books_to_read Manny from the antipiracy commercials The Beach by Alex Garland Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger God and the New Physics by Paul Davies A Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins 041122 ... slothisily A Seperate Peace - John Knowles 041122 ... u24 puremango.co.uk/cm_entertainment_61.php 041123 ... Sonya Memoirs Of A Geisha by Arthur Golden 060602 ... unhinged dharma punx by noah levine 060603 ... no reason the secret history by donna tartt 060603 ... unhinged reading lolita in tehran --- azar nafisi 060907 ... unhinged prague --- arthur phillips white oleander --- janet fitch siddartha --- herman hesse freedom in exile --- h.h. the dalai lama dharma punx --- noah levine 061026 ... raze too many. goodreads is helping in an organizing / motivating capacity, but still...too many. a selective list: infinite_jest (david_foster_wallace) blood meridian; suttree (cormac mccarthy) the heart is a lonely hunter (carson mccullers) the wind-up bird chronicle (haruki murakami) the savage detectives (roberto bolaño) the country between us (carolyn forché) the life of the bee (maurice maeterlinck) the whole stupid way we are (n. griffin) suite française (irène némirovsky) the handmaid's tale (margaret atwood) i am going to clone myself then kill the clone and eat it (sam pink) the battlefield where the moon says i love you (frank stanford) lulu in hollywood (louise brooks) omensetter's luck (william h. gass) journey_to_the_end_of_the_night (louis-ferdinand céline) the grapes of wrath (john steinbeck) dhalgren (samuel r. delany) the executioner's song (norman mailer) the recognitions (william gaddis) the glass castle (jeannette walls) + a pile of short_stories collections by john cheever, ellen gilchrist, joyce carol oates, andre dubus, raymond_carver, anton chekhov, and eudora welty + a pile of graphic_novels = a need for a new bookshelf, if i even have a place to put it. 131201 ... epitome of incomprehensibility (This is why libraries exist. But my Dorval Library is disappointing me because it claims not to have Branches de jasmin by Claude_Jasmin and when I gave it back I hadn't finished reading it. It's just a nice friendly collection of anecdotes about his grandchildren, but he is a brilliant writer, nationalism notwithstanding, and I want to improve my grasp on the Frankish language. I have four bookshelves in my room and they're all quite full too, though.) 131201 ... raze libraries are great things. i've just always had this funny thing where, if i see a book i'm interested in for sale somewhere, i have to buy it. i'd call it a compulsion, but it extends to empty composition books, and as we all know, wherever composition books are involved nothing can ever be compulsive. it's one of those unwritten laws of the universe. impulsive, then, maybe... 131203 what's it to you? who go blather from