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Book of the Week- A Short History of Nearly Everything
Saturday , 17, January 2009 Books Leave a commentThis week’s book was Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything, which is pretty much just what it sounds like.
I’ve got a bad/pretentious habit of always selecting big-L Literature when I’m looking for my next book to read. I often fail, pretending Japanese pop or turn of the century comedy are Important Works. I blame it on choosing to study Spanish Lit rather than English Lit in college. So, while I have impressive and […]
After an awesomely bookalicious Christmas, I had some serious considerations to make concerning what book I would use to chime in the new year. After much hemming and hawing and hand-wringing and snake wrestling, I settled on a wonderful book given to me by a good friend. TTYL, by Lauren Myracle is a book whose […]
After struggling to really make odds and ends of 2666, I chose to go back to a Murakami book that would likely be less.. hard to put together. So I went with Norwegian Wood, bringing the number of HM books I’ve read to 8, leaving only a handful of novels left and a couple non-fiction […]
I just, minutes ago, finished reading Bolaño’s 2666. Wow. There’s a bit of dialog at the end of the book that I think is appropriate to cite: “… So what do you think?” “I don’t know what to think,” said Archimboldi. Seriously. Now is the time when I wish I had the sort of intellect […]
As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, I’m going to try to be more proactive regarding writing up the books I’ve been reading, mostly for my benefit. Not only do I like having a record and being able to jot down some notes, perhaps if I make a point about writing about the books I’ve […]
So whenever I read something, when I get to the final fifth or so, I think something along the lines of “Man, this has been a positive experience. I should jot down some notes about this book.” And then I finish the book and that’s that. Books that have fallen victim to this curse recently […]
First non-house blog post in awhile. That’s exciting. Sorta… 2008 has so far not been a great year for my book reading habit. It started off strong with a handful of really great reads: The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño, kicked off the year. It was great, as most things recommended to me by this […]
The Weekly World news will be publishing it’s last edition this week, as CBS reports. (The article has a sweet picture!) I’ve only bought the paper once or twice in my life. I’ve always though its headlines (which you get for free) were probably better than anything actually in the paper. (Kinda like the Onion, […]
Don’t read this if you haven’t finished reading the last Harry Potter book. And don’t read the rest of this post either.