Posts Tagged ‘Books’

Caught by Quotes #1

December 16, 2008 Write a Comment Quotes

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”
Holden Caulfied in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

A Christmas Waitlist

December 17, 2007 Write a Comment Short On Ideas

Everybody’s doing their Christmas wishlist. I am not doing that here. Instead, I will be listing the things that I’d probably be doing while wating for Christmas. Some very obvious human necessities like eating and drinking will not be mentioned.

1. I would try to distance myself from alcohol.
2. Finish reading Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut. I have been reading it very slowly for almost a year now because I don’t want to get through it yet.
3. I finally bought George Orwell’s 1984. Should be next if I feel like finishing the latter.
4. Ok, gimme alcohol, man!
5. Cut cable TV and throw in The Simpsons DVD.
6. Maybe do some more reading with Tom Robbins’ Even Cowgirls Get The Blues.
7. Yesh! Alcohol somemow and some excess fruitcake.

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