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Avainsanathistorical fiction (113), wishlist (99), memoir (84), fantasy (83), lyrical prose (82), TBR (81), .read now (79), southern (73), erotic (70), history (63) — kaikki avainsanat

RyhmätArt is Life, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction, Deep South, Early Reviewers, Mathematics, Reading Canada, Reading Globally, Science Fiction Fans, Science!, Spies & Spy Fiction

LempikirjailijatJames Baldwin, Georges Bataille, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Augusten Burroughs, Roberto Calasso, Jacqueline Carey, Angela Carter, Craig Clevenger, Hart Crane, Vincent Czyz, Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, Isak Dinesen, Paula Fox, David Grossman, H. D., Joseph Heller, Peter Hoeg, Etgar Keret, Milan Kundera, Denise Levertov, Norman Maclean, Archibald MacLeish, Czeslaw Milosz, Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Michael Ondaatje, Grace Paley, Thomas Pynchon, Marilynne Robinson, David Sedaris, Anne Sexton, Ali Smith, Studs Terkel, David Foster Wallace, Oscar Wilde (Yhteiset suosikit)

Tietoja minusta Recently Read:

                

Hotel World by Ali Smith
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
The Soul Thief by Charles Baxter
The Death of Ivan Ilych & Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy

Best Books Read in 2007:

Fiction:
                    

Arc d'X, Steve Erickson
The Contortionist's Handbook, Craig Clevenger
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
Jesus' Son, Denis Johnson
Steps, Jerzy Kosinski
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien

Periodical:


Tin House, Fantastic Women

Memoirs:
                

Brother to a Dragonfly, Will Campbell
From the Land of Green Ghosts, Pascal Khoo Thwe
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust, Immaculee Ilibagiza
Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion

Politics and War:
    

The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, George Packer
Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War, Joe Bageant

Other Non-fiction:
                

The Best American Essays 2007, ed. David Foster Wallace
The Best American Science Writing 2007, ed. Gina Kolata
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, David Foster Wallace
Proust Was a Neuroscientist, Jonah Lehrer

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Highly Recommended:


Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson  

i read Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson very slowly to savor the haunting beauty and strangeness of her story as well as the many themes she weaves through it: resurfacing of the deeps; scapegoats and sheltered vagrants; grief and loss; identity, belonging, and isolation; the sacredness of the everyday world; etc. Her story grows on you and, like the best books, has the power to change the way you view the world.

Her prose reminds me of the poetry of Rilke or Levertov:

There is so little to remember of anyone -- an anecdote, a conversation at table. But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, however chance, written in the heart in the hope that memory will fulfill itself, and become flesh, and that the wanderers will find a way home, and the perished, whose lack we always feel, will step through the door finally and stroke our hair with dreaming, habitual fondness, not having meant to keep us waiting long.

Here's another bit:

For need can blossom into all the compensations it requires. To crave and to have are as like a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break forth upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again. Though we dream and hardly know it, longing, like an angel, fosters us, smooths our hair, and brings us wild strawberries.

Top Favorite: Jorge Luis Borges

                          

    Dreamtigers       Seven Nights     Collected Fictions

The Writing of the God is one of the most scalp-crinkling mystical stories ever ~ next to which the epiphanies of Joyce or redemptions of O'Connor seem pallid and crude. Amazing how many writers fashion entire careers stealing from Borges.

A few quotes:

Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins. - Anne Sexton

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges

Apropos to start of the American political season, Craig Clevenger on the gubernator's election:
Fuck you, you miserable mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, troglodytic, couch-potato fuck nozzles. Fuck every single goddamned motherfucking last one of you. You dumb fucks.

Listening to:

Be Here, Keith Urban
Before I Speak, Kyle Riabko
Brother, Bring the Sun, Dave Barnes
Carencro, Marc Broussard
Chariot Stripped, Gavin DeGraw
Chasing Mississippi, Dave Barnes
Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing, Keith Urban
Move By Yourself, Donavon Frankenreiter
Raising Sand, Alison Krauss & Robert Plant
The Shepherd's Dog, Iron & Wine
Bach: Suites for Cello, Janos Starker

Tietoja kirjastostani i moved recently and gave away LOTS of books. Haven't updated the LT listings yet.

Anything with 3 or more stars is ok. Anything with 4 or more is recommended.

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Happy reading!

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SijaintiAtlanta, GA

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RekisteröitymispäiväDec 20, 2006