Good Morning, Robot! (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} talkbox) wrote,@ 2005-10-10 11:28:00 |
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Revisiting some earlier entries...
Has anyone else seen the posters for the VH1 Hip Hop Honors?
The paintings are by Kehinde Wiley (commissioned by VH1), whose work I went to see last year at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Also, as an update on this entry about books, here are the ones I finished.
Yellow: Eh.
The Jap Chronicles: What a dumb book. But really, what did I expect?
A Girl Becomes A Comma Like That: Eh.
The Ice Queen: Fairly interesting
The Wonder Spot: Pretty good.
Tadpole's Promise: Ha!
Aloft: This is the first one in the list that really stood out. I was really into Chang Rae-Lee's writing, and I'd like to check out his other books. He is compared to John Updike in the blurbs on the books cover, and I can see that, a little, especially in the parts about American economy, sports, and aging. He has a character in the story named Richie Coniglio, which is Italian for "rabbit" - he points this out in the story. I can't help but think that it's a nod to Rabbit Angstrom (although the Richie character is less Rabbit-like than the main character).
Home Land: This one I really, really liked. It's a strange one, but the writing is hilarious, and really different from most stuff I've read recently.
Then I veered away from these books - I was at a friend's apartment one night over the summer, and he had just finished Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, and he loved it so he lent it to me. This is one of the best books I've read in years. I loved every page of it - her writing is absolutely exquisite, and the story was lovely. Another friend and his wife saw me reading it and suggested that I read Housekeeping, her first book. I remembered that it had been made into a movie starring Christine Laiti, but I didn't remember much of the story. So I read that one, too, and while that one is also great, I still liked Gilead much better.
Next I read Jenny and the Jaws of Life, by Jincy Willett - another new favorite. It has been reprinted with a new foreward by David Sedaris. Really wonderful (not the foreward, the actual stories).
And now I'm almost done with Lighthousekeeping, which is, so far, also really good.
Wow, it's been a long time since I posted anything much, huh? Well, more updates to follow, although they will mostly be about old things, just for the sake of catching up. How are YOU guys?
The paintings are by Kehinde Wiley (commissioned by VH1), whose work I went to see last year at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Also, as an update on this entry about books, here are the ones I finished.
Yellow: Eh.
The Jap Chronicles: What a dumb book. But really, what did I expect?
A Girl Becomes A Comma Like That: Eh.
The Ice Queen: Fairly interesting
The Wonder Spot: Pretty good.
Tadpole's Promise: Ha!
Aloft: This is the first one in the list that really stood out. I was really into Chang Rae-Lee's writing, and I'd like to check out his other books. He is compared to John Updike in the blurbs on the books cover, and I can see that, a little, especially in the parts about American economy, sports, and aging. He has a character in the story named Richie Coniglio, which is Italian for "rabbit" - he points this out in the story. I can't help but think that it's a nod to Rabbit Angstrom (although the Richie character is less Rabbit-like than the main character).
Home Land: This one I really, really liked. It's a strange one, but the writing is hilarious, and really different from most stuff I've read recently.
Then I veered away from these books - I was at a friend's apartment one night over the summer, and he had just finished Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, and he loved it so he lent it to me. This is one of the best books I've read in years. I loved every page of it - her writing is absolutely exquisite, and the story was lovely. Another friend and his wife saw me reading it and suggested that I read Housekeeping, her first book. I remembered that it had been made into a movie starring Christine Laiti, but I didn't remember much of the story. So I read that one, too, and while that one is also great, I still liked Gilead much better.
Next I read Jenny and the Jaws of Life, by Jincy Willett - another new favorite. It has been reprinted with a new foreward by David Sedaris. Really wonderful (not the foreward, the actual stories).
And now I'm almost done with Lighthousekeeping, which is, so far, also really good.
Wow, it's been a long time since I posted anything much, huh? Well, more updates to follow, although they will mostly be about old things, just for the sake of catching up. How are YOU guys?
