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I've been wandering about lately which means that I'm popping into the local used book stores more often than may be healthy for my bank account. But they're cheaper than new books and often look like new books, so I'm saving money somewhere in there. Even if they don't look new, I'm still delighted to find the belongings of old students, with ( Read more... )

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It was inevitable, after enjoying reading The Secret History, Marc Auge's The Future, and Henry Miller's The Time of the Assassins that I would come across a book that didn't do it for me. This is depressing, considering I had been wanting to read Michal Ajvaz's The Other City for a very long time. But I've been in a bad mood lately and find it ( Read more... )

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As I watched the last hour of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a film I hadn't seen in ten years, it occurred to me that I had seen two films this year in which a couple regards "killing" each other as playing. Joel and Clementine take turns trying to smother each other with pillows. And in Her, Theodore's ex-wife pretends to strangle him as ( Read more... )

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I love the book I'm reading.

No, not the fantasy book. That's boring me to tears. I was quite upset about that, actually. I just can't get into it, but I'm going to try my hardest to pummel through it. However, while perusing my bookshelf, I decided I'd include something short in my reading to pick up my spirits a little. I started reading The ( Read more... )