One Hundred Books
3.30.2005
Twenty-Second book
Arcade : Gordon Lish
Four Walls Eight Windows : 1998
Bought at Strand Book Store for $5.00+
Started 3.28.05
Finished 3.29.05
The Line: "Oh, beribboned--I really am really a very big fan of, you know, of beribboned. No kidding, all of these be-something words, all of them, all of them--like, you know, like bestride and so forth--I love them, I love them. Hey, I'm just nuts about words" (64).
I saw Gordon Lish
last week. He looked at me like
I was the freak. Me!
¶ 09:23 2 comments
Arcade : Gordon Lish
Four Walls Eight Windows : 1998
Bought at Strand Book Store for $5.00+
Started 3.28.05
Finished 3.29.05
The Line: "Oh, beribboned--I really am really a very big fan of, you know, of beribboned. No kidding, all of these be-something words, all of them, all of them--like, you know, like bestride and so forth--I love them, I love them. Hey, I'm just nuts about words" (64).
I saw Gordon Lish
last week. He looked at me like
I was the freak. Me!
¶ 09:23 2 comments
3.28.2005
Twenty-First book
Milk : Darcey Steinke
Bloomsbury : 2005
Bought at Housing Works Used Book Cafe for $3.00+
Started 3.27.05
Finished 3.28.05
The Line: "Walter always said that the chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separate from him. But really, at the moment, that sounded to her like a bunch of bullshit" (49).
An ex-monk, a gay
priest, and a crazed new mom meet
in a bar: who pays? ¶ 09:45 4 comments
Milk : Darcey Steinke
Bloomsbury : 2005
Bought at Housing Works Used Book Cafe for $3.00+
Started 3.27.05
Finished 3.28.05
The Line: "Walter always said that the chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separate from him. But really, at the moment, that sounded to her like a bunch of bullshit" (49).
An ex-monk, a gay
priest, and a crazed new mom meet
in a bar: who pays? ¶ 09:45 4 comments
3.26.2005
Twentieth Book
Veils : Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida
Stanford U.P. : 2001
Bought at St. Mark's Bookshop for $17.95+
Recommended by Hannah Barnes
Started 3.25.05
Finished 3.26.05
The Line: "... all that goes before has not been dreamed, it is the narrative of a true dream I've only just woken from. A 'bad' dream, enough to make you thrash about like a wounded devil in an invisible straitjacket, when you can't stop crumpling the sheets around you to make a hole in the violence and find the way out" (86).
Not writing that makes
me want to write: writing that
makes me want to quit.
¶ 14:44 0 comments
Veils : Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida
Stanford U.P. : 2001
Bought at St. Mark's Bookshop for $17.95+
Recommended by Hannah Barnes
Started 3.25.05
Finished 3.26.05
The Line: "... all that goes before has not been dreamed, it is the narrative of a true dream I've only just woken from. A 'bad' dream, enough to make you thrash about like a wounded devil in an invisible straitjacket, when you can't stop crumpling the sheets around you to make a hole in the violence and find the way out" (86).
Not writing that makes
me want to write: writing that
makes me want to quit.
¶ 14:44 0 comments
3.23.2005
Nineteenth Book
The Shawl : Cynthia Ozick
Vintage : 1990
Bought at Housing Works Used Book Cafe for $3.00+
Started 3.22.05
Finished 3.23.05
The Line: "Everyone had left behind a real life. Here they had nothing. They were all scarecrows, blown about under the murdering sunball with empty rib cages" (16).
Golly gosh, good grief,
holy hellbound Christ on a
crutch: this book is sad.
¶ 21:00 0 comments
The Shawl : Cynthia Ozick
Vintage : 1990
Bought at Housing Works Used Book Cafe for $3.00+
Started 3.22.05
Finished 3.23.05
The Line: "Everyone had left behind a real life. Here they had nothing. They were all scarecrows, blown about under the murdering sunball with empty rib cages" (16).
Golly gosh, good grief,
holy hellbound Christ on a
crutch: this book is sad.
¶ 21:00 0 comments
3.21.2005
Eighteenth Book
Cherry : Mary Karr
Penguin : 2000
Bought at Mercer Street Books for $4.95+
Started 3.16.05
Finished 3.21.05
The Line: "Now I know why they call it petting, for even though I'm more still in the plush warmth of his mouth than I can ever get in church, my whole body is purring. I let myself breathe into him a breath that tastes like ashes from a long fire" (75).
