I brought Anna Karenina with me on our flight to San Francisco last weekend, thinking that only being in a confined space with no other options would bring me to read more Tolstoy. Even though a course in nineteenth-century Russian literature had completely convinced me I liked none of it, I still felt obligated to [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
Posted in books on May 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Library Thing is my new friend
Posted in books, library stuff, technology on May 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve discovered a new toy which I’m sure I’ll spend way too much time on. I’ve always wanted to create a database of all my books, and now someone has taken all the work out of the thing for me. I love that it populates the LC data for you, and that you can also [...]
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
Posted in books on May 11, 2007 | No Comments »
I got The Buddha of Suburbia a few years ago, when I was taking a class in British Fiction at U Mass, but we didn’t actually get far enough in the syllabus to read it. I tried to read it a few months ago, but couldn’t get past the opening page. This week, while I [...]
Comfort Books
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Lately I have found myself doing a lot of re-reading, despite my goal to finish all the unread books that clutter my shelves (of which there are many) before I start school this fall. And what I’ve been re-reading! I’m craving the most mindless, frivolous books I have ticked away on the bottom, dusty, hidden [...]
