Book Nomad

Moving

Taylor — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:42:34 +0000

Go to Ahlan wa Cheerio for more in depth thoughts.

The Map of Love – Ahdaf Soueif

Taylor — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:13:51 +0000

Ahlan wa Cheerio

Leaving Atlanta – Tayari Jones

Taylor — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:56:47 +0000

Finished 6.7.07

March – Geraldine Brooks

Taylor — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:17:33 +0000

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

Taylor — Tue, 22 May 2007 04:44:59 +0000

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

Taylor — Mon, 21 May 2007 00:01:35 +0000

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

Taylor — Thu, 17 May 2007 01:42:05 +0000

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

Taylor — Wed, 02 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

finished 5.1.07

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

The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls

Taylor — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:47:06 +0000

finished 4.27.07 alternately compelling and frustrating

Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry

Taylor — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:24:16 +0000

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