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Hey, What Ya Reading??? A book???
shortfiction:
I just borrowed Ian McEwan's Black Dogs. I remember seeing the movie Enduring Love, a tale of obsession; he had written the novel it was based on.
I have ordered a copy of some weird thing Stephen King recommends called The Mad Cook of Pymatuning. Cool title, eh?
shortfiction:
I'm also reading a sort of post-apocalyptic book called The Pesthouse, by Jim Crace. Pretty good stuff so far.
oilgun:
I just started reading Yukio Mishima's Confessions of a Mask. I haven't read him in years, his writing style reminds me of Truman Capote's, I love it!
I also just started Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism . So far, I'm finding it a bit dry compared to her No Logo which was a real page turner
Before that, I read A Complicated Kindness a coming of age story set in a Canadian Mennonite community. A wonderful book!
Also, I recently read Barbara Gowdy's latest novel, Helpless. I love her stuff!
Longhorn32:
I just read....
1. The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper. I heard bad and good reviews of the movie. I remember these books from when I was little, though. They are great.
2. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Another excellent book by him.
3. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris. Probably the most relevant (to here) of those three. Funny, I didn't know he was gay, even though I always see at least one of his books on display everywhere.....anyway, the book was great. It's a collection of essays - more like real life stories - his family (growing up, etc) and some about him and his partner Hugh. One reviewer said "hilarious, fun, and sad." Which is pretty much true. But overall upbeat. I think now I will have to read more of him...
Anyway, one of the best essays is "Hejira". It's when his Dad kicks him out, which HE thinks is for smoking pot all the time, but he learned later it was really for being gay...Hejira is the name of the Join Mitchell album he was (supposedly) listening to when it happened. The word Hejira is a transliteration of the arabic word hijira, meaning "migration." So you decide if he was really listening to that, or just thought it was symbolic. Anyway, the story's like 2-3 (short) pages....so next time you're in the bookstore grab the book and read it!
:)
dot-matrix:
I am currently re-reading Ray Bradbury's "The Halloween Tree"
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