CURRENTLY READING: Jonathan Franzen’s The Discomfort Zone
Almost finished. So far I am an enjoying this collection of personal essays about his childhood. I am not enjoying it as much as his later collection of essays, Farther Away, which I read a months ago. I am looking forward to his other memoir-esque collection of essays, How To Be Alone, which I think is a bit more similar to Farther Away in that is shares his satirical, jaded adult voice—which is what I love. His childhood voice doesn’t quite ring as true with me.
Post Secret. Still going.
Shakespeare & Co, Paris
(Source: thinkingininklings, via millionsmillions)
Current reading: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
300 pages in and still going strong, despite much travel and couch surfing. So I guess the book must be good to keep me engaged during this adventure!
100 Greatest Writers
Gertrude Stein at number 5! A pretty solid list, I’d say.
current reading: Michael Chabon’s Manhood for Amateurs
Although I am probably not the target audience for this short essay memoir, I am enjoying the different perspective on adulthood.
(Source: writing-dreamers)
British artist Jonathan Callan makes large scale sculptures out of used/vintage books held together by large screws.
(via assemblage2011)
