old cypress » bookkeeping http://www.trois-royaumes.com/blog wide, wide though writhing roots Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:19:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 State of the reading http://www.trois-royaumes.com/blog/2009/10/20/111/ http://www.trois-royaumes.com/blog/2009/10/20/111/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:51:17 +0000 troisroyaumes http://www.trois-royaumes.com/blog/?p=111 I finished Unseen Academicals (Indiebound | Powell’s) last week; thoughts to follow soon. I’m currently in the middle of Status Anxiety (Powell’s | Indiebound) and The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (Powell’s | Indiebound), both by Alain de Botton.

I forgot to mention the used books I bought at Half-Price Books during their Labor Day Sale.

I took a look at the first chapter of Waiting and felt tempted to continue but decided to hold off until I finished other books first.

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I also bought (and started) the latest Discworld novel from Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals (Indiebound | Powell’s), which is about the Unseen University beginning its own football team. In a way, it’s a sort of birthday present, since I used the gift certificate that K. gave me several weeks ago to purchase it.

A list of ebooks on my work computer, none of which I have even opened yet:

  • Stranger Things Happen, by Kelly Link
  • Magic for Beginners, by Kelly Link
  • The Ant King and Other Stories, by Benjamin Rosenbaum
  • Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe

I’m embarrassed to admit that I still haven’t read the last book on the list. I dug up the ebook after reading that Achebe has written new book after twenty years (Reuters).

I also have a copy of Helen DeWitt’s Your Name Here (available for purchase here). I began the book several months ago, but I lost my place in the file and haven’t been able to retrieve it. I suspect I really ought to move it to my home computer, where I can use Stanza.

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