Member: aralena

Noticed you liked Catcher in the Rye, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my novel since it's also about a disturbed adolescent suffering from mental illness. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm currently out of physical copies). If you're interested, send me your e-mail address (mine is mail@christophertusa.com), and I'll send you the e-book. Here's a link to a summary (and a sample chapter) in case you'd like to read more about the book before you commit:

http://www.christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 11:06 am (EST) on Sep 11, 2009

and now i've stumbled across your name again, this time cleverly attached to the bottom of a cleverer self-introduction ...

and you have a review of david hockney!

so, to reiterate something i spoke in a previous life:

"too cool for school"

good bumping into your writing style again.

cool beans.

posted by tcw at 12:34 pm (EST) on Mar 24, 2008

Hey Aralena, only took me a month to pick up on your invite/message here! Am just logging in to add a few new books to my profile... I'm going to have to check out more of your titles! We have so much to talk about literature-wise.

The Inheritance of Loss and Atonement are in my most recent to-be-read pile.

Talk to you later!

posted by alwaysace at 5:21 am (EST) on Sep 26, 2007

Dear "Tara,"
I appreciate your message of concern and understand the stress that our book-bending floorboards above your head must be causing you.

I guarantee that you will not be eating A.S. Byatt's words for breakfast or sweeping piles of Jonathan Lethem's broken worlds off your floors anytime soon. So fear not!

I am truly sorry to hear that The Inheritance of Loss squashed Benji's sacred potpourri vase. Perhaps you could keep the much applauded (boring as all hell) book in exchange for any heartbreak (heartburn?) it caused in your life...

Yours truly,
"Hoaks"

posted by Hoaks at 12:04 pm (EST) on Aug 8, 2007

That's funny, Aralena.
I know!! The reading of it, what little bit I could stomache, was the exact same for me; I couldn't get past the repulsive treatment of sex and women and ugly language strut. Yuck. I'm glad we agree...on The Yacoubian Building and that stupid Kite Runner. I hate that book...

xo

posted by Hoaks at 10:08 pm (EST) on Jun 29, 2007

too cool for school.

posted by Tim_Watkinson at 8:44 am (EST) on May 8, 2007