My to-read-when-school-gets-out book pile is getting has gotten out of control and I love it. I have added three more books since I mentioned the growing pile on the 17th. The recently added books are:
- The Infinity of Lists by Umberto Eco. I have been wanting to read this for ages. Eco curated an exhibit are the Louvre with the subject being lists. I love lists! This book has photos of the art and essays by Eco. He has a new book out in the UK, This is Not the End of the Book, which will hopefully be available in the US soon.
- Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. This one is due to the Hornby book I just finished and to the various comments of people who had read it and said it is really good.
- Notes for Joyce by Don Gifford. I plan on reading Ulysses by James Joyce this summer and this hefty book is going to help me do it. It is an entire book of annotations.
It also appears that a book on Emily Dickinson’s garden will be ready for me in a week or so. I am going to try and restrain myself from requesting anything else from the library on a whim. Or maybe not. I am having such fun.
Two weeks from today I will be completely done with school. Sooner if I can motivate myself to finish the final assignment early. The impending holiday weekend forecast is for rain all three days. Perhaps I will be able to get myself to do the assignment then. Or maybe I will just read.
woohoo!! the Dickenson book sounds like fun. I am fighting off the guilties for having multiple books out slightly overdue right now…
Congrats on school!!
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Daphne, doesn’t it though? I am sure I will want to make a Dickinson graden, only trouble is, she lived in a more temperate climate than I do! And thanks!
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So exciting that you’ll be at the end of this chunk of your educational life. Good luck with that final assignment.
I’m so looking forward to hearing more about Umberto Eco’s new book. Seems like we haven’t got a lot of press for it yet. Have a great time with his book on lists (lists are compulsively awesome).
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Umberto is always a bit of a heavy read for me, but I do love his work. Especially the Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanna. This sounds good! Just like you, this teacher is ready for school to end and reading to begin!
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Yay–so close. I’ll be happy to see someone else with a reading pile as big as (or maybe even bigger!:) ) than myself. Since you are going to be reading Ulysses, you might be interested in this:
http://11ysses.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/tweet-ulysses-for-bloomsday/
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i can totally vouch for fun home by AB…her comics have been essential to many in the glbtqi community in terms of self-acceptance and coming out. great book; be sure to check out her other collections, too, if you get a moment!
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So near the finishing line! As for the part about a tbr pile getting out of control…. what does this mean? The words are all English but they make no sense to me. 😉
Hope you are having a lovely cosy holiday with lots of reading!
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Bookgazing, I’m looking forward to hearing more about Eco’s new book too. I’ve only seen a mention of it in the Guardian I believe it was.
Belezza, Quenn Loanna was good, wasn’t it? Eco is definitely not an easy breezy read though. I hope you are done with teaching soon!
Danielle, oh, thanks for that link! Tweeting Ulysses. I will have to investigate that further for sure. I am also working really hard to make my in progress and to read next piles as big as yours 😉
erica, thanks! I will be sure to look at her other stuff too!
Litlove, LOL, I am sure that very soon they won’t make any sense to me either 😉
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Back from Japan and slowly catching up. Woo hoo, eh? Nearly done. I look forward to hearing about the Dickinson book, particularly having just organised much of our Japan itinerary about special gardeners. Am not a good gardener myself but I do love to visit them and dream.
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