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Ward Six is a daily digest of book reviews, literary analysis, personal observations, anecdotes, and opinions.
Rhian Ellis and J. Robert Lennon are writers living in upstate New York.
Ed Skoog is a writer living in Seattle.
Ed Skoog is a writer living in Seattle.
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8 comments:
So far:
Before She Met Me - Julian Barnes
Absent Without Leave - Heinrich Boll
Spartina - John Casey
Punk Rock Dad - Jim Lindberg
C - Tom McCarthy
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline - George Saunders
The End Of The Story - Lydia Davis
The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
The Funnies - Hmmm
Not a bad haul. This (gigantic) collection is my introduction to Eisenberg!
Happy holidays, and thanks for the gift of daily posts.
Rhian gave me "How To Wreck A Nice Beach," the new history of the vocoder!
Raymond Carver: Collected Stories (Library of America)! It's just a beautiful, beautiful book, especially when you take off the dust jacket.
There may be more...haven't had a chance to exchange all the gifts yet.
Merry Christmas!
- Sung
I had a feeling there were more:
Super Sad True Love Story
Stories (edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio)
3/03 by Chuck Wachtel
Tinkers
Boston Noir
Tinkers will be my next one to read!
- Sung
Let me know what you think of the Shteyngart. I have a review of it in the new LRB--I loathed his first two books but actually quite liked this one.
Rat Girl, Kristin Hersh's memoir. Plus, her newest music, Crooked, comes in book form - a small hard cover with beautiful photos, lyrics, essays and inspiration. A secret code in the book gets you all the music downloads and some other digital content. Neato.
I received-
Skippy Dies- Paul Murray
Ghost Stories- Edith Wharton
Dreaming in Chinese- Deborah Fallows
These are what I gave:
Quiet as They Come- Angie Chau
Best Music Writing 2010
Lord of Misrule (NBA winner)
How To Live in a Science Fiction Universe- Charles Yu
World War Z- Max Brooks
John Dies in the End- "David Wong" (pseudonym- seemed interesting on the book table)
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