Archive for the ‘ books ’ Category
Before and during the Holidays I had some time to read, surprisingly, even considering all the travel we did (driving down to South Carolina to visit my in-laws, including meeting my one year-old nephew for the first time, and over to Chicago to visit my family, including meeting my seven-week-old niece for the first time). [ READ MORE ]
I found the following book, courtesy of The Daily What via Gizmodo. It’s called, Stuck Up!: 100 Objects Inserted and Ingested in Places They Shouldn’t Be. The book is a collection of X-rays or, as they might be called, “Stomach Shots” or “Ass Slides.” From the few I’ve seen, the objects (everything from a cup [ READ MORE ]
This video of books, moving, shuffling, and even dancing has been making the rounds on Ye Olde Internet. But I saw it first at Teleread. It was done by the proprietors of Type Books in Toronto, Canada. According to the description on Youtube, it must have taken many many hours to “animate” all those books. [ READ MORE ]
This round of Recent Reads features two books: one where the indispensable role freethinkers in U.S. history is resurrected and one where sex is depicted within the context of relationships in all of its wonderful banality. Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby. “God” can’t be put “back” in the U.S. Constitution because [ READ MORE ]
While I was offline, I did a lot of reading (like always). I’ll have a few posts up like this in the coming month. Here’s a sample of what I read. The Old Man and Me by Elaine Dundy. Chalk one up for the “Angry Young Woman.” This viciously funny and deftly crafted novel by [ READ MORE ]
I know it’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything. But my offline life has been busier than ever. That doesn’t mean I haven’t been reading. My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler. The stand-up comic and TV show host relates her one-night stands and attempts at one-night stands. Since not every [ READ MORE ]
It’s been a busy month but here is what I have read. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa. An 18-year-old aspiring writer named Mario works at a radio station in 1950’s Lima, Peru with an eccentric scriptwriter. Mario meets his Aunt Olga’s sister, Julia, who is 13 years his senior and recently [ READ MORE ]
At least as far as I can tell, based on the sale prices offered at the store in Brighton, MI I visited today. Sure the signs all say “Up to 40% off.” But the 40% only applies to greeting cards and magazines. Fiction is 10% off the cover price, along with toys…Philosophy books were 20% [ READ MORE ]
Myself included. Book bargains coming soon… The Borders Group said Monday that it would liquidate, shutting down the 40-year-old bookseller after it failed to find a last-minute savior. [snip] Publishers, disheartened by the news, had watched Borders’ troubles deepen for years. After the bookseller declared bankruptcy in February, many publishers pressed for a reorganization plan, [ READ MORE ]
In a craptastic piece of analysis courtesy of Slate magazine, whose official motto is “We’re Taking Contrarian to Idiotic Lows,” Katie Roiphe reads Freud, Proust, helicopter parenting, liberal yuppies, and all kinds of angry parental resentments toward children into the the success of Adam Mansbach’s Go the Fuck to Sleep. It couldn’t be the universal [ READ MORE ]
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