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Your January 2010 Book(s)?

Well, just for the record, my crystal ball is broken and Karnac the Prophet died a few years back, so I don't know exactly what I'll read this month or next, but here's the short list of candidates. These are the latest library requests:

The Crock of Gold-James Stephens
The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour-Liam Clancey
Noah's Compass-Anne Tyler(mostly for Mr. Abc, but I'll look it over too)
Someplace to Be Flying-Charles deLint
 
Predictable detours taking place, in unpredictable directions.

Started Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon but, about 30 pages in, it is going back on the shelf for a while. Maybe a long while.

Started The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, as mentioned earlier, but it is going to have to wait also, because . . .

I'm going to start re-reading 2666 by Robero Bolano for a discussion that is starting mid-month, and doing that may finish the month's reading.

Vol 1 of Your Face Tomorrow still hasn't arrived, after about 25 days in the mail, but a libris still doesn't think it is lost. So it will probably turn into February's reading -- if a copy ever arrives.

And who knows when I'll ever get to the Trollope.

So that's the microcosm in detail -- confused, but normal.
 
Peder said:
Vol 1 of Your Face Tomorrow still hasn't arrived
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Oh my. Either I've flipped out or I need to not pass go or collect $200 til I make an eye appointment. I thought for a nano second the title of this book was Your Face Still Hasn't Arrived....:blink:
 
abecedarian said:
Oh my. Either I've flipped out or I need to not pass go or collect $200 til I make an eye appointment. I thought for a nano second the title of this book was Your Face Still Hasn't Arrived....:blink:
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It is a slightly weird one, so who knows? :innocent:
 
abecedarian said:
You'll have to let us know what you find out...My version might be more X-Files induced than vision issues... or maybe some combination of the two:innocent:
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I'm hoping it has the long winding kinds of sentences I like. Faulkner has given me the bug.
 
Peder said:
You've got that right ABC -- everything helps. :)
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Notecards are our friends:flowers:

Would I get too many strange looks if I attached a small dictionary to my belt loop? I'm among friends here, so I feel safe asking you folks:innocent:
 
abecedarian said:
Notecards are our friends:flowers:

Would I get too many strange looks if I attached a small dictionary to my belt loop? I'm among friends here, so I feel safe asking you folks:innocent:
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:D Absolutely, the dictionary [and google] are your friends too, don't forget. I tend to <bracket> sentences, or parts of sentences I think need it, and then there is the wavy underlining method. ;) All with a light pencil of course! :innocent:
 
Your Face Tomorrow -- vol 1 by Javier Marias has finally arrived, and I have to say very nice words about Alibris. They have sent another one without a murmur when I told them it had not been delivered after more than two weeks. So it immediately goes to the top of my reading pile -- right alongside my re-reading pile which has 2666 by Roberto Bolano on it.:innocent:
 
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