My books.
Three-day holiday weekends blow because the buses don't run. I'm stuck at home or stuck in town waiting for rides, and my three favorite places (the post office, library, and bank) are closed. Plus, I've had to work Friday, Saturday, baby-sat for seven hours on Sunday, and work today, so nothing's good. Which reminds me of the difference between the East and West coast, if I haven't already told this to everyone:
On the West Coast, everything is good and nothing matters. On the East Coast, nothing is good and everything matters. I fall into the second camp of it, so, so hard.
Here's my first meme-thing. I packed up a bunch of books and sent them to my secret underground lair [read: parents' basement] before i moved from the beach cabin into my new living situation, so I'm left with just the essential books and recent acquisitions, all lined up in a pretty row. They are, from left to right:
1. Webster's Ninth Collegiate
2. Marathon Man by William Golding
3. The Proceedings of the 10th Annual Northwest Service Symposium
4. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
5. Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
6. Homewrecker edited by
final_girl
7. Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
8. And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts
9. The Rat by Gunter Grass
10. Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) edited by Slavoj Zizek
11. Listen: A Memoir by Wendy Salinger
12. A Proud Taste For Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Konigsberg
13. Collected Poems [of] W.H. Auden
14. Ulysses by James Joyce
15. The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance
16. Amateurs by Donald Barthelme
17. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
18. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
19. The Red Notebook by Paul Auster
20. In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster (sick, isn't it? He's really crap.)
21. King Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare
22. The BFG by Roald Dahl
23. Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger
24. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
25. The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Fifth Edition
26. The Versatiles by Alfred Twomey and Arthur McClure
27. The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
28. Memoir From Antproof Case by Mark Helprin
29. My Life As a Fake by Peter Carey
30. Jokerman 8 by
onda_dog
31. Patterns of Poetry by Miller Williams
32. Folly River by Wendy Salinger
33. P by Andrew Lewis Conn
34. Teapots and Quails by Edward Lear
35. Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
36. The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
37. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
38. The Loss of Leon Meed by Josh Emmons
39. The Investigation by Peter Weiss
40. Sex Diary of a Metaphysician by Colin Wilson
41. Jokes Told in Heaven About Babies by Lucy Thomas
42. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
43. Ellis Island and Other Stories by Mark Helprin
44. The Wasteland and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
45. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
46. The Fermata by Nicholson Baker
47. The Size of Thoughts by Nicholson Baker
48. U & I by Nicholson Baker (I'm not going to apologize for my Nick Baker love)
49. Reflections on the Gift of a Watermelon Pickle
50. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
51. A Temple of Texts by William Gass
52. Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
53. A Dove of the East by Mark Helprin
54. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsberg
55. The Assault by Harry Mulisch
56. Last Call by Harry Mulisch
57. JPod by Douglas Coupland
58. Hey Nostradamus by Douglas Coupland
59. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
60. Atlas of the Human Heart by Ariel Gore