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Midnight Kinki Animal Reading Bonk
May. 7th, 2008 10:39 pmMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Berendt
This was a lot of fun. A lot of terribly engaging secondary characters. Not sure it would've gotten published as nonfiction these days, despite prominent disclaimers. Want to go reread Lady Chablis' autobiography now.
(69/300)
Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States, edited by Thomas Augst and Kenneth Carpenter
Fairly academic in tone, but full of interesting tidbits of information, even for a more general reader. Loved the articles on African-American reading rooms and on Marianne Moore & Nella Larsen...
(70/300)
The Animal Dialogues, by Craig Childs
I started reading this book, was irritated by the author's narrative voice, wandered off, and came back a month later to fall in love. Full of poetry and sharp observation - and the author is one of those people who takes all sorts of risks I find appealing but choose not to take, and then comes back and writes stories down for my voracious reading pleasure. I have no idea what I thought I was reading first time around - something more pretentious and less grounded, maybe?
(71/300)
Kinki Lullaby, by Isaac Adamson
Enjoyable mystery, latest in a series starring Billy Chaka, gaijin journalist writing for fans of Asian youth culture. I sort of felt like it was trying too hard or something; it didn't have the hallucinatorily lovely quality that I vaguely remember from, say, Dreaming Pachinko - but I still read it in about a day, and it was yummy. Just a tiny bit ... by the numbers, I guess.
(72/300)
Bonk, by Mary Roach
The doyenne of highly-informative research-dense black comedy takes on the world of sex science. If you like her stuff, you'll like this; if you haven't read any of her stuff, start with Stiff (unless you're really interested in sex research, then you probably want to read this anyway). I'm not sure I liked this as much as her other two, but that might just be because I was more well-informed about the field to start with... less 'oooo, really?!?' going on.
(73/300)
This was a lot of fun. A lot of terribly engaging secondary characters. Not sure it would've gotten published as nonfiction these days, despite prominent disclaimers. Want to go reread Lady Chablis' autobiography now.
(69/300)
Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States, edited by Thomas Augst and Kenneth Carpenter
Fairly academic in tone, but full of interesting tidbits of information, even for a more general reader. Loved the articles on African-American reading rooms and on Marianne Moore & Nella Larsen...
(70/300)
The Animal Dialogues, by Craig Childs
I started reading this book, was irritated by the author's narrative voice, wandered off, and came back a month later to fall in love. Full of poetry and sharp observation - and the author is one of those people who takes all sorts of risks I find appealing but choose not to take, and then comes back and writes stories down for my voracious reading pleasure. I have no idea what I thought I was reading first time around - something more pretentious and less grounded, maybe?
(71/300)
Kinki Lullaby, by Isaac Adamson
Enjoyable mystery, latest in a series starring Billy Chaka, gaijin journalist writing for fans of Asian youth culture. I sort of felt like it was trying too hard or something; it didn't have the hallucinatorily lovely quality that I vaguely remember from, say, Dreaming Pachinko - but I still read it in about a day, and it was yummy. Just a tiny bit ... by the numbers, I guess.
(72/300)
Bonk, by Mary Roach
The doyenne of highly-informative research-dense black comedy takes on the world of sex science. If you like her stuff, you'll like this; if you haven't read any of her stuff, start with Stiff (unless you're really interested in sex research, then you probably want to read this anyway). I'm not sure I liked this as much as her other two, but that might just be because I was more well-informed about the field to start with... less 'oooo, really?!?' going on.
(73/300)
