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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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Thursday Dithers

Tublenets!  Remember how it took me, like, three weeks to read Lady Audley's Secret?


Well now I am reading The Scorpio Races AND The Fault In Our Stars AT THE SAME TIME and I am LITERALLY beside myself. No, not literally. If I were, I could be reading both books at the same time quandry unquandered! But alas, I have to divide my time evenly between them and then this infant thing is all like, Hello? It has been twelve minutes since I fed, and I would like to feed again. And when I say 'feed' I mean 'distractedly gnaw on you so that you have to keep poking me to redirect my attention. Good luck reading while I do that.'

Ok so that's great. In other news, TELL me you have seen these:



Don't ever eat fruit. That shit is so bad for you.


I guess that's it for now. Happy Thursday?
Posted by raych at 12:06 PM

13 comments:

  1. HILARIOUS.

    Except for the gnawing distractedly part. I'm sure you find it endearing because she's yours, but it gives me the heebies.

    Huff Eleanor for me.

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  2. lol that IS a problem.

    How much do I love that top pic tho.

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  3. I am VERY INTERESTED in your opinion of SCORPIO RACES. M. Stei-I-can't-spell-her-name was the bestselling author at the bookstore where I work last year. I have read none of her things. Well, ok, I read one chapter of the werewolves-and-kissing trilogy and was, predictably, meh about it.

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  4. LOVED both of those books with infinite exuberance. Cannot imagine reading both at the same time though and with distractions. Can't wait to see what you think.

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  5. I am loving your slow reader pic!

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  6. For the life of me I cannot get into The Scorpio Races. I am trying SO HARD, but if I had gone by the old '50 pages' rule, I would have given up exactly 21 pages ago. I want to go home so I can read more of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.

    Those Disney Princess Advice videos, though? The best. I have now watched them all again. Thank you for that.

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  7. Was your TFioS one of the signed copies?

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  8. So you have a lazy nurser, eh? My son was that way … it would take seemingly hours and hours for him to feed as he'd lose focus. Still … you can get a lot of reading done, as you've proved. Huzzah!

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  9. I have heard of neither of those books.

    "Guys aren't supposed to be short! That's funny!"

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  10. Ah, fun times. I'm sure it will get better soon. Enjoy your books!

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  11. HAHAHA That is hilarious! I bet my daughter would like that. As for the reading two books at once, hey, the kid can gnaw while you read, right? You have got this down cold!

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  12. Enjoy Fault, I loved it! I hadn't seen those princess videos before, hilarious. Never good to burst out laughing at work, but it can't be helped.

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  13. Hahahahahaha! I want to make everyone I know watch that video and look at that picture.

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