1/2: Nothing yet! Just holding my place. I WANT to read a book a week!

I remember giving this guy my favorite bear. I was in high school, I thought it was love. I gave him the bear (whose name I can't remember, but it was a Care Bear knockoff... all brown, with a brown heart in its body (maybe it said Love?), sprayed liberally with perfume... and I loved that fucking bear. That bear and my E.T doll (also gone) were ( Read more... )

January:
A Good Fall: Ha Jin
Conversations with Eudora Welty

February:
They Is Us: Tama Janowitz
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary: David Sedaris

March:
Letting Loose the Hounds: Brady Udall

April:
The Book of Other People: edited by Zadie Smith

May:
A Visit from the Goon Squad: Jennifer Egan

June:
Motherless Brooklyn: Jonathan Letham ( Read more... )

I seem to have forgotten about my book list ( Read more... )

1. I'm submitting things! I started last month. Almost done with round one for one story. Just started round one for another ( Read more... )

For real.

Tomorrow will be better.

Tomorrow I won't have any regrets.

Tomorrow I will not think about feeling fat.

Tomorrow Mrs. Cooper will still be dead.

Sigh. I swore I wouldn't drink at home or binge but, well, here we are.

The semester is done and I got straight A's again! SO good. My sister is graduating this coming Sunday (not tomorrow, next Sunday), and I am so excited ( Read more... )

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