I had purchased Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak some time ago. It was short, I knew I could finish it in a day. But I left it for awhile. I wanted to savor it at an appropriate time because I know how much I liked the first six-word memoir book.
About a week before Valentine's Day, I decided that was when I'd read it. And I did.
I actually read in the restaurant where my partner and I had reservations during the hour that he was late for said reservations. Kind of bittersweet, you know? And the book was good, as I suspected. There were memorable memoirs, but of course, I wasn't in the mood or place to write them down, so I'll have to read through the book again. And I even got him to read a bit of the book.
It also inspired me to write my own six word memoirs (again), but I decided to do them on my previous relationships--my own little zine of six-word memoirs on love & heartbreak. :) I'm working on it now...
It's the first time I've ever read a holiday appropriate book on the actual holiday. Well, maybe I've read picture books before, but... It was fun.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Awwww....
"I don't think there's any limit on True Blue Love. The more the merrier, I say," said Harry.
--Patricia Martin from Lulu Atlantis and the Quest for True Blue Love
--Patricia Martin from Lulu Atlantis and the Quest for True Blue Love
Thursday, February 5, 2009
look at all these new books!
They've been piling up next to my computer desk...
From Vault:
From Borders:
Librarything Early Reviewers books:
From Vault:
- Tactics #7 by Sakura Kinoshita & Kazuko Higashiyama
- The Gentlemen's Alliance Cross #8 by Arina Tanemura
- After School Nightmare #10 by Setona Mizushiro
From Borders:
- Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak edited by Smith Magazine
- Special by Bella Bathurst
- Hug Time by Patrick McConnell
- Snog: A Puppy's Guide to Love by Rachael Hale
- Y: The Last Man: Cycles by Vaughan, Guerra, & Marzan Jr.
- Charmed Knits: Projects for Fans of Harry Potter by Alison Hansel
- Jimi's Book of Japanese: Hiragana by Peter X. Takahashi
- The Psychology of Harry Potter edited by Neil Mulholland
Librarything Early Reviewers books:
- The Singing by Alison Croggon
- The Highly Intuitive Child by Catherine Crawford
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
books i've read january 2009
1.2.09
10 young adult fiction; 7 adult fiction; 3 adult non fiction; 9 graphic novels; 14 picture books; 6 youth fiction; 19 manga; 1 youth non fiction
- Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz (YA)
- The Naughty Bits: The Steamiest and Most Scandalous Sex Scenes from the World's Great Books edited by Jack Murnighan (A)
- Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (YA)
- Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard (YA)
- Psychology: A Very Short Introduction by Gillian Butler & Freda McManus (A-NF)
- Stormbreaker: The Graphic Novel by Anthony Horowitz, Antony Johnston, Kanako Damerum, & Yuzuru Takasaki (GN)
- B.P.R.D.: Killing Ground by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, & Guy Davis (GN)
- Utterly Otterly Day by Mary Casanova & Ard Hoyt (PB)
- Mouse Noses on Toast by Daren King & David Roberts (Y)
- La Corda d'Oro #5 by Yuki Kure (M)
- La Corda d'Oro #6 by Yuki Kure (M)
- My Heavenly Hockey Club #4 by Ai Morinaga (M)
- Skim by Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki (GN)
- Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo by Obert Skye (Y)
- Down to the Bone by Mayra Lazara Dole (YA)
- Flawless by Sara Shepard (YA)
- Best Erotic Comics 2008 edited by Greta Christina (GN)
- Yellow Elephant: A Bright Bestiary by Julie Larios & Julie Paschkis (PB)
- Boogiepop Doesn't Laugh #1 by Kouji Ogata & Kouhei Kadono (M)
- Challengers #1 by Hinako Takanaga (M)
- Almost Crying by Mako Takahashi (M)
- In the End by Pink Psycho (M)
- Hot Gimmick S by Megumi Nishizaki & Miki Aihara (YA)
- Ark Angel by Anthony Horowitz (YA)
- Zombies Calling by Faith Erin Hicks (GN)
- Stuck in the Middle: Seventeen Comics from an Unpleasant Age edited by Ariel Schrag (GN)
- Ida B...and her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan (Y)
- Broken Moon by Kim Antieau (YA)
- Night of the Beasts #2 by Chika Shiomi (M)
- La Corda d'Oro #7 by Yuki Kure (M)
- The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan (PB)
- Singular Pleasures by Harry Mathews (A)
- Chickenhare: Fire in the Hole by Chris Grine (GN)
- My Heavenly Hockey Club #5 by Ai Morinaga (M)
- Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye by Victoria Laurie (A)
- Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell (Y)
- CLAMP: North Side by CLAMP (A-NF)
- CLAMP: South Side by CLAMP (A-NF)
- The Trouble with Dragons by Debi Gliori (PB)
- Queen of Halloween by Mary Engelbreit (PB)
- Art Dog by Thacher Hurd (PB)
- Albert by Lani Yamamoto (PB)
