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fauxmiddlechild

the rest of my January reads

Would I Lie To You (Gossip Girl #10) by Cecily von Ziegesar By the time I got to book 10 I was more than ready for the series to be over. I'm not sure if I got bored or if it just started dragging, but I stopped caring what happened. All I wanted to know was the identity of the Gossip Girl, so I...

Kotog

David Bowie on the Scarlett Johansson album of Tom Waits Covers

Bowie added backing vocals to two tracks on 'Anywhere I Lay My Head' - 'Falling Down' and 'Fannin' Street' for the album. "I've seen the press on this and I suppose the record company wanted to spin my involvement a little more than it actually warrants. All I contribute are these oo's and ah's on a...

M-----l

Stuff I've Been Reading: A Monthly Column (1/08)

BOOKS BOUGHT: The Time Traveler's Wife--Audrey Niffenegger The Book Concerning Piers the Plowman--William Langland Heimskringla: Sagas of the Norse Kings--Snorri Sturluson Heimskringla: The Olaf Sagas, Vol.1--Snorri Sturluson Heimskringla: The Olaf Sagas, Vol.2--Snorri Sturluson The Saga of Grettir...

artgeek

Reading: January & February

Paul Auster's Book of Illusions: Just wow. Auster's Timbuktu was so much more than a "dog book," and this book managed to communicate so much about art and grief I know I'll be picking it up again to learn and see more than I did this first pass through. Auster's characters really live for me, which...

artgeek

Random inspiration

The book had no cover. While sleeker volumes cowered inside their jackets, this one lifted its ragged spine to the sun, a winter sun of thin beams and a few hours. A sun that sank red disc of hosannas. The above is from page four of my paperback copy of Jeanette Winterson's Art & Lies, one of the...