Friday, August 13, 2010

Can't find the right book.

For the umpteenth time I have finished reading something and am looking for the next one. There are so many books and so little time. This is an important decision. Even after a bit of a purge the pile on my bedside table remains large. I am having trouble settling. The pile contains:
'When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead' by Jerry Weintraub
(This is from the library. I read a favorable review somewhere.)
'Ecology Of A Cracker Childhood' by Janisse Ray
(Also from the library and definitely here because of a favorable review from a blog found from a blog and if memory serves, the recommender is a proponent of slow-reading.)
'Musicophilia' by Oliver Sacks
(Music is medicine for me. I know this will be a delight and keep renewing it but haven't felt up to non-fiction.)
'Pleasures: Women Write Erotica' edited by Lonnie Barbach, Ph.D.
(Library. The pieces I’ve read have been rather disappointing so far.)
'The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde'
(I needed her strength. Library.)
'Another Roadside Attraction' by Tom Robbins
(Revisiting this book might be interesting.)
The Audubon Society's 'Field Guide to North American Insects & Spiders'
(There was an unusual spider crawling on my wall and bed the other night.)
Charles Dickens' 'Pickwick Papers'
(Been meaning to get around to this book.)
'Troubling A Star' by Madeleine L'Engle
(Found in the library’s sale books. Gotta love Madeleine.)
Marge Piercy's 'Fly Away Home'
(The first few pages were oh so good but moderately distressing.
I'm not sure now is the time for this.)
'Slow Hand: Women Writing Erotica' edited by Michele Slung
(For years a regular presence on my bedside table.)
Mark Sebastian Jordan's 'The Book of Jobs'
(A new book by a new friend.)
'The Comedians' by Graham Greene
(I loved 'Travels With My Aunt.')
'How I Became Hettie Jones' by Hettie Jones
(This arrived here because of a memoir kick that I was on a few months ago.)
Irvine Welsh's 'Filth'
(I loved 'Ecstasy.’ Know that I need to read more of him.)
There are also two dictionaries - Webster's New World (paperback so it can be easily tucked under the pillow) and Webster's Ninth New Collegiate (because sometimes paperback is not enough).

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