Comments on the rain in my purse: I knocked on the tin roof of the fish

Hi Liz,Perhaps if it hadn't won the Booker prize I...

2008-07-15T18:47:00.000Z

Hi Liz,
Perhaps if it hadn't won the Booker prize I would have been more impressed? Without the hype? It really is better to enter a book knowing as little as possible.

Laurel - it was Good Reads. although it sometimes makes me feel like hyperventilating.

Sarah, I've read The Gathering too and as you say,...

2008-07-14T18:48:00.000Z

Sarah, I've read The Gathering too and as you say, the writing is good but the story in itself was sort of predictable...her short stories are supposed to be better so I might try those.
Have also read The Year of Magical Thinking - quite good too.

Interesting list.

Oh and loved the story line in your dream ; )

if i could recommend any of those i wouldn't but w...

2008-07-14T12:30:00.000Z

if i could recommend any of those i wouldn't but would jump right to John Williams' "Stoner," which I finished about a month ago. That's one you should read.

I keep misreading angle as angel.Out of all of tho...

2008-07-13T21:33:00.000Z

I keep misreading angle as angel.

Out of all of those books listed, is there one you'd press into my hands and exclaim:

You must read this book!

I'm reading Atonement right now. I plan on reading No Country for Old Men after Atonement. And I've got a book of short stories called The Boat to follow that. But now that I've finally found my reading legs (eyes, heart, whatever) again, after having lost them a few years back after graduating with my BA (my love for reading deserted me completely, maybe due to all the reading I'd done while matriculating), I'm looking constantly forward to the next book, and the next.

You recommended the website GoodReads to me? Or LibraryThing?

Or both?

I'd like to keep track, now that my reading has come back to me, of what I'm reading.

Oh, and hey--I've read your sponge poem a couple of times now and damned love it. (Despite my fear of sponges---don't laugh. Sponges scare the shit outta me. Especially the ones lingering in the sink at work.)

You've got a nifty little kitchen object series going, don't you? I recall totally loving your toaster poem. I can't wait to read your take on a sieve. Or a whisk. Or a spatula.