Stuff I've Been Reading: 1 sentence reviews (06/09)
I think it was last year when I implemented the concept of Rock & Roll June whereby I spent the month reading rock and roll flavored books. Last year's experiment had mixed results, I read some really kick ass books and read some really not so kickass books (seriously rock and rollers need to stop writing about recoupable debt because it's about as sexy as accounting).
Here's the problem with rock and roll books they either lack in good writing or interesting content. I know, how could rock and roll be boring? It can be. I've been struggling through What Would Keith Richards Do? for about three weeks. While the subject matter is interesting, one can only take about three pages of sarcastic, ironic self-help/religion book prose at a time. If I were the type of person who read in the bathroom, this would be the book for just such an activity.
Because only one of the rock and roll books really captured my attention my reading slooooowwweedd way down. Of course, now I am making up for lot time by tearing through two books at once, each one an utter delight.
BOOKS ACQUIRED
Little Things: A Memoir in Slices by Jeffrey Brown
Remedies by Kate Ledger
The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak
Both Ways is the Only Way I Want it by Maile Meloy (one of the two books totally delighting me right now and after I finish each story in this collection it makes me wonder how the Meloy kids [her brother is Colin of The Decemberists] got to be so fucking talented)
Purge, Rehab Diaries by Nicole Johns
BOOKS READ
Little Things: A Memoir in Slices: As much as I like Jeffrey Brown (we like the same music, writers, etc.), I don't think adding drawings to average life stories makes for an exciting read.
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist: This was a totally delightful, stream-of-conscious tale told in alternating chapters from the point of view of Nick and Norah, two music obsessed teens who fall in love, sort of.
Maus: FUCKING A -- this book was so amazing that everyone should read it right now.
The Rock Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Rockological Knowledge: This book was kind of interesting and kind of boring all at the same time, perhaps I'm just snob enough to not be the target audience.
CURRENTLY READING
Both Ways is the Only Way I Want it by Maile Meloy
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead (this book is rocking my world)
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