book notes

Jul. 23rd, 2003 06:54 pm
jfb: (Default)
[personal profile] jfb
I took Lloyd: What Happened back to the library unread. A satirical "novel of business", it had caught my attention in a used book store a few months ago with its use of charts and graphs to illustrate the plot. It was clever and fairly engaging, but, you know, I just left the corporate world for a while (not that PlaceWare was so very corporate). I don't need to read about it.

I've often thought that if I managed to spend less time browsing in bookstores and use that time instead to actually read, I'd be happier. The same goes for libraries, but today I figured out something. When I'm at the library, looking up books I've already picked up and put down, books I know I'm not going to check out now, I'm actually enjoying the sense of possibility--the infinite number of books I could read. Once I've settled on a book, all those other options blink (temporarily) out of existence, and I find that kind of sad.

In fact, I almost never check out a single book--I often check out two just to delay the decision about which one to read. And, of course, I jump back and forth between multiple books anyway.

Today at the library I perused three interesting picture books by Stephen T. Johnson: Alphabet City, City by Numbers, and As the City Sleeps. The first two are realistic paintings of letter and number shapes found in ordinary objects in the city; the third is sort of a collection of paintings of slightly fantastical city-at-night scenes. Fun to page through.

And I checked out The Bush Dyslexicon. The first few pages made an effort to assure me it's not just a collection of funny "Bush is dumb" quotes, so I decided to read the rest of it.
This account has disabled anonymous posting.
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting

September 2015

S M T W T F S
   12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
27282930   

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jul. 11th, 2025 02:03 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios