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user-inactivated  ·  3247 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: January 6th: What are you reading this week?

I'm about a quarter through I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son by Kent Russell.

My grandparents always give us books for Christmas and this one was mine. It's interesting. I really like the writing. Just finished a chapter in which four days are spent at an ICP 'Gathering'. Horrorcore is just so bizarre to me...

Still have a long way to go with the book and that's exciting.

Edit: Oh, and b_b, I finished Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki. I really enjoyed it. I was a bit sad that it was missing a lot of the magic-type elements of previous Murakami novels, but for the most part, the writing still got me!





rinx  ·  3247 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I love that gift tradition! My grandma would watch lists like a hawk and always get me the best children's books. She's definitely how I get my love of reading.

Is this the snake venom guy he meets?

user-inactivated  ·  3246 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's definitely my favourite part of Christmas.

Between my grandparents and the ludicrous amounts of bookstore gift cards I usually get (my family know me well), I end up with quite the haul.

I haven't reached the snake venom section yet. I watched the first part of that video on the bus home from work. Watching the blood congeal like that:

    I don't have a medical background. I have no fucking idea what it's doing to my body... You're not supposed to inject snake venom, you fool.

No shit.

I actually just tried watching more of it then, but it gave me the heebie jeebies. I don't like snakes.

mosley_deaf  ·  3247 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'd be super surprised to get a book line that from either of my grandma's. The mention of an icp gather makes me interested, probably because I have shit to do with the culture outside of working with someone who had a hatchet man at every job I've had the past 5 years until 6 months ago. That and I've seen the documentary "American Jugallo". Want to see where a book that covers that goes.