Chus-day
Happy Birthday to Chus the Astonishing! May your path be strewn with adventure, great books, Rodrigo Santoros, excellent movies, trips to South America, Brazilian hotties, spectacular dinners, and good friends.
I found out only recently that on the month in which their birthdays fall, Fully Booked cardholders get a 40 percent discount on a single purchase. So what you do is, you find a friend with a discount card whose birthday is coming up, and you pool your purchases. Everybody happy. Chus got some moleskines (Last week the pocket notebook was P699, today it’s P820. Ah well, at least they’re here), an anthology of short stories, and Silk by Alessandro Baricco. Riccardo got a big shiny Jean Paul Goude book. I got The Russian Debutante’s Handbook by Gary Shteyngart and Double Fault by Lionel Shriver. Both in keeping with my Russian reading theme for the year. Shteyngart is a Russian who emigrated to the US. Shriver is English, but Double Fault is about tennis, and my favorite tennis player is Russian.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
January 15th, 2007 at 11:55
your fave russian is playing at 7:30 EDT (4:30 Manila time). yeeeyyy! Also, aside from Davenport, Clijsters is reportedly retiring at the end of the year.
January 15th, 2007 at 12:14
Ooops. That previous link to Gary Shteyngart’s reading was just a short clip. Here’s the full video:
http://www.newyorker.com/festival/videos/fevi_video3a
There was an ad obscuring the little screen though when I first played it. Got rid of it eventually.
January 17th, 2007 at 17:50
Moleskines aren’t all that cheap in Europe either ; I got my pocket notebook for some 11 EUR in Paris last year, and they’re slightly more expensive in Belgium.