More Books
Despite my personal promise to stop buying books through the end of the election or until I finished reading the ones I have, whichever came first, I bought more. I'm addicted.
The breakdown:
After reading Steve Martin's The Pleasure of My Company, a short novel I thoroughly enjoyed, I bought his earlier work, Shopgirl. Shopgirl is a very short novel, a novella if such a work actually exists. His writing is acutally pretty good, I mean for a guy who stars in movies like Bringing Down the House. Dear God, stick to writing Steve, its something you are good at. Because of its length and his easy reader style, I hope its a great book to fill in some of the spare time I have--15 minutes a week--until E-Day.
The next selection I bought was The Complete Stories of Truman Capote. Other Ian has been raving about him and I couldn't pass up the opportunity. Also, short stories are great for reading in small amounts of time.
Finally, I did something I rarely do. I bought a book by a woman. And she's Indian. Like East Indian, not Spokane Indian like the previous selection of short stories I read by Sherman Alexie. What caught my eye about Video was the title story, where a man's life is ruined by a porno video. At least one of the local blogmunity can relate to that. So that's ony my plate.
I'm also reading over The Latest Bombshell, now in paperback, and previously reviewed by me.
And then there is still Heavy Water by Martin Amis. I'm no farther than I was a week ago. At least I've put together two submission packets.
The breakdown:
After reading Steve Martin's The Pleasure of My Company, a short novel I thoroughly enjoyed, I bought his earlier work, Shopgirl. Shopgirl is a very short novel, a novella if such a work actually exists. His writing is acutally pretty good, I mean for a guy who stars in movies like Bringing Down the House. Dear God, stick to writing Steve, its something you are good at. Because of its length and his easy reader style, I hope its a great book to fill in some of the spare time I have--15 minutes a week--until E-Day.
The next selection I bought was The Complete Stories of Truman Capote. Other Ian has been raving about him and I couldn't pass up the opportunity. Also, short stories are great for reading in small amounts of time.
Finally, I did something I rarely do. I bought a book by a woman. And she's Indian. Like East Indian, not Spokane Indian like the previous selection of short stories I read by Sherman Alexie. What caught my eye about Video was the title story, where a man's life is ruined by a porno video. At least one of the local blogmunity can relate to that. So that's ony my plate.
I'm also reading over The Latest Bombshell, now in paperback, and previously reviewed by me.
And then there is still Heavy Water by Martin Amis. I'm no farther than I was a week ago. At least I've put together two submission packets.
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