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i think neil gaiman really is well suited to be the patron saint of good books. neverwhere isnt as good as stardust, but it's still an awesome & terrifying book. it's probably among the most important books somebody could ever read ( Read more... )

notes from underground is kind of torturous. yr reading about the most miserable, irrational, masochistic, vain person you could probably ever dream of. gosh he's so vain it's as if he were skinless. he's nameless in the book but i like to refer to him as pet scoundrel. it's truly psychotic how skewed this man's values are, how righteous he is ( Read more... )

i think the circumstances under which i read this book are the only circumstances under which id ever read it. i dont like the title to start with. i still dont like the title. i hate the title, & the author, audrey niffeneggar, is better than that. it's bad representation of her work. also, i dont like contemporary love stories. but i read ( Read more... )

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last night, i turned off all the lights & watched television. i havent sat in front of the television in awhile. it is fun. i left one light on, that was black & blue & reminds my living room of a cave in snow. our heat is pretty lousy. beetlejuice was on so i watched that. i havent watched it in so many years. when i was little, i really ( Read more... )

ive always heard really wonderful things about haruki murikami, but id never forced myself to read anything. last week i found a slim copy of sputnik sweetheart with a picture of a soft, small carnivore girl on the cover & wanted to take her home. this book was awful. i absolutely did not like it. it wasnt quite a travesty, as i wouldnt have ( Read more... )

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yikes i spent all day reading again. i went to the asian market & bought some pops around 5, but, mostly it was the space heater near my sweater near my flannel all day. what a good day !

the road is the masterpiece. i keep reading really awesome books, i dont know. this book was mighty, im especially moved by it. it's about a boy & his ( Read more... )

i finally finished my antonia & i liked it. i didnt think i would; i was just reading it to be finished with it, a sort of literary obligation to the early 20th century novel. i do like willa cather normally, i didn't chose to read it entirely randomly, though ive only read short stories. this book requires a certain patience that isnt required ( Read more... )