"i hate to be where she is not, when she is not. and yet i am always going, and she cannot follow."
A thought: I probably shouldn't have dove back into Livejournal-Land, with what may have seemed a misleading ferocity. Which isn't to say that I won't be posting here - more that I shouldn't (can't) be as precise, just now, about hours or days ( Read more... )
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Rubyfruit Jungle-Rita Mae Brown
Valencia-Michelle Tea
The Passionate Mistakes & Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America-Michelle Tea
and i also wanted Running with Scissors and Dry by Augusten Burroughs
but sadly, i needed to save money for my bus back so i couldn't get the burroughs books. but i adore him.
also, Poem for What's Her Name by Dani O'Connor. fun book and sweet wonderful woman who found me on myspace and told me i have great taste in books :D
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i am a dork & have read or own all the books you listed, but it makes me smile, picturing you in a just-right-musty used bookstore, poring through the mines & finding such treasure!
if you want, i can almost definitely find copies of Running With Scissors & others, for no more than 50 cents to a dollar plus a few bucks shipping. online used-book ferreting is a favorite talent of mine; say the word!
i miss you.
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In terms of books, I went to a book party for this awesome new YA novel called "Violet on the Runway" a few nights ago and picked up a promo copy -- I'm enjoying it so far. Nice break from reading, like, online indie music sales analysis ;). I also liked the new Ann Packer and of course, the Economist is a good weekly read.
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I could use a funny read, especially one that would be good for long flights, because I have a bunch of travel coming up soon. Wedding in SF, a week in Argentina over Thanksgiving, etc. So I'll make sure to check Honey Don't out.
The quick update, cause you didn't see it in your email: I'm still in New York. I finished grad school in May and promptly parlayed my Master's in Public Policy in to a job at Billboard, where I'm the indies correspondent. It's a pretty rad gig. I'm living with a delightful boy, who is super smart and ambitious; he just bought a condo in Williamsburg so the transition to yipster-dom will soon be complete. Ran a marathon last year and didn't have time to train for one this summer, but am still running daily and doing shorter races.
That's the news with me. Will read your blog to keep up with all your haps.
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*hugs*
As for books, the new Irvine Welsh is good. I finally got around to reading Catch-22 this summer, and it was well worth it. I'm a big William Gibson fan, as well as Philip K. Dick... gotta love the dystopic not-too-distant future. Frank Herbert's Dune is wonderful. Stranger in a Strange Land is another favorite. As is anything by the late Mr. Vonnegut. I've also been reading some Oscar Wilde and Jonathan Swift (I got a book mark with a quote of his: "May you live every day of your life.") and in my English majorness, I've been reading lots of articles and essays about English and education. I hope that when I'm teaching (student teaching this spring, for real in the fall!) that I can inspire a love of reading in my students.
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honestly: i think (and have found) that if you continue to show *your* love of reading - without a fear of looking dorky, without listening to the few kids who may be making fun of you - it'll be infectious to most of your students. the more genuinely excited you are about something, the less you back down, the more kids will trust your instincts & potentially follow them. that sounds corny enough, and the other things i might say would probably sound cornier. but i think they ring true.
i don't know if you're working with younger kids, though i do think you'd be really good at it. but my parents gave me a wonderful memoir about a deliciously kooky gradeschool teacher, a few years back - you might like to peek at it - Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Yearand thanks so much for *your* recommendations! i loved the little william gibson i read, some time ago - can i ask which you'd most ( ... )
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sending lots of love your way.
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but i guess i just wanted to say: lyme is a teacher, yes - but you aren't to blame for the lessons you're learning & relearning. you're doing amazingly; you're stronger than most people our age ever have to dream of being. and you are journeying, you are learning. just -- please don't lose let self-blame come into the mix. that's all.
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Whipping Girl (trangendered woman on the scapegoating of femininity) by Julie Serano
IHOP Papers by Ali Liebegott
and Drugs are Nice: a Post-Punk Memoir by Lisa Crystal Carver
xo
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thank you for the others, so sooo much. 2 of which i've read not at all - yippeee for new & funny queer stories! i think i seriously salivate, sometimes, at the thought of good books...
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