Final Tally Reading List 2012

[jaded_moon]

So I hit my goal and surpassed it. I got to 110, down to the wire. When I got close, I pushed myself to get it and almost didn't succeed. I finished 109 before heading out to gatherings last night, and then Mike helped me reach 110 with a short (and nonfiction) audiobook. I'm amazing that I managed to read this much in a year. It's as if each month

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[anonymous]

(This is Rosemary!)

Keith loves Graham Greene--I've yet to read any of his stuff, but I got two Greene books for Keith for Christmas. I don't think he's read The End of the Affair though.

I've read one of Didion's essays from Slouching Towards Bethlehem. I can't remember what it was called but it was about Haight (sp?) Street in San Francisco. Even *that* hasn't changed much since her writing--I remember going there with Keith when we were dating and it's still the place where young rich kids go to get hooked on drugs.

[jaded_moon]

Haha, that one was Slouching Towards Bethlehem. It's the essay that the book is named after. Yeah, I've walked through it, too. The amount of people in the corners of alleys just smoking or playing music and asking for money was... astounding. We all knew what the money was going to. At least one kid was amusingly honest enough to make a cardboard sign that read: I just want money for pot. That was great.