Maybe some context would be nice this month…
This month I got super-excited because Chris Currie (the man behind impressive blogging project, Furious Horses)’s novel came out. I met Linda Jaivin at a writers’ event, and she’s hilarious and wonderful. I finished up the last of my school assessments and discovered a love of Frankl along the way. I went on a family weekend away to Bendigo, which has two rather impressive used book shops. I made a life decision: myself and my photographer-boyfriend are the next Susan Sontag/Annie Leibovitz power couple. Or Patti Smith/Robert Mapplethorpe, perhaps. Depends how waifish I’m feeling on the day.

All these things have inspired…

A MONTH OF READING: May 2011:

Books Bought:
Where I’m Calling From, by Raymond Carver
A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami
Film, by Sean Condon
The New York Trilogy, by Paul Auster

Books Borrowed/Received:
Library:
Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl
Losing The Last 5 Kilos, by Michelle Bridges
Another Bullshit Night In Suck City, by Nick Flynn
Eat Me, by Linda Jaivin
On Photography, by Susan Sontag

Borrowed:
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell

Books Read:
Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl
Eat Me, by Linda Jaivin
The Ottoman Motel, by Chris Currie

Currently Reading:
Consolations of Philosophy, by Alain de Botton
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, by Nick Flynn
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell

–> question: is it interesting to know what’s going OUT from my book shelves too? My bookish “outfloox“, if you will?