January 21, 2005
Danger: Falling Book Zone
I finished reading Quicksilver a while back so it's about time I posted something in this space, even though I've been dilly-dallying over what to read next. Not really sure of my mood, I've started several books, but haven't settled on one or the other.
In addition, I have another pile looming over me that I plan to read this year. Somewhere into this teetering stack, I need to insert books I received for Christmas, not to mention the second two volumes of the Baroque Cycle that I'm waiting to buy in paperback or remaindered hardcover (better put those at the bottom). It's starting to become a game of reverse-Jenga or some bizarre form of real-world, literary Tetris.
All this whinging doesn't even take into account the half-dozen or so books (I hope it's only that many) that I've all but given up on finishing, the grandaddy of which is The Tunnel (so far, 3 aborted attempts to get past page 50).
So but anyway, here's a quick summary (in no particular order):
- Started, but not finished:
- Rising Up, Rising Down (will probably finish sometime in mid-2010)
- McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13
- The Dog's Mind
- Life of Pi
- The Making of Modern Japan
- The 9/11 Commission Report
- Waiting to be read:
- Middlesex
- McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #14
(I'm sure #15 will be coming along any day now) - Thirst
- Libra
- America (The Book)
- Ansel Adams', The Print
- Ansel Adams', The Negative
- Global Covenant
- All the Pretty Horses
- Plainsong
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Oh wait...rats!
Don't know how your reading is going in 2005, but replace All the Pretty Horses on the waiting list with Blood Meridian. It's a slow read (I reread a few chapters the first time through), but really worth it. So uplifting. And Doug loved it too. It'll be the "Donnie Brasco" of our 30's. Although I think a lot of others read Meridian. We had little company with Brasco.
rich
- In the CD Changer
- Omniac
- Automated
- Needs More Cowbell (Prog Rock Edition)
- When Whacked-Out is Good
- Jazzy Covers of Rock Tunes
- CDs for the Jazz Festival
- Cleansing the Palette
- The Quintet
- Not Necessarily Naive or Sentimental
- DJ Exploration
- Automated
- On the Nightstand
- Consider the Lobster
- The Gnostic Gospels
- The Myth of Sisyphus and other essays
- The System of the World
- Introducing Kierkegaard
- Cities of the Plain
- The Crossing
- All the Pretty Horses
- Are Those Kids Yours?
- The Confusion
- The Gnostic Gospels
- On the Screen
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- Syriana
- Wallace & Gromit - Curse of the Were-Rabbit
- Corpse Bride
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Melinda and Melinda
- Sideways
- The Corporation
- Syriana
- Photo Gallery (B&W)
- Fall 2003
- Tree Damage
- Winter 2003
- Tree Damage
- Photo Gallery (Snapshots)
- Rocky Mountain N.P.
- Carol & Derek Get Married
- Flat Stanley River Tour
- Flat Stanley, Esquire
- Flat Stanley Comes to Visit
- Christmas snapshots
- Abby pix
- Carol & Derek Get Married
