Book Binge
I have been drawing my ass off for this art fair coming up in a couple weeks. It's been good. I've produced a lot of stuff and I feel like I'm improving, etc. But, all other aspects of my life have suffered in the wake of my mad dash for success.
Yesterday, my friend Jeff called and demanded that I go buy books. He said that a friend had given him 4 books and he had started reading all of them at the same time. He decided I also needed to do this. So, he laid out 3 options:
The best option: I go out and get all 4 books and have read a bit of all of them before sleeping that night.
the 2nd to worst option: I get at least THE LOST SCRAPBOOK by Evan Dara and have read a bit of that before sleeping.
the Worst option (which he said would result in 48 days of silence) : Not having any of the books before I went to bed.
It was clear there was no room for failure. So, I decided to do it. It was an interesting challenge. I went to 5 bookshops in Milwaukee. None were near the others. It took a while. Milwaukee just didn't have any of these books. I checked the library database. They had one, which i requested. the others I ordered from Amazon. Though, in Jeff's eyes I failed, he was still proud that I was going to get the books.
While waiting for those REAL books to get to me, I started reading Amnesiascope by Steve Erickson and it's really really good.
Are any of you reading anything good?
posted by kpolly at 9:38 AM
4 Comments:
You mean other than US Weekly?
The second Fables TPB is fun.
On the graphic novel tip, the collected She Hulk is actually really cute and entertaining (don't let the roid-princess on the cover fool you). Also the new Chuck Klosterman is entertaining. I haven't read 'serious' fiction in awhile as every time I crack one open I pass out and wake up in a puddle of ink and drool.
Read Pirates! Adventures with Scientists!
Funny, funny stuff. and not a sadtown in sight.
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