Shelf Life: August 2013
Brief snippets of opinion and a too-long list. This month’s themes? Sex and writing, apparently.
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Shelf Life: December 2012
Last Shelf Life of 2012. Gonna be brief. 154. Sunset Park, by Paul Auster (Henry Holt and Co., 2010) I’d never read Auster before, but I’ve heard good things. Perhaps this wasn’t the best introduction. I found Sunset Park to be very disjointed and there were too many pointless references to baseball. I couldn’t get …
Shelf Life: October 2012
I have an absurd number of books on my to-read shelf. These are books that I’ve bought, and physically have on my shelves, waiting to be read. I don’t know how I’m ever going to catch up, especially with all the neat books that have come out this fall, and the classics I have yet …
Shelf Life: September 2012
While I was on vacation in visiting my in-laws in England, I didn’t get as much read I typically do. A mere eight books read in September. 119. The Invisibles, Vol. 4: Bloody Hell in America, by Grant Morrison (Vertigo, 1998) Making my way through them. 120. Mad Hope, by Heather Birrell (Coach House Books, …
Shelf Life: August 2012
Very brief comments on a lengthy list of books read in August. A banner month. 101. The History of Tattooing, by Wilfrid Dyson Hambly (Dover, reprinted 2009) I love tattoos. At the time I read this I had only two, but for months I had been looking for an artist to complete my third and fourth. …