tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post1270192072770533282..comments2024-03-07T18:38:58.284-08:00Comments on kidchamp dot net: laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03429404210444847213noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-7779858422859310632010-01-07T12:29:05.000-08:002010-01-07T12:29:05.000-08:00Oh goody. I have never joined a book group because...Oh goody. I have never joined a book group because I knew that those who thought they liked me would realize they did not once I refused to discuss The Secret Life Of Bees.LPCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-19950137229932350422010-01-07T12:50:28.000-08:002010-01-07T12:50:28.000-08:00a friend and i tried an online brothers karamazov ...a friend and i tried an online <i>brothers karamazov</i> group a few years back; it failed miserably (for me, at least) because 1) half of the group was composed of ringers ("oh, i've never read the volokhonsky translation before so it'll be like the first time!") and 2) the other half was dirty cheaters who read ahead. <br /><br />same friend is currently the only mister in another, offline book group. i would like to say i don't make <i>jane austen book club</i> references at him, but i'm not that strong.laurennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-54702056144876604362010-01-07T13:48:09.000-08:002010-01-07T13:48:09.000-08:00I bought a little moleskine to write down everythi...I bought a little moleskine to write down everything I read one year, but I only made it February and it didn't work out too well. <br />Issues - losing the notebook (maybe too small and I only needed it every few days), cheating (I would try to avoid writing down books that I didn't think were worthy of being on the list)<br />I have an amazing yearly planner this year, so maybe I'll follow your route and use it instead, since it is surgically attached to me. <br />The World to Come is still holding first place in my affections this year.Rachel (heart of light)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-68696548030570095422010-01-08T07:44:40.000-08:002010-01-08T07:44:40.000-08:00said "friend" still has *brothers karama...said "friend" still has *brothers karamazov* waiting for him to read, and is one of a couple of doorstops that's traveled with him since living in california (ahem, *gravity's rainbow*).<br /><br />01 *hard rain falling* by don carpenter. originally written in the mid-1960s and just re-released by New York Review of Books Classics, it's a difficult book to describe - part literary novel, part crime/prison novel - it's got a nice hard edge that you might enjoy after chandler. some excellent descriptions of pool hall culture as well. and it's set on the west coast. plus, george pelacanos (who wrote for the wire) wrote the introduction.<br /><br />02 *chronic city* also, let me just say that kakutani's review of the book in the times was entirely off-base. <br /><br />03 yes. the plot was silly and somewhat inconsequential, but as some reviewer said, you could watch robert downey, jr. and jude law squabble over a hat for hours. quite the tonic for iowa's single digit temps.jacobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-43093544292234286282010-01-08T07:53:31.000-08:002010-01-08T07:53:31.000-08:0001 Harriet the Spy, The Graveyard Book, P&P (s...01 Harriet the Spy, The Graveyard Book, P&P (sans zombies)<br />02 Consider the Lobster<br />03 <br />04 I love you and your thundertome more than I can sayAmandanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-51335002951991436632010-01-08T08:05:15.000-08:002010-01-08T08:05:15.000-08:00holy cats, jacob. i didn't read the whole revi...<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/books/13kakutani.html" rel="nofollow">holy cats</a>, jacob. i didn't read the whole review (i'm only a third of the way through the book, and spoilers flock to me like germans flock to <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_33w7ZrQXPBI/SQM7TZVr7PI/AAAAAAAAA6U/okMJC5MwHFA/s400/hasselhoff.jpg" rel="nofollow">the hoff</a>), but there is an <i>anger</i> in that woman, and i <i>like</i> it (though i too disagree with her).kidchampnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-43098326087100061962010-01-08T08:18:29.000-08:002010-01-08T08:18:29.000-08:00well, that review plus the somewhat out-of-the-blu...well, that review plus the somewhat out-of-the-blue article by katie roiphe on male authors and sex from last week's NYTBR has got me wondering what's in the water over there. articles pitting one generation versus another are both artificial and boring, though i guess they drive page views. also, i believe the official NYTBR review of *chronic city* that ran in the sunday edition was much more positive. i still don't quite understand why they double review some books.jacobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-90327746125836874762010-01-08T08:35:06.000-08:002010-01-08T08:35:06.000-08:00But now. of course, in the spirit of the thing, I ...But now. of course, in the spirit of the thing, I have to actually REMEMBER what I read...Um, my father gave my son The World As I Found It. Rather liked that. Am currently reading Elegance of the Hedgehog, because it was on the Read This shelf at Kepler's, our communist bookstore. But am having troubling sensations of doubt 2-3 chapters in.LPCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-89649538374342177502010-01-08T09:27:39.000-08:002010-01-08T09:27:39.000-08:00i met dave eggers at that kepler's! i told him...i met dave eggers at that kepler's! i told him that the line in <i>a heartbreaking work of staggering genius</i> about wanting both to dance with and run over people in san francisco struck an "answering asshole chord" in me. he signed my book...<br /><br />Lauren,<br />This is Mars.<br />O<br />Dave Eggerskidchampnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134668.post-74579071744578557712010-01-08T20:58:51.000-08:002010-01-08T20:58:51.000-08:00No effing way. And I haven't even read a heart...No effing way. And I haven't even read a heartbreaking work...there was a decade when I was lost in child rearing. Or two.LPCnoreply@blogger.com