Saturday, August 11, 2007

More Books

Over the course of several months. More books, including Buried Alive: The Terrifying History Of Our Most Primal Fear by Jan Bondeson; The City Lights Poets Pocket Anthology ed. Lawrence Ferlinghetti; 26a: A Novel by Diana Evans; Autobiography Of Red by Anne Carson; Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald; What Happened This Summer by Paul Yee; A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews; and, last but not least - and just when you were thinking to yourself how literate everyone is in my building - a paperback edition of the Star Wars book Tales From The Mos Eisley Cantina. Yes, just what the literary world was asking for back in 1995 - one short story for every minor character that was in that one scene in the first Star Wars film (alright, fine, technically the fourth). I got it for my friend Scott, who doesn't read enough fiction, the consensus is. Look, he has to start somewhere. Although I'm certainly not one to judge - after all, I read a few of the Tales before I handed them off to Scott and I haven't exactly cracked Sebald's essays yet, have I, no, I haven't.

Um ... thanks, grey box.

2 comments:

Michelle Crowther said...

Is 'What happened this Summer' the sequel to 'I know what you did Last Summer'?

JB said...

I don't think so, MC - the one is all about Chinese Canadian adolescents, and the other (so far as I can remember) is all about Jennifer Love Hewitt's clingy sweater.