What I'm reading now:
The link above goes to a site that helps people network based on their preferences for literature. I haven't even figured out how to use it yet, but take a look and get the idea that a lot more people than me may be obsessed with what they read and how they relate to others...
This sumer, I'm also reading:
Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka?) is a novel by Haruki Murakami (2002). A translated story of a a modern Japanese runaway teenage boy that finds sanctuary in a library. Topics in social alientation, self-discovery, sexuality, and metaphysics. (I'm still working on this one as of 7/24/06).
Torpor (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) by Chris Kraus a semi-autobiographical novel about the author as a young(er) woman and artist struggling to develop her own artistic identity. I liked this book because it was primarily set at the time that I was a late teenager (1988- 1991) and delt with various (now) historical global and political themes that I experienced first hand and were linked with my own youthful enthusiasms: (the falling of the Berlin Wall, Peristroyka, the rise of globalization, etc) that I (much later) studied at T.E.S.C.
The Woman in the Row Behind (links to external review) (Paperback) by Francoise Dorner, Adriana Hunter (Translator) An engaging and seemingly illicit "quick and dirty" read I finished in about 4 hours one can get away with due to the pretty cover art. The story of the loss the innocence of a young Parisian housewife and the slow decay of her marriage to her misunderstood husband.
Brave New World and Island, by Aldous Huxley. Huxley is a brilliant early English social theorist that got me thinking about the structural and political difficulties in achieving a modern utopia.
and Misc:
PC Shopper Magazines
Fluency with Information Technology, a technical manual that has a companion website:
The NY Times Newspaper
This sumer, I'm also reading:
Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka?) is a novel by Haruki Murakami (2002). A translated story of a a modern Japanese runaway teenage boy that finds sanctuary in a library. Topics in social alientation, self-discovery, sexuality, and metaphysics. (I'm still working on this one as of 7/24/06).
Torpor (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) by Chris Kraus a semi-autobiographical novel about the author as a young(er) woman and artist struggling to develop her own artistic identity. I liked this book because it was primarily set at the time that I was a late teenager (1988- 1991) and delt with various (now) historical global and political themes that I experienced first hand and were linked with my own youthful enthusiasms: (the falling of the Berlin Wall, Peristroyka, the rise of globalization, etc) that I (much later) studied at T.E.S.C.
The Woman in the Row Behind (links to external review) (Paperback) by Francoise Dorner, Adriana Hunter (Translator) An engaging and seemingly illicit "quick and dirty" read I finished in about 4 hours one can get away with due to the pretty cover art. The story of the loss the innocence of a young Parisian housewife and the slow decay of her marriage to her misunderstood husband.
Brave New World and Island, by Aldous Huxley. Huxley is a brilliant early English social theorist that got me thinking about the structural and political difficulties in achieving a modern utopia.
and Misc:
PC Shopper Magazines
Fluency with Information Technology, a technical manual that has a companion website:
The NY Times Newspaper
