Just completed Meloy “Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It”
It’s been awhile since I’ve completed a book. But it’s not for a lack of trying.
FAILED:
Capote ‘In Cold Blood’
Dostoevsky ‘Crime and Punishment’
Power “A Problem From Hell”
Lewis “What Went Wrong?”
Le “The Boat”
I may come back and read these books. They all deserve our attention.
On my bookshelf (and for a very long time now)…
Heston, whose politics are no secret, was invited by the People’s Republic during its most open period, prior to the confrontation in Tiananmen Square. He offers perceptive, intriguing comments on the difficulty of mounting a Chinese-language production and of interpreting a naturalistic drama for people steeped in a nonrealistic theater tradition. Not as substantive or well written as Arthur Miller’s “Salesman” in Beijing, the book is long on charm but short on details about China and the Chinese. Recommended for theater buffs and Heston fans.
-Amazon Review
So, an all Chinese speaking cast and an all Englishing speaking Heston.
I can’t remember who gave this to me, but I don’t think it was meant to be a satirical gift.
Random House Representative: Hi Mr. Brokaw, we’re on schedule to release your new book. It’s really an extraordinary tale, such depth. However we still need a name.
Tom Brokaw: BOOM!
Random House Representative: Great job Mr. Brokaw.
listen, i think we can all agree that vampires are ruining fiction.
also, i think jared diamond is a liar. and tom robbins is overrated.
there. who’s dangerous/cool now? a boy with pointy teeth or a man who brazenly criticizes noted literary figures?
You can’t blame the innocent, they are always guiltless…Innocence is a kind of insanity.
- Thomas Fowler in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American
Just finished:
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss (Read if you enjoy learning about punctuation)
Identity by Milan Kundera (Read if you enjoy being depressed)
Late summer reading keeps going.
Breaking my personal rule: reading books that are also movies.
But it’s a 600 page book about corn and the Sherman Antitrust Act.
How could I resist?!
The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
Also interesting today
“Reading Lamp” Shuts off when you place a book on top of it; turns back on when the book is removed.
by Jun Yasumoto, Alban Le Henry, Olivier Pigasse and Vincent Vandenbrouck.
read the entire essay at the link, brilliant
“…the World’s Largest Lobster Cooker, which is highlighted as an attraction in the Festival’s program, is right out there on the MLF’s north grounds for everyone to see. Try to imagine a Nebraska Beef Festival at which part of the festivities is watching trucks pull up and the live cattle get driven down the ramp and slaughtered right there on the World’s Largest Killing Floor or something—there’s no way.”
