a lifetime is not enough for books.
August 21, 2007
one of the benefits of commuting is lots of reading time.
this is an on-going list of the books i’ve read since july ‘07 [the approximate time i started working.] other book related thoughts will get their own posts as we go.
1. dune.
2. the fountainhead.
3. truth and beauty.
4. on beauty.
5. bel canto.
6. a man without a country.
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August 21, 2007 at 4:53 pm
I’ll never read the backlog of books I’ve accumulated as it is and yet I constantly add MORE books to my collection. They teeter in stacks and clog my bookshelves, causing them to bow in the middle. I’ve got a soft spot for French literature: Gide and Proust and
Camus. When will I have time to untangle their intricate passages and divine hidden messages? If I had a hundred more years I still couldn’t manage to read half the books I own. Buying books at this point is a compulsive, irrational act. Mea culpa…
August 22, 2007 at 3:16 pm
i still swear my books multiply like bunnies in the night. i couldn’t have possibly bought all of them myself. it doesn’t hurt that i can’t bear to part with any of them of course.