What'cha Reading?

[lovesjoyajm]

I bought the cheapest bookcase Ikea had - makes no sense to invest into buying stuff for an apartment I'm leaving in 5 months - but it's all full already. I have no idea what I'm going to do with all these books when I leave. Or my guitar, for that matter.

[misombra]

i'm reading a book about gardening in the southwest.

[lovesjoyajm]

i'm reading a book about gardening in the southwest.

mmmmmmmmm southwest

[Indignant]

so i had to go pee in the middle of the night tonight, and knocked my book off of a counter straight into the toilet...i only had about 50 pages left till the end...what do i do? do i go and buy a new one now?

[Gribble]

Did you knock it in before or after?

If it isn't soiled you can sit it on a window ledge or something. Stand it upright with paper towels underneath. Open the cover but don't try to separate the pages. Sandwich more paper towels inside the cover and between all the pages. Leave it like that for a day or so, then replace the paper towels, flip the book upside down and repeat.

Or, y'know, just go buy a new one.

[Indignant]

Did you knock it in before or after?

If it isn't soiled you can sit it on a window ledge or something. Stand it upright with paper towels underneath. Open the cover but don't try to separate the pages. Sandwich more paper towels inside the cover and between all the pages. Leave it like that for a day or so, then replace the paper towels, flip the book upside down and repeat.

Or, y'know, just go buy a new one.

it's an OR situation, i guess new one it is

[doppelgaenger]

Midnight Express by Billy Hayes.

I saw the movie this evening on TCM. I stayed up pretty much all night to see what would happen next. Now I have to read the book.

[Miss Chievious]

If anyone likes Dean Koontz or Stephen King - esque novels..
I highly recommend any books by Richard Laymon.

[Gigabitch]

I just finished a book called The Stolen Child, by Keith Donohue. I want to recommend it for Lovesjoyajm. Tell me what you think!

[lovesjoyajm]

Thanks, I'll pick it up next time I'm at the bookstore!

[Gribble]

Giga, that book's been sitting on my shelf for years now. Never seem to get around to it.

[doppelgaenger]

I am reading An Orgy of George. It's contains all three of George Carlin's books, plus some 30 odd pages of other material.

[Gigabitch]

I am reading An Orgy of George. It's contains all three of George Carlin's books, plus some 30 odd pages of other material.

I could go for an orgy of George....


Clooney.

[starbuck]

I'm reading a few collection of the "Pearls Before Swine" comics by Stephan Pastis. Good stuff

[lovesjoyajm]

I went to the bookstore yesterday to order The Stolen Child and while I was there I bought The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert - the author of Eat Pray Love if anyone's read that.

It was a quick read, and it made me laugh because I had considered getting it for my mom for Christmas - I am glad I didn't now, because she would've seen it (at least the beginning) as me trying to back up my I-don't-wanna-settle-down-quite-yet lifestyle. (The author went out west at 22 and pretended to be a cowgirl on a ranch for the summer. Kind of like I did last summer.) Anyway, it wasn't quite what I expected but I enjoyed it. Sort of a non-fiction, less idealized, half memoir/half biography unfinished grown-up My Side of the Mountain.

Went back today and got The Stolen Child, so I'll tell you what I think soon, Giga.