Monthly Archives: June 2009
make a header and get books
The blog could use a new header. And in keeping with the principle that if I really love my unread books, I’ll find them again, I’m giving three away to whoever makes me one. It must be prettier and less … Continue reading
ill-gotten gains
I’m going on a road trip for most of the rest of June and reading Jane Austen out loud, as is traditional, in that this will be my second time doing it. Which should I read upon my return?
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gift card maximization
I have rules about buying books: I’m not allowed to buy books, I’m not allowed to buy books for more than $5, I’m not allowed to buy books for more than $5 unless they’re from a small press, I’m not … Continue reading
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Coraline seen, nary a person stabbed
You may or may not remember my determination to see the Coraline musical. Seeing it didn’t quell my gooey feelings: it was weird and exuberant. Design, performances, and music were all amazing. I’d have liked less maximalist narration, but I … Continue reading
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traveling book
I like Stephen Elliott a lot. So much so that one day I was reading an article about poker, midway through the third page, when I came to perplexed because I don’t care about poker, I didn’t remember how I’d come … Continue reading
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three books blurbed and sundries
So in the past months I read some books. I’m copying my goodreads comments, which I promise to stop doing soon if not immediately. Meditations in an Emergency: There’s a sense in the more I-ish poems that I is adrift … Continue reading
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