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[lullabyexile]

so, wow, yeah, i don't know!  it's been awhile since i've updated, i mean, for real, about life and all of that. i don't know where to start, it seems like a whole lot has happened and then not a whole lot at all.  let's see.

moved into my new place in chicago.  logan square to be exact, which really can be a whole lot more like mexico.  you should'

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[handsandcookies]

I wouldn't know what books to recommend you. I think the one course book I thoroughly enjoyed last year was Kafka's Metamorphosis and Other Stories. Just because it's a little bit weird compared to everything else. Oh and any flash fiction or micro fiction you can find by Amy Hemple.

Your life sounds crystalline, what I would give to spend a week in your shoes.

xxxx

[lullabyexile]

thank you!

yeah, it's worlds away from what it was a month or so ago. i'm really happy, it feels like things are finally starting to go the way i want them to.

[skelekitten]

Anything by Neil Gaiman. Neverwhere, American Gods, Anansi Boys, Stardust, I even think you may like the Sandman comics :)

[hey_maybe]

I AGREE. I was just about to recommend Neil Gaiman. Try Jane Austen too, her dainty language really makes my day!

[hey_maybe]

I can't believe you could bear to move out of your old room! It was so cluttered and lovely, I would have very much wished to have had it. Dear whats your new address then? Pray tell,

[lullabyexile]

oh this place is just as cluttered and lovely, maybe even more so, haha. i'll send you my address in a private message. and then send me yours back so we can mail each other stuff!

[somethingablaze]

Anna Karenina. I walk around despondently hoping that someday one of my friends will read Anna Karenina. Nabokov is also pretty great, I love this one short story of his, "Gods," it is absolutely amazing. Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill is great light reading and...hmmm... oh Andre Dubus is one of my absolute favorites, one of the ones I quote and paraphrase a lot. Not Andre Dubus III, he is a different dude though also good I hear. His stories are mishmashed into a lot of different collections but the one I have and love is We Don't Live Here Anymore though the very first story doesn't do much for me.
*shuts up about books*

I'm glad your life seems to be going so well m'friend. Next time I can get myself on aim we will chatter :)

[lullabyexile]

i always meant to read more nabokov than lolita, so thankyou for reminding me. i will read anna karenina for you. and you mentioned andre dubus once a long time ago and i meant to look for him, and now i will. now, or whenever i end up getting to the library.

and hooray. :] hit me up, yo. if and when i get some money for my birthday, which is in a few weeks, i'm going to visit knox college. there is no other option.

[tangled_kisses]

a. can't wait for pictures!
b. (is for books!): #1 is the time traveler's wife, i just finished it & there is no other word to describe it, it's perfect. white oleander. jane eyre. catcher in the rye. it's kind of a funny story.

♥

[lullabyexile]

oh oh i love the time traveler's wife. especially because i live in chicago and i know all of the places she mentions, like the library, and right down to the unique thrift store --i've actually shopped there! white oleander is amazing too. thank you. :]