I'm curious, since everyone is spread all over the place, and I don't know the minor details of most of your lives, what books have you been reading lately? Anything good? Stuff to stay away from?
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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. -Virginia Woolf, Modern Fiction
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What? Not even my co-bloggers will respond? What's the deal?
do read: hamlet in purgatory, by stephen greenblatt, if your interested in an excellent new historicist look at the ghost of hamlet's father and the history of purgatory in the catholic church and its expulsion from england.
don't read: hamket in purgatory, by stephen greenblatt, if that sounds boring as hell.
back to school.
I thought about not even commenting because the book I am reading (for my book club) is pretty bad; but you asked so here it is. I am reading Trinity by Leon Uris. It's a fictional story about the history of Ireland. It's unfortunate that this book hasn't captured me yet and I'm 200+ pages in and it's a 800+ page book!!! I never knew someone could make the intriguing history of Ireland so blah... Let's just say I am looking forward to next month's book: Bel Canto!
Miss you.
any war in particular?
evelyn waugh's "put out more flags" is a good, funny and sad WWII novel. thats the last one that i've read.
I just read The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri while I was on holiday. It was nice enough, although I felt like a lot of it was scene-setting and kept waiting for the real immediacy of the story to begin. It was a nice read though.
I just started reading The Past is a Foreign Country by David Lowenthall. Lydia suggested that I read it, because he's the guy who first started talking about Nostalgia in historical studies in a significant fashion. It seems written for a Anthropology class, but I like it so far.
Matt, I read The Red Badge of Courage for the first time this summer and enjoyed it. It is a short novel about the Civil War and anticipated the WWI/WWII novels which started to paint war in a non-heroic light.
If you want war and babies burning in a tree, read Blood Meridian... there's ummm a little bit of war in that book.
don't know if I qualify to comment on your blog--I'm not that discerning about what I read! I read extremely fast, so I don't feel like I have to be choosey. Anyway, for what it's worth I'm currently reading The Historian, which is Dracula related (I heart Bram Stoker's Dracula). I'm also reading Theft by Peter Carey (It's on the Man Booker 2006 longlist, but I'm having trouble getting into it--I dislike the main character, which is always a stumbling block for me. Bukowski? Forget it).
mtsanders, if you haven't read "The Brothers K" by David James Duncan, I would highly suggest it. It's a mix of Vietnam, Baseball, and the family relationships. And it is one of the best books I have ever read. Although, I will say it doesn't have battle scenes so much as it discusses they way some americans where dealing with the war, both good and bad.
also, chocolate milk girl, I'm interested in hearing more about Theft. I would love to pick up some of the longlis books, but I am (weirdly, I know) against hard covers so it never really works out before the prize is announced.
as for me, I am still reading hemingway, but its kinda slow. I picked up Blindness by Jose Saramago and although it's feels like its not going anywhere at times it is really quite good. And if you let yourself think about what he is trying to say about people its kinda freaky, think 28 days later meets your cataract.
"28 days later meets your cataract." That's awesome.
Azfinke, this article http://www.oriononline.org/pages/om/05-4om/Duncan2.html by David James Duncan is pretty great. We had a pub discussion about it for church. I heart him.
I just finished Ernest Gaines "A lesson before dying" which was excellent, and I just started Margaret Atwood's "The Blind Assassin" which I'm having a little trouble getting into.
Blindness is great. Freaky but great.
josie, i appreciate how many of the same books we have been reading lately.
thanks for the article, i'm excited to read it.
I have totally given up on Margaret Atwood.
Did you read Oryx and Crake? That was my first Atwood book, and I really enjoyed it.
I stated Oryx and Crake on audio, during one long trip to minnesota...I couldn't get into it, I'm hoping all is not lost and it was just the road making my mind wander. Everyone I know seems to love it.
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