Tag: Book
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currently reading/just read:
Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers: The Story of Success Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Banana Yoshimoto: Kitchen Christopher Potter: You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe Bill Willingham, Lan Medina: Fables Vol 1: Legends in Exile Alessandro Baricco: Silk
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Read and/or Reading
Amity Gaige: The Folded World. I fell completely, totally, 100% in love with this, and read almost all of it in a bathtub. Jonathon Keats: The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-six Keith Gessen: All the Sad Young Literary Men Sloane Crosley: I Was Told There’d Be Cake
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the latest pile
G. Xavier Robillard: Captain Freedom: A Superhero’s Quest for Truth, Justice, and the Celebrity He So Richly Deserves Peter Carey: His Illegal Self Sophie Dahl: Playing with the Grown-ups Michael Chabon: Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
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unemployment = books + bath
Dara Horn: The World to Come Jonathan Ames, Dean Haspiel: The Alcoholic Nancy Horan: Loving Frank
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can’t wait, can’t wait, can’t wait
Andrew Doughty: Hawaii – The Big Island Revealed: The Ultimate Guidebook Haruki Murakami: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Nancy Horan: Loving Frank Nicole Krauss: Man Walks Into a Room Dara Horn: The World to Come Jonathan Ames, Dean Haspiel: The Alcoholic Michael Guista: Brain Work Elizabeth Berg: The Day I Ate…
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Lately, on the Nightstand…
Simon Singh: The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography. So, watch out. I will crack your ATM code. Caprice Crane: Forget About It. My name’s in this! Nick Hornby, Sarah Vowell: Shakespeare Wrote for Money Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking
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holiday reading, past and present
Chuck Klosterman: Downtown Owl: A Novel. Also sometimes known ’round these parts as “The Metropolitan Urban Area of Nocturnal Birds.” The past two books I’ve read dealt with blizzards. And then the next, a thunderstorm: Max Frisch: Man in the Holocene, which was sad, haunting and filled with geology. Adrian Tomine: Shortcomings I always feel…
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File Under: Oddly Satisfying
I know it’s weird and obsessive, but if I’m flipping through a magazine and there’s a photo of a bookshelf, or if I’m watching television and one is in the background during an interview, I’m going to stop paying attention to everything else in order to read the spines of the books. I can’t help…
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Sarah Vowell
The Wordy Shipmates Tom Reynolds: Touch Me, I’m Sick: The 52 Creepiest Love Songs You’ve Ever Heard