Member: anonymousblack

I love your photo....it's just anonymous enough to be very intriguing. Your library looks interesting as well. Is there anything special you'd recommend to another once-upon-a-time writer/artist?

posted by OdetteOdile at 4:37 pm (EST) on Aug 23, 2011

lady?:-)
From my overly-expanding library, you might deduce two things:
1-the winters in New Hampshire are long & dark & very conductive to reading.
2-my ability to control myself in the bookstore I work at is significantly less developed than yours.
Hope you have a lovely spring. Tell me your latest fave read, when you have a spare moment.
paul

posted by turtlefly at 6:54 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2011

There's no shame in moving on - it's a bssic reader right! Reading Maso in chronological order actually allows for a very clear understanding of her development as a writer, at least through AVA. After that, her works seem designed to hone her skills for a magnumopus. So, I enjoyed Ghost Dance, but Art Lover is much more fully realized, and The American Woman in the Chinese Hat even more so. And AVA is pure ecstasy! A good halloween here, pleasant autumn, winter looming. If you're on facebook, look me up. Enjoy the slow glide to the new year!

posted by turtlefly at 9:43 am (EST) on Nov 3, 2010

Just curious how the summer with Miss MacIntosh turned out for you. I also noticed you added Ghost Dance by Maso; did you ever get around to Ava? Hope all is well otherwise as well...

posted by turtlefly at 12:57 pm (EST) on Oct 7, 2010

Plainwater & Decreation are now next on my list to track down - thank you! In Pieces just arrived and if my first brief look-through is any indication, I am on my way to being enamoured. And, those same skimmed couple of pages convinced me Ava will do the same to you.

Ah. Miss MacIntosh, my Darling! I read that book during my college days, when time was much more elastic, and while I very much enjoyed it, enough so to save up for a rare hardcover edition, I must admit to scanning about as many pages as I read. I think if I had read every page with the kind of intense concentration the best poetry/prose often requires, I might not have made it all the way through. It is the kind of book that actually doesn't suffer much from random access, as more linear narratives would. Good luck with it - let me know how it goes!

posted by turtlefly at 2:56 pm (EST) on Jun 30, 2010

So, making good on my seeking out promise, I just ordered copies of In Pieces & River of Stars. What one other book might you very much suggest that I read, in exchange for me suggesting [perhaps even begging], you to read Carole Maso's Ava, if you haven't already.

posted by turtlefly at 5:44 pm (EST) on Jun 29, 2010

You have a wonderful library - some of my own favorites, but even more lovely, some I have never heard of but will now seek out. Thank you!

posted by turtlefly at 4:43 pm (EST) on Jun 26, 2010

The more I surf LT, the more I find folks like you who are writer/readers. The first book we share on the list there is the Margaret Atwood book on writing. I jsut picked that one up and plan to read it this year sometime.

You should look at the Writers/Readers group. Interesting group of people, at all levels of writing and such.

posted by blackdogbooks at 1:05 pm (EST) on Mar 9, 2010

That small box trick came in handy when people swore they wouldn't help until I got rid of some. For a while we were moving twice a year and lugging these babies around is no picnic.

I have the books that I didn't think I'd want to get my hands on immediately in storage in the garage right now. Technically, you could get rid of those boxes and it would take me a very long time to notice which were gone. Still don't want to give them up. Culls! You're all trying to hunt the lame and the weak away from my flock. Get away, scavengers, they are mine. (I think that if I went across state lines, like you, I'd be much more reasonable. I'm sure there are tons of mantras about letting go of material possessions I can focus on instead.)

Different subject, but if I wanted to read something by Tess Gallagher, which would you recommend?

posted by cobwebs at 9:55 pm (EST) on Mar 24, 2009

;) Don't forget the goth smut. While I'm swimming happily in all these books now, I can't help but think, "Oh lord, who's going to help me move them next time I relocate...?"

Your hero comment made me smile, even if in jest, as the feeling is mutual. I love your book collection here because many of them are ones I haven't seen before.

posted by cobwebs at 4:16 pm (EST) on Feb 16, 2009

Hello to another Brautigan-fan.

posted by TheresaWilliams at 12:39 am (EST) on May 18, 2007