Ninety-Third Book Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World : Haruki Murakami
Knopf : 1993
Bought from Symposia Books for $8.23

Started 11.9.06
Finished 11.14.06

The Line: "Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep" (126).

The guilt of liking
sci-fi is outweighed by the
joy of chubby girls.  ¶ 19:19 1 comments

  Ninety-Second Book Believe Them : Mary Robison
Collier : 1998
Bought at Casco Bay Books for $4.00+

Started 11.6.06
Finished 11.8.06

The Line: "Wendy Vicker is just some poor thing from down the street. I moved a piece of furniture for her. She's as friendly as a retriever dog, and built like a goddam Turkish wrestler" (80).

A totally good
book, but I can't think of a
haiku today. Oops!  ¶ 19:13 0 comments

  Ninety-First Book Another Birth : Forough Farrokhzad
Zabankadeh : 2002
Bought from Jacaranda Online for $8.44

Started 11.3.06
Finished 11.6.06

The Line: "When they blindfolded my love's childish eyes / With the black kerchief of law / And jets of blood spurted out / From the agitated temples of my desire / When my life was nothing / But the tic tacks of a clock / I realized that I must, I must, and I must / Love madly" (122).

Another badass
dead poet. Car wreck. At age
thirty-two. Bummer.  ¶ 18:56 0 comments

  Ninetieth Book Insel : Mina Loy
Black Sparrow : 1991
Bought at 7th Avenue Books for $6.00+

Started 10.26.06
Finished 10.30.06

The Line: "This station, as he entered it, became the anteroom of dissolution, where the only constructions left of a real world were avalanches of newspapers, and even these aligned in a dusty perspective like ghosts of overgrown toys" (88).

How do you give thanks
to the dead? Turn on a light
(she was a lampshade).
  ¶ 18:35 0 comments