- American Widow by Alissa Torres & Sungyoon Choi (GN)
- Suppli #1 by Mari Okazaki (M)
- Oh, Theodore! Guinea Pig Poems by Susan Katz & Stacey Schuett (PB)
- Bleach #11 by Tite Kubo (M)
- Goodnight Bush: A Parody by Erich Origen & Gan Golan (A)
- Fables: War and Pieces by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Niko Henrichon, & Andrew Pepoy (GN)
- Fresh Off the Boat by Melissa de la Cruz (YA)
- Bleach #12 by Tite Kubo (M)
- Suppli #2 by Mari Okazaki (M)
- The Little Yellow Leaf by Carin Berger (PB)
- Demonkeeper by Royce Buckingham (Y)
- My Heavenly Hockey Club #6 by Ai Morinaga (M)
- Writ in Blood by James A. Moore (A)
- Perfect by Sara Shepard (YA)
- Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed by Mo Willems (PB)
- Not So True Stories & Unreasonable Rhymes by Carin Berger (PB)
- Rosa by Nikki Giovanni & Bryan Collier (Y-NF)
- The Monster Who Ate Darkness by Joyce Dunbar & Jimmy Liao (PB)
- Ahwoooooooo! by Yannick Murphy & Claudio Munoz (PB)
- Bleach #13 by Tite Kubo (M)
- Suppli #3 by Mari Okazaki (M)
- Bicycles: Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni (A)
- The Genie in the Jar by Nikki Giovanni & Chris Raschka (PB)
- The Inner City Mother Goose by Eve Merriam & David Diaz (Y)
- Bleach #14 by Tite Kubo (M)
- Bleach #15 by Tite Kubo (M)
- Ghost of a Chance by Yasmine Galenorn (A)
10 young adult fiction; 7 adult fiction; 3 adult non fiction; 9 graphic novels; 14 picture books; 6 youth fiction; 19 manga; 1 youth non fiction
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Lots of book quotes!
Okay, I'm reading a book of quotes--what else am I going to have? :) Plus, a quote from Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo. Hope you like them as much as I do...
There is nothing quite as painful as a truly awkward silence. If you have fallen in love and you tell the object of your affection how you feel and she simply stares at you, the air is still and empty, that's awkward. Perhaps you finally get up the nerve to ask your boss for a raise and after you muster the courage to blurt out your request he lets it just hang there in the open air. That can be an awkward silence as well. But for some reason both those examples pale in comparison to the kind of uncomfortable silence a person might experience when trapped in the stomach of a colossal earth snake, miles under the ground, where there is nothing but total darkness and the sound of your own self taking your final hot breaths of musty, stale air, after you've just received news that the one person who you believe could save you because he is so big and powerful is hiding out in the pocket of a friend as a...toothpick.
--Obert Skye from Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
If you've ever had your rude parts sniffed by two thousand tiny nostrils, you will know how he felt.
--Daren King from Mouse Noses on Toast
Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, poking you until you've changed into that very simple shape.
--Allan Gurganus
Properly to see things you need to talk about them.
--Henry James
Savoring non-relatedness. Put the emphasis on savoring.
--Susan Sontag
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains!
--Tennessee Williams
There is nothing quite as painful as a truly awkward silence. If you have fallen in love and you tell the object of your affection how you feel and she simply stares at you, the air is still and empty, that's awkward. Perhaps you finally get up the nerve to ask your boss for a raise and after you muster the courage to blurt out your request he lets it just hang there in the open air. That can be an awkward silence as well. But for some reason both those examples pale in comparison to the kind of uncomfortable silence a person might experience when trapped in the stomach of a colossal earth snake, miles under the ground, where there is nothing but total darkness and the sound of your own self taking your final hot breaths of musty, stale air, after you've just received news that the one person who you believe could save you because he is so big and powerful is hiding out in the pocket of a friend as a...toothpick.
--Obert Skye from Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
If you've ever had your rude parts sniffed by two thousand tiny nostrils, you will know how he felt.
--Daren King from Mouse Noses on Toast
Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, poking you until you've changed into that very simple shape.
--Allan Gurganus
Properly to see things you need to talk about them.
--Henry James
Savoring non-relatedness. Put the emphasis on savoring.
--Susan Sontag
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains!
--Tennessee Williams
Sunday, January 4, 2009
I did it!
My personal challenge for my vacation was to finish reading Inkdeath, Evil Genius, Full Frontal Feminism, and Breaking Dawn.
