pride and prejudice

brave new world

&

the true and outstanding adventures of the hunt sisters

anybody ever gone to bookcrossing.com ?

its rad. 

i just finsished the curious incident of the dog in the night / and ham on rye(bukowski). on a plane.  flying to seattle/ to throw myself through a snowstorm and eat raw fish.   

the poisonwood bible ( a novel )

april

catcher in the rye [again...it's a favorite]

brave new world [never read it, so i figured i must]

and i just finished, memories of my meloncholy whores

An introduction to Sociology 4th edition....

The last three books I read were:

Wait for Spring Bandini _ John Fante

Burning in Water Drowning in Flames_ Charles Bukowski (excellent and theres a copy of it free online!)

Invisible Monsters_Chuck Palahnuik

All great and very different.  Read.  Read them all now.  Then tell me I am in fact litterate, despite what those white coats say.

Its the first novel Ive read of his, might as well start from the begining huh.  

Once I have some cash, I will defenitely read more.

you should get with "the real estate agent of rad" below and trade your fante book for her fante book.

everybody wins!

Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines by Bill Hicks & John Lahr

Grrl Scouts Volume 2: Work Sucks by Jim Mahfood

just finished...
Anna Karenina -Leo Tolstoi

and Song of Solomon- Tony Morrison

Currently...The Color Purple-Alice Walker and

Sanctuary-William Faulkner.

The Death And Birth Of Meaning By Ernest Becker

Animal Farm and the psychology of suicide and umm.. yeah

i am more of a fantasy girl...some of my recent reads include:



the chronicles of narnia series c.s. lewis (hadn't read them since i was a kid)

faerie tale raymond e. feist (a horror-ish faery tale)

stardust neil gaiman (a true victorian style faery tale)

mysterious skin scott heim (a disturbing coming of age/coming out story)

kushiel's dart jacqueline carey (epic alternate history...901 pages)

and right now i am starting avalon by marion zimmer bradley...camelot story told from the point of view of the women...

and ladies...check out 'he's just not that into you'

really good question?  if you follow any other writing on hip-hop then it doesn't really tell you anything you don't know already...there are a couple of good chapters on post-modernism that are worth it but overall their writing style and the context in which they take it in (two smug white boys trying to sound erudite) to me was a little.....how you say....annoying.

buuuuut if you i guess aren't too familiar with rap/hip-hop then i say its worth a shot as it is short (only 130 pages) and you can see why David Foster Wallace writing style has a lot of biters.  

no problem...i need like 40 pages to go
ssoooooo what are you reading?

p.s. this is a good idea for a blog

right now, besides the jan reid book listed above (which i've just started, so i can't rate it yet,) i'm slogging my way through "The Cultural Collaborative: January 2005 - A Plan For San Antonio's Creative Economy," and i can't say it's recommended reading. strictly for werk.

although it would be cool if the city adopted some of these proposals...

A WEBSTER SPANISH/ ENGLISH DICTIONARY...

DOES THAT COUNT? IT'S STUDY.

a blog... by "keep san antonio lame"

review...

wow... people from san antonio can read... good to know in case i ever need a resume....;)

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

it's about the search for Dracula. Fiction of course.

I love the SAPL!

p.s. thanks for the great interactive blog -- so great to see that i'm not alone in my love for literature in this town. used to live in boston and always carried a book with me for when i was traveling on the T (public transportation) and i miss seeing others with a book in their bag.

Just got done with Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie-- love his writing style! 

Now I'm reading Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger-- like his writing style too even though it is completely different than the previous-- obviously.  :) 

Both are worth checking out~

Alexie has a great short story entitled, "Because My Father Always Said He was the Only Indian to See Jimi Hendrix Play the Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock."  It's great and worth checking out. 

Unfortunately for me, I'm in law school and I don't have time for leisure reading anymore. 

Daniel J Boorstin

Robert s Boyton

I know what I'm NOT reading...that's the SA Events List. Busted! Get off your lazy ass, man! We need that list updated!

OK, all shit talking aside, I'm currently reading Plainclothes Naked by Jerry Stahl. Guy's an amazing writer fo' sho'.