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"Books read/reading/to read update"


  

          

Over the weekend I read

Against Gravity, by Farnoosh Moshiri
This one was okay but not great. I don't recommend it. I don't think it added anything to my understanding of people or mental illness or emotions or refugees or any of the other subjects it purports to deal with.

Stranger Than Fiction : True Stories by Chuck Palahniuk
I was surprised by how much I liked this one. His essays are kind of like David Foster Wallace's crossed with Joan Didion's but then crossed with his own kind of peculiar hand.

a sizeable chunk of The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
Palahniuk raves about Hempel's writing in a way I have only rarely seen a writer rave about another writer. So I went out and got her recently published collected works. They're really intense and beautiful and my only problem with them is that they're so short. I really don't like short stories and these are really really REALLY short stories. But beautiful writing.

The Black Veil by Rick Moody
This was lovely and peculiar and many different things all at once. I really appreciated the fact that it is a memoir of his drug/alcohol addiction without being self serving or grotesque and also that the metaphor he chose and the Nathanial Hawthorne short story that reveals it are so apt without being stridently blatant.

and started A Border Passage : From Cairo to America--A Woman's Journey by Leila Ahmed
Just started this, so I can't really comment as yet. I'm wondering whether my favorite Egyptian book reviewer reviewed it. I can't wait to get home to find out.




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Books read/reading/to read update [View all] , janey, Wed Jul-05-06 05:34 PM
 
