Making it Up As I Go

I just finished Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger- breaking with the habit I wrote of a couple of posts ago, I picked it up to read in the bath and actually continued reading it when I got out. I’ve… Read more ›

I started reading the book my friend loaned me and was a page in when I got distracted by Valley of the Dolls on TV. I’d had minimal interest in reading the book or seeing the movie until I saw… Read more ›

So when I started reading Tommy’s Tale, it was in the bathtub. In general, my bathtub books are only books that I’ve read before, that I know so well that I can start reading at any point and stop reading… Read more ›

A follow up to my comments about Namedropper – I was right about the language of the book being specific to the main character of the book. I picked up Emma Forrest’s next book Thin Skin – the language is… Read more ›

This is the final list of books I read in 2003- a total of 105. Books from January and February are bunched together as I didn’t decide to keep track of them until the middle of Feb., and I didn’t… Read more ›

I read yesterday a review of a book I should have written. The woman who wrote it decided to read a book a week and write about how they intersected with her life. I made the goal this year of… Read more ›