Monthly Archives: January 2010
January 2010 Reads
And I just put the 22nd book read of the month back on the bedside table. I’ve been a busy bee. Here are my reads for the month of January [and I won't bore you with little summaries of each. I'm redundant enough as it is]: The Fiction Class, by Susan Breen. Little Children, by […]
sunday salon || Reading the Short Story
Short fiction is, quite possibly, my favorite genre. This is plain personal bias, and the fact that I have been studying the art form and its craft for school—I major in Creative Writing, and fiction is the genre-track I’d chosen. Yes, there’s a pleasure in reading the short story, but I also read short stories […]
book dump || BookSale Spelunking v.03 + From Kael’s Bookshelves
La-dee-dah. Have completely thrown off my reading schedule with these beauties. First picture, from a BookSale—never knew that there was one right beside the hospital. Imagine my glee, imagine my Waaaah at realizing I could’ve found a place to traipse to when it all got to be too much. There’s still the future. Anyway: The […]
Bye, Mr. Salinger!
I call your WhutFace and raise you a SadFace, J.D. I admit that I never really liked Catcher in the Rye, mostly because Holden himself was a phony (hah)–I read it at nine, and then again at twelve, and then read it again at sixteen (so don’t say I didn’t try). But still, this makes […]
marginalia || The Gin Closet, by Leslie Jamison
Ladies and gentlemen, I will allow the long-ass blurb of The Gin Closet, the debut novel of Leslie Jamison to do the honors: In the late 1960s, Tilly Rudolph abandons her middleclass home in the suburbs and flees to the seedy underworld of Reno. She stays away for decades, working as a prostitute and nursing […]
