks bud! |
More updates to my book blog RXTT's Intellectual Journey
http://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/ |
my intellectual journey is mostly about business these days
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taking a break from house of leaves rn
i hate it so far but i hope it will get better.... got those two babies in the mail today: ![]() ![]() will start the latter later when i finished cleaning the apartment. will use it to celebrate my new old room :-) and GREAT NEWS, I finally found a copy of eileen myles' chelsea girls that i can afford. ordered it from the UK, hope it will arrive soon soon soon soon! |
started the bell jar after my day with ariel.
probably only so i don't have to go back to house of leaves |
stay away from ovens
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last book that i have read was harry potter and the philosophers stone.. after that, i got so busy in my work.. :(
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today, I had a really nice day, a friend visited me with his one year old daughter and we went to my favorite bookstore and I spent 25€ on these: ![]() still reading The Bell Jar. Probably gonna finish it tonight :-) |
![]() halfway through. great great great stuff as always Mr. Campbell! |
Have you read any Updike before? Both of those are really good.
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i haven't! On the Farm i bought because it was really cheap, Trust Me because I liked the short passages I read at the bookstore, really curious ! Hope I will like his writing. I'll report back :)
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just finished some short stories by Percival Everett, which were pretty good, now starting on
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I just read this, an issue of Ploughshares edited by Percival Everett. http://www.pshares.org/read/issue-de...intIssueID=145 |
Reading Full Moon by P.G. Wodehouse.
Seems that it was written a loooong time ago; even earlier than the XXth century. Witty but, well, not funny. I'll jump to: Gore Vidal, Ogawa It, Richard Goolrick, Ulrich Becher |
JUST LOOKING by John Updike
STAINED GLASS by William F. Buckley, Jr. Took the summer to slowly read Updike's SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS. Fascinating read. |
Just finished Masks of God. Starting in on
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Oh, and I read this short book
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About 100 pages into this
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so.... lemme tell you about what i've been reading ![]() I think I liked it. It was just a bummer that my professor told me something I didnt want to know about the book after i've read parts 1-3. Kinda made it hard to read the last part of the book. reminded me of the bell jar, a little bit at least. ![]() only bought it cause everyone was posting it on instagram. when it arrived I was scared I would never read it/never finish it cause it's HUGE. once I started reading I couldn't put it down though. lots of interesting pieces by women and what clothes mean to them, how clothes make them feel, etc. kim gordon is in it as well! now I am gonna start with this bby for university ![]() and for PLEASURE I can't decide.. I am in the mood for some lorrie moore but I don't have anything by her at home that I haven't read but so many other unread books... |
BRAD THOR - ACT OF WAR
more freaky thought provoking military fantasy about Chinese unrestricted warfare...we are fucked |
The Stories of John Cheever
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We have remarkably similar bookshelves. By the way, I have a sad, small life and its the petty things that cheer me. Do me a favor and tell me this makes you jealous: I have a shelf-and-a-half of Updike. All the novels, short story collections, the poetry and all but a few of the essays, plus about five academic books devoted to his work. I'm irrationally proud of this. |
I am green! And you should be proud, indeed. I'm not a fan of Updike's poetry, but I like his essays and other prose as much as his fiction. I read Self-Consciousness this summer. An amazing book. (Oops. Just realized I'd already talked about that book in an earlier post.)
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I am just now getting around to Cheever, believe it or not. Finished THE WORLD OF APPLES. It wasn't until about halfway through the book that it really clicked into place, and now I'm hooked. The guy was amazing.
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![]() My umpteenth go at this. These guys do a great job of critiquing their enemy but I'll be buggered if I can work out what they actually stand for. |
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Oh wow. Glad you're well! |
Thank you, Sir!
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hey, hold on a sec-- had you been unwell or am i reading too much into this?
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Rumors of my unwellness have been greatly exaggerated.
No, I've been completely well. |
It was just a figure of speech. I hadn't heard any rumours in either direction.
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I started a book club at the bar I work at.. Our first book will be this one
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Well into the Cheever stories now. My God, they're like little Hitchcock movies.
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The Cheever stuff was so funny on Seinfeld! "I fear my orgasm may have left me a cripple..." |
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