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Member: BeckyJGCollectionsYour library (2,643), Gin Marshmallow (106), Sold But Not Forgotten (18), Review Only (151), Currently reading (3), Read but unowned (9), All collections (2,926) Reviews229 reviews Tagsfiction (1,908), mystery (282), thriller (173), history (163), military (141), humor (128), wwi (108), autobiography (85), biography (84), SF (81) — see all tags Cloudstag cloud, author cloud Recommendations66 recommendations Groups75 Books Challenge for 2011, Blog the Book, Bloggers, Crime, Thriller & Mystery, Once a Month Zombie Reads, Post-apocalyptic Literature, Read YA Lit, Spies & Spy Fiction, Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night Favorite authorsThomas Berger, Lee Child, Gabriel García Márquez, Charles McCarry, Tim Powers, Thomas Pynchon, J. K. Rowling, Richard Russo, Trevanian (Shared favorites) Favorite bookstoresThe Book Frog About meI'm a lifelong reader, book lover, inveterate book collector, and now bookstore owner. Yeah, I really do need to be around books all the time. About my libraryMy library is large and eclectic. I pretty much only read fiction, but I love all kinds of books. When I want to learn about something, I buy lots of books on the subject. My library is actually *our* library. It's blended, and some day all of the military history books will be cataloged as well. Homepagehttp://thebookfrog.blogspot.com Also onFacebook Membership Real nameRebecca Glenn LocationLos Angeles, CA Emailbooksnob1 Account typepublic, lifetime URLs
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posted by EnriqueFreeque at 12:30 pm (EST) on Feb 12, 2012
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 7:13 pm (EST) on Feb 3, 2012
Btw, speaking of Dalkey again, if it really isn't any trouble for you, could you add Ron Loewinsohn's Magnetic Field(s) to my next order, along w/that new Erickson?
And also, two reviews in two days? Nice to see you settling back into what I hope will become more of a routine for you ....
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 12:55 pm (EST) on Feb 2, 2012
The Washington Univ. Library holds The William Gaddis Papers. I was just dinkin' around at the site and saw the list of 1,243 books and thought, now that would be something challenging and different to do in LT rather than the same 'ol same 'ol. Knowing his first two novels pretty well makes some of the books he had in his library particularly fascinating to behold, seeing what he used for research and source material.
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 7:52 pm (EST) on Jan 26, 2012
Hope business is good, and thanks again for getting those for me! And do let me know too when Steve Erickson's, These Dreams of You arrives.
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 8:16 pm (EST) on Jan 24, 2012
As the publishing world has changed, and Erickson has remained under the reading and publishing world's radar mostly (this is just speculation) he's gone from really mainstream publishers in the '80s & '90s (Vintage & Poseidon Press) to more what I'd call specialty houses, like Europa. Europa published his last novel, 2007s Zeroville straight to paperback I'm pretty sure. I don't think, though I'm not positive, that it was published in hardback. I believe the same is the case for his latest, These Dreams of You.
I'm glad to hear you're stocking him; when I remembered your Los Angeles section in your store, I thought Erickson would make a perfect match for it. And while I wouldn't call his novels "mysteries" per se, they certainly involve a lot of noiristic mystery trope elements that they could slip under the fringes of such a label's umbrella, as I know mysteries are a big backbone of your store. Though his novels, the four I've read so far, dip so much into every genre that they're pretty unclassifiable.
The rambling blog post on him is up ... much more to come on him in the coming months ...
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 2:45 pm (EST) on Jan 7, 2012
Have you ever read Steve Erickson, btw?
What a mysterious mystical marvel the man is. You should see what your bro, Tom Pynchon, wrote about his first novel, Days Between Stations, the one I'm reading right now, as well as Arc'D'x & Amnesiascope.
After having read so many interviews with him, and in talking to Alex Austin, who once worked with him at Westways where they collaborated on punk rock concert reviews on the Sunset Strip in the late '70s/early '80s, it's become crystal clear to me Erickson is one of those rare visionary writers who must be read from first novel to their last to really get what they're all about, which is a project I've just embarked upon in 2012. And the fact that he writes almost completely about Los Angeles -- an L.A. whose freeways are overrun by sand dunes and where lakes appear out of nowhere in Hollywood and lap into the first floors of apartment buildings up and down Sunset Blvd, and whose citizens experience constant blackouts both personal and of the electric currency kind almost daily, and who build "moon bridges" out onto the waters that have invaded their concrete worlds that they may better commune with the night, not to mention the black cats that may have telekinetic powers and can communicate with certain select sensitized individuals, and the clocks that have all stopped so that time and space and life is malleable, concurrent, existing and happening in the past and the present and the future simultaneously; well, what can I say, except perhaps that this should be a blog post!
