I do love the Booker Prize. As soon as the short list is announced, I run to the bookstore and buy as many on the list as stocked. Because our markets in the USA are skewed toward US writers, we don't...entry. More later when I do. With each discovery, I delve deeper. I've read almost all of Anita Brookner's books, all peerless, McEwan's, Barker's, Rushie's... What a gift the Booker is.
Yes, I'm STILL playing catch up on my backlog of journals. Today found me reading Zadie Smith's review of The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster 1929-1960 in the 14 August edition of The New... they belong to history not to art. History develops, art stands still. The novelist of the future will have to pass all the new facts through the old if variable mechanism of the creative mind."
At the risk of sounding emo, my day was essentially comprised of nothing but excruciating pain. I knew it would hurt. Like, really. I'm a realist. I wasn't stupid enough to think that intense exercise...of the best books I've read in a while. Anyways, next entry should be on The Dark Knight vs. Iron Man , in theory. Unless I find something else to rant about, like permanant paralysis. Until then
Artists & Entertainers This diverse galaxy of influential stars has won fans and spawned imitators around the globe J.J. Abrams, Clooney, Dixie Chicks, Ellen DeGeneres, Nicolas Ghesquiere... file transfer, short message service, video conferencing and its ability to circumvent firewalls. Dieter Zetsche is a German businessman and the Chairman of Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars.
Book : On Beauty by Zadie Smith Genre : Fiction Length : 443 pp. Grade : C+ Amazon Summary : Smith's first novel, White Teeth (2000), won prizes and comparisons to Dickens and E. M. Forster...of good things about the book, so I'd still recommend it to people reading this—a few people on my friends list may enjoy it, even though I didn't. Currently Reading : Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson
Harry just wanted Howard to sit down, start again. There were four more hours of quality viewing lined up before bedtime ... all of which he and his son might watch together in silent companionship, ocasionally... But Howard couldn't do this when he was sixteen and he couldn't do it now. He just did not believe, as his father did, that time is how you spend your love. page 302, On Beauty , by Zadie Smith.
People talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two lovers, but this too was great; sitting between his sister and brother, saying nothing, eating ... He did not consider how or why he loved... They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away. pages 235-236, On Beauty , by Zadie Smith.
So: 2007 and the parts that sucked, right? I am going to try to trim this unwieldy beast of a list into a top ten or twelve or...thereabouts. Most of these I already talked about, so. The 25th Hour... YOU GUYS. 27 Men Out. Baseball! Baseball baseball baseball baseball. I don't know how many books that is. I don't know if this is complete, but I'm indecisive and cutting myself off. So there we go
My coffee spoons are 28 minutes and 42 seconds long. Today: Anne Carson (repeat because I missed part of it the other day due to Actual Work) (from Jan 07) Jennifer Egan (the keep) on the gothic (Dec...it should become: in the fire prevention service of Montreal which is less beautiful, but more immediately purposeful. (And then "in the service of the fires of Montreal" belongs to me.) {rf
* Following my friends' ( annabattista and ironjawedangel2 ) example I will post about what I've read this year :) January 1. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 2. Waiting for Godot... ed. John Updike June 13. Twelve by Nick McDonnell 14. The Bible September 15. Bullet Park by John Cheever 16. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Currently reading)
