yay books!
So. I have the best dad in the world. Well, apart from his absolute need to wear a cowboy hat while ~jamming with his band, that is. A package arrived in the mail yesterday and he sent me five books! He must have sensed that my reading material these days (months, really LOL) mainly consists of fan fiction so my semi-regular book care package was sent and it's here and it's awesome!
He sent me "Just Kids" by Patti Smith, "Elbow Room" by James Alan McPherson, "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri, The Collected Short Stories of Katherine Anne Porter and of course, the token poetry book "Versed" by Rae Armantrout. And then he sent me this really, really pretty red embroidered ornate bookmark that I LOVE because bookmarks make life better and my dad obviously has amazing taste. (Seriously, he has the best taste in giving gifts to women. He knows how to pick shoes and clothes. Or maybe he just knows me too well because he was also the one who gave me my eight-hole Doc Martens and that huge chunky silver watch which has dental instruments for hands. TOLD YOU, AMAZING HUMAN BEING.)
Anyway, I'm super psyched to read Patti Smith's memoir because it was from that time that she was with Robert Mapplethorpe. I am so fascinated with their relationship and there's nothing more romantic than struggling artists chasing the dream together. And Mapplethorpe was a fascinating man and his work was really quite controversial and interesting and so overtly sexual that it requires much discussion, in my opinion. It would be nice to see his motivations and his psyche from the eyes of a muse, a friend. (Oh, and this book covers their time together at the Hotel Chelsea. LOL I used to dream of living in the Chelsea when I was a kid, I was --still am -- such a pretentious dork. I read somewhere that the Hotel Chelsea is up for sale now and might get turned into one of those modern hotel residences and oh, my heart is breaking with the thought. The artistic ghosts that lurk the walls of that hotel would be replaced by proper, working airconditioning? Sacrilege!)
I'm also set to read the Game of Thrones series as recommended by the lovely wandermyfriends and my friend gave me "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" so I'm excited to read that too. So many books, so little time.
Anyway. Here's a picture of Patti and Robert, and their combined epic.I'm going to stare at my new pretty bookmark now <3
He sent me "Just Kids" by Patti Smith, "Elbow Room" by James Alan McPherson, "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri, The Collected Short Stories of Katherine Anne Porter and of course, the token poetry book "Versed" by Rae Armantrout. And then he sent me this really, really pretty red embroidered ornate bookmark that I LOVE because bookmarks make life better and my dad obviously has amazing taste. (Seriously, he has the best taste in giving gifts to women. He knows how to pick shoes and clothes. Or maybe he just knows me too well because he was also the one who gave me my eight-hole Doc Martens and that huge chunky silver watch which has dental instruments for hands. TOLD YOU, AMAZING HUMAN BEING.)
Anyway, I'm super psyched to read Patti Smith's memoir because it was from that time that she was with Robert Mapplethorpe. I am so fascinated with their relationship and there's nothing more romantic than struggling artists chasing the dream together. And Mapplethorpe was a fascinating man and his work was really quite controversial and interesting and so overtly sexual that it requires much discussion, in my opinion. It would be nice to see his motivations and his psyche from the eyes of a muse, a friend. (Oh, and this book covers their time together at the Hotel Chelsea. LOL I used to dream of living in the Chelsea when I was a kid, I was --still am -- such a pretentious dork. I read somewhere that the Hotel Chelsea is up for sale now and might get turned into one of those modern hotel residences and oh, my heart is breaking with the thought. The artistic ghosts that lurk the walls of that hotel would be replaced by proper, working airconditioning? Sacrilege!)
I'm also set to read the Game of Thrones series as recommended by the lovely wandermyfriends and my friend gave me "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" so I'm excited to read that too. So many books, so little time.
Anyway. Here's a picture of Patti and Robert, and their combined epic.I'm going to stare at my new pretty bookmark now <3
