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

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Bought:

  • Vampires in the Lemon Grove, by Karen Russell
  • Tenth of December, by George Saunders
  • Suspect, by Robert Crais (iphone/Kindle)*
  • Etiquette & Espionage, by Gail Carriger (iphone/Kindle)*

Read:

  • The Order of Odd Fish, by James Kennedy (gift from the author)
  • Suspect, by Robert Crais (iphone/Kindle)
  • The Giver, by Lois Lowry (iphone/Kindle)
  • Choice Words, by Peter H. Johnston
  • Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger (iphone/Kindle)
  • Sarah, Plain & Tall, by Patricia McLachlan (borrowed from classroom library)
  • Big Jack, by J.D. Robb (borrowed from laundry room)

*Oops, went over my two-book limit! I blame spring break!

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

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Bought:

  • The Patrick Melrose Novels, by Edward St Aubyn*
  • Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth Wein
  • Prophet Volume 1: Remission (graphic novel)

Read:

  • Blood Song (Raven’s Shadow #1), by Anthony Ryan (iphone/kindle)
  • SeraphinA, by Rachel Hartman
  • Touch of Frost, by Jennifer Estep

I decided I can only let myself buy two books a month thanks to the current financial straits. Therefore I have/had to wait until February to buy the final Wheel of Time book. That’s OK b/c I have very little time to read right now anyway as I’m not taking much public transit right now which is my #1 reading time. I have almost no free time even when I’m at home right now–teaching is almost a 24 hour job and then only hours I’m not either at school or working on stuff for school are when I need to be sleeping. Yeah it’s super exhausting.

*Technically I already own one of these as a stand-alone…but they just collected the first four to go with the new #5 that just came out and it was on sale at my local store for $20 with 10% off and that’s cheaper than buying a $8-$10 paperback of the three I don’t have…

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.