My love affair with Banana Yoshimoto’s work continues unabated. Somehow, her narratives, in which nothing really happens, distill a sense of loss and love into the perfect bittersweetness. Sparse yet still passionate.
I began reading Hardboiled and Hardluck back in November. The first novella kept me up until 3am on a weeknight - which wasn’t the [...]
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 I'm a student pursuing a doctoral degree in late medieval history. My main interests include but are not limited to Latin, Italian, cultural theory, educational curriculum, historiography, cognitive processes, language-theory, gender relations and THE WESTERN CANON (mwahaha); i am not particularly interesting, avant-garde or risque; My main hobbies include the exciting activities of cooking, baking, going to the gym, eating green apple-caramel lollipops, restaurant reviewing and acting as child-like and sassy as possible. I keep these entries from the years of my life - no matter how i feel about them today - available because i find it useful to revisit events i now interpret differently. My name is heather, i'm of Montreal and i was born in the nefarious, ominous year 1984. |
Having recently read Auster’s Brooklyn Follies and enjoyed it quite a bit, i stole Travels in the Scriptorium: A Novel from Bryan’s bookshelf to read on the two-hour train from NYC to Baltimore. Image via Wikipedia Penguin Books in the UK has embarked upon a foray into digital fiction. Unlike the highly unsatisfactory wikinovel project - We Tell Stories is not only highly entertaining but also pretty high quality. Six authors of repute have put together six stories that utilize digital media in a way that print cannot. |
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