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desayunoencamaBooks bought today: 11. (Mostly poetry: the Strand is having a dollar sale today and tomorrow--NYers take note!)
Books found today: 1 (a copy of Lars Eighner's memoir about being homeless--was it intentional irony that it was left abandoned beside a trash can?--that I gave to a friend of a friend in Brooklyn tonight...)
The books I bought were:
Carolyn Hart, DEATH ON THE RIVER WALK (Henrie O. mystery)
William Zissner, A FAMILY OF READERS (the history of the book-of-the-month club)
Jane Kenyon, OTHERWISE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
Marge Peircy, MARS AND HER CHILDREN (poetry)
Gregory Djanikian, ABOUT DISTANCE (poetry--actually read the entire book on the subway back from dinner in Brooklyn; three very good poems toward the end, will want to go back and reread those three when less sleepy. Not a poet I knew anything about or had ever heard of before, it was just something I picked up and thumbed through and because of the price decided to try.)
David St. John, HUSH (poetry)
Robin Morgan, DEPTH PERCEPTION (poetry)
TABLE FOR ONE (guide to nyc restaurants to eat at alone--an impulse buy, a bit out of date since was pubbed in 2002 but I liked the conceit)
Peter Dickinson, HEALER (YA fantasy; have never read Dickinson, keep meaning to...)
Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson, A FAST AND BRUTAL WING (YA fantasy about shape-shifting siblings; I know nothing about the author or book, but it felt nice as a book object and looked interesting, so... an impulse buy at a NY Public Library Booksale)
I spent perhaps an hour and a half at my bank today, arguing over some charges they shouldn't have made, trying to learn to use online banking (the system kept timing out before I finished entering info), etc. I'm in general pretty happy with Bank of America, but this is the third bank I'm with (without having changed branch location, even!): I opened a Natwest account a gazillion years ago, they got sold to Fleet, who got sold now to BoA...
Dinner was thai: mediocre. Lunch with Dad at French bistro in midtwon was nice, both conversation and food. Now to fall blissfully asleep again, an early brunch tomorrow with family.
Books found today: 1 (a copy of Lars Eighner's memoir about being homeless--was it intentional irony that it was left abandoned beside a trash can?--that I gave to a friend of a friend in Brooklyn tonight...)
The books I bought were:
Carolyn Hart, DEATH ON THE RIVER WALK (Henrie O. mystery)
William Zissner, A FAMILY OF READERS (the history of the book-of-the-month club)
Jane Kenyon, OTHERWISE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
Marge Peircy, MARS AND HER CHILDREN (poetry)
Gregory Djanikian, ABOUT DISTANCE (poetry--actually read the entire book on the subway back from dinner in Brooklyn; three very good poems toward the end, will want to go back and reread those three when less sleepy. Not a poet I knew anything about or had ever heard of before, it was just something I picked up and thumbed through and because of the price decided to try.)
David St. John, HUSH (poetry)
Robin Morgan, DEPTH PERCEPTION (poetry)
TABLE FOR ONE (guide to nyc restaurants to eat at alone--an impulse buy, a bit out of date since was pubbed in 2002 but I liked the conceit)
Peter Dickinson, HEALER (YA fantasy; have never read Dickinson, keep meaning to...)
Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson, A FAST AND BRUTAL WING (YA fantasy about shape-shifting siblings; I know nothing about the author or book, but it felt nice as a book object and looked interesting, so... an impulse buy at a NY Public Library Booksale)
I spent perhaps an hour and a half at my bank today, arguing over some charges they shouldn't have made, trying to learn to use online banking (the system kept timing out before I finished entering info), etc. I'm in general pretty happy with Bank of America, but this is the third bank I'm with (without having changed branch location, even!): I opened a Natwest account a gazillion years ago, they got sold to Fleet, who got sold now to BoA...
Dinner was thai: mediocre. Lunch with Dad at French bistro in midtwon was nice, both conversation and food. Now to fall blissfully asleep again, an early brunch tomorrow with family.
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Date: 2005-09-24 03:51 am (UTC)P.
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Date: 2005-09-24 11:51 pm (UTC)How do you do it?
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Date: 2005-09-25 12:21 am (UTC)My job is flexible, and I can "justify" reading a lot as part of my job.
I enjoy reading.
I make time for it.
I have stamina and can read for many hours in a row.