I wonder if I don't read enough to not mind. It doesn't bother me, though I know my mom didn't care for all the armor detail.

White Noise - Don Delillo

Tend to blow hot and cold with his stuff but this is great

it is. i ended up reading it twice.

It's my second time too. Some of his stuff feels too distant, knowing to really do it for me. This has the same virtuosity in terms of style and the same 'classic Delillo' set-pieces, but it also seems to have a bit more of a heart. I still hate his dialogue though. People try to use theory to justify it but it's his one real flaw as far as I'm concerned.

the collected stories of lydia davis.

i laughed so hard at that i forgot to post an answer the other day. i have no opinion of his dialogue but the "people use theory to justify…" is so very true in so many ways and places i'm still laughing a week later.


oh, i didn't make it to the armor i think. the sentences just caused me pain. hard to explain really. i could go on a phrase by phrase analysis if i could copypaste a text here, but i don't want to kill other people's joy or suggest anything is wrong with their pleasure. i'm the one with the liver problems. definitely enjoy it if you do!

Nici's books in May:


Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
Birthday Stories - Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
The Collected Stories of (-) Lydia Davis
The Collected Stories - Lorrie Moore
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy - Tao Lin
Everything Was Fine Until Whatever - Chelsea Martin
During my Nervous Breakdown I Want to Have a Biographer Present - Brandon Scott Gorrell
Baby Babe - Ana Carrete

damn, you're on a roll!

i'm jealous.

I feel like I am not reading enough, tho.
Can't wait to spend next month's money on some Richard Yates stuff, haven't read anything by him yet and people seem to like him. I WANT! I WANT!

ha ha ha

Have you read Humbold's Gift? For some reason that one's my fav. I have a lot of his later stuff sitting around. Can't really muster the energy to read Dean's December or anything beyond, just like I haven't read his first few books. I certainly like a lot of the middle books, but I'm squarely in the "way the fuck overrated" category.


Fuck off Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
Eh. Birthday Stories - Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
Yeah Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
Yes The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
The ULTIMATE bathroom book. Took a year of shits to finish. The Collected Stories of (-) Lydia Davis
Sentence by sentence, she's a master. Kind of mean though. The Collected Stories - Lorrie Moore
? Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy - Tao Lin
? Everything Was Fine Until Whatever - Chelsea Martin
? During my Nervous Breakdown I Want to Have a Biographer Present - Brandon Scott Gorrell
? Baby Babe - Ana Carrete

I want to buy a book today, someone post an author in here and I will see if my bookstore has books by him/her and if so i will get it and praise you forever if i like the book

djuna barnes

also



out in the uk on 19th june, so you'd have to preorder it.

okay, i am weak.
just ordered nightwood by djuna barnes and the jeff jackson novel cause i found them used and for cheap
thank you guys!
(will probably go to the used bookstore later and try and find something...)

jean rhys

esp. quartet

ding ding ding

http://www.textundtoene.com/10513429.html

my fav bookstore has it!!
so it's gonna be mine later.
buying books/planning on buying books makes me so happy

i forgot to ask what languages you read. i mean besides german & english, if any.