Back in Paris for first time since last June. Always feels like I never left, it's so comfortable for me here, really a second home city (except I wish my French was better - gotta work on that one). I've taken to renting apartments now, really the only way to go if you're going to be here at least...
For the past year or so, Mary Gaitskill has been my favorite writer. The honor of favorite writer is ever-revolving. At times it has been: Beverly Clearly, Judy Blume, S.E. Hinton, M.E. Kerr, John Irving, Douglas Coupland, Kurt Vonnegut, Jeanette Winterson, Philip Roth, and Aimee Bender. But like I...
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...
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...
I just got back from Target where I purchased the first season of Flight of the Conchords based solely on the fact that Sixbucks and Crankypants keep talking about it. The only thing I know about Flight of the Conchords is that Sixbucks thinks the weird-looking guy is hot. I don't know the premise...
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...
"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" by ukaunz 2000s Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Saturday – Ian McEwan On Beauty – Zadie Smith Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson The Sea – John Banville The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble The Plot Against America –...
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...
"What we can't tame we talk about." Jeanette Winterson
"Like women, the most exciting have had a lively past." Jeanette Winterson, on works of art
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...
Since Ben had remarks regarding the 1001 Books to read before you die, I thought I'd add my list. It is clear to me that not having read any Dickens or Austen or Joyce has really hurt my numbers. However, I make up a little bit my reading all of the Irving and Winterson and Vonnegut. The ones I...
