What I've been reading lately
It's one of those questions I'm asked a lot and one I ask others, so
here goes. Most recently I've read:
Blood Sucking Fiends by Christopher Moore. Read this on the plane rides to and back from New Orleans. Vampire and slacker lover in San Francisco. Entertaining enough but started out better than it finished. Years ago I was involved in developing a film adaptation of Moore's Coyote Blue -- which never went anywhere. Ah well!
I was told there'd be cake by Sloane Crosley. The personal essays of a young upper middle class assimilated to the vanishing point suburban Westchester college educated New York-living magazine and book publishing working 29 year old -- don't know how charming she is in person, but she sure is on the page. Although some of the essays are longer than my attention span, I found myself consistently interested. That being said, if pressed, I just remembers shards of the essays: she collects toy ponies given by ex boyfriends, something about having a Christmas Tree, stuff about her mother and jewelry, living on the upper west side with a roommate, attempts at a one night stand -- I don't know either I'm losing my mind (possible) or I need the book in front of me as a cue (probable). Anyhow, I would read more of her writing and how often does one say that?
You don't love me yet by Jonathan Lethem - Slight but fun. The story of members of an LA rock band who have a moment and then tear apart, with loads of sex --- like Benjamin Kunkel's Indecision, it reminds you of a certain moment in life (youth, ambition, promiscuity --others if not your own)
Otherwise, I'm somewhat in a reading funk. Lots that I should be reading, little I'm excited to read. I started the Jumpha Lahiri, and It's good, -- really good -- but I feel it's more a book to read on a trip than one to zip though on a weekend. I stated Charles Bock's Beautiful Children but I stopped and haven't started again.
I suppose I'm waiting for BookExpo, the bookseller's convention, when I will collect an impossible number of books and then have more than I can ever read to pick among.
here goes. Most recently I've read:
Blood Sucking Fiends by Christopher Moore. Read this on the plane rides to and back from New Orleans. Vampire and slacker lover in San Francisco. Entertaining enough but started out better than it finished. Years ago I was involved in developing a film adaptation of Moore's Coyote Blue -- which never went anywhere. Ah well!
I was told there'd be cake by Sloane Crosley. The personal essays of a young upper middle class assimilated to the vanishing point suburban Westchester college educated New York-living magazine and book publishing working 29 year old -- don't know how charming she is in person, but she sure is on the page. Although some of the essays are longer than my attention span, I found myself consistently interested. That being said, if pressed, I just remembers shards of the essays: she collects toy ponies given by ex boyfriends, something about having a Christmas Tree, stuff about her mother and jewelry, living on the upper west side with a roommate, attempts at a one night stand -- I don't know either I'm losing my mind (possible) or I need the book in front of me as a cue (probable). Anyhow, I would read more of her writing and how often does one say that?
You don't love me yet by Jonathan Lethem - Slight but fun. The story of members of an LA rock band who have a moment and then tear apart, with loads of sex --- like Benjamin Kunkel's Indecision, it reminds you of a certain moment in life (youth, ambition, promiscuity --others if not your own)
Otherwise, I'm somewhat in a reading funk. Lots that I should be reading, little I'm excited to read. I started the Jumpha Lahiri, and It's good, -- really good -- but I feel it's more a book to read on a trip than one to zip though on a weekend. I stated Charles Bock's Beautiful Children but I stopped and haven't started again.
I suppose I'm waiting for BookExpo, the bookseller's convention, when I will collect an impossible number of books and then have more than I can ever read to pick among.
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