spring break wrap-up...
Mar. 27th, 2004 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
enthusiastickI return triumphant and not exactly tan. I’ve been too long out of the sun, you see… not on purpose or anything, its just that for months at a time the sun doesn’t shine in Chicago. Its like the North (or for that matter South) pole. I swear. Anyway. I avoided burning and that’s the good news. And I had a fabulous time in St. John with my family on the beach, and that’s the better news. And there really isn’t any bad news to offset that.
My reading list for vacation included:
Thirty Watts From Nowhere by Sue Carpenter. Given my love for Pump Up The Volume and all that, I thoroughly expected to like any book about actual honest-to-god pirate radio. I liked it even more than I expected when it turns out that Carpenter shares my love for that particular Christian Slater gem of a film – she lists it among the reasons she got into the microradio movement in the firstplace. All in all a light enjoyable read that eased me into my week effortlessly.
Skipping Towards Gomorrah by Dan Savage. I love Dan Savage and have always wanted to read his books. This one turned out to not be nearly as light as I had been expecting, but it was a pleasant surprise. I know Savage is really liberal and all (as in to a fault), but I still agree with him overwhelmingly. People have a guaranteed right to the pursuit of happiness, damnit. I thought about recommending this one to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
oberndorf but it would just make him twitch. Must not proselytize…
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor. OK, we’re into the heavy stuff now – this is far and away the best book I read all week, and I recommend it to basically anyone who likes books of any kind. The book details in carefully selected detail the life of one block in a British neighborhood on a particular summer day. To describe any further wouldn’t do the book justice suffice to say that its so good it makes my teeth hurt. Read it.
You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers. Being, as I am, a big fan of A.W.O.S.G. I really expected to enjoy Y.S.K.O.V. despite the mixed reviews I had read of it. I wasn’t disappointed, although about halfway through the book I found myself sad that one of Eggers best rhetorical devices, breaking the fourth wall to debate the merits and faults of the book, wasn’t used in Y.S.K.O.V. because it was fiction. Then 50 pages later it abruptly was used and I was surprised – and made curious about the content of the original hardcover version of the book. Anyone else read it?
That’s about the size of things in my life right now. I want to go see a ton of movies (Starsky & Hutch, Jersey Girl, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the Ladykillers) so its probably good that one of my sisters gave me $50 in movie passes for my birthday. She and her fiancée gave them to me, I should say. Oh, by the way… I’m 22! As of March 21st. But I don’t feel any different.
My reading list for vacation included:
Thirty Watts From Nowhere by Sue Carpenter. Given my love for Pump Up The Volume and all that, I thoroughly expected to like any book about actual honest-to-god pirate radio. I liked it even more than I expected when it turns out that Carpenter shares my love for that particular Christian Slater gem of a film – she lists it among the reasons she got into the microradio movement in the firstplace. All in all a light enjoyable read that eased me into my week effortlessly.
Skipping Towards Gomorrah by Dan Savage. I love Dan Savage and have always wanted to read his books. This one turned out to not be nearly as light as I had been expecting, but it was a pleasant surprise. I know Savage is really liberal and all (as in to a fault), but I still agree with him overwhelmingly. People have a guaranteed right to the pursuit of happiness, damnit. I thought about recommending this one to
oberndorf but it would just make him twitch. Must not proselytize…If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor. OK, we’re into the heavy stuff now – this is far and away the best book I read all week, and I recommend it to basically anyone who likes books of any kind. The book details in carefully selected detail the life of one block in a British neighborhood on a particular summer day. To describe any further wouldn’t do the book justice suffice to say that its so good it makes my teeth hurt. Read it.
You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers. Being, as I am, a big fan of A.W.O.S.G. I really expected to enjoy Y.S.K.O.V. despite the mixed reviews I had read of it. I wasn’t disappointed, although about halfway through the book I found myself sad that one of Eggers best rhetorical devices, breaking the fourth wall to debate the merits and faults of the book, wasn’t used in Y.S.K.O.V. because it was fiction. Then 50 pages later it abruptly was used and I was surprised – and made curious about the content of the original hardcover version of the book. Anyone else read it?
That’s about the size of things in my life right now. I want to go see a ton of movies (Starsky & Hutch, Jersey Girl, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the Ladykillers) so its probably good that one of my sisters gave me $50 in movie passes for my birthday. She and her fiancée gave them to me, I should say. Oh, by the way… I’m 22! As of March 21st. But I don’t feel any different.
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Date: 2004-03-27 07:39 pm (UTC)Happy birthday a bit late!