okay, i officially suck -- i haven't posted in over 2 months!

here's what's happening with me:

• i moved on april 1 into a gorgeous new apt w/my former roommate from boston, whom i love living with, and a couple of other people who are much more my style that the previous set of roommates. i am paying a lot more rent, but it is well worth it.
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 last year one of my resolutions was to read at least 25 books.  (in 2007 and 2006 i read 24 each year.)

well, i made it -- i read 29 books!  the list is below.  i didn't read as much nonfiction as usual, though i did read a LOT of memoirs (i can never decide whether to call those nonfiction).  I really had a lot of moments of, "I just want a nice * ( Read more... )

i haven't talked a lot here about my reading, since i've been posting mostly on goodreads, (in case you're curious, i'm on book #22 this year,) but i wanted to post here about a couple.

tweak, by nic sheff, and beautiful boy, by his dad, david sheff, are both memoirs about nic sheff's struggle with methamphetamine addition (and all the attendant ( Read more... )

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19. the long loneliness (dorothy day) -- glad i read it, but i wouldn't call it good writing. very journalistic (unsurprising, since she was a journalist).

20. tuesdays with morrie (mitch albom) -- touching. a little cheesy, but it was short enough that that was ok.

now i'm reading the four agreements (don miguel ruiz). after that, ( Read more... )

i'm hooked on goodreads... but it's only good if more people are on it!


http://www.goodreads.com/friend/i?i=LTM2MDcwMTg1ODQ6MjY3%0A

please go join!

also, book updates:

17. my life with the saints (james martin). the midsection was pretty good -- definitely helped me see how those saints had been a presence in his life, and i learned a lot of ( Read more... )

wow, i haven't updated what books i've read in quite a while.

in as close the chronological as i can remember:

8. middlesex (jeffrey eugenides) -- for book club, but it was my choice. one of the few books i've read this year that i've thoroughly enjoyed. despite the completely bizarre plot, it's really a coming of age/child of immigrants story ( Read more... )

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7. the life of pi. i liked the 1st 3rd much better than the rest. fun to read, though -- but i lost the drive to keep going ~100 pages in.

i'm still working on a wild sheep chase. as long as i finish it before may starts, i'm not behind. book club doesn't seem to have picked a next book yet, so after that i might finish the unknown ( Read more... )

i'm doing so many things lately! i enjoy them all, but i really need some down time, too, and i'm not able to commit to leaving blanks in my schedule. here's a list of some of the things i did this week:

• faith-sharing group
• "documentary play" (i would call it a staged reading) about sex trafficking and exploitation of american girls
• taize prayer
• ( Read more... )

books

4. lizard (banana yoshimoto) -- i mostly enjoyed it, but the translation was clearly funky in some places. i didn't really identify with any of the characters, though. also, it was really short, which is quite possibly the only thing that kept me from getting bored.

5. never let me go (kazuo ishiguro) -- i really did not like it for the ( Read more... )