http://loucindy.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ books, writing, nonsense en Vox Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:03:49 -0400 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/the-crying-of-lot-49-by-thomas-pynchon.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(loucindy) http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/the-crying-of-lot-49-by-thomas-pynchon.html?_c=feed-rss http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/the-crying-of-lot-49-by-thomas-pynchon.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:03:49 -0400 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://loucindy.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22529c4838fdb00fa96819adb0002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00c22529c4838fdb00fa96819adb0002-50si" alt="The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Classics)" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> This was my first Pynchon book. I have always heard lots of great things about this author, so I was eager to read it. Now, I just don't know what to say about it. A story about covert postmen? They were organized and stealthy...like a cross bet... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/the-crying-of-lot-49-by-thomas-pynchon.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22529c4838fdb00fa9681bc090002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> fiction california mail journey conspiracy drugs own secrets mental health adultery paperback http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/book-mining-in-portland.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(loucindy) http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/book-mining-in-portland.html?_c=feed-rss http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/book-mining-in-portland.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:18:40 -0400 While on our trip to Portland, Oregon last week we stopped in at Powell's four out of five days. We took advantage of their handy-dandy mailing service. So what if I haven't read all the books I bought there a year and a half ago. Here's what I fo... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/book-mining-in-portland.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22529c4838fdb00fad68ec7a70004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> books shopping travel http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/balzac-and-the-little-chinese-seamstress.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(loucindy) http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/balzac-and-the-little-chinese-seamstress.html?_c=feed-rss http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/balzac-and-the-little-chinese-seamstress.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:26:52 -0400 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://loucindy.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22529c4838fdb00fad68d46bc0005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00c22529c4838fdb00fad68d46bc0005-50si" alt="Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> This book was not on my list. And I've never read anything by Balzac. So why did I read it? Besides the fact that I'm easily distracted I had heard that it mentions Madame Bovary in the end and it's a very short book. First off, the title is aw... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/balzac-and-the-little-chinese-seamstress.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22529c4838fdb00fa967bb8310003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> friends politics china pregnancy historical fiction censorship coming of age abortion borrowed paperback love triangle book about books character title http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/madame-bovary.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(loucindy) http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/madame-bovary.html?_c=feed-rss http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/madame-bovary.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:13:23 -0400 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://loucindy.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22529c4838fdb00fa967ac9970002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00c22529c4838fdb00fa967ac9970002-50si" alt="Madame Bovary (Oxford World&#39;s Classics)" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> The fascinating thing about Madame Bovary is, well, Madame Bovary. Is she a sympathetic but flawed character, or is she a cruel and selfish woman? Emma Bovary's main problem is that she believes money will end all her problems. But then most peo... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/madame-bovary.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22529c4838fdb00fa967b15690002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> classics gender marriage obsession death suicide own class adultery paperback religious theme reading with friends character title http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/more-books.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(loucindy) http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/more-books.html?_c=feed-rss http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/more-books.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 05 May 2008 11:02:39 -0400 I haven't yet finished my 2008 list of books to read. In fact, this is the first year I've ever made a list of books to read. I was always sort of against the idea because I thought it made reading too stringent and boring. I believed the list wou... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/more-books.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22529c4838fdb00f48cf5218d0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> reading 2008 to be read http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/the-road.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(loucindy) http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/the-road.html?_c=feed-rss http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/the-road.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:27:11 -0400 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://loucindy.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22529c4838fdb00f48d11816c0001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00c22529c4838fdb00f48d11816c0001-50si" alt="The Road" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> In college I was taking a philosophy class and happened to watch the movie Trigger Effect. It's not a memorable movie but it stunned me because I was absorbed in trying to understand Hobbes's State of Nature. Suddenly it all made sense. I wonder ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/the-road.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22529c4838fdb00f48d1184f40001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> family fiction death suicide reading journey own dystopia cannibalism paperback http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/thursbitch.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(loucindy) http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/thursbitch.html?_c=feed-rss http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/thursbitch.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:59:37 -0400 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://loucindy.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22529c4838fdb00f48cf00d060002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00c22529c4838fdb00f48cf00d060002-50si" alt="Thursbitch" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Saying this book was pretentious would be easy. In fact, it probably is the most pretentious thing I've ever read. But leaving it at that is not the whole story. Why is it pretentious? There is little description of place or people. Time switche... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/thursbitch.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22529c4838fdb00f48cf0175c0002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> fiction death reading paganism own hardcover 1001 book place title animal worship animal sacrifice time anomalies based on real place death in childbirth http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/story-of-the-eye.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(loucindy) http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/story-of-the-eye.html?_c=feed-rss http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/story-of-the-eye.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:03:03 -0400 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://loucindy.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22529c4838fdb00f48d0cfb970001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00c22529c4838fdb00f48d0cfb970001-50si" alt="Story of the Eye" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Instead of reading the next book on my list I read Story of the Eye. It's on the 1001 book list and only a hundred pages. My main impetus was to read something quick. I can definitely see why people were shocked back in 1928. One thing struck m... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/story-of-the-eye.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22529c4838fdb00e398efe3cc0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> fiction sex suicide reading horror insanity murder own fetish rape paperback 1001 book http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/early-reviewing.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(loucindy) http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/early-reviewing.html?_c=feed-rss http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/early-reviewing.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:18:39 -0400 LibraryThing just notified me that I am receiving my first Early Reviewer book. I am so excited! The website has this cool idea of sending people free books even before they hit the bookstores. The only thing you have to do is read it and write a... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/early-reviewing.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22529c4838fdb00f48d0c3ae20001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> reading writing websites http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/to-kill-a-mockingbird.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(loucindy) http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/to-kill-a-mockingbird.html?_c=feed-rss http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/to-kill-a-mockingbird.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:17:03 -0400 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://loucindy.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22529c4838fdb00e398eed1a10004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00c22529c4838fdb00e398eed1a10004-50si" alt="To Kill a Mockingbird" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> It seems most people read this book in high school. After I finished it, I could not decide if it would have been better to read it fifteen years ago or not. Part of me would have gotten more out of it at the age of eighteen. Now, it's hard to b... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://loucindy.vox.com/library/post/to-kill-a-mockingbird.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22529c4838fdb00f48d0c071a0001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> family classics reading south racism own class coming of age paperback 1001 book child narrator