Subway Reads
It was a busy week on the F train, what with the MTA trying to squeeze the last of the track-work in before the holiday season. The cup of delays and detours at times floweth over, and how better to spend all that extra time than with book in hand.
These week's Subway Reads:
Waiting: A Novel
by Ha Jin
Something Blue
by Emily Giffin
Literature for Composition: Essays, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, 7th edition
by Sylvan Barnet, William Cain, and William E. Burto
Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
Running with Scissors: A Memoir
by Augusten Burroughs
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I read "Running with Scissors" and it felt like watching a movie. At one point he says something about imagining his life as a movie, and it's like he wrote this book as a movie of his life imagning his life as a movie. Also, I couldn't get that song out of my head that is played in previews.
If we're going with a gay humorist theme this week don't forget Dan Savage. He coined the term "Santorum": a mixture of lube and... well.. this site explains it http://www.spreadingsantorum.com/
Savage is a terrific writer. His book The Commitment is one of the better explorations of marriage that I've read (not that I've read all that many ...)
I thought "Something Blue" was emotionally equivalent to Clueless, and I liked the movie much much better.