I re-read Post Office (Bukowski), Ballroom (Lifshin) and have started Gertrude Bell, Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations (Howell)

What did you read?

Magic School Bus:  Expedition Down Under (hahahaha with my first graders)

(also The Dance Most of All - Poems by Jack Gilbert)

:)  good thread Lavonne! M

Wolf Woods Girl - Hoogland
Bellyful of anarchy - Plath

Just got some Guilty Pleasure from Amazon - Dead Zero - Hunter

i read:

the continual condition - bukowski
if there is something to desire - verra pavlova
        (picked it up at half price books. 100 pretty short poems.  i love that store.)

tiko

Reading Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin and Lyrical BALLADS edited my Michael Mason.

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party, Alexander McCall Smith. 12th in No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, not as good as the first 10, but I'm hooked in bad. Tom

anthony bourdain - bone in the throat (just finished)
nikki giovanni - love poems (ongoing)
orson scott card - enders game (just started)

and of course,
Trash & Crackers

annnnnnd my notepad jumps on the couch next to me, always killer to discover new names!  lawrence

I'm gathering a very long list to explore!  Lawrence - How was that Bourdain book? He is such a wonderful bastard.

Lavonne-

read Post Office for the first time a few months back, a fantastic read!  although, in all my consumption of Bukowski, his in-home encounter with that female companion seemed to cross the line legally, if you catch my drift (would hate to spoil for anyone who has not yet read!)

the Bourdain book was mediocre.  now, this was my first foray into his fiction writing. a fast, fun read for sure, but not much depth.  previously, i had read his book A Cook's Tour, which i thought was much better.  the traveling, the characters, and that is the book that launched No Reservations.  he is such a wonderful bastard, but sometimes fairly conceited!  but you have to love his foul mouthed sassiness!  lawrence

Forgot - Rourke "The Canal" - Good stuff...

Lawrence, I was very disappointed in Giovanni's Love Poems. Not a one rocked me.

Didn't they just try that as a TV show, Tom. Heard something about it being cancelled.

Yes, saw every episode, thought it was uniformly marvelous, am in mourning over cancellation.

where am i when all this good tv is going on?

Lawrence, have you read Women? I'm on a quest to read every one of his books. So I've started over with the ones I have on hand and have more on order!

Been reading The Orientalist  by Tom Reiss. An incredible work of historical weaving. Deals with uncovering of the identity of Kurban Said who wrote a wonderful love story, Ali and Nino published in 1937 and is still in print. Reiss concludes that Said is Lev Nussimbaum who wrote under the pen name Essad Bey. He was a Russian Jew born in Baku on the Caspian Sea, in teh Caucusus, now Azerbaijan. Nussimbaum witnessed the Russian Revolution, the death of Nicholas, the rise of anti-semitism in Germany, aquainted with Pasternak, Nabakov. The book does an amazing job of creating perspective of that extraordinarily upside down time in history.

Also, The Collected Poems of James Tate. Highly recommend both.