[lit-ideas] Re: Whattcha readin'?
- From: "Torgeir Fjeld" <phatic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:56:21 +0100
Trying to reread Carl Lange by Kjell Askildsen but can never get past the first
paragraph:
When my wife was alive I thought she would leave me with more space. Just
consider her underwear. It fills three drawers. I can put my copper coins in
one, matchboxes in another, and corks in a third. As it is now it's a complete
mess. And then she died. It's a long time ago. She was a demanding person.
Peace be with her -- she finally gave me peace. I emptied drawers and shelves
and cupboards of what she had left behind and ended up with lots of empty space
?- more than I could make use of. So I knocked down two closets, but was left
with an emptier room instead of two empty closets. It was quite thoughtless of
me, but, as I said, it's a long time ago. I was much younger then.
Anyway.
Torgeir F
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Whattcha readin'?
> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:45:08 -0500
>
>
> > Just wondering, what everyone is reading?
>
> I'm reading Satanic Verses. It's fantastic. I love every page.
> I'm turning back to page one the second that I've read the last
> page and starting over. I had no idea it was so rich with humor
> and pathos and knowledge and zaniness. But then I love Pynchon,
> too.
>
>
> > I'm kind of
> > still obsessing about peak oil and climate change with
> > a little economy thrown in. Boring stuff for most
> > people.
>
> You and Lawrence. You're two of a kind, you know. : )
>
>
> > I
> > keep saying I'm going to get a nice who dunit but it
> > never seems to happen.
>
>
> No, no, no. That stuff kills brain cells. Read Amy Bloom's
> collection of short stories: "A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love
> You." It's truly wonderful writing and you'll be in pig heaven
> picking apart all the psychological twistings and turnings in her
> stories."
>
>
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy" <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 5:54 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Whattcha readin'?
>
>
> > Just wondering, what everyone is reading? I'm kind of
> > still obsessing about peak oil and climate change with
> > a little economy thrown in. Boring stuff for most
> > people. I have no patience with novels except the one
> > I'm currently reading based in a post oil future. I
> > keep saying I'm going to get a nice who dunit but it
> > never seems to happen.
> >
> > So, Eric, Mike, Robert Paul, Bill Dolphin, everyone
> > else. What are you reading, if anything? Care to
> > share?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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