re: books

I read whatever crosses my path. Since ceasing to just buy books outright and get them either through the library or through my volunteer work, I take a lot more risks with choosing books. It's surprisingly rewarding.

I do like to keep an eye out for other works by authors I already enjoy (cf: the Murakami , Carson, and Oliver in July).

I especially take note of articles that clue me into something worth tracking down - for this month, that includes:

this Believer article on the Codex

and this NYRB article by Zadie Smith that references The Remainder (and Netherland, which I read back in March)

also there was a lovely NYT article on Mary Oliver and Provincetown, not far from where I grew up (and you can hear her reading her poems).

July 2009

Books:

And Now You Can Go, Vendela Vida
Thirst, Mary Oliver
The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami
The Atlas of Experience, Louise van Swaaij
Collected Poems, Elizabeth Bishop
Codex Seraphinianus, Luigi Serafini
The Executor, Michael Kruger
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, Vendela Vida
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, translated by Anne Carson
Minotaur, Benjamin Tammuz
Remainder, Tom McCarthy
The Silver Linings Playbook, Matthew Quick

Movies:

Lolita
Bringing Up Baby
The Money Pit
I've Loved You So Long
The Royal Tenenbaums (my favorite movie)
Rushmore


Surreptitious pictures of some of my favorite Codex illustrations: