Seventy-First Book On Walking In Ice : Werner Herzog
Jonathan Cape : 1991
Bought from Rogue Books for $38.25

Started 3.28.06
Finished 3.29.06

The Line: "The soles burn from the red-hot core in the earth's interior. The loneliness is deeper than usual today. I'm developing a dialogical rapport with myself. Rain can leave a person blind" (65).

Werner just made my
list of people I'll mourn when
they die. If he dies.  ¶ 16:36 0 comments

  Seventieth Book The Melancholy Of Anatomy : Shelley Jackson
Anchor : 2002
Bought at Strand Book Store for $6.00

Started 3.24.06
Finished 3.27.06

The Line: "When she got home, she started a letter to her girlfriend. An old-fashioned letter, on paper. She signed her name at the bottom. But when she lifted her pen, she pulled her signature straight. Then all her words unraveled. The letters lost their loops and slithered right off the page" (126).

New content added
to the image lexicon:
blood-filled skyscraper.  ¶ 15:15 1 comments

  Sixty-Ninth Book As She Climbed Across The Table : Jonathan Lethem
Vintage : 1997
Bought at Strand Book Store for $6.00+
Recommended by Crystal Hernandez

Started 3.22.06
Finished 3.23.06

The Line: "Cynthia, can't you see I'm operating at a disadvantage? Everyone around has a theory or an obsession. I'm making it up as I go along" (116).

I empathized with
the blind pair: one black, one white,
but not knowing which.  ¶ 13:31 2 comments

  Sixty-Eighth Book Take The Cannoli : Sarah Vowell
Simon & Schuster : 2000
Bought at Strand Book Store for $4.95+
Recommended by Jackie O

Started 3.18.06
Finished 3.21.06

The Line: "Once a family member hits puberty, odds are that everybody is not going to have the same ideals. Unless everybody gets together and agrees that the new ideals involve turning the front yard into a skate ramp and officially changing Dad's name to Fuckhead" (120).

I want to see some
pictures of Sarah Vowell
at a goth nightclub.  ¶ 10:21 0 comments

  Sixty-Seventh Book A Clockwork Orange : Anthony Burgess
Ballantine : 1980
Bought at 7th Avenue Books for $2.50+

Started 3.11.06
Finished 3.17.06

The Line: "And I was given a nice warm dressing-gown too and lovely toofles to put my bare nogas in, and I thought: 'Well, Alex boy, little 6655321 as was, you have copped it lucky and no mistake. You are really going to enjoy it here'" (97).

I first heard the term
"ultra-violence" from a
Canadian band.  ¶ 16:15 4 comments

  Sixty-Sixth Book Nine Stories : J.D. Salinger
Little, Brown : 1991
Bought at Seventh Avenue Books for $2.50+
Recommended by Hillary Dickerson

Started 3.9.06
Finished 3.10.06

The Line: "All the same, though, I whereever I happen to be I don't think I'm the type that doesn't even lift a finger to prevent a wetting from flatting. Accordingly, I've gone ahead and jotted down a few revealing notes on the bride as I knew her almost six years ago. If my notes should cause the groom, whom I haven't met, an uneasy moment or two, so much the better" (87).

Oh Teddy. I can't
stop thinking about you. This
promise is for keeps.
  ¶ 00:58 3 comments

  Sixty-Fifth Book The Story Of The Eye : Georges Bataille
Penguin : 1982
Bought at Seventh Avenue Books for $4.00+

Started 3.5.06
Finished 3.6.06

The Line: "But as of then, no doubt existed for me: I did not care for what is known as 'pleasures of the flesh' because they really are insipid; I cared only for what is classified as 'dirty'."

I'll never look at
a bull the same after this.
Or a church. Or eggs.  ¶ 14:56 0 comments

  Sixty-Fourth Book The Rendezvous : Justine Lévy
Scribner : 1999
Bought at Strand Book Store for $5.50+

Started 3.3.06
Finished 3.4.06

The Line: "I've done some stupid things, but I've calmed down, I've thought a lot about it, you have to come back, you're my child, my little girl, I love you, come on, we'll play jokes on the telephone the way we used to. Come on, my dear, my little tiny child, come on. Let's try it. Give me a week, just one week. We'll make up for lost time, all those years of craziness. Come on, come on" (45).

Lydia Davis.
The translator of this was
Lydia Davis.
  ¶ 21:54 0 comments

  Sixty-Third Book Taking Care : Joy Williams
Vintage : 1985
Bought at Strand Book Store for $5.50+
Recommended by Liz Woodbury

Started 2.23.06
Finished 3.2.06

The Line: "There are three things that Kathering feels are very nice about the turkey. One is the way sunlight falls through his red wattles, making them almost transparent. Two are the sounds he makes which are a cross between an electronic game and a mourning dove. And the third is that Katherine likes his feet very much" (161).

Lizzie: which story
did you once tell me was loved
by your dear Scott Heim?  ¶ 14:37 7 comments