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I picked up Roberto Bolano's Nazi Literature in the Americas a few days ago since I couldn't get enough of him, and I also bought the Melville edition of Harper Perreniel's new little short story collection, because I love what they've been doing with design and I couldn't argue with their consistent 10$ price point. Got last month's Believer at the same time and enjoyed the excerpt from A History of Kindness. The day after that I bought The Origin of Species by... well, by Darwin, because I realized I've never read the whole thing. Just today I came across a little bookstore that had a few copies of The Romantic Dogs, a book of Bolano's poetry, which is fantastic and, I'd argue, really constructive in getting a handle on his ouevre. They also had a gorgeous little bilingual Heinrich Heine collection-- maybe some other time.
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Eely posted:Just started a number of works on contemplative prayer(these include The Cloud of Unknowing and Open Mind, Open Heart, and I just finished a related book by Merton), which is a Christian analogue of sorts (similar, but certainly not the same) to meditative techniques from various Eastern traditions (e.g., Vipassana). Thomas Merton? I'm a huge fan of his poetry but never read his theological (I guess? Maybe his spiritual work is more apt?) stuff. Hm. Anyway I just bought Take It, Joshua Beckman's newest collection of poems. I've been hearing a lot of good things about him lately, but it's on the backburner while I finish some Melville short stories, picked up on the basis of how cute the new Harper line of short stories by various masters is-- might go out and get the Tolstoy one sometime, as well.
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Jun 11, 2009 00:50
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Found a lot of nice stuff at a B&N clearance this weekend. The Years by Virginia Woolf, another copy of Kant and the Platypus by Umberto Eco (loved this when I read it but never had my own copy), a big gorgeous Eco-edited anthology, On Ugliness, and The Varieties of Religious Experience by Carl Sagan which looks pretty good and warmed my hackles in recollection of good old William James.
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Jun 18, 2009 03:19
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37ArmsToBind posted:Has some very interesting tales despite the whole "god" thing. Luckily it's not meant to be read that way. What do you mean? Surely you don't seriously think that a book including a theistic presence in even a clearly fictional sense is a mark against it.
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