Moving

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The Map of Love – Ahdaf Soueif

Ahlan wa Cheerio

Leaving Atlanta – Tayari Jones

Finished 6.7.07

March – Geraldine Brooks

Finished 6.19.2007

How did I end up being tricked into reading a book about Little Women and the Civil war?

Miami – Joan Didion

Finished 5.22.07 (immediately after midnight).

“begins:  Havana vanities come to dust in Miami.” the perfect understanding and placement of words. I’m shocked that nearly 200 pages of political intriguing surround U.S. foreign policy in Latin America from 1960 to 1980 could be so… sexy? Even with Didion’s wild sentence construction, I can’t imagine any word being different.

The Wedding of Zein – Tayeb Salih

short-stories by the author of one of my favorite novels – “Season of Migration to the North”

(arabic: Urs-u-al-zein)

Finished 5.20.07

Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller

was for 196. Finished after the fact on 5.16.07. Lovely passages of language, real sense of newness. “whitman among the corpses”. makes me want to read all of whitman. ugly side of france, can’t stop being american. Barely fiction.

Winner of “most awkward stare for reading material on the Metro”, because people only know it from that “Seinfeld” episode.

The Matisse Stories – A.S. Byatt

finished 5.1.07

yay short stories about art. good pick from annual book sale in Kogan

The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls

finished 4.27.07 alternately compelling and frustrating

Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry

Engl 195. finished 4.24.07. I’d write more but I’ve got 5 hours left to write a paper on it.