Subject Author Message Date ID
oh, haha, my copy of The Echo Maker just arrived
Jul 05th 2006
1
my jealousy flows deep and wide
Jul 06th 2006
10
      RE: my jealousy flows deep and wide
Jul 06th 2006
13
      Okay, you can be jealous, but not TOO jealous
Jul 10th 2006
29
           i'm still jealous
Jul 13th 2006
48
                better than galatea 2.2 and better than gain
Jul 13th 2006
50
Hitchcock's Films Revisited by Robin Wood
Jul 05th 2006
2
The Corner by David Simon and Edward Burns
Jul 05th 2006
3
i just finished that book also
Jul 06th 2006
16
      I'm reading Homicide now, it's quite good
Jul 21st 2006
64
armies of the night, conversations with vonnegut
Jul 05th 2006
4
Snakes on a Plane - the movie novelization
Jul 06th 2006
5
oh wow.
Jul 06th 2006
6
LOL @ the reviews!
Jul 21st 2006
63
The Things they Carried & a few art books
Jul 06th 2006
7
I didn't have the time to buy the books I wanted
Jul 06th 2006
8
I finished Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenedes
Jul 06th 2006
9
a strong lineup!
Jul 06th 2006
12
K & C is an all time fave of mine
Jul 06th 2006
15
      Yea I'm enjoyin it so far
Jul 06th 2006
19
finishing up the last samurai
Jul 06th 2006
11
oooh, yay!
Jul 06th 2006
20
      why (thing #1)?
Jul 07th 2006
27
           First, because Ludo mentions it in the book
Jul 07th 2006
28
just finished doug adams' 'the long dark tea-time of the soul'
Jul 06th 2006
14
RE: Books read/reading/to read update
Jul 06th 2006
17
Mountains Beyond Mountains is a pretty quick read
Jul 06th 2006
18
      who's your obtom... optici... eye doctor?
Jul 06th 2006
23
           CityOptix on Haight
Jul 06th 2006
25
Am reading Fast Food Nation and The Obscene Diaries of a Michigan
Jul 06th 2006
21
What's the scoop on "The Obscene Diaries of a Michigan Fan?" n/m
Jul 06th 2006
22
      Zzzzzzzzz
Jul 06th 2006
24
Chuck Pahlunik- Survivor
Jul 06th 2006
26
I'm startin this tomorrow
Jul 17th 2006
53
      I enjoy it a lot
Jul 21st 2006
69
           Thought the premise was great
Jul 24th 2006
71
Over the weekend I read Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky
Jul 10th 2006
30
Just started 100 Years of Solitude
Jul 10th 2006
31
you should be able to find a cheap used copy
Jul 10th 2006
32
Roger Kahn's new memoir "Into My Own"
Jul 10th 2006
33
so then I read Searching for a Mustard Seed, by Miriam Sagan
Jul 11th 2006
34
Now-Freakonomics Next-No Country For Old Men
Jul 11th 2006
35
you know I really disliked Freakonomics
Jul 11th 2006
36
      i heard that guy on the radio and couldn't stand him
Jul 11th 2006
37
      Yeah, it was okay, but could have been better......
Jul 12th 2006
40
went to library
Jul 11th 2006
38
I didn't much care for it
Jul 11th 2006
39
      neither did i
Jul 27th 2006
78
           I did feel like a schmuck for not liking it too
Aug 01st 2006
102
End of Blackness - Debra Dickerson
Jul 12th 2006
41
you read 5 books in one weekend?
Jul 12th 2006
42
they were short
Jul 12th 2006
43
I've been knockin off those Hard Case Crime novels about 1 a week
Jul 12th 2006
44
Finished McCarthy, Now: End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs....
Jul 13th 2006
45
so then I read Stewart O'Nan's most recent one, The Good Wife
Jul 13th 2006
46
i'm about to start the names of the dead
Jul 13th 2006
47
      See, that's a great one
Jul 13th 2006
49
Then I re-read The Human Stain (Roth) and then Saturday (Ian McEwan)
Jul 17th 2006
51
saturday's worth reading?
Jul 18th 2006
54
      Yep, esp. now it's in paperback
Jul 18th 2006
55
           see, the 24-hr thing
Jul 18th 2006
57
                lol, thanks for the warning
Jul 18th 2006
58
Fortress of Solitude - Lethem
Jul 17th 2006
52
So then I read Spook, by Mary Roach
Jul 18th 2006
56
So I finished Everyman by Philip Roth
Jul 21st 2006
59
Finished "Blindness" by Jose Saramago
Jul 21st 2006
60
I have Blindness waiting around for me
Jul 21st 2006
61
      Saramago's a tricky motherfucker
Jul 21st 2006
62
RE: Books read/reading/to read update
Jul 21st 2006
65
lol "devouring the neighborhood children"
Jul 21st 2006
66
      is hempel one of the people you always push?
Jul 21st 2006
67
           No, I just learned about her from Chuck Palahniuk
Jul 21st 2006
68
                after being unable to find any hempel stuff
Jul 26th 2006
73
                     lol, it's just the whole dangerous adolescence thing, I think
Jul 26th 2006
74
just read "The Pale Blue Eye" by Louis Bayard
Jul 21st 2006
70
Just finished "The Rule of Four" Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thompson
Jul 25th 2006
72
Try Choke, books hilarious I liked it more than Survivor
Jul 26th 2006
76
      I will do that
Jul 27th 2006
79
      I'm one sitting away from finishing Choke and you're right
Aug 07th 2006
116
So then I read Night Draws Near, by Anthony Shadid
Jul 26th 2006
75
i finished The Secret History awhile ago
Jul 26th 2006
77
I am completely biased against Stephen King
Jul 27th 2006
82
hey janey...
Jul 27th 2006
80
that's not the one with the short story by David Mitchell, is it?
Jul 27th 2006
81
Edward Said's memoir "Out of Place"
Jul 31st 2006
83
RE: Edward Said's memoir "Out of Place"
Aug 10th 2006
142
Just started A long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Jul 31st 2006
84
^^^^finished it and liked it a lot
Aug 01st 2006
97
      oooh if you liked that, you'll LOVE
Aug 01st 2006
98
hi janey
Jul 31st 2006
85
David Mitchell
Jul 31st 2006
86
      alas, black swan green is only available in hardcover
Jul 31st 2006
87
           that's why some people have library cards, lol
Jul 31st 2006
88
                i have a library card
Aug 01st 2006
90
Thomas Friedman - The World is Flat
Aug 01st 2006
89
I didn't like it
Aug 01st 2006
92
Just finished "The Last Temptation of Christ"...
Aug 01st 2006
91
I liked Shadow of the Wind
Aug 01st 2006
93
      yeah, I'm really enjoying it..a couple of questions though...
Aug 01st 2006
94
           Perez Reverte writes literary mysteries
Aug 01st 2006
95
                cool beans...
Aug 01st 2006
96
The Acid House- Irvine Welsh
Aug 01st 2006
99
RE: Books read/reading/to read update
Aug 01st 2006
100
I think it's all a matter of taste
Aug 04th 2006
110
RE: Books read/reading/to read update
Aug 01st 2006
101
just finished Hell to Pay and Nick's book
Aug 02nd 2006
103
Hell to Pay was great.
Aug 07th 2006
117
      close call
Aug 09th 2006
123
can anyone suggest a book on israel/palestine?
Aug 03rd 2006
104
a couple of thoughts
Aug 03rd 2006
105
danke
Aug 04th 2006
106
      I thought about it overnight
Aug 04th 2006
108
here are some:
Aug 04th 2006
107
      thank u
Aug 04th 2006
113
           no...janey's encyclopedic.
Aug 05th 2006
114
                dude, have you read Drinking the Sea at Gaza?
Aug 08th 2006
120
                     i haven't, but i really should
Aug 09th 2006
129
                          there's a bunch of documentaries
Aug 09th 2006
133
                               okay, that one about the kids is called Promises
Aug 10th 2006
144
                                    thanks
Aug 10th 2006
148
RE: Books read/reading/to read update
Aug 04th 2006
109
im reading the golden compass
Aug 04th 2006
111
everyone loves the bears
Aug 04th 2006
112
      RE: everyone loves the bears
Aug 09th 2006
128
Just finished Kitchen Confidential.
Aug 07th 2006
115
Is this out yet?
Aug 10th 2006
143
the L.A. Banks Vampire Huntress Series
Aug 07th 2006
118
McTeague - by Frank Norris
Aug 07th 2006
119
House on Miguel Street
Aug 08th 2006
121
just read pastoralia, now reading we by zamyatin
Aug 08th 2006
122
we's a classic
Aug 09th 2006
127
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
Aug 09th 2006
124
RE: The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
Aug 09th 2006
130
      I liked Independence Day better, myself.
Aug 09th 2006
135
           RE: I liked Independence Day better, myself.
Aug 09th 2006
136
                and put David Gates on your list
Aug 09th 2006
137
                     RE: and put David Gates on your list
Aug 09th 2006
139
                          A Fan's Notes is amazing
Aug 09th 2006
140
Che and Nickle and Dimed
Aug 09th 2006
125
Jon Lee Anderson is a god
Aug 09th 2006
134
Yellow / and Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead
Aug 09th 2006
126
Roald Dahl's twisted and I love it!
Aug 09th 2006
131
that sounds great
Aug 10th 2006
146
      RE: that sounds great
Aug 10th 2006
151
I realized I'm not much of a fiction guy
Aug 09th 2006
132
I really really need a novel right now
Aug 09th 2006
138
saving the world by julia alvarez
Aug 09th 2006
141
Started "Diary" by Chuck Palahniuk
Aug 10th 2006
145
Started off ridiculously slow but the 2nd half was great
Aug 11th 2006
153
I finally read The Bluest Eye
Aug 10th 2006
147
Just picked up Dennis Lehane's new one...
Aug 10th 2006
149
Dennis Lehane
Aug 10th 2006
150
      we here on PTP
Aug 10th 2006
152

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