May 2013 readings list. Houman Barekat, editor, Review 31. (www.review31.co.uk)
Samuel Pepys - Diarios - Diaries
Irène Némirovsky - Suite francesa - Suite française
Paul Auster - Brooklyn Follies
Jorge Luis Borges - Los conjurados - The Conspirators
“Because the scandal of repetition is forever charitably wiped away by the scandal of forgetting (forgetting: that ‘great bottomless hole where memory drowns,’ the memory of a beloved woman as well as the memory of a great novel or of a slaughter).” – Milan Kundera, Encounter
Mimsy Were the Borogoves - short sci-fi addressing the evolution of logic
The Captain’s Honor - glorified fan-fiction, I think I could do better
Fathers and Sons - pretty standard 19th century Russian novel
Assassination Vacation - part historical study, part nerdy travel memoir on an NPR contributor’s pilgrimage to assassinated presidents’ significant sites. culturally dated but peaks my interest in American history
Moving soon, and I thought I’d share a portion of my personal library before I box it up.
Pleasantly impressed with my three current books thus far. All of which seem to invoke a sense of rebellion and/or need for freedom from the man in some way. I’ve been dreaming lately of living far off in the mountains somewhere not recognized by any map, riding around on my dirt bike causing trouble wherever I can.. spending my evenings high by the fire reading an old mystery novel and solving the case.
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“He got by, as many widowers do, on peanut butter and hate.” - from Sam Lipsyte’s ‘Nate’s Pain is Now’
Blurppy.com is busy reading some FANTASTIC books!
