State of the Art
by Pauline Kael
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
picked up two books on a whim while cruising the Humanities Dept. at the library (they have an awesome fiction selection thanks to Sean P.):
The Adventures of Maqroll: four novellas by Alvaro Mutis (totally blew me away, so I checked out his site on Club Cultura (http://www.clubcultura.com/clubliteratura/clubescritores/mutis/) and based on his "recommended titles" started reading "Remembrance of things Past")
and
Wellsprings, essays by Mario Vargas Llosa
which led me to finally read
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (read in White River Junction, VT while visiting the Center for Cartoon Studies)
also while there read
Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth (borrowed from the Schultz library)
while in San Francisco this past week read
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (I'm counting each part separately in an attempt to read as many books if not more than Kevin)
The Adventures of Maqroll: four novellas by Alvaro Mutis (totally blew me away, so I checked out his site on Club Cultura (http://www.clubcultura.com/clubliteratura/clubescritores/mutis/) and based on his "recommended titles" started reading "Remembrance of things Past")
and
Wellsprings, essays by Mario Vargas Llosa
which led me to finally read
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (read in White River Junction, VT while visiting the Center for Cartoon Studies)
also while there read
Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth (borrowed from the Schultz library)
while in San Francisco this past week read
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (I'm counting each part separately in an attempt to read as many books if not more than Kevin)
Friday, August 22, 2008
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh by Mo Yan
I picked this up after I read a favorable review (which I only read because I liked the title) of his latest book, "Life and Death are Wearing Me Out." I couldn't get that one right away so this is an older book of his short stories, kind of hit and miss but I really liked the title story ("Shifu etc."), "Man and Beast," and "Abandoned Child." Here's a sample: "Just then, gusts of wind made the coarse sunflower leaves rustle coarsely as they brushed my head and face and, at the same time, rubbed against my pitted heart like sandpaper."
I picked this up after I read a favorable review (which I only read because I liked the title) of his latest book, "Life and Death are Wearing Me Out." I couldn't get that one right away so this is an older book of his short stories, kind of hit and miss but I really liked the title story ("Shifu etc."), "Man and Beast," and "Abandoned Child." Here's a sample: "Just then, gusts of wind made the coarse sunflower leaves rustle coarsely as they brushed my head and face and, at the same time, rubbed against my pitted heart like sandpaper."