Wednesday, March 31, 2010

reading, read

"...(her) commonness is not so extraordinary. But I expected better of someone who had married me."
-Roger the lawyer, in V.S. Naipaul's Magic Seeds.

And I just finished The Motel Life, by Willy Vlautin. The guy's a Portland writer, and it reads like a zine. It reminds me of Aaron Eliot, or Al Burian, or J.T. LeRoy. Gritty and fucked up and American, but I liked it.
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  1. J3/31/2010 1:11 PM

    I haven't read any of those authors. The last sentence you wrote made me want to read the book. :-)

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  2. selena3/31/2010 2:49 PM

    Is there time in your schedule for reading books? If so, I'll give it to you next time I see you. It's a quick read.

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  3. J4/01/2010 10:24 PM

    Yes please.

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  4. selena4/04/2010 3:20 PM

    You got it, babe. Did you go to the Lempicka thing yet?

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  5. J4/05/2010 2:22 PM

    No I haven't yet! What with the exhibition ending in May, you know how it is, there was tea and a soft blanket on the sofa, one thing led to another...

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  6. selena4/07/2010 8:42 PM

    Then we should hit it up this month.

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