Comments | witchbabyblue: "i hate to be where she is not, when she is not. and yet i am always going, and she cannot follow."

witchbabyblue

"i hate to be where she is not, when she is not. and yet i am always going, and she cannot follow."

Sep 25, 2007 11:23

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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lost_time September 27 2007, 17:46:28 UTC

1) Cyborgs from the past./2) Making decisions through random processes (Tarot, Runes, Cloud Formations, coin toss, etc)./3) Simple codes and puzzles./4) Juxtapositions of pattern, texture, and symbolic meanings./5) Unexplained phenomena ( ... )

witchbabyblue September 29 2007, 21:08:57 UTC

you, you, you - are such a fantastic blend of the strange, the quirky & obscure; & of true, open-hearted clarity. i wanted to tell you how much i love that.

and ask you this: probably a dozen times, i've come *thiiis* close to reading Geek Love. but for a random bunch of reasons, i haven't end up doing so. it's very weird & it's not that i don't want to read it; but it's almost like that book haunts me, i swear! so: is it as fabulous as it seems/as people often say...?

xxxo,
bird-snuggles

address is coming within the night - this time, For Real! (and i'd be honoured to give feedback, silly! the only issue might be that i much much prefer to do that kind of thing in person; i feel like i can give so much more, on so many more levels; but at the very least, i'd love to share in reading them, in seeing your work.)

lost_time October 14 2007, 00:13:56 UTC

Geek Love is a good book, it's equal parts disturbing and touching and I think that it engages with themes of love, manipulation, devotion, self-worth, family, and abuse in a really interesting way. I had to take a break from reading it after the first 50 pages, but when I came back to it it hooked into me and I flew through it and there were a couple parts which really freaked me out.

I'll send you a package within the week.

- T.S.

fugitivemotel September 28 2007, 10:35:04 UTC

You should read "The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time" by Mark Haddon.

Also, I love everything by Bukowski and Fante. Douglas Coupland's books are fun to read. Paul Auster is incredible.

witchbabyblue September 29 2007, 21:10:09 UTC

awwwww! i LOOOOOVE The Curious Incident... maybe i'll re-read my copy actually - thank you!

do you have favorites by coupland and auster, ifyouplease?!

fugitivemotel October 1 2007, 11:11:20 UTC

You should definitely read "Girlfriend In A Coma" by Douglas Coupland. I think you would like it a lot, for numerous reasons.

It's really hard to choose a favourite Auster book. "The New York Trilogy" is such an incredible piece of literature, it actually changed the way I think about novels. It's like reading a jigsaw puzzle. But "Timbuktu" is such a beautiful book too; written from the perspective of a pet dog! I have to recommend them both equally.

thisfrozenlake_ October 20 2007, 06:02:50 UTC

white teeth & on beauty by zadie smith.
middlesex by jeffrey eugenides.
assata by assata shakur.
white oleander by janet fitch.
cunt by inga muscio.
stone butch blues by leslie feinberg.
100 years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez.
in the time of the butterflies by julia alvarez.
the hours by michael cunningham.
everything is illuminated by jonathan safran foer.

currently reading zami: a new spelling of my name by audre lorde, and loving it so far.