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[theskywilleatus]

for the summer:

books (to start):
V and the crying of lot 49-Thomas Pynchon
Ficciones-Jorge Luis Borges
Numbers in the Dark and maybe some others-Italo Calvino
Foucoult's Pendulum-Umberto Eco
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle-Haruki Murakami
Slowness-Milan Kundera
The Master and Margarita-Mikhail Bulgakov
Infinite Jest-David Foster Wallace

Comments

[muffinwithnose]

I am so excited for the next couple of months.
Also, that looks like a lot of good things for the summer.
I am going to be away from NP at Summerstage but here for both Feist and Amadou + Mariam!
Finally, on the books note, I really dug Master and Margarita. And I just finished reading some Nabokov. He writes so perfectly.
And I am right now reading, on Jonah's recommendation, The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt which I am loving immensely. Have you read it?

[theskywilleatus]

I want to go to at least one of either Feist or Amadou and Mariam, but they are so pricey! When are they? Where are you going?

I've never read it, but I will add it to my list.
I'm reading Anna Karenina and I have been for the past month, and it is so wonderful, I just don't have enough time to read it.

[muffinwithnose]

ooh the Feist show is free! It's on June 25 from 3 to 6, with Buck 65 and Jason Collett, at Summerstage. The Amadou and Mariam show is with Birdy Nam Nam (!!) on July 16 also from 3 to 6 but I'm not sure what the price is, which sucks.
And I'm missing a few good shows in August because that whole month I'll be in France visiting family and running around Paris and Nice which I love doing so it's okay.

I really want to read Anna Karenina. My Eastern-European literature appetite is insatiable lately. I love reading in the summer for hours because it is so frustrating to read during the school year - but at the same time I love reading when I am busy, and being able to forget all busy-ness for a while (I was going to make the "y" into an "i" but then I'd get "business." Hmm.)

[theskywilleatus]

for the feist show, is it necessary to get tickets?
france sounds really lovely, and bands always return.
i like reading when i'm not busy, because when i'm busy i get distracted. this summer i was at the beach for the month and just read all day every day. it was great. i haven't read enough eastern european literature--i've been too focused on south america. i should work on changing that.

[muffinwithnose]

i am not 100% sure, but i am 98% sure that it is not necessary.
and being at the beach and reading is heavenly. south american literature i have only dipped my toes into but really enjoyed so i think when i end this bout of reading(i always do this, read by geography. before eastern europe it was haiti, and before that it was india, and spain before that.), south america will be on my list of new conquests.