Holy Shit I Finally Finished It
The Early Stories: 1953-1975, by John Updike

Began & Completed This Month
Suttree, by Cormac McCarthy
Gentlemen of the Road, by Michael Chabon
The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene
The Human Stain, by Philip Roth
Divisadero, by Michael Ondaajte

Began Reading
The Ministry of Special Cases, by Nathan Englander ( Read more... )

I live in Riverside now. Not much else to say, other than the whole moving process went well in spite of only one week passing from finding out about the available apartment and then moving into it. And not having a day’s rest from my (more than) full-time work schedule.

I’m tired, but happy.

Finished from the Previous Month
Lush Life, by Richard Price

Began & Completed This Month
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, by Marcel Proust (Translated by James Grieve)
Falling Man, by Don DeLillo
Winter’s Tale, by Mark Helprin
The Optimist’s Daughter, by Eudora Welty
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson

Currently Reading ( Read more... )

Volume #1

Once, shortly after (successfully) asking a girl out on a date, I got into my car, where I had been listening to Pinkerton, by Weezer. "The Good Life" was the first thing to come on; as I drove down the road, I hopped up and down in my seat, unironically pumping my fist, singing along at the top of my lungs. I was 22-years-old.

Finished from the Previous Month
Then We Came to the End, by Joshua Ferris

Began & Completed This Month
Beautiful Children, by Charles Bock
The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolano
I Married a Communist, by Philip Roth

Currently Reading
Lush Life, by Richard Price

Still Slowly Working My Way Through
The Early Stories: 1953-1975, by John Updike ( Read more... )

When I was a child, I would bite people. I would as likely bite someone in a playful manner as I would in anger; my lust for chomping into people's flesh knew no boundaries ( Read more... )

Finished from the Previous Month
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)

Began & Completed This Month
Angels, by Denis Johnson
Roger's Version, by John Updike

Started & Slowly Working My Way Through
The Early Stories: 1953-1975, by John Updike

Will Begin Tomorrow, the Last Day of February
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I pictured a white shaft: tense, pure, with dim blue broad veins and darker thinner purple ones and a pink-mauve head like the head of a mushroom set by the Creator upon a swollen stem nearly as thick as itself, just the merest little tip or rounded eaves, the corona glandis overhanging the bluish stretched semi-epiderm where pagan foreskin once ( Read more... )

One of the pleasures of my new job lays in its solitude. We employees are, for the most part, left alone to do our work. As such, we are allowed to bring in CDs or mp3 players or whatnot to help make the day go a little bit easier. I have yet to indulge in this privilege. I am still learning about the various aspects and functions of the program I ( Read more... )

Watchmen, by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (reread)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz
Libra, by Don Delillo
Rabbit at Rest, by John Updike
The Prague Orgy, by Philip Roth
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh

Now reading: The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa