I'm trying to be better about writing at least a little blurb about each book I read. Trying being the operative word here. The blurb, if and when I do get around to writing it, will of course happen after the book has been finished. So, in the beginning, what may show up here is just the book's basic information, title, author, date I began reading it. But feel free to comment on the book even if I haven't yet written anything about it. I always like talking about books!
For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails…and when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him forever. --Curse for book thieves by Edmund Lester Pearson (1880-1937)
The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
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God’s Debris, Scott Adams
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I finally set up an RSS feed just in case anyone is interested in keeping up with what I'm reading through a news reader. RSS 2.0
Loved the book. Will probably find ways to bring it up in conversations and insist that people read it.
Liked it well enough. Would probably say that it's a good read, except for [fill in the blank].
Liked it well enough to finish the book but I wouldn't recommend that someone else read it.
So bad I couldn't finish the book. If someone mentioned the book title to me I'd probably shake my head and tell him not to waste his time or money.
Reading is Fundamental
So many books, so little time
Book: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris
Start Date: 06/27
End Date: 07/01
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Naked is still by far his best book, but this had its moments. I marvel sometimes at how dysfunctional is so universal. True, each family has its unique quirks and dynamic but every now and again, I see things I recognize in a book and it’s a little comforting. In a perverse, I’m not the only crazy out there kind of way. In Ship Shape Sedaris’s father promises the family a beach house and, for some unknown reason the entire family falls for the dream, only to have it pulled out from under them in the end. The thing is, you know it’s going to happen, and yet you want to keep hoping that this time, this time, things will be different, that this time the promise will be kept. Man, do I know that feeling. Very well. Too well.
I laughed the hardest while reading Possession. There are times when I hesitate about posting something on the blog, when I’m so nervous and jittery that I actually break out into a cold sweat. Whenever that happens I force myself to hit the Publish button, simply because I refuse to give into the fear. The “What will people think about me?” thoughts. The embarrassment of admitting something which I find so private. All this trouble for what? For a handful of people to read it. Meanwhile, Sedaris puts his most troubling thoughts on paper, binds them up and sends them out to the entire world.
I mean, who admits to wanting Anne Frank’s apartment, not because of the history, but because of the apartment’s beautiful layout? Who would dare to say that, when looking at her wall of posters, he would tear it down to make the room more airy? Holy hell. I laughed, cringed and shook my head in wonder all at once. The nerve really. Just amazing.
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