Books: November 2006 Archives
Even with a short week of commuting, this week's Subway Reads were aplenty. Below the top five as seen on the F train:
Real Estate Riches: How to Become Rich Using Your Banker's Money
by Dolf De Roos
The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
The Nanny Diaries: A Novel
by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
Nickel & Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell
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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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OK, so forget about Brooklyn for a moment. Yes, we <3 the borough, but sometimes, just sometimes, we have to venture across the river.
Saturday evening, Marvel comics artist (genius?) Jae Lee will be at the KGB Bar in the East Village to talk about his latest work, The Illustrated Dracula.* His 40 black/white and color illustrations are full of depth, feeling, and plain old creepiness. Plus, he is probably one of the nicest people who lives in the city.
Jae is most famous for his work on The Inhumans, the Fantastic Four, and Hellshock, though he's contributed to so many more projects than I could ever possibly list. And, he's currently illustrating the forthcoming Dark Tower prequel by Stephen King.
Hope to see you there!
Jae Lee discusses and signs
The Illustrated Dracula by Bram Stoker
7 to 9 p.m.
85 East 4th Street
*because sometimes you just have to shill for your friends :)
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What is your literary personality?
La Penguina scored as A coloring book. Children love you--and so do many adults. They find you approachable, simple and friendly, all of which perfectly describe you. Instead of throwing big words around, you communicate in the international language of pictures. In order to be as open as possible, you present yourself simply, allowing those around you to customize you to their liking. Sometimes this results in you turning into a primitive masterpiece, and other times you resemble a schizophrenic's daydream. So long as the one talking to you understands you, you're happy. Zen and the art of crayon-sharpening.
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I'm taking it as a compliment. I mean, who wouldn't want to be a schizophrenic's daydream? How ... literary of me.
Stumbled across this via BookLust, which chronicles the life and times of a Canadian illustrator who just so happens to have a serious book addiction complicated by unrequited longing for peanut butter.
After the jump, this week's Subway Reads:
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On Sunday, in a post-tequila state, I turned on NPR just in time for Jonathan Schwartz's The Sunday Show. His gentle voice talked my brain out of hangover with soothing overtones and audible breaths. And he kept repeating "Today is the first fall day... pause ... pause ... pause ..." It's kind of an odd sentence to repeat ... pause ... pause .... and to give such especial gravitas. And yet, thinking about this week on the train, it seemed as though everywhere you turned someone had their nose in a book. The perfect crisp and cold week to dig into that stack on the bedside table. And I wonder if it was the first fall week.
Below, this week's top five:
Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk
Margarettown: A Novel
by Gabrielle Zevin
Leslie: A Novel
by Omar Tyree
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Decline of the West
by Niall Ferguson
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