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When We Were Orphans: A Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
Bad Names for Women (Word Works capital collection) by Hilary Tham
Stealthy Days by Robert Sargent
Consumer Reports The Best of Health: 275 Questions You've Always Wanted to Ask Your Doctor by Editors of Consumer Reports on Health
The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings by Ben Ratliff
WHO DIES by Steve Levine
Immortality by Milan Kundera
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About meI've kept a list of books I've read for years, but never a list of books I owned. In 1989 I started adding comments to my list, most of them very brief. I am including these as reviews when I can make them reasonably coherent. I hope the reviews I post in the future will be more thoughtful, analytical and, dammit, just a bit more impressive. I can't review a book I've read more than a couple of weeks ago because I can barely remember it by then. I once asked my father (a great reader) if there was any point in reading books if you soon forgot them, and he said, oh, certainly; it forms your judgment. I think that's true.
I live in Manhattan, a city I love; moved here in 1982. I'm an artist, originally a painter, now taking photographs and posting them to my photoblog, Manhattan Street Project (link below). The project is to walk every street in Manhattan and photograph as I go. I invite you to visit and let me know what you think.
About my libraryMy LT Library is strictly books I own and I want them all to be good, so I don't usually keep books I don't much like, with the exception of books I think I should like because they're universally admired. Henry James wrote many of this kind of book. I hope to try again when I'm smarter or more mature.
Now, with the new collection feature, I can catalog books, with reviews, that I've read, but didn't like and didn't want to keep. I'm happy about this because now my reviews will not be overwhelmingly positive.
Since I do most of my reading in the subway, I favor soft covers. I'm not into books as rare objects but I do want them looking good. Please do not borrow a book from me and return it all beat up. My memory is good about such things. I own many books I haven't read and so try not to buy new ones but we all know that's impossible. I have friends who ask me why I don't use the library. I'm glad the library is there for when I'm destitute, but I don't have to tell you LibraryThingers about the pleasures of ownership. Here in New York, city of small apartments, people are always going on about how you have to get rid of things. I'm glad to find a group with a different perspective.
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Currently readingWoe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English by Patricia T. O'Connor
Finnegans Wake (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by James Joyce
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Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays (Twentieth Century Classics) by Luigi Pirandello
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posted by callmejacx at 3:23 pm (EST) on Jun 26, 2009
This is the book that brought me to your page. Now that I have checked out your great blog I am getting ideas of how I can write a blog with my own riding and walking around my city
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posted by carterchristian1 at 8:23 pm (EST) on Mar 15, 2009
I rarely have much time to spend here but I've been meaning to thank you for adding me to your Interesting Libraries list - I was honored - and to say that yours is intriguing, as well. It was nice to see that you also have Diamonstein's Inside New York's Art World. I was reading everything I could find by and about Frank O'Hara when I acquired it, by chance, and it was a great companion. Browsing your library reminds me that I've got to find a copy of O'Hara's Art Chronicles.
posted by gracie68 at 3:08 am (EST) on Aug 5, 2008
This wasn't a nudge. I was away for a year and I'm not one to throw stones. It's something I did for the original game on RYM and I always wanted to do it here. But I'm glad to hear that you'll be coming back to us when you can.
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posted by deabvt at 10:48 am (EST) on Jan 4, 2008
Yes, Greenlanders stunned me. I couldn't believe that a writer from our time could write about what life would have been like during the waning of life in Greenland and make me believe it. It put my own life into perspective for me. Just the sheer weight of the deaths on the survivors, the moral compromises made to keep from splitting the group when staying together means survival, if only for a short time longer. What a luxury we have today to choose our lives, to make moral choices and to avoid a lot of compromises.
posted by Windy at 7:01 pm (EST) on Aug 7, 2007
posted by rebeccanyc at 12:23 pm (EST) on Jul 21, 2007