November 2010
22 posts
“Lit nerds and bookworms, this one’s for you. Nerd Jeopardy is an inebriated,...”
– Work in Progress presents Nerd Jeopardy - Flavorpill New York
Who wants to be my date?
(via housingworksbookstore)
Want to be on my team? We’re wearing COSTUMES. (I think.) (I hope.)
“There is always going to be a book that saves you. There is also a new lesson:...”
– I, Reader by Alexander Chee (what’s that you say? You haven’t read his book Edinburgh yet? Boy, that is a sad, sad story. It’s one of those books that you don’t realize that most people are trying to make their books that good, until you read that book, you know?), which is...
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What an incredible list. Like I needed a larger TBR pile (like any of us do) but hey, there is a certain joy in knowing that you could live forever and never, ever run out of quality reading material, yes?
In re: the book I chose: seriously, I love this book so goddamn much that if you come buy it from my store I will give you my employee discount on it. No joke.
booksinthekitchen:
As anyone...
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The German who saved Thanksgiving
So there’s the general retail-job pre-holiday stress, and my self-loathing for not going with my gut and ordering 50 of the Mark Twain autobio when I had the chance, and it’s the first time I’m leaving my cat since his hospitalization, and the other cat isn’t eating enough lately, and I didn’t have time to clean the floors before I left which normally I like to do...
“I mean, who hasn’t thought of offering herself up as a gestational surrogate to...”
– Elisa Albert has, I have, have you? (via thingsiatethatilove)
No. But ask me about Martin Amis.
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I am running a race on Friday.
Why in hell is this not in Brooklyn? If I host one of these in Greenpoint, do you think people will come? Lord oh lord.
booyahgrandmere:
pterodactyls:
It is one mile long
Runners stop every 1/4 mile to eat a taco
The race is BYOTaco
I am running a race on Friday.
Does the race end in my heart?
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“And I drank a modicum of tea, with a good deal of hauteur.”
– Very Good, Jeeves, again. Have you read your Wodehouse today?
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“Every young man starting life ought to know how to cope with an angry swan, so I...”
– page 36, Very Good, Jeeves!, by he for whom the word inimitable was invented, P.G. Wodehouse.
Also considered for quoting, from page 1: “He uncovered the fragrant eggs and b., and I pronged a moody forkful.”
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“Boo, they’d stuck commas around the “in my opinion,” but I...”
– from the excised Footnote 240 of Infinite Jest via Newsweek. I didn’t realize how much I missed these guys until just now.
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What Didn't Make It Into Infinite Jest →
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Soup
I like soup even better than sandwiches and would like a winter project. Please, if you know the answer, include the best borscht (which has got to be somewhere in Greenpoint, I’m hoping), the best udon noodle soup, or the best chowder. Potatoes a plus. Vegetarian soups appreciated.
If you were making a 101 Best Soups in New York list, what would you put on it?
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Butterbeer recipe and the International Quidditch...
Yesterday I spent most of the day at the fourth International Quidditch World Cup. We made our own butterbeer before we went; it looked and tasted nothing like butterbeer actually does in the books, but it was delicious anyway, and highly portable, so I share it with you now.
To serve four, you need to start with four bottles cream soda and two bottles chocolate stout. Pour the cream soda and...
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Lazy Self-Indulgent Book Reviews: The Hunger... →
This is not the only reason I wanted to smack Katniss upside the head, but it’s probably in the top three.
lazybookreviews:
But, and I know I’m not alone here, didn’t you just want to smack Katniss upside the head and say, “look, obviously you live in a dystopia, and the system is broken, but maybe we could be a little less altruistic and STUPID all the time, and just colour inside the...
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“Most people would be loath to admit that they had never read a book, especially...”
– The bookseller who doesn’t read novels, from The Independent.
Perhaps the moment is finally right for me to start submitting my proposal for my take on the perennial Year Of Doing Something Vaguely Interesting Memoir? I want to write a book about what would happen if I didn’t read any...
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Fashion help please
I am currently transcribing my notebook and am trying to decipher my notes from a tour of a history of women’s fashion exhibit at the Met I went on in August. I am pretty sure I wrote:
“THING TO BUY POST-HASTE: Gibson girl/turn-of-the-century button-up sweater”
But the Internet is not offering me ANYTHING in response to that and various re-worked search terms. I think I mean...
