[lbo-talk] vacating; therefore, in need of fiction

Michael McIntyre morbidsymptoms at gmail.com
Sun Aug 23 16:50:41 PDT 2009


Here's what I'd grab if I had a couple of weeks with nozzink to do. But then I'm in a mood.... MM

Tova Reich, My Holocaust

Richard Lloyd, Neo-Bohemia

Betty Fussell, My Kitchen Wars

J. F. Powers, Morte D'Urban

Bethany Moreton, To Serve God and Wal-Mart (hat tip to Doug)

Richard Rayner, A Bright and Guilty Place

Kevin Mumford, Interzones

S. Yizhar, Khirbet Khizeh

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Chuck Grimes<cgrimes at rawbw.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 22:10 -0400, shag carpet bomb wrote:
>> i'll be vacating in a couple weeks! People, I'm going on my first real live
>> vacation! Paid even! I had my very first paid vacation in my whole life,
>> last year, and visited family. This time, I'm going to lounge around on the
>> seashore and visit lighthouses and museums and stuph. Whee! I'm renting a
>> house with a deck, with salt water lapping the stilts upon which it is
>> built. I intend to do nozzink! absotively posolutely nozzink!  [1]
>>
>
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>
> I know this might sound outrageously boring...but take a few selected
> works of Marx. I used to go to the beach here, which for a few years the
> temperature of the water was warm enough to swim. I would body surf, dry
> off and go back to reading Marx. I had a selected essential works book
> by Frederic Bender that I was reading. Biographies of people you are
> interested in are another very enjoyable way to occupy the mind without
> much effort.
>
> For some reason I like reading non-fiction during the day and fiction at
> night.
>
> CG
>
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