literati

I'm addicted to Orion's reading blog- which I still check daily even though we live together and I see him reading the books he talks about:

orion reads

He is a great writer and always amusing.
In the spirit of he~ my incredibly abreviated list:
1. Chiva-nonfiction about the heroin trades' impact on a small Mexican town
2. Wind-up Bird Chronicles-cause i guess i'm crazy for not liking Murakami at first cause he wrote too much about ironing his shirts (loaned by Sam).
3. The Pacific-I'm already reading this collection of stories by Mark Helprin. It is lovely- although Helprin speaks for the Rich. He makes them seem human, and have emotions like us!
4. A Thread of Grace-almost done with this new one by Mary Doria Russell. It is about WWII, and although it is a bit self-serving (Russell is of Italian heritage and converted to Judaism, and the novel is about Italians who ran sort of an underground railroad for Jews during the Nazi occupation....you see I wish I didn't know this) I like it. I must look at the art and read the literature of this time period to even get an inkling of a sense about what this war was like and how it formed history (I took a class at UCSC that was art history of the WWII period in Germany and it was the first time I grokked WAR...a terrifying yet illuminating experience). I'm terribly interested in that era (even when I was little I loved the books West By Night, The Diary of a Young Girl, The Giver, and my favorite The Devil's Arithmetic which are all about the Holocaust)...it seems like it could NEVER happen now.....but then I forget we are at war. Constantly. Then I get pissed for forgetting and fretting about not going dancing enough and not having enough money. Trivia. Minutae.
5. Tess- from the Richard Lange reading list- which I should post. It is so rad.
6. The Dispossesed- Anarchy in Space! (after Mykle and Orion are done)