Purchasing Power!
I blew off my academic stuff for the better part of the day and went running 'round with my mother instead. We ate great Mexican food, looked at flowers at Home Depot, and went to the bookstore for books and coffee. Hastings carries used books now in addition to their new stock, so I found a couple of bargains. I bought:
The Cats in Krasinski Square. I found this picture book for $3.50!!! Woooo! Hardback and all. It wasn't my favorite of the Holocaust picture books we read, but good nonetheless. And I like to tell myself I'm building my academic library.
Wolves in the Walls, by Neil Gaiman. I love Gaiman...I loved Coraline. I can't imagine what a picture book from he and Dave McKean will be like, but I'm looking forward to finding out!
The Song of the Magdalene, by Donna Jo Napoli. This is a YA book that my prof had her undergrads read. Sounded really good, so I'll be picking it up soonish. Here's a blurb from B&N:
"Miriam, daughter of a wealthy Jewish widower in Magdala, is 10 when the novel opens and is about to have her first seizure. Miriam's experiences over the next eight or nine years build up in her a rage at social injustice as well as solidarity with the sick and suffering, therefore preparing her for the fellowship of Joshua, "the healer that the Romans called Jesus," whom she meets in the final passages. Miriam suffers more seizures; loves a "cripple" despite popular belief that the diseased are "inhabited by demons"; buries her lover; discovers herself pregnant; is raped so violently that she miscarries; and is sent out of Magdala for her own safety."
And last, but certainly not least, a short story collection, I Am No One You Know, by the illustrious Joyce Carol Oates. I love her with bleeding hearts and dead flowers...because perky hearts and pristine flowers would not be to her liking.
On TV: Proof
Listening: "Cab"...Train
Reading: almost done with Mules and Men by Hurston
The Cats in Krasinski Square. I found this picture book for $3.50!!! Woooo! Hardback and all. It wasn't my favorite of the Holocaust picture books we read, but good nonetheless. And I like to tell myself I'm building my academic library.
Wolves in the Walls, by Neil Gaiman. I love Gaiman...I loved Coraline. I can't imagine what a picture book from he and Dave McKean will be like, but I'm looking forward to finding out!
The Song of the Magdalene, by Donna Jo Napoli. This is a YA book that my prof had her undergrads read. Sounded really good, so I'll be picking it up soonish. Here's a blurb from B&N:
"Miriam, daughter of a wealthy Jewish widower in Magdala, is 10 when the novel opens and is about to have her first seizure. Miriam's experiences over the next eight or nine years build up in her a rage at social injustice as well as solidarity with the sick and suffering, therefore preparing her for the fellowship of Joshua, "the healer that the Romans called Jesus," whom she meets in the final passages. Miriam suffers more seizures; loves a "cripple" despite popular belief that the diseased are "inhabited by demons"; buries her lover; discovers herself pregnant; is raped so violently that she miscarries; and is sent out of Magdala for her own safety."
And last, but certainly not least, a short story collection, I Am No One You Know, by the illustrious Joyce Carol Oates. I love her with bleeding hearts and dead flowers...because perky hearts and pristine flowers would not be to her liking.
On TV: Proof
Listening: "Cab"...Train
Reading: almost done with Mules and Men by Hurston
posted by Andi at 11:09 PM
2 Comments:
Hmmmm....mexican food....I sooooo want some....
drool
The books sound good. I love Gaiman too, especially Coraline. Did you know that Fables is a spinoff of his Sandman books? I don't remember where I read that.
I love Oates too. I really need to read more by her. Maybe I'll read The Tattoo Girl next.
Mexican food is my faavorite, and I so rarely get what I really want (enchiladas or flautas) in favor of healthy'ish (taco salad).
I had no idea Fables was a spinoff of the Sandman. I have the first one on my TBR, haven't read it yet.
I started reading The Tattoo Girl a while back but didn't finish. No fault of the book's. It was REALLY good. As soon as I find a cheap copy I'm buying it.
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