I never considered buying a Kindle. Until, well, last week for about five minutes before I bought one. It could be that I pre-ordered one of the new (cheapest) Kindles because since my house was burgled I’ve been suffering unreasonable urges to buy more stuff. But I hope I ordered it because of the reason [...]
Posts Tagged ‘books’
is buying a Kindle a betrayal?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, Kindle, library, reading on September 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
is your library your memory theater?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, My Life, reading on August 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Oh, the joy of discovery just when you’re turning circles on the straight road of reason. I’ve been pondering In Defense of the Memory Theater, by Nathan Schneider. His essay explores what we lose as our physical book collections, gathered by mind, heart and soul, are replaced with millions of restless individual books digitized mainly [...]
dissolving into completeness
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, My Life on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I found another quote, this time written in a black and white faux marbled mini-notebook that I bought at Walgreen’s a few years ago, three for a dollar. I almost remember watching a c-span show about Willa Cather and scrambling to find something to write the quote in. Found a page in the middle of [...]
the half-life of language
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, current events on June 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just finished reading About a Mountain by John D’Agata, a creative literary nonfiction book about Yucca Mountain, with Las Vegas, mothers, language and suicide striations flowing through it. Yucca Mountain, 90 miles from Las Vegas, is the site originally chosen to be the U.S. repository for spent nuclear reactor fuel. All the billions of dollars [...]
falling through the ice with proust
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, My Life on June 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I was cleaning my desk, a drop leaf with cubbies crammed with once-important papers now immobilized into clutter. Amidst receipts, subscription offers and communications from credit card and insurance companies I found half a yellow index card with writing on it. I occasionally jot down bits of things I read and like, and tuck the [...]
It’s 2 a.m. and where is your worry?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, thoughts on May 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In Rebecca Solnit’s book A Field Guide to Getting Lost there’s a section called “The Blue of Distance” in which she uses maps as metaphor. In early maps California appeared (or rather, didn’t) as “Terra Incognita.” Gradually, pieces of the geographic puzzle were placed, but their names, locations, and shapes were not always grounded in [...]
