1:50 pm, 11.May.08 · 5 Comments

Ask, and you shall receive.
So here’s a list of books that I found funny. I am only covering fiction here, which is hard because I find that not a lot of books are funny, at least not funny on purpose. As for nonfiction if you can’t find the funny in David Sedaris or Sarah Vowell [...]

9:07 am, 04.May.08 · 3 Comments

There was a great flood. I think that maybe the Minnesota River had overflown its banks and flooded most of Shakopee. I had to jump from a plane with a parachute to get anywhere. When I got home, Kurt Vonnegut was sitting at the dining room table in Supergenius HQ. He was using my old [...]

12:08 pm, 07.Jul.07 · No Comments

John Irving reviews Gunter Grass’ memoir for the Times.

11:32 am, 02.Mar.06 · No Comments

today should probably a holy day. i should probably spend my time on my knees at the altar called my bookcase, light a few candles and pray. for today, is John Irving’s birthday.
people say you never forget your first love, and i think when it comes to literary love John Irving is my first. i [...]

12:17 pm, 07.Aug.05 · 1 Comment

based on the length (820 pages, i think), heft (800 pages weigh a lot), and the sheer number of times we hear about penises, i think John Irving’s new novel Until I Find You is an hommage to his own johnson. it is as though he wants to make it abundantly clear that he has [...]

12:46 pm, 01.Aug.05 · 1 Comment

somebody i know was up until 3 a.m. reading John Irving’s Until I Find You, making her incredibly sleepy and super bitchy today. rampant hormones are totally not helping them atter at all.
and though i’m totally not really digging the book all that much, i still cannot seem to put it down. damn you John [...]

9:59 pm, 30.Jul.05 · 1 Comment

laziness is definitely my strong suit, but today, today i was so lazy that i feel a little ashamed. here was my schedule.
9:30 - 10:30: wake up, check e-mail, listen to NPR
10:30 - 11:30: lay in bed reading john irving, practice
11:30 - 12:30: check e-mail, read ask metafilter, eat lunch, fill out new calendar
12:30 - [...]

11:55 am, 29.Jul.05 · 3 Comments

it’s official. i have hit the wall. i’m washed up and out. i think it’s the past three weeks of 50-60 hour work weeks combined with not-relaxing weekends. i’m done. i need to crawl into bed and sleep for 100 years and then be awakened by a kiss from prince charming.
i can’t wait to [...]

12:23 am, 13.Jul.05 · 5 Comments

to keep my mind off the bitching/thinking/busyness of this week (and probably the next two), i’ve decided to focus all non-work braincells and energy on hoping that the new John Irving book Until I Find You doesn’t suck ass.
as i’ve said about 942 times, i love John Irving. his book A Prayer for Owen [...]

11:51 am, 04.Jun.05 · 4 Comments

kelly has asked me to take part in a fun little book meme. fun!
how many books do you own?
gee, by my best guess right now i have about 400 on the bookshelves. you can look at old pictures of my shelves from 2 years ago. plus theres the 100+ Sweet Valley High Books packed away [...]

8:51 pm, 17.Jan.05 · 7 Comments

Yesterday UH left a comment that in my honor he was gonna read The Catcher in the Rye this year. He’s never read it before. Which amazes me a little, because I had to read it in high school. I thought it was one of them books that everyone had to read before they graduated [...]

12:47 pm, 10.Jan.05 · 2 Comments

now that we’re nearly two weeks into 2005, i’ve finally decided to go public with my reading plan. yeah, i’m that nerdy that i have a reading plan for the year. i had one last year too. RP2004 was to alternate between novels and a collection of short stories. i needed to expose myself to [...]

10:35 am, 06.Jan.05 · Comments Off

i’m working from home today. generally this means sitting around in pajama-like clothing with unbrushed hair eating pancakes. today, this is not the case at all. today i had to get dressed and brush my hair. i did however, just eat some delicious peanut butter pancakes so the day isn’t totally wasted. but i had [...]

1:17 pm, 08.Sep.02 · Comments Off

I’ve been walking around the livingroom all morning. Hopping from one bookcase to another, gently caressing the spines of all my books trying to decide which eight would be represent me and my life.
See Sister #2 has just gone back to college and for the first session of her ‘The Reflective Woman’ class she had [...]

5:59 pm, 16.Aug.01 · Comments Off

I fell in love with books at an early age. Allegedly my favorite book when I was three was “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” I memorized it. Of course I say allegedly, because I don’t remember this.
I think my book tastes developed normally. I fell in love with Beverly Cleary’s Ramona in grade school. [...]