January 2010
“If you care about what others think of you, then you will always be their slave.”
– James Frey
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaimen
Spooky goings on here, never read any Neil Gaimen before but liked what i read. Written in a surprisingly old fashioned way with characters who are pretty likable, it felt kind of refreshing. I can’t really put my finger on why it was so refreshing, but maybe that’s why i liked it. It felt old fashioned and good. It felt like a nice day out somewhere with no problems or worries or...
“There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. … It’s peaceful. Still. Publishing...”
– Statements to New York Times reporter Lacey Fosburgh, as quoted in Salinger : A Biography (2000) by Paul Alexander
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J.D. Salinger
I was young, i was angry, i was stupid, i had no direction, and i didn’t like anything and i didn’t like anyone. I was 20 and then i read catcher in the rye.
I had never read it in school. I had never wanted to move to New York. I had never known that a book that could just speak to you as a friend, rather than just another book.
I had known nothing. And i still don’t know a...
“That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful,...”
– J D Salinger.
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“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
– Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Yes, i know, everyone has read this, and everyone seems to like it, alot. And i was thinking the same too. The writing is sharp and compact but it’s also very warm, which is a very difficult thing to do and keep doing for a 500 page book. And up to the halfway point, i was really engaged with the story, i was really interested in the little games of time difference, i was really happy that...
“I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you,...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via messyhairvintagedresses)
China Underground by Zachary Mexico
Picked this book up just because of the cover, the drawings are by Isabelle Rancier and i think they are just perfect for the book-rough, edgy and hip (as in what i imagine ‘hip’ to be).
Each chapter is written in a simple and tight style and each focuses on a different scene or location within China. Of the many interviews, the author hangs out with a prostitute who is trying to make...
“We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should...”
– The Polysyllabic Spree, Nick Hornby
This quote is head-on. I’m sure a lot of people would agree. That are so many books I read too young and couldn’t appreciate, or read too old and the magic slipped past me. There are some books you read for school or university and being told to read them makes...
“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. ”
– Augusten Burroughs (Magical Thinking: True Stories)
Factotum by Charles Bukowski
By the time I had picked up a copy of post office (actually, i think my brother had bought me a copy for Christmas one year), i had already heard the tales of excessive drunkenness, the horror of society, the struggles of trying to write, and the pain of losing everything-Bukowski stood for all of these things. The story of Bukowski’s life was as famous-if not more-than his books, and he was...
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“By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is...”
– Seth Godin
Junk by Melvin Burgess
Currently, i’m really getting into alot of YA fiction. I find alot of the voices really fun and sweet and sad to read alot of the time. I’ve been meaning to read junk for ages, its one of those books you hear about, and so i finally got around to it. And i wasn’t dissapointed. The whole novel is written from different perspectives from a group of friends and really, the book is...
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
– Ernest Hemingway
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Last year i read the booker prize wininng white tiger by Aravind Adiga but before i read the book i had no real interest in reading it. And so that’s the great thing about alot of these prizes, the winner and the nomminies always bring up some books that have been under the rader, and usualy when i read one of them i’m always pleasently surprised. And this was the case with white...
“Without stories, we are nothing.”
Some books i love.
Here is a brief list, a brief introduction, of some of the books i love.
The first books that made me change that way i thought about fiction and story telling when i turned around 17 would include Generation x by douglas coupland, Cather in the rye by J.D. Salinger, less than zero by bret easton ellis (i loved the uk edition blue and white cover-just amazing and cool and smart, didn’t look...
I am a writer. I am a reviewer. I am an artist. I...
