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I’m reading Scott Russel Sanders’ A Private History of Awe. A vivid, quiet, book-length essay about growing into or with an intense awareness of a generative force in the world. Gorgeously written.
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Wizard of Earthsea by LeGuin, Florist’s Daughter by Hampl, and Ghost Map by Johnson
Just finished Monty Python’s Tunisian Holiday: My Life with Brian by Kim “Howard” Johnson, an obsessively complete accounting of an extra (and publisher of a Python fanzine) witnessing the filming of one of the funniest films ever. This will either fascinate you or bore you to tears. I think it’s totally worth it for the stories of Michael Palin’s shaving habits, Python’s inability to write for women, and George Harrison making small talk in a hotel bar in Tunisia.
I just finished Wally Lamb’s “The Hour I First Believed” and the first two Twilight series books. Starting on Helen Keller’s autobiography and the play “A Raisin in the Sun”
I’m reading “Heretics of Dune” (the sixth book in the series), though I don’t know why. If you’ve read one book about worms run amuck in a drug-crazed feudalistic universe then you’ve read them all.
I’m currently reading “The Walking Dead” by Robert Kirkman and “The Joker” by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo which is creepy stuff, esp. in the light of Heat Ledger’s performance in the Dark Knight.
I just finished “Ghost Soldiers” by Hampton Sides (a very harrowing study of the survivors of the Bataan Death March and the Army Rangers who raided the POW camp where they were being held), and am re-starting “The Coldest Winter” by David Halberstam
I just finished re-reading the first chapter of I am Legend, a great book. I am also reading aprts of the bible to my amusement and amazement (I am an atheist and find it a fascinating book, and am thouroughly confused by people who actually believe it to be the word of a god).
Am also half-way through Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero, and recommend it to anyone who liked The English Patient.
I’ve never read Sound and the Fury, and am tackling it this weekend. For pleasure (because I’m unsure whether Faulkner will be pleasurable or not), I’m reading Rembrandt’s Eyes by Simon Schama, a massive, 700 page book on Rembrandt’s life and art–Schama is such a good writer that it really is a pleasure read.