More apocalypse, less angst
Lately I’ve been coming across all these very cool built-in bookshelf designs for houses on the Internet. Being an uber-bookgeek with a strong aesthetic sense, these are pretty much the only apartment/house design features that are at all interesting to me. Since I don’t… Continue Reading “Houses for book geeks.”
I’ve been reading like a madwoman lately – a frenetic period of literary gorging that I suspect is winding down. (How can I tell? I’m actually reading a book at a leisurely pace for the first time in a month instead of hungrily speeding… Continue Reading “What I've been reading”
I am greedy for books right now. Obsessive, grasping, conjuring up lists of things I want to have read. It’s not enough that I could read them in the future, I want them now. A vibration, a titillation when I look at book lists… Continue Reading “Greedy for books.”
Apropos of nothing – one of my alltime favourite authors, Peter Carey, released a new book last week. It is a rare occurrence that I buy a book in hardcover, but this time I’m going to have to. Trailer for His Illegal Self below.
One of the reasons I started this blog (almost 4 years ago now), was because of a comment my friend Anarchocyclist made when we were in the same activist collective – that he would like to see lists of what it was I was… Continue Reading “2007: A catalogue of things read”