Monthly Archives: January 2013

I already loved George Saunders.

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And then I read this quote about his writing process

“If somebody gave you a furnished apartment that they had furnished, your first impression would be, ‘Well, thanks, but this doesn’t feel like me.’ But then if you were allowed to replace one item every day for seven years with an item that you liked better, after seven years that place would have you all over it in ways that you couldn’t anticipate at the beginning. So, likewise in a story, if you’re doing hundreds of drafts, and each time you’re micro-exerting your taste, that thing is going to look like more and more of you. In fact, I feel like my stories are much more indicative of me than this guy here talking to you or even me on one of my best days. The story’s a chance to sort of super-compress whoever you are and present it in this slightly elevated way.”

and now I love him even more.

I highly recommend his stories. Wicked funny.

It’s possible I have never laughed so hard in my whole life.

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Until I was an early teenager, I thought persecuted and prosecuted were the same word. So when there were signs in stores that said ‘shoplifters will be prosecuted,’ I thought it was like they would be treated like the Jews during WWII.
-posted by Peter on January 8, 2013 at 03:27 PM

You just must go read this post and all its comments. It will be 100% worth your time.

À la Nick Hornby, books in/books out for December.

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Bought:

  • Thrall, by Natasha Trethewey
  • Morning Glories, Vol 1: For a Better Future, by Nick Spencer (12/2) (graphic novel)
  • Revival Vol 1: You’re Among Friends, by Tim Seeley (graphic novel)

Read:

  • Enclave, by Ann Aguirre (reread)
  • Mercy Thompson: Homecoming, by Patricia Briggs (graphic novel)
  • Morning Glories, Vol 1: For a Better Future, by Nick Spencer (graphic novel)
  • Revival Vol 1: You’re Among Friends, by Tim Seeley (graphic novel)
  • Outpost, by Ann Aguirre
  • Thrall, by Natasha Trethewey (poetry)
  • Looking for Alaska, by John Green
  • The Shell Seekers, by Rosamunde Pilcher (reread)
  • Sleeper: Season One, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (graphic novel)
  • Paper Towns, by John Green
  • Fox Tracks, by Rita Mae Brown
  • The Fighting Man, by Gerald Seymour
  • If I Lie, by Corrine Jackson
  • Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern

A good month for reading…being that I had the last two weeks off work. 🙂 YAY FREE TIME.