I finally got around to reading A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, by Amy Bloom. I read Come to Me last year, and loved it. I felt shocked when I read those stories, and stunned by their beauty and truth. (It’s strange– what I perceive as beauty [...]
I’ve been reading this collection of Bradbury short stories. Last night I read one called “The Murderer”. I believe it was written some time shortly before 1952. It’s about a guy who’s being committed for “murdering” electronics, and his interview with the psychiatrist includes this:
“Suppose you tell me when you first began [...]
One of my classmates recommended the book “Tuesdays With Morrie”. I checked it out from the library, read it, loved it… it gave me an idea of how someone could die mindfully and with meaning, and sort of supplanted these ideas I had of what it would like to die of a terminal illness [...]
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It’s very bloggy just to post saying that I’m in crisis right now, but… I am doing it anyway. I’m in crisis. I will go into more detail about it more later, but I just want to shake my fist and pound things, because I feel sick, I am very behind in school, [...]
I just finished reading Bret Easton Ellis’ first novel, “Less Than Zero”.
I’ve read three of his other novels– “American Psycho”, “Glamorama”, and “Lunar Park”. I did not like “Lunar Park” so much, but “American Psycho” and “Glamorama” were very good. They are absolutely insane and surreal. If you have experienced [...]
I just finished reading/skimming a book about growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness. It’s written by a young woman who is around my age. I read the beginning, which was kind of slapstick (”haha, Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that?”), but then the book started to get serious and I had to read faster and [...]
I suffer from migraines… a lot. I’ve finally made it to the point where I’m ready to call a neurologist for an intake appointment, and I’ve picked my neurologist, and I bought a book my massage practitioner recommended (she is also a “migraneur”). I read most of the book, and let’s just say [...]
I’m cracking up at this book I just created, which contains photos of Jen. Jen is my long-time friend: my co-conspirator, confidant, and partner in crimes against normalcy.
I imported a set I created for this purpose from flickr into Qoop’s book-making engine. It’s pretty cool. But the book also costs $90.59 before [...]
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Le sigh…
I finally got around to reading the copy of Little Brother by Cory Doctorow that I bought when it first came out, in June, I think… and it left me all weepy and inspired.
I guess I should say first that the writing itself is not stellar, the plot being kind of blocky and [...]
Monday, September 29, 2008
Another book– I read We Disappear: A Novel by Scott Heim. My review is “kind of cool, but ho hum”.
Sometimes it seemed that everything she’d recently done–all her fraudulence, the hoaxes on the mourning families and friends, and now, her capture of Otis–was shameful, monstrous, vile. And I felt equally guilty; I’d allowed [...]