Sedaris at Literaturhaus
David Sedaris has been tickling my funny bone since I first heard him read from the SantaLand Diaries on NPR. The man is brilliant, and even if we listeners (or readers, of course!) are basically witnessing his life-long self-therapy, I simply can’t imagine anyone more enjoyable to support in this way đ … If you, […]
@bedtime
Norman Silver: in the old old days (from Age, Sex, Location, Colchester: tXt cafe, 2006) in the old old days b4 there were mobile fones how cud a boy eva meet a person of the oppsite gender & even if they cud get acquainted wivout a mobile fone how cud they ch@ each uvver up […]
The truth
I’ve been thinking about what makes democracy tick as I read a book by David Foster Wallace, the most brilliant writer of my generation in many ways, who killed himself on September 12th, losing his 20-year fight against depression. This book is called âMcCain’s Promiseâ, and it’s about what makes people care enough to get involved in politics. According to Wallace, it comes down to straight talk.
You gotta read it
Found a blog activity on Dolcevita’s site Lesekreis originated by Marcel of Read it! called “Stöckchen”, which is basically a game of “go fetch“. This time the task is to list your 10 all-time favorite books.
9/11: The falling man
I’ve just finished Don DeLillo’s “Falling Man”, an alternately moving and bleak description of relationships after the attacks on the Twin Towers, focussing on a troubled marriage. When Lianne sees her estranged husband Keith, a survivor of Tower 1, come in the door covered in blood and helps him clean up, she realizes that most of […]
Elisabeth Gilbert: Stern Men
Before I set off for Croatia and then Drummond Island, I’d like to leave you with another reading tip. “Stern Men” is a first novel by Elisabeth Gilbert. Her heroine is an independent, smart and plucky 19 year-old girl called Ruth who fritters away the summer on a remote island populated by oddball lobstermen who are feuding with the lobstermen on a second island. Ruth is back after four years of boarding school, and in fact the island of her childhood is too small for her. She needs a job, and a lover would be nice, too.
Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns
When I first opened this book and started reading in the middle, there was so much brutality that I thought, no, there is no way I’m going to read this. But then I started properly at the beginning, and I fell in love with it from page to page.