Challenge accomplished. :)
I'm especially glad to have finished Full Frontal Feminism because I had been "reading" it for over a year. It was a great book, I just set it down and got distracted by other things (from the library, of course). And I'm glad I finished Breaking Dawn. I was delaying because I was unhappy with how the book was progressing.
Yay, me!
It's the last day of my vacation, so I'll have to see what I can finish today, then update on my vacation challenge (to see how many books I could read on vacation). I think I had an unfair advantage in that my power was off, but hey...it's not like I'm really competing against anyone. :)
Challenge accomplished. :)
I'm especially glad to have finished Full Frontal Feminism because I had been "reading" it for over a year. It was a great book, I just set it down and got distracted by other things (from the library, of course). And I'm glad I finished Breaking Dawn. I was delaying because I was unhappy with how the book was progressing.
Yay, me!
It's the last day of my vacation, so I'll have to see what I can finish today, then update on my vacation challenge (to see how many books I could read on vacation). I think I had an unfair advantage in that my power was off, but hey...it's not like I'm really competing against anyone. :)
Saturday, January 3, 2009
A very short short story
Discovered while reading The Naughty Bits edited by Jack Murnighan.
"This Condition" by Lydia Davis
In this condition: stirred not only by men but by women, fat and thin, naked and clothed, by teenagers and children in latency; by animals such as horses and dogs; by certain vegetables such as carrots, zucchinis and cucumbers; by certain fruits such as melons, grapefruits and kiwis; by certain plant parts such as petals, sepals, stamens and pistils, by the bare arm of a wooden chair, a round vase holding flowers, a little hot sunlight, a plate of pudding, a person entering a tunnel in the distance, a puddle of water, a hand alighting on a smooth stone, a hand alighting on a bare shoulder, a naked tree limb; by anything curved, bare and shining, as the limb or bole of a tree; by any touch, as the touch of a stranger handling money; by anything round and freely hanging, as tassels on a curtain, chestnut burrs on a twig in spring, a wet tea bag on its string; by anything glowing, as a hot coal; anything soft or slow, as a cat rising from a chair, anything smooth and dry, as a stone, or warm and glistening; anything sliding, anything sliding back and forth; anything sliding in and out with an oiled surface, as certain machine parts; anything of a certain shape, like the state of Florida; anything pounding, anything stroking, anything bolt upright, anything horizontal and gaping, as a certain sea anemone; anything warm, anything wet, anything wet and red, anything turned red, as the sun at evening; anything wet and pink; anything long and straight with a blunt end, as a pestle; anything coming out of anything else, as a snail from its shell, as a snail’s horns from its head; anything opening; any stream of water running, any stream running, any stream spurting, any stream spouting, any cry, any soft cry, any grunt; anything going into anything else, as a hand searching in a purse; anything clutching, anything grasping; anything rising, anything tightening or filling, as a sail; anything dripping, anything hardening, anything softening.
"This Condition" by Lydia Davis
In this condition: stirred not only by men but by women, fat and thin, naked and clothed, by teenagers and children in latency; by animals such as horses and dogs; by certain vegetables such as carrots, zucchinis and cucumbers; by certain fruits such as melons, grapefruits and kiwis; by certain plant parts such as petals, sepals, stamens and pistils, by the bare arm of a wooden chair, a round vase holding flowers, a little hot sunlight, a plate of pudding, a person entering a tunnel in the distance, a puddle of water, a hand alighting on a smooth stone, a hand alighting on a bare shoulder, a naked tree limb; by anything curved, bare and shining, as the limb or bole of a tree; by any touch, as the touch of a stranger handling money; by anything round and freely hanging, as tassels on a curtain, chestnut burrs on a twig in spring, a wet tea bag on its string; by anything glowing, as a hot coal; anything soft or slow, as a cat rising from a chair, anything smooth and dry, as a stone, or warm and glistening; anything sliding, anything sliding back and forth; anything sliding in and out with an oiled surface, as certain machine parts; anything of a certain shape, like the state of Florida; anything pounding, anything stroking, anything bolt upright, anything horizontal and gaping, as a certain sea anemone; anything warm, anything wet, anything wet and red, anything turned red, as the sun at evening; anything wet and pink; anything long and straight with a blunt end, as a pestle; anything coming out of anything else, as a snail from its shell, as a snail’s horns from its head; anything opening; any stream of water running, any stream running, any stream spurting, any stream spouting, any cry, any soft cry, any grunt; anything going into anything else, as a hand searching in a purse; anything clutching, anything grasping; anything rising, anything tightening or filling, as a sail; anything dripping, anything hardening, anything softening.
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