I'm so going to regret it, but I've read so much, omg. Re-reading Virginia Woolf was a pleasure, and Marie Luise Kaschnitz was a great discovery, and also Kiran Desai - although reading her is a bit weird; she writes so prettily, and then suddenly there's this completely out of the blue awkward phrase of awkwardness. Needs an editor? Or IDEK ( Read more... )

 I need The Infinity of Lists by Umberto Eco. Either I buy in the Polish translation, together with the newly published WWII manuscript of Ryszard Apte's novel that was miraculously found only recently. OTOH, I could buy the English translation together with some sort of a book about Athanasius Kirchner. Or I could try buying them all (like, also ( Read more... )

Back from Krakow! I was so tired I ended up not being online at all, meh. T. also insisted we go to Auschwitz, so we did, and, ugh, while I certainly knew what I was going to see, because Polish kids spend almost an entire year's worth of Polish classes reading about Holocaust, Holocaust survivors, concentration camps and WWII stuff in general, I ( Read more... )

1. Switched countries
2. Visited family
3. *keels over*
4. Also, I'm reading a book about ruisho. Well, not just that. But still MADE OF WIN.

I don't think I will be online a lot for a the next couple of weeks. Paperwork stuff + OMD REUNION WITH MY BOOKS (@) <3<3<3

FFS, I haven't managed to fall asleep before 3 am for like three weeks D ( Read more... )

I found something that sounded pretty awesome:


Lokis (1869) - set in Lithuania, it is the horror story of a man who, it would seem, is half bear and half man.
Hurr durr, half bear! There's no way this couldn't be awesome!
Oh, wait. Wrong! Because it was written by Prosper "Let's kill whores for being whores! And not-whores for dramatical effect! Let' ( Read more... )

As a result of reading too much old stuff I now long for books that are new and only deal with new things, preferably less than 50 years old, or with old things but in such new ways that the things are hardly classifiable as old.
This is possibly the first time I wanted new-recent, as opposed to new-not-yet-read things to read. What do I ( Read more... )

So, I'm, like, insanely busy, 'cause instead of working yesterday I was stalking Leon Wieseltier, the vacuous author of sentences such as this:

"(...) a derangingly materialistic co-religionist who dreams frantically of 'Wedding of the Week' and waits a whole year for some stupid car in which he can idle for endless hours in traffic east of Quogue ( Read more... )

 Basically, why is everybody reading it? I mean, because I have absolutely no idea about it, apart from what I got from the Wiki, which  is not much, but I have to admit that The Conference of Birds seems totally awesome.

So, where's the charm? The rampant use of allegory seemed rather evocative of Roman de la Rose, but, of course, it would be a bit ( Read more... )