February 2012
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Want to Backpack Again
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Listening to Gregory Porter's
Be Good album, think it’ll be my new favourite easy listening album. It reminds me of Painted from Memory by Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach…worth a listen me thinks
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The books i've read in 2012 with a star rating
Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy*****
David Gutterson’s Ed King**
Philip Roth’s American Pastoral*****
Don Delillo’s Libra****
Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland***
Toni Morrison’s Paradise****
Dana Spiotta’s Eat The Document**** [probably more like a three and a half but she’s youngest on this list with major heavies so i’ll give it a break]
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Just Watched Wonderboys
great film, second great one this weekend. Also can’t seem to put down McCarthy’s The Road, 200 pgs in today and its one of the fastest moving, well written books i’ve ever read…
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Current Book: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Also i finished Dana Spiotta’s ‘Eat The Document’. Interesting political book of our time by a young novelist. Worth a read I think, even though some of the character’s are one dimensional ‘serve a purpose’ jobs and the writing is slack at parts…
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War and US Society Essay
Touching the Marble:
U.S. Political Rhetoric, the Iraq War and the Home Front
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American Contemporary Literature
Need to start my essay soonish. Think its going to be on Cormac McCarthy’s The Road as an exploration of personel security issues post 9/11, compared to the more orthodox attempt made by Joseph O’Neill with Netherlands….
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“I know a girl called Elsa
She’s into Alka Seltzer
She sniffs it through...”
– Noel Gallagher- Supersonic
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reading...
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Favourite Runners
1. Ryan Hall
2. Kara Goucher
3. Chris Solinsky
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Majorly Failing
trying to understand Stiglitz’s article on Trade and Capital Market liberalization and how it blah blah blahhed the world. Thank you Econ degree for serving me well.
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Downtown from Behind- Bridget Fleming