1. Write my review for Iain Bank’s Complicity
2. Finish reading Hari Kunzru’s The Impressionist
3. Complete my presentation for the NWA Convention.
4. Start flagellating myself for agreeing to make a paper on Rio Alma and read it to HIS FACE.
Oh, and if people are interested in my review of Abner Mercado’s Sa Bubungan ng Mundo you [...]
Archive for July, 2007
To Do List:
July 5, 2007Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq
July 5, 2007This novel succeeds in becoming both hilarious and sinister, a piece of social commentary disguised as an exercise in WTF. It begins with the story of an unemployed girl who gets hired in an exclusive Parisian perfume store by giving sexual favors to the shop director. She is then subjected to various acts of perversion by the [...]
poetry post
July 2, 2007The first one here and a partial explanation of my blog title.
Marginalia by Billy Collins
Sometimes the notes are ferocious,
skirmishes against the author
raging along the borders of every page
in tiny black script.
If I could just get my hands on you,
Kierkegaard, or Conor Cruise O’Brien,
they seem to say,
I would bolt the door and beat some logic into [...]
The Armchair Traveler – Challenge List
July 2, 2007A day late, but I’m still in.
The Impressionist, Hari Kunzru (India, Britain, etc.)
The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy (Los Angeles)
The Far Side of the World (Aubrey/Maturin novel), Patrick O’Brian (Malta, Atlantic Ocean, South America)
Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine, Bebe Moore Campbell (Mississippi)
The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson (future-Shanghai, China)
The Reader, Bernhard Schlink (Germany)
I’ve repeated one [...]
