What are you reading?
Jay Lozada is reading The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters, Intellectuals by Paul Johnson, and Cashflow Quadrant by Robert “Rich Dad” Kiyosaki.
Emmanuel Atienza is reading The Year’s Best Science Fiction 2008, the e-book of Kite Runner, Heirloom Baking With The Brass Sisters, and re-reading Gateway by Frederik Pohl. He has not made a serious trip to the bookstore in a long, long time.
Alfred Krip Yuson is reading a bunch of e-books he downloaded recently: Sextus Aurelius Propertius’s Love Elegies Book One, Selected Poems by Antonio Machado, and Feder Jagor’s The Former Philippines Through Foreign Eyes, edited by Austin Craig.
I am reading The Accidental Masterpiece by NYT art critic Michael Kimmelman. After that, The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century by Edward Dolnick.
The Kimmelman with a giant pencil that may also be used as a stake for slaying vampires.
I walked into a plate glass door yesterday; no damage but I look like a unicorn. Or Hellboy. My first thought after impact was ‘Dammit, I got my glasses dirty!’
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July 13th, 2009 at 03:18
I started reading Ulysses this weekend and then realized that it really is that difficult to read. I decided to read it on my birthday (3 weeks from now) since I’ll be on leave from work for 4 days, therefore no distractions, hehehe. I just finished Stephen King’s The Dark Half, then switched to Skeleton Crew. I miss him.
July 13th, 2009 at 11:07
“And though it is of the others, of relationships, that I write, the heart of my life has been my being alone.”
Solitude, from U. Le Guin’s The Birthday of the World.
July 13th, 2009 at 11:27
Vladimir Nabokov: strong opinions, it is a compilation of his interviews from 1962-1972 which he edited because he felt he was either misinterpreted or misquoted or “leaving out the the well-meant little touches as well as the gaudiest journalistic inventions”. Rereading The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
July 13th, 2009 at 13:29
I’m reading this interesting article on CNN.com that might interest you:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/personal/07/01/tf.narcissim.keeping.you.single/index.html
July 13th, 2009 at 16:51
1. “The Journey to the West” / “Monkey” by Wu Cheng-en (tr. Arthur Waley)
2. “Faust: Part Two” by Goethe
3. “Essays” by Francis Bacon
4. “Ethics” by Aristotle
5. “The Crane’s Bill” (a collection of Zen poetry from China and Japan)
July 13th, 2009 at 17:43
The White Tiger. Man, Aravind Adiga is crazy!
July 13th, 2009 at 22:30
GHOST TRAIN TO THE EASTERN STAR by Paul Theroux, a sequel to an earlier travel book. It was written 33 years after The Great Railway Bazaar.
July 14th, 2009 at 11:57
Re-reading Neuromancer. I always seem to stop at the middle, not read any fiction novels for a long time, and then have to start at the beginning again.
July 14th, 2009 at 14:37
1) The Great Train Robbery – Michael Crichton
2) My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Piccoult
July 15th, 2009 at 13:17
6. Ulysses, James Joyce
July 16th, 2009 at 03:43
I just started on The Drunkard’s Walk. Thanks for the recommendation off one of your older posts.
July 16th, 2009 at 12:46
Currently reading The Black Veil by Rick Moody and Now in Theaters Everywhere by Kenneth Turan