One Hundred Books
2.22.2005
Thirteenth Book
Home Land : Sam Lipsyte
Picador : 2004
Bought at Housing Works Used Book Cafe for $5.50+
Recommended by Kevin Sampsell
Started 2.14.05
Finished 2.22.05
The Line: "You know, the problem with women today is that so many of them have worked out their daddy shit. Guys like me have no shot. Goddamn therapy culture" (50).
Back in my high school,
jocks and geeks alike called me
David Licks-His-Dong.
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Home Land : Sam Lipsyte
Picador : 2004
Bought at Housing Works Used Book Cafe for $5.50+
Recommended by Kevin Sampsell
Started 2.14.05
Finished 2.22.05
The Line: "You know, the problem with women today is that so many of them have worked out their daddy shit. Guys like me have no shot. Goddamn therapy culture" (50).
Back in my high school,
jocks and geeks alike called me
David Licks-His-Dong.
¶ 22:19 1 comments
2.20.2005
Twelfth Book
The Dog Of The Marriage : Amy Hempel
Scribner : 2005
Donated by Amanda Patten
Started 2.18.05
Finished 2.20.05
The Line: "Successful collaborations inspire envy in me. But 'collaborate,' someone once told me, also means 'to betray'" (37).
Ridiculous and
smitten again. "Have you the
wing?" In a heartbeat.
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The Dog Of The Marriage : Amy Hempel
Scribner : 2005
Donated by Amanda Patten
Started 2.18.05
Finished 2.20.05
The Line: "Successful collaborations inspire envy in me. But 'collaborate,' someone once told me, also means 'to betray'" (37).
Ridiculous and
smitten again. "Have you the
wing?" In a heartbeat.
¶ 12:12 0 comments
2.12.2005
Eleventh Book
Interpreter Of Maladies : Jhumpa Lahiri
Flamingo : 2000
Bought at Strand Book Store for $3.98+
Started 2.7.05
Finished 2.12.05
The Line: "In her most embittered moments we wrapped her in shawls, washed her face from the cistern tap, and brought her glasses of yogurt and rosewater" (161).
The Pulitzer board
denied Pynchon the prize in
'74, yet...
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Interpreter Of Maladies : Jhumpa Lahiri
Flamingo : 2000
Bought at Strand Book Store for $3.98+
Started 2.7.05
Finished 2.12.05
The Line: "In her most embittered moments we wrapped her in shawls, washed her face from the cistern tap, and brought her glasses of yogurt and rosewater" (161).
The Pulitzer board
denied Pynchon the prize in
'74, yet...
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2.06.2005
Tenth Book
Break It Down : Lydia Davis
High Risk : 2001
Donated by Hannah Tinti
Started 2.3.05
Finished 2.6.05
The Line: "I continued to observe the world. I had a pair of eyes, but no longer much understanding, and no longer any speech. Little by little my capacity to feel was going. There was no more excitement in me, and no more love" (126).
Lydia Davis
taught me French: J'aime des filles de
ferme. I love farm girls.
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Break It Down : Lydia Davis
High Risk : 2001
Donated by Hannah Tinti
Started 2.3.05
Finished 2.6.05
The Line: "I continued to observe the world. I had a pair of eyes, but no longer much understanding, and no longer any speech. Little by little my capacity to feel was going. There was no more excitement in me, and no more love" (126).
Lydia Davis
taught me French: J'aime des filles de
ferme. I love farm girls.
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2.03.2005
Ninth Book
Waking The Dead : Scott Spencer
Berkley : 2000
Bought at Strand Book Store for $7.00+
Recommended by Liz Bevilacqua
Started 1.26.05
Finished 2.3.05
The Line: "I believed in duty, in service, in carefully laid plans, in measured responses and calculated risks, but all of that was gone and what was left was terror and bitterness and a feeling that I was going mad" (7).
Drugs, ghosts, sex, despair:
perhaps a perfect novel
(Amanda was right).
¶ 20:44 0 comments
Waking The Dead : Scott Spencer
Berkley : 2000
Bought at Strand Book Store for $7.00+
Recommended by Liz Bevilacqua
Started 1.26.05
Finished 2.3.05
The Line: "I believed in duty, in service, in carefully laid plans, in measured responses and calculated risks, but all of that was gone and what was left was terror and bitterness and a feeling that I was going mad" (7).
Drugs, ghosts, sex, despair:
perhaps a perfect novel
(Amanda was right).
¶ 20:44 0 comments
