Comments | alanajoli: And for my next trick... (and a contest!)

alanajoli

And for my next trick... (and a contest!)

Sep 18, 2010 17:43

Did you all like my disappearing act? Next, I'll saw my assistant in half! But really, what have I been up to in the past month?

Copyediting. A lot.
Watching Leverage. (Thanks to lyster and publius513 for the recommendation!)
Watching Eureka, on which my friend Margaret Dunlap is a writing assistant.
Realizing that catching up on back episodes of cool TV shows takes ( Read more... )

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dcopulsky September 18 2010, 19:16:41 UTC

I'm tempted to name five long books I've been meaning to read--say The Bible, Sandman, Finnegans Wake, Atlas Shrugged, and War and Peace--but I probably wouldn't get through those in a week, or actually enjoy reading a couple of them at all. So I think I'd like to have the five books I'm in the middle of right now: Carol Queen's The Leather Daddy & The Femme, Samuel R. Delany's Times Square Red Time Square Blue, Barron's AP Pyschology, Vonnegut's Hocus Pocus, and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning. Then I might actually finish all of those before starting Tekkon Kinkreet and whatever other new books I'm inevitably going to pick up.

mishamichelle September 18 2010, 19:46:44 UTC

I think even if I was stranded with comfortable amenities I would want something funny and something long.
I would choose The Exodus Gate by Stephen Zimmer, cause I have been wanting to read it and it is a heavy read.
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ext_255382 September 19 2010, 08:57:19 UTC

honestly be a hard choice id have to pick 5 books i havent read
so ill go with
the whole demonica series by Larissa Ione

Pleasure Unbound
Desire Unchained
Passion Unleashed
Ecstasy Unveiled
Sin Undone

alanajoli September 26 2010, 13:34:40 UTC

Hey Bev -- you won! Send me an e-mail with your mailing address and I'll send HHotD out to you in a jif. :)

alanajoli at virgilandbeatrice dot com

lyster September 20 2010, 14:02:10 UTC

Good question! I'd say Proust because honestly when else am I ever going to read that book, but maybe it would be hard to relate with on a desert island. For rereads, let's prioritize books with a robust value for nature, exploration, and the ties of people with their land, and for to-reads, authors that immerse without feeling mannered.

Rereads:
The Once and Future King
Les Miserables
East of Eden

To-Reads:
The Sound and the Fury
The Long Goodbye

There's no way I'd finish more than half of these and still have time for cooking, exploring etc, but I'm allowing myself some extra travel time after I get rescued from the desert island and so forth.