These may be the most beautiful things in my possession right now. Books from the the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s that my grandparents left in a box in our cabin for 40+ years.
Today I added them to my shelf and they don’t fit in right and they aren’t the flashy colors but they are how books should be. Classic.
This is why I find e-books so offensive. Books are art and deserve to be admired for their beauty long (before or) after their words are read. Q

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A Man Walks into a Room

“It was only that he couldn’t remember how he’d become whoever he now was.”

Only 20 pages into Nicole Kraus’ A Man Walks into a Room and I am already obsessed with this book. I’m also really annoyed that I started it on a week where I can’t give it the attention it derserves (freaking Aristotle essay!), but I guess it will make a good reward! 

So far it is a man with retrograde amnesia (already in love with this, right?) but it is unusual because he remembers his life before age 12 and he is trying to figure out who he is now that he is 30-something. Again, only twenty-odd pages into this, so I am still trying to get a grasp on the essence, but  it usually takes me a lot longer to know that I will love a book. But Kraus is one of the best authors I have come across (History of Love was perfection).

Anyways, just saying that I am excited for this book. 

Books, Spring quarter

• The Help, Stockett
• Julie and Julia, Powell
• Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Larson
• Girl Who Played with Fire, Larsson
• Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest, Larsson
• Downtown Owl, Klosterman
• Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
• To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee
• Euthyphro, Crito, Apology, Gorgias, Plato (Phil 340)
• Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle (Phil 340)

Left on my bookshelf for the quarter:

• Yoga Bitch, Morrison
• Man Walks Into a Room, Kraus
• The Dharma Bums, Keroac
• Hellenistic Philosphy (Phil 340)

Can probably manage three more by June 9th, but which ones. Hmm… I also really want to read House of Leaves again soon, maybe for summer. 

Also going to re-organize my bookshelf once I move back home. Maybe by last name this time? Or just tidy up the colors to add in new ones. I need to decide what I want to read for summer, and use my gift card that has been burning a hole since Christmas! 

I love what Teddy says about the floating orange peels.
(Teddy, J.D. Salinger)