Which means that, periodically, I'll write out a list of things I've consumed that day.
Sometimes it's food
1. Cheeto
Sometimes it's books
2. To the Power of Three by Laura Lippman
Sometimes it's TV
3. Teen Mom OG
I have this feeling like keeping track of these things is important because just about everything I consume could end up having a place in some form of writing some where. Also I'm forgetting things ALL THE TIME now so it's good to have a record.
All this to explain this post.
I'm always curious as to how a person GETS TO a book, and so I've got a few books here and I thought I'd track where I found them.
1. Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada was a book I heard about on, I think, the Freakonomics Podcast, which I don't listen to very much any more but I liked it as a pretty catch all loose resource for whatever topic it is they're profiling at the time. I think mostly what drew me to this book was the way the title depicted this escalation of violence in this, to me, kind of perfectly simple, almost emoji like series of symbols. I haven't actually got into this book as much as I like but it's something I'm trying to read for my next project.
2. Sticks and Stones by Emily Bazelon I heard about from hearing Bazelon interviewed on Longform. She has written a ton of stuff on bullying and so far the book is pretty good. Hard to read if you have any personal experience of being bullied but I like her semi anthropological approach. It's very thorough.
3. I've never read Nabokov's Lolita but I heard Daniel Handler read it at a Radar Reading Series event and it kind of blew me away. The book is amazing but it's like eating three pieces of cake for every page. So I'm pacing myself.
4. Zombies vs. Unicorns is an anthology I picked up at Serendipity 2015. Team Unicorn is edited by Holly Black and Team Zombie is edited by Justine Larbalestier. Can't tell you much more than that. Stay tuned.
5. The First Bad Man by Miranda July I grabbed at my local bookstore because I am just a FUCKING HUGE fan of July and I pretty much everything she does. Including this book.
6. Kim Gordon's memoir A Girl in A Band was an airport pick up which I read because I really liked the first page and I was impulse buying at the airport. It's an incredibly smart book. I had no idea Gordon was such an art nerd.
So that's that. How do you find the books you read? (You don't have to answer. Just keep reading).
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