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 1:08 pm (EST) on Jan 7, 2012
So was Mum & Sis impressed with their new entrepreneur-of-the-family's bookshop? Hope you enjoyed showing it off. I'd hoped to get back over there this year, but time and logistics simply would not allow. My pal Mardi is coming up tonight and I'll mention to him about us figuring out a time in the coming months to get back over there and properly scope out your store w/out those dang distracting kids to keep track of!
Hope you had a nice Christmas too. Must be nice getting a day off for both you and Pete from work tomorrow, eh? I bet those are rarities.
Happy New Year!
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 6:54 pm (EST) on Dec 31, 2011
Merry Christmas if I don't talk to you before then.
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 7:28 pm (EST) on Dec 22, 2011
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 11:33 pm (EST) on Dec 21, 2011
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 4:30 pm (EST) on Dec 20, 2011
I hope you guys are swamped at the Book Frog! I was in a B&N last weekend (or should I say, B&M?) and was looking for Patricia Cornwall's latest for my wife but they didn't have it. Do you guys have it? I think it's called Red Mist. I thought it was out already, but maybe it's not. Anyway, if you do have it, and if I placed an online order tonight through your webstore, would I receive it in time for Christmas?
Take care,
Brent
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 4:39 pm (EST) on Dec 17, 2011
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 4:24 pm (EST) on Dec 11, 2011
We're doing good. Crazy busy on the weekends this month with kid & X-mas stuff (bah humbug) but you gotta do what you gotta do.
I'm reading a friend here in LTs unpublished novel that's very good so far, sad and disturbing, my cup of tea, and am also finishing up Ted Mooney's Singing Into the Piano that's one of the smartest, funniest, psychologically astute relationship novels I've ever read, about a couple of exhibitionists who get involved with a Mexican politician and his wife and all sorts of wild political intrigue erupts ... I don't know why the novel was not a hit when it first came out back in '98. I don't know why Mooney is not a bigger name; he should be, based merely on his debut and his last one. Though, when you only publish four novels in thirty years, that's probably not going to help one's popularity, unless your name is Pynchon, right? Also reading Outer Dark by Cormac, his second novel, and my is it beautifully, ornately bleak.
How 'bout you? Saw your Louise Penny piece. She sounds really good. I think you've sold me on her next time I'm out and about ...
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 11:06 pm (EST) on Dec 8, 2011
The Book Frog has its website up and running! How cool is that?!
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 2:11 am (EST) on Dec 3, 2011
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 10:26 pm (EST) on Nov 18, 2011
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 7:25 pm (EST) on Nov 14, 2011
Saw you've got The Book Frog listed as an LT bookstore. Favorited it, of course. When I do the blog write up, I'll link something over there too.
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 4:12 pm (EST) on Nov 12, 2011
Man, you've got your work cut out for you, cataloging your database. Is it like LT, one by one by one, you've got to enter them in? Let me know when the website's up, as, I'll have no choice but to purchase a slew of books from the Book Frog, don't'chu know!
Another weekend or two, I'll have my donations ready. You've got some suh-weet stuff coming your way.
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 12:38 am (EST) on Sep 23, 2011
I was a bit behind you -- 14 in the early '80s -- when I first discovered Foundation. I read them all again at 28 or 29, passing the time in the CHOC NICU, waiting for Megs to get the green light to finally go home, and I fell for the same hooks and the same stunning surprises the second time around.
It's been just over a decade. Probably time to pick it up again.
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 7:12 pm (EST) on Aug 22, 2011
Those Penguin 60s, what a find! I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw them. I got about 20 of them for .25 cents per; still got about half of them to input. Another outrageous thrift store find! They're really nice collectibles. Yeah, it was '95, I think, when they were originally released.
And, oh, The Mule, I'd completely forgotten about him -- good reading times!
And that last Liquidation entry of yours, oh my, you had my wife cracking up!
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 11:51 pm (EST) on Aug 20, 2011
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 11:41 am (EST) on Aug 20, 2011
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 1:05 am (EST) on Aug 19, 2011
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 12:30 am (EST) on Aug 18, 2011
The Delaney I read was 'The Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand'. Way too much unnecessary wording and alien sex life. After about chapter three I had had enough description of the main character's chewed off fingernails. It was that bad. Plus, it was intended to have a sequel that was never finished, and the only reason I read it in full was to fulfill a group read project. Nobody liked it, and it is officially the worst serious book I have ever read.
posted by DirtPriest at 2:07 am (EST) on Aug 10, 2011