Fri 25 Aug 2006
Other Than Cookbooks
Posted by Erin under Books
[7] Comments
I’m getting a lot of reading done.
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Book |
Author |
Genre |
Status |
Notes |
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Yann Martel |
Fiction |
Finished |
Now I know what to do if I’m ever stuck in a boat with a tiger. |
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George Saunders |
Fiction |
Finished |
“When you poop and it takes a long time and you are on the clock, do you ever see us outside looking mad with a stopwatch? So therefore please stop saying to us: I have defecated while on the clock, dispose of it for free, kindly absorb the expense. We find that loopy.” |
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Nancy E. Turner |
Historical Fiction |
Finished |
Ok, the Arizona Territories were rough. But were they so rough that in the course of 10 years a young girl would go through two husbands, three Indian battles, the witness of several murders and a rape, and kill five people herself? |
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Various |
Fiction |
Dabbled enough |
Arranged by narrative distance. |
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John Milton |
Poetry |
Partway through Book III |
“Meanwhile upon the firm opacous globe/ of this round world, whose first convex divides/ the luminous inferior orbs, enclosed/ from Chaos, and th’inroad of darkness old,/ Satan alighted walks.” |
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Dan Chiasson |
Poetry |
75% complete |
The Elephant: “How to explain my heroic courtesy? I feel/ that my body was inflated by a mischievous boy.” |
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Mary Karr |
Poetry |
25% complete |
I picked this up because I liked her essay on poetry and faith. The poems themselves are sometimes as interesting. Good title though. |
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Brother Yun |
Autobiography |
40% complete |
A persecuted leader of the underground Chinese church. Lots of good stories, though some seem deliberately organized to resemble famous bible stories. |
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David Roberts |
Nonfiction |
finished |
One man’s search through the Southwest for traces of the Ansazi. It’s too bad he takes cliff climbing, archaeology, cowboys, politics, and the clash of cultures past and present and threads it with such a holier-than-thou tone. |
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Charlie Peacock |
Nonfiction |
Finished |
A musician and producer addresses the culture of the Contemporary Christian Music industry. The beginning is really boring but I especially like the chapters on lyrics: the absurdity of having a list of six or ten easily recognizable vocabulary words that make a song “Christian” or not. |
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Scott S. Warren |
Nonfiction, Travel |
Dabbled |
Awesome pictures! Only 1 hike tested and approved so far, but anxious to test more… |
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Marilynne Robison |
Nonfiction, essays |
10% |
Family, Darwin, Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, the McGuffey Readers, etc. I love her fiction. We’ll see how she does here! |
Erin, great list! I want to read the Death of Adam essays now. This is completely geeky, but I absolutely loooove Paradise Lost. Haven’t read it in a while though.
It seems you’ve also been getting a lot of blog writing done! It’s fun when there’s a new entry everyday– keeps me entertained while I’m “working.”
Is this ALL the reading you’ve been doing? You loser.
(this is total sarcasm, naturally)
Wow. I feel like a total slacker. The book boxes still have not been unpacked (on account of the bookcases not having been put together).
Tara, so far I’m not enjoying the “Death of Adam” book, except for the occasional paragraph here and there. It is strongly “old codger” in tone.
And Julie, you have a strange definition of “slacker.” You: gainfully employed homeowner who refinished all the floors and some of the furniture in the first week of moving in. Me: lay around reading in the dark apartment.
Cool list!
This summer I read Snow Crash, which sounds like it portrays a dystopia similar to Pastoralia. One of the jacket blurbs called it “cyberpunk with a sense of humor.” It was really fun to read and I’d recommend it.
Nate, thanks for the recommendation. I’ll check it out.