RIP maurice sendak…
this is really all about just destroying my childhood over the last couple of years…
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i just finished mindy kaling’s new audiobook, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, and, while i have to say it’s pretty funny and such, it’s no Bossypants, that’s for damn sure. the best part about it, though, is that it’s read by mindy and that makes such a difference. tina fey’s book was great, but it was largely due to the fact that tina herself read the book, and she is just lovely and awesome. i want amy poehler to do the same, i wish simon pegg narrated his book.
anyway, mindy is charming and funny, and it was a good read (er, listen), but one of the most disappointing facts was something i found particularly disappointing during tina fey’s book. something that makes you (if you’re me, obviously) just feel like total crapfuck and want to just run headlong into oncoming traffic…
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i’ve just started february’s first book: genome (matt ridley). so far i’m hooked, but i’ve been wanting to read this book (and delve into this subject) for a while now. we’ll see how i like it.
i hadn’t realized i read so many books this past month (but really, why should i be surprised?) until i really stopped to think about it. and maybe this is not atypical of what every month will be like, but i did manage to plow through quite a lot despite how crazy busy/awful work was/has been/is/continues to be…
it started off with the sookie stackhouse book set the boy got me for christmas. i tried really hard to postpone and put off tearing through those as long as possible. i lasted till shortly after new year. the set had 8 books total, i had already read the first one months ago. seven books in about 3 weeks, in between books i re-read the first one. though, while they are interesting and engaging, do they really count as 8 books total? maybe it’s like one really big books. they’re such a brief, quick read…i just don’t know.
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seriously, i need more books in my life. i’m almost done re-reading the dark tower #7 (again) for god knows how many times and still haven’t entered the full-blown rage at stephen king for his “ending”…
but you know, there’s still time left.
and while i have a pile of books at home that is nothing to laugh at…i need more. seriously. i’ve read everything at home at LEAST twice over, and that is a woefully conservative estimate.
may be time to get out the old library card again. though, i’m always left disappointed with what the libraries around here have to offer.
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i’m re-reading the stand again, first time in ’09! i don’t know what it is about that book, but i seem to keep reading it and re-reading it and re-reading it over and over again. three or four times a year, i think. it’s definitely one of my favorite novels, but not like, the absolute most awesome and loved book ever. i enjoy it, as much as i think anyone can. i mean, at the end of the day, if you take a long, hard look at it…the stand really is just a kind of bible fanfiction.
which is hilarious.
and of course, i can appreciate the elements that factor into the dark tower series.
the best part about this book is i found it, the complete and unabridged version, just lying on a bench in the central square T stop one day. found it, read it (i had read it before) and again and again over the years.
perhaps it’s because sometimes, the idea of a massive plague/catastrophe wiping out the majority of mankind actually sounds like a great idea. i could go about my day with fewer asshats to put up with and at the very least shit would be tolerable. especially if massachusetts is wiped off the face of the planet, that’s a dream right there. as the book says, it would be no great loss.
and of course, for some reason reading the stand on the subway makes you hyper-aware of every gross, sniffly, snuffly, coughing, sneezing, wheezing, dirtbag there. but, on the other hand, it’s quite the easy book to get lost in. a smooth, quick read that i know like the back of my hand, and still haven’t gotten tired of.
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again, i have completely devoured a series of books in record time. i can’t help it, i get lost in a story and don’t stop until i’m through. then, i want more. my appetite is insatiable, and each of these books is a particularly tasty treat. i would be in fantastic shape if i could live off of books alone…or i would be a roly-poly glutton with the way i go through them…
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this articulates why i love reading so much that no amount of books will ever sate my voracious appetite.
“ A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy.” — Edward P. Morgan
it’s very fitting, very…apt.
that said, my amazon list of ‘books i need to read (or re-read) asap’ has swelled to well over 200.
“ How can you keep up with her, this woman who is always reading another book besides the one before her eyes, a book that does not yet exist, but which, since she wants it, cannot fail to exist?” —Italo Calvino, If on a winter’s night a traveler
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