The 1/16 issue was pretty dull. The best thing was the “Your three wishes FAQ” in Shouts & Murmurs.
The missing issue (12/26 and 1/2/06) is in my possession, thanks to P&M; so far I’ve read and enjoyed “The Albanian Writer’s Union as Mirrored by a Woman” by Ismail Kadare, an (you guessed it!) Albanian writer. [...]
Archive for January, 2006
January New Yorkers, con’t
Posted in The New Yorker on January 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
January New Yorkers
Posted in The New Yorker on January 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
January Issues:
12/26-1/2 – missing in action.
1/9/06 – read it but I don’t really remember it.
1/16/06 – in progress
1/23-1/30/06 – Nothing remarkable in this issue. The review of the 3rd volume of the MLK biography (“At Canaan’s Edge” by Taylor Branch) had some interesting tidbits about the relationship between MLK and LBJ, and also what MLK [...]
Anna Karenina, random thoughts on
Posted in Tolstoy, books on January 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I think I must have read this book three or four times, maybe more. I don’t even know which translation I read but it was probably the Constance Garnett. I always loved it but the one I am reading now seems to have an immediacy and freshness that I don’t remember noticing in the past. [...]
Back to Mary Poppins
Posted in books on January 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Back to Mary Poppins! It’s hard to imagine a time when movies were not readily available for our viewing pleasure. I remember when watching “The Wizard of Oz” on TV was a major event. It was only on once a year, so the time my grandfather turned the channel to a football game stands out quite clearly [...]
Books Read 2005
Posted in books on January 11, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Books Read 2005
January:
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
Master & Commander, Patrick O’Brian
Post Captain, Patrick O’Brian
February:
March:
The Sunday Philosophy Club, Smith
The Kalahari Typing School for Men, Smith (audio)
April:
The Big House, George Howe Colt
Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens
May:
The Vicar of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith
The Kiterunner, Khaled Hosseini
A Late Education, Alan Moorehead
Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
What’s the Matter with Kansas, Thomas Frank
June:
After the Plague, T. [...]
"Feral, destructive and spreading"
Posted in The New Yorker on January 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Republicans or wild hogs?
The above quote refers to Ian Frazier’s article in the Dec. 12 New Yorker (still haven’t found the Christmas issue, by the way). The article entitled “Hogs Wild” is about, you guessed it, wild hogs, which may or may not appear interesting at first glance; however, as is typical with Frazier, he [...]
Wasting time
Posted in Uncategorized on January 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I spent the day working on the diabolically hard Sudoku puzzle that was in the Sunday Globe magazine. I really have to limit myself to one of these a week since they become all-consuming. I was even dreaming about it last night. I’ve been trying to prove to myself that I can solve even the [...]
Mary Poppins
Posted in The New Yorker, movies on January 3, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
When I was a kid in the pre-video, pre-DVD, pre-Tevo days, movies were rare events and not the stuff of daily life as they are now. I still remember the first movie I saw; it was “Mary Poppins” and the year must have been 1964, which means I was 7. We went to the movie [...]
Happy New Year
Posted in The New Yorker on January 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Happy New Year!
First, I must describe my Christmas present from L. – The Complete New Yorker! It has eight discs with every issue from 1925 to 2005 (the anniversary issue in February). There is a searchable archive, which seems a little limited in its search capability, but I was still able to find the [...]
