"What it all comes to is a confused and incoherent mixture of stories which are as old as the hills but are still unfinished"
Friday, December 24, 2010
Merry Christmas
A merry Christmas to all W6 readers who celebrate it, and to those who don't, may you endure its excesses in peace. See you in a few days. In the meantime, let us know what books you got. And has anybody figured out an adequate way to wrap an ebook?
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.
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.
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)
So far:
ReplyDeleteBefore She Met Me - Julian Barnes
Absent Without Leave - Heinrich Boll
Spartina - John Casey
Punk Rock Dad - Jim Lindberg
C - Tom McCarthy
ReplyDeleteCivilWarLand 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!
ReplyDeleteRaymond Carver: Collected Stories (Library of America)! It's just a beautiful, beautiful book, especially when you take off the dust jacket.
ReplyDeleteThere may be more...haven't had a chance to exchange all the gifts yet.
Merry Christmas!
- Sung
I had a feeling there were more:
ReplyDeleteSuper 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.
ReplyDeleteRat 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.
ReplyDeleteI received-
ReplyDeleteSkippy 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)