You were a girl; you
lived in Texas; you had sex.
Wish you were closer.
¶ 23:53 0 comments
Cherry : Mary Karr
Penguin : 2000
Bought at Mercer Street Books for $4.95+
Started 3.16.05
Finished 3.21.05
The Line: "Now I know why they call it petting, for even though I'm more still in the plush warmth of his mouth than I can ever get in church, my whole body is purring. I let myself breathe into him a breath that tastes like ashes from a long fire" (75).
You were a girl; you
lived in Texas; you had sex.
Wish you were closer.
¶ 23:53 0 comments
3.16.2005
Seventeenth Book
City Of Glass : Paul Auster
Viking : 1987
Bought at Strand Book Store for $3.98+
Recommended by Jackie O
Started 3.14.05
Finished 3.16.05
The Line: "The last thing I will be is a high-wire walker. When I am very old and have at last learned to walk like other people. Then I will dance on the wire, and people will be amazed. Even little children. That is what I would like. To dance on the wire until I die" (32).
Finally, a book
that illustrates the beauty
of a good stalking.
¶ 09:07 1 comments
City Of Glass : Paul Auster
Viking : 1987
Bought at Strand Book Store for $3.98+
Recommended by Jackie O
Started 3.14.05
Finished 3.16.05
The Line: "The last thing I will be is a high-wire walker. When I am very old and have at last learned to walk like other people. Then I will dance on the wire, and people will be amazed. Even little children. That is what I would like. To dance on the wire until I die" (32).
Finally, a book
that illustrates the beauty
of a good stalking.
¶ 09:07 1 comments
3.14.2005
Sixteenth Book
Moby Dick : Herman Melville
The Modern Library : 1952
Bought at Housing Works Used Book Cafe for $1.00+
Recommended by Hannah Barnes
Started 2.6.05
Finished 3.14.05
The Line: "Gnawed within and scorched without, with the infixed, unrelenting fangs of some incurable idea; such an one, could he be found, would seem the very man to dart his iron and lift his lance against the most appalling of all brutes" (184).
The part where Queequeg
bedded Ishmael sort of
turned me on. Huzza!
¶ 20:17 0 comments
Moby Dick : Herman Melville
The Modern Library : 1952
Bought at Housing Works Used Book Cafe for $1.00+
Recommended by Hannah Barnes
Started 2.6.05
Finished 3.14.05
The Line: "Gnawed within and scorched without, with the infixed, unrelenting fangs of some incurable idea; such an one, could he be found, would seem the very man to dart his iron and lift his lance against the most appalling of all brutes" (184).
The part where Queequeg
bedded Ishmael sort of
turned me on. Huzza!
¶ 20:17 0 comments
3.09.2005
Fifteenth Book
Cathedral : Raymond Carver
Vintage : 1989
Bought at Housing Works Used Book Cafe for $5.00+
Started 3.8.05
Finished 3.9.05
The Line: "He pressed his fingertips against his temple and shut his eyes. But she was still on the line, waiting for him to say something. What could he say? It was clear to him that she was insane" (182).
Stories so good they
hurt what's left of my feelings.
What it's all about.
¶ 09:24 0 comments
Cathedral : Raymond Carver
Vintage : 1989
Bought at Housing Works Used Book Cafe for $5.00+
Started 3.8.05
Finished 3.9.05
The Line: "He pressed his fingertips against his temple and shut his eyes. But she was still on the line, waiting for him to say something. What could he say? It was clear to him that she was insane" (182).
Stories so good they
hurt what's left of my feelings.
What it's all about.
¶ 09:24 0 comments
3.08.2005
Fourteenth Book
If On A Winter's Night A Traveler : Italo Calvino
Harcourt : 1981
Bought at Strand Book Store for $4.50+
Recommended by Hannah Tinti
Started 3.2.05
Finished 3.8.05
The Line: "It seems impossible, in a big city like Paris, but you can waste hours looking for the right place to burn up a corpse" (105).
A book forever
self-consumed; Ouroboros
has nothing on this.
¶ 21:08 0 comments
If On A Winter's Night A Traveler : Italo Calvino
Harcourt : 1981
Bought at Strand Book Store for $4.50+
Recommended by Hannah Tinti
Started 3.2.05
Finished 3.8.05
The Line: "It seems impossible, in a big city like Paris, but you can waste hours looking for the right place to burn up a corpse" (105).
A book forever
self-consumed; Ouroboros
has nothing on this.
¶ 21:08 0 comments
