Reading
There are now sixty-seven books in my “next to read” pile. (A few more in the car, just in case. One in my bag, just in case. Two in the dining room, just in case. One by the bathtub, just in case. A lot in the living room…you know why.)
What I’m reading right now:
The Secrets Of Happy Families which is engaging for the moment in the way NurtureShock was
Can’t wait:
The Pale King (have been on chapter six for over a year (three years?) because I’m not ready to say goodbye)
Recently finished:
The Art of Fielding Genuinely liked it. And learned from it.
Next up:
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Male Brain
Never Let Me Go
Zeitoun
Gilead
Joker One
Perfect Madness
The Female Brain
Haven’t finished but don’t care:
2666 (on page 870-something)
Gravity’s Rainbow (50 pages from the end and can’t motivate)
Favorite parenting reads:
Nurture Shock and Unconditional Parenting, which rocked my world and altered how I do things
Boys Adrift gobsmacked
Raising Your Highly Spirited Child made me cry because there are ways to do this job and not go mad with so much “a lot”-ness in the family.
Siblings without Rivalry the premise of which is fabulous and the techniques in which are just getting useful as my kids get old enough.
A couple of posts about what I do and don’t read when given a few free minutes:
I love your blog!! I found you on Bad Mommy Moments blogroll a few weeks ago and am hooked. I have given you a humble award on my blog: From a Sesame Seed
I have been reading the comments you left on my blog and I am howling. Like the person above, I also found you on Bad Mommy Moments (love her, too). I’m adding you to my blog roll. You kill me. Thank God, because my kids were killing me (in a bad way).
eeeks… I found your blog after searching the internet about femoral stress fractures. I keep reading that everyone is or was using crutches. I was diagnosed 4 days ago with a confirmed MRI but no crutches. With all the reading I’ve done, it’s not looking like a promising spring ahead. Ugh…
currently reading:
I Don’t Care About Your Band by Julie Klausner
recommended to me because I write a really similar column
recently (attempted to) read:
Notes From The Underwire by Quinn Cummings
really, really self-indulgent and lacking the sass/smarts that I need to stay interested
next up:
Loose Girl by Kerry Cohen
because, well, okay, yeah.
Hi there. So I first found you via Infinite Summer which I found not long after I had finished reading Infinite Jest in a vacuum. Perth, where I live, is a vacuum. I emerged from that experience with crazed eyes and mad hair and dirt under my fingernails and I wanted everyone I knew to read it. I have bought it for my friends. None of them have finished (started?) it yet.
I sent an email to the Howling Fantods site begging for a recommendation on what to read next. I wanted to feel that way again. He suggested Cloud Atlas, amongst other things. I just finished that.(Gorgeous, but not IJ)
And I am so with you on 2666. But I stuck with it like some loyal little wife in a bad marriage.
It’s dawning on me, slowly. Infinite Jest was it. I suppose I’m just having a quiet moment of commune with you, wherein in we bow heads, hold virtual hands and give thanks that there was IJ at all.
And off I go, muttering in pixels.
I’ll work my way through some of your list. Thanks. Amber
Alpha Betti, I am totally bowing heads with you.
I really really like Cloud Atlas. Not all the way through, but like each section differently and am now in a section that’s gobsmacking.
Nothing I’ve read since IJ ranks within twenty spots of “as good as IJ.” I’m scared to read Pale King. I think I’m the only Wallace fan I know who says that, but there it is.
Thanks for being here. “Keep Coming.”
I think you know how I feel about 2666. (Intense, unmitigated, utter loathing, in case you forgot.)
Right now I’m slowly, slooooooooowly making my way through In Search of Lost Time. Wish you were reading it with me.
Dan, I’ll gladly read In Search of Lost Time with you. After I read The Pale King with you.
Do you belong to Goodreads, by any chance? Cool way to organize/track reading material. Recommending it.