I went to Mac's Books in Coventry/Cleve Heights last night to a poetry reading thing.  I heard/saw this local writer, reading her stuff (See
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Just finished The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera.  I was very disappointed.  Didn't like his style.  Didn't think he had anything interesting to "say."  What a waste.  I wish I could say that his novel really made me think, but, instead, it just annoyed me.

New Stuff:

I am borrowing wife's novel: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova ( Read more... )

Well, I finished The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy a couple of months ago.  I still think that die7fox should tear into it ASAP.  And, I think that a few other peeps on my list would likely dig it, such as the_hedonist, kriserin, physusdragon, minofsin06, grooviegirl, and possibly highlandwolf.  It IS very heave, very dark, literary fiction.  And, I think it would actually take me another go at it to really get at the ( Read more... )

OMG, I read this and just about died.  All of my like-minded literary fans (especially anyone who has read any American-Jewish Lit or Roth) will find this very, very funny.  And, in it's own tongue-in-cheek way, true,  Incidentally, American Pastoral is the next on my novels-to-read list.  It is all queued up for after finishing Even Cowgirls Get ( Read more... )

So, there have been a few books I have alternately reading over the past few months, plus what I read on vacation:

• Cormac McCarthy The Crossing
• David Schnarch - Passionate Marriage
• John Updike - Couples
• On vacation I read The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Adams (for the 1st time in my life, can you believe that shite? I mean, really, I ( Read more... )