My hard heart — Helen Garner This book of short fiction is another of my Library discoveries: I’ve heard Helen Garner’s name a lot — she’s pretty big in Australian literature — so I grabbed this book of short fiction to gain a taste of her work. It’s pretty awesome; the stories focus on the [...]
Also taggedGuards! Guards! and Men at Arms – Terry Pratchett Sweet sauerkraut stockings I like Mr Pratchett’s writing. After a fairly long-term dalliance with the audiobooks of the Discworld series (as read by the totes awesome Tony Robinson), I got into reading the books proper comparatively late in life. I have a clear memory of a [...]
Also taggedThe Volcano Lover: A Romance – Susan Sontag See, here’s why I love libraries. Book shops you gots to spend coin, so you get a bit risk-averse and you’re more likely to go with what you know. Second hand book shops, less so (less coin, so less risk) so that’s a bit better. Libraries: zilch. [...]
Also taggedI’m roaring through books like you wouldn’t believe, suckin’ down sentences like an arm through a sleeve; don’t miss a word or chapter, don’t to the end skip, jump back Loretta, I gots pages to flip. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis I finished American Pyschoa while back and it was so great it [...]
Also taggedThree more excellent reads for you to think about: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail – Bill Bryson More than anything in the world right now I want to go bushwalking. I have a fruity French dessert cooling on the bench; a cup of tea beside me; an awesome job [...]
Also taggedThere are two piles of books on my bookshelf — actually, if I was going for strict realism, I would have to mention that these two piles are not alone, that the shelves are crammed full of the damn things, but for the purposes of this discussion, I want to point out that it is [...]
Also taggedHere be readin’s! I’m knee-deep in the pages these days. This is a glorious development, a long way from my Masters’ studies, when the suggestion of reading anything longer than a case study or essay would elicit a terse, ironic chuckle and smothered sobs. I’ve got three (four?) others on the go, which I want [...]
Also taggedBehold I am reading up a storm! Fluttering pages in an ecru foam of erudition! The Beauty Myth – Naomi Woolf A major work in feminist literature, it’s kind of astonishing to realise this book was first published twenty years ago. Truefax – check Wikipedia. Most of the book could have been written in the [...]
Also taggedIt’s page-flickin’ time, yo! The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter I first fell in love with Angela Carter when I read Nights at the Circus which I recommend to everyone which such fervour that I’m no longer sure where my copy is (if anyone sees it, tell it I miss it and I hope it’s doing well). [...]
Also taggedI looked up collective nouns for books and discovered that “library” and “pile” seemed to be the most common ones. That kind of surprised me: I thought when I was saying “pile” I was being casually vivid and descriptive — “oh, I have a pile of books waiting by the toilet” — but no: it [...]
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