July 2009
21 posts
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i wanna speak at an intimate decibel with the precision of an infinite decimal to listen up and send back a true echo of something forever-felt but never heard; i want that sharpen steel of truth in every word.
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i declared orange shirt as my summer09 jam a few months ago. all i could hope was that the album would contain fun and marmalade-yummy songs. and now, LP has arrived, and i cannot stop nomnomnom-ing. so many killer trax: can you discover?, insane, i wanna be you boyfriend, slang tang, and swing tree, which is so delish you must taste it (read: press play).
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The problem was not that the screen was in black-and-white; if it had really been black-and-white, that would have been fine. The problem was that the screen was gray. And it wasn’t just gray; it was a greenish, sickly gray. A postmortem gray. The resizable typeface, Monotype Caecilia, appeared as a darker gray. Dark gray on paler greenish gray was the palette of the Amazon Kindle.
This was what they were calling e-paper? This four-by-five window onto an overcast afternoon? Where was paper white, or paper cream? Forget RGB or CMYK. Where were sharp black letters laid out like lacquered chopsticks on a clean tablecloth?
” —Nicholson Baker, “A New Page: Can the Kindle really improve on the book?”Man Booker Longlist 2009/titles to add to my personal Longlist
Author Title Publisher
Byatt, AS The Children’s Book Random House - Chatto and Windus
Coetzee, J M Summertime Random House - Harvill Secker
Foulds, Adam The Quickening Maze Random House - Jonathan Cape
Hall, Sarah How to paint a dead man Faber and Faber
Harvey, Samantha The Wilderness Random House - Jonathan Cape
Lever, James Me Cheeta HarperCollins - Fourth Estate
Mantel, Hilary Wolf Hall HarperCollins - Fourth Estate
Mawer, Simon The Glass Room Little, Brown
O’Loughlin, Ed Not Untrue & Not Unkind Penguin - Ireland
Scudamore, James Heliopolis Random House - Harvill Secker
Toibin, Colm Brooklyn Penguin - Viking
Trevor, William Love and Summer Penguin - Viking
Waters, Sarah The Little Stranger Little, Brown - Virago
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le sigh.
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“Foolish cook. He had not realized that the deliberateness came not from science, but from self-consciousness and doubt; that though they had appeared to be engrossed in atoms, their eyes latched tightly to the numbers in that room where the walls swelled like sails, they were flailing; that like the evening hour opening to deeper depths outside, they would be be swallowed into something more treacherous than the purpose for which Gyan had been hired; that though they were battling to build a firmness from all that was available to them, there was reason enough to worry it was not good enough to save them.”
—The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
