A week goes by as a day, and it’s old school friday before the realization that tea-totaler Thursday is over. Always vigilant of my health the day passed while I was consuming a few bottles of red wine. A few bottles because it was Australian wine containing 5 to 10 times fewer procyanidins than wines from Southwest France and Sardinia, Italy. Tradition production increases procyanidins and these wines are produced traditionally. So much for tea-totaler Thursday I know.
Ten days free to read before the first of my summer sessions begin. Tell me of the book you FINALLY read after avoiding it for years, the book you now can’t imagine living without having read.
I’ve have a couple lightweights hanging around, Driving With Dead People and Outliers, both should be quick reads. I finally read Of Human Bondage during my last batch of free time. Suggest away. Nothing to do with foreign or national policy, government, or politics please. I’m off that for a ten day sabbatical. This is an exercise to see if my cyber habits have forever damaged my ability to read Gilgamesh without checking to see if he has a twitter account.
A la Recherche Du Temps Perdu? Maybe. I haven’t read it. Some more Chekov? I’ve loved several of his short stories, I could do with a few more. Rothschild’s Violin maybe. I haven’t read it. Shocking I know considering my propensity for all things violin. Middlemarch? Suggested by someone, or I wouldn’t even consider it. If you have an opinion one way or another make a case. I’m book shopping during lunch tomorrow.
OSF theme this week is “The Greatest Of All Time”. I’m off to study for that one.
In the meantime check out my last post at Should Be Famous, a blog with an identity crisis now accepting poetry, pictures and other prose. A clip wrongly titled PolliNation, as ants suck the sweet out of my peonies.
Peace
Well, on my “next to read” shelf are…
Cancer Ward. Solzhenitsyn.
There’s a Country in my Cellar. Russell Baker.
Seeds of Destruction. Merton. And Collected Poems.
Novus Ordo Seclorum. Forrest McDonald.
Sailor Historian. Samuel Eliot Morrison.
No Ordinary Time. Kearns-Goodwin.
The Trilogy. Conrad Richter.
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Yea, when the bourbon is flowing I like to say I’m getting my vitamins too.
I recently read “Independent People” Halldor Laxness and “The Importance of Being Earnest” — Oscar Wilde, for the same catch-up reason you are. I can give the thumbs up to both of them if you haven’t read them.
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Wow. My reading list is way lighter than yours. Unless you count titles like “Phylogenetic analyses of the ochrophytes of the Central Pacific”.
I recently read Charles Palliser’s The Unburied, but found it even more unfocused than, as a deliberate pastiche of a Victorian novel, it was supposed to be. Enjoy your reading break.
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OC — I need a quick rundown of Steven Jay Gould’s last tome. Please. By 9 am would be fine.
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I resisted Wodehouse for longer than you’ve lived and finally got through some. Pretty funny, if British.
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You should read America (the book) by Jon Stewart.
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I have been thinking about this. I believe you would like memoirs and Mary Karr, The Liars Club is wonderful
I’m afraid my attention span has lessened. I’m reading 3 books at once when I used to devour one at a time and spend all night reading if I had to
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The thing I miss here is I can’t stroll around a huge bookstore for hours.
Can’t begin to guess what you haven’t read but I have good luck with the second hand shops here selling new books that people visiting on weekend read and left behind. The books are usually top new books and sometimes there is some classic literature thrown in.
I just read Kalimaantan, I recommend it. You’d like it i think. Got is at a house sale/ yard sale for free.
Oh my personal favorite memoir is Sleeping Arrangements by Laura Cunningham – a story about a girl being raised by her bachelor uncles in the Bronx. The story’s compelling and the language memorable
Every woman should read Doris Lessing’s early books – the Martha Quest series – coming of age novels – wonderfully written or so I remember. If you don’t read them and read her later work you picture Lessing coming into the world fully sprung and that’s scary
I suppose my favorite book for language, story, and formation of a new genre has always been and will always be Capote’s In Cold Blood
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Outliers is a easy read that will make you think. If you have ten days I suggest reading a book or two in a day. It really brings you closer to being lost, away from your mind, at least for a day. If you haven’t read Shopgirl, I’ll recommend it.
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I like Cracked. Magazine. Do they still make that?
(Wow, that was bad. I’m leaving now.)
Oh, the greatest of all time. I love the places that takes my mind. Greatest phone number of all time? Gotta be 867‑5309.
OK, I’m leaving. For real this time.
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