Tangled Up in Blue Guy (Free subscription) | yesterday
So which books have you read from this list? Cut and paste, and then bold the books you’ve read while unboldng the ones you’ve not. Italicize the ones you want to and parenthesize the ones you have started and intend to finish: 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper...
Cantànima (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bold means I've read it through; Italic means I've started it but not finished it. The claim going around with the list (the source is unknown to me) is that the average American has only read six of these. Since some of the books are on here twice (Chronicles of Narnia and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe), one wonders about the wits of someone who (a) draws up such a list, and (b) makes
Technoccult (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The results from Disinfo’s reader survey: 1. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 2. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson 4. The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy), J. R. R. Tolkien 5. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 6. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut 7. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger 8. Tao [...]
Clumsy Kisses (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to [...]
This Girl Called Automatic Win (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Your responses to my most recent totes weirdo ramble have warmed my heart and given me a lot to think about; and I'll respond (comment-by-comment!) soon, fo'reals. [Also! JD, I never got an email from you] Also Book Club will be on Friday so you must either finish it or re-read it by then or pay the price. Also I've got a twitter feed/blog thing now, let's go get a Coca-Cola! And, while we're on
Afrigator (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
I found this meme at on Jenty’s blog and thought it rather interesting. Someone reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books theyve printed. Its not the Big Read though they dont publish books, and theyve only featured these books so far. So here we go Look at the list and bold those you have read. Italicize those you started but did not finish. Underline the books you LOVE....
Afrigator (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
And what a relief that is!I found this 'DIY' list in the blogosphere & thought I'd give it a bash! Go for it if you're keen!“Someone” reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. It’s not the Big Read though — they don’t publish books, and they’ve only featured these books so far. So here we go...1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.2) Italicize those...
Slog (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The brouhaha earlier in the week about A Streetcar Named Desire -- here , here , here , here --which devolved into an accusation ( here ) that I was "hiding behind" Mary McCarthy (which is sorta true), reminded me of the time, back in 2003 or 2004, I photocopied McCarthy's review of Franny and Zooey (reprinted in this book ) for Sean Nelson, who is a Salinger fan and something of a Salinger expert....
No Fact Zone.Net (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
“Good fences make good neighbors, and good neighbors make good fences. Get on it, Mexico! This is The Colbert Report!” Drilling Me Softly: “Tonight! Is offshore drilling the solution to the oil shortage? It’s definitely the solution to our whale surplus.” The WØRD: Placebo Pet Project: “Plus, I introduce this week’s Alpha Dog. I hope you’re not [...]
U.S. News (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
1951—J.D. Salinger's novel 'Catcher in the Rye,' which took him 10 years to write, is published.
NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger was published on this date in 1951. It’s sold about 60 million copies since. The following is excerpted from a longer piece today at The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor. Salinger’s division hit the beach in the fifth hour of the invasion, and for the next several [...]
Keris Stainton (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Am feeling rough today, so a meme it is! Linda tagged me on this book list, which I've seen on lots of blogs and may even have done once before, but what the heck. You are supposed to: Look at...
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
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What not to think (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
The Laughing Man, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 1st Gig. Referencing J.D. Salinger, The Laughing Man. The quote, of course, from Catcher in the Rye,
Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Over the weekend I read an essay on J.D. Salinger which Janet Malcom published in the New York Review of Books back in that now lost and fabled time, June of 2001. Though I still incline toward the negative conclusions arrived at by his contemporary critics, it was an admirable defense of America's best known, best selling literary recluse (only Thomas Pynchon . . . who once was rumored to actually...
