I just need something here so that this irritating block isn't over anything important.

Random floaty text!!! What am I doing here?

EW's New Classics

1. The Road , Cormac McCarthy

2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling

3. Beloved, Toni Morrison

4. The Liars' Club, Mary Karr

5. American Pastoral, Philip Roth

6. Mystic River, Dennis Lehane

7. Maus, Art Spiegelman

8. Selected Stories, Alice Munro

9. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier

10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami

11. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer

12. Blindness, José Saramago

13. Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

14. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates

15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers

16. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

17. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez

18. Rabbit at Rest, John Updike

19. On Beauty, Zadie Smith

20. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding

21. On Writing, Stephen King

22. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz

23. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker

24. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry

25. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan

26. Neuromancer, William Gibson

27. Possession, A.S. Byatt

28. Naked, David Sedaris

29. Bel Canto, Anne Patchett

30. Case Histories, Kate Atkinson

31. The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien

32. Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch

33. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion

34. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold

35. The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst

36. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt

37. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

38. Birds of America, Lorrie Moore

39. Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri

40. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman

41. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros

42. LaBrava, Elmore Leonard

43. Borrowed Time, Paul Monette

44. Praying for Sheetrock, Melissa Fay Greene

45. Eva Luna, Isabel Allende

46. Sandman, Neil Gaiman

47. World's Fair, E.L. Doctorow

48. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

49. Clockers, Richard Price

50. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen

51. The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcom

52. Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan

53. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon

54. Jimmy Corrigan, Chris Ware

55. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls

56. The Night Manager, John le Carré

57. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe

58. Drop City, TC Boyle

59. Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat

60. Nickel & Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich

61. Money, Martin Amis

62. Last Train To Memphis, Peter Guralnick

63. Pastoralia, George Saunders

64. Underworld, Don DeLillo

65. The Giver, Lois Lowry

66. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace

67. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

68. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel

69. Secret History, Donna Tartt

70. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell

71. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann Fadiman

72. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon

73. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving

74. Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger

75. Cathedral, Raymond Carver

76. A Sight for Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell

77. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro

78. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert

79. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell

80. Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney

81. Backlash, Susan Faludi

82. Atonement, Ian McEwan

83. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields

84. Holes, Louis Sachar

85. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson

86. And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts

87. The Ruins, Scott Smith

88. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby

89. Close Range, Annie Proulx

90. Comfort Me With Apples, Ruth Reichl

91. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

92. Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow

93. A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley

94. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser

95. Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Goodman

96. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown

97. Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson

98. The Predators' Ball, Connie Bruck

99. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman

100. America (the Book), Jon Stewart/Daily Show (2004)

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Friday, December 30, 2011

Still dithering.

You guys are aces with your camera app recs.  But BECAUSE of you and your awesome recs, you will now be forced to endure a long and insufferable period in which I think I am the first person to discover Arty Photos, and in which all my photos are modified to hell.

Por ejemplo this, the Traditional Post Of Christmas Braggery.

So my sister bought me the Entire Jane Austen Canon.  It is massive and purple.  The enormous gold armlet is for scale.  The book is, I tell you, huge.


She also got me this card


which I think you will enjoy.


My brother and sister-in-law got me this excellently scary knife, made of folded steel like a very tiny, very fancy sword.


Watch your backs, butternut squashes.

And my other sister-in-law got me THIS wondrous beast, which needs no photo editing due to being inherently great:


Right?  That's going in the baby's room, as soon as the baby has a room.

And then we spent the Unborn Child's Christmas money on one of these inglorious basterds, rationalizing that it will make us better parents.


I thoroughly apologize for the entirety of this post.  I am reading Lady Audley's Secret and it is JUICY and I promise Thoughts And Feelings Thereon for you soon(ish).
Posted by raych at 10:31 PM

9 comments:

  1. Ooooh I loved Lady Audley's Secret. I randomly plucked it from the library stacks a few years ago, pre-blogging, when I still thought that 'old' mean dull. Whoa boy was I wrong.

    And yay for spending unborn Raychette's Christmas money. If she wanted something other than a fancy appliance, she should have decided to make her appearance already so she could have made her opinion known.

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  2. The Keurig. Ahhh. A finely purchased item, my friend. This will make you a better everything. I love my Keurig. In fact, I'm staring fondly at it now.

    Have a safe and Happy New Year!

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  3. yay! I bought the hubby a similar knife- made the same way they make samurai swords= awesomeness in the kitchen. Or so I hope.

    And agreed that baby books i done read's money was well spent, she'll agree when the caffeine takes your edge off at 3am.

    I got an ipod touch so am also able to relate to how bored I am making those around me with my excitement for apps and twitter without using the computer.
    yay toys!!

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  4. Mother-of-god, I loved Lady Audley's Secret. So good. I went on a bit of a Victorian Sensation binge last year & this was one of the winners. Familiar with The Woman in White? or East Lynne? or Aurora Floyd? All excellent, but The Woman in White is a definite favorite. (And if you haven't read Fingersmith yet--I'm sure you have, but just in case--read that too. I LOVE it when people are reading books I like! Aren't the interwebs fun?

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  5. What exactly is on that knife …..?????

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  6. Oh yes … Wishing you a wonderful 2012 filled with 5 star reads! And a baby!

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  7. Wonderful pics...and Lady Audley, too! Can't wait for your thoughts.

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  8. Sounds brilliant. I received a few Jane Austens and As I Lay Dying by Faulkner. Most exciting of all was the ereader I got from hubby. Never thought id be converted but I already have 400 new books!! And I don't have to find a single shelf to put them on.

    Got lots of books for baby for when it comes, but just the though of putting its room together is tiring :-) Better get a move on soon though!

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  9. I would love to scare with that knife my sweetheart who doesn't love me!

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