- The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross
- People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver
- Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink, ed. David Remnick
1.17.2008
What's on your nightstand?
A frigid wintry weekend awaits. What will you be reading? If I have spare moments away from studying for an exam (okay, and going to Gopher wrestling), four titles lay in wait:
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Let us know if you make the mozzarella from the recipe in Animal Vegetable Miracle. It sounds so easy and tasty. Maybe I should stop thinking about it and actually make it myself. Would probably be excellent on homemade pizza, ie an excuse to turn on the oven over this cold weekend.
What is the What?, Dave Eggers
The World Without Us, Alan Weisman
All About Braising, Molly Stevens
Organize the Closet, Guest Bedroom
Jane Austen: The Complete Novels
Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion, Sara Miles
The Complete Photo Guide to Slipcovers, ed. Neubauer
Tiling: Planning, Layout & Installation, Fine Building
Funny you should ask: as I was leaving for work this morning, I grabbed Mississippi Sissy by Kevin Sessums. I finished Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick last night. I always carry a book with me as well as some knitting. Never know when you might be caught somewhere with nothing to do. Idle hands are the devils workshop.
Confidential to Eric M: While I don't know Guest Bedroom's work, I'm wondering if you're familiar with Installing Pullout Vanity Shelving, by Master Bathroom. I hear it's a slog, but edifying.
Here’s the stack on my bedstand, though there are puddles of books everywhere in this house. Having a library helps reduce literary clutter, but books seem to gather and pool on their own accord despite my centralizing efforts.
The World Without Us – Alan Weisman
The Double Bind – Chris Bohjalian
Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Picoult
(Note: I have mixed feelings on admitting to the Picoult. Her conceits are impelling, her execution is less than. But all my students are reading Picoult, so it makes me cool. This one’s from the library, BTW.)
What I’ll actually end up reading this weekend is chapter 3 of When the Emperor Was Divine, in preparation for class next week, the poetry from my latest New Yorker, and the latest John Sandford (Dark of the Moon), since that’s due back to the library next week.
Eric V: You’ll notice my reading choices are a little more hip than my music tracks.
What's on your nightstand?
- six bottles of prescription drugs
- a half-empty glass of water
- a nail file
- a phone (land line)
- a box of kleenex
- a glucometer
- a tablet of paper and three pens
- earplugs
What's in that gigantic pile on the floor next to the bed?
- "Crossing the Unknown Sea" by David Whyte
- "Bone in the Throat" by Tony Bourdain
- "The Paranoid's Guide to Mental Disorders You Can Just Feel Coming On"
- "Knitting Rules" by Stephanie McPhee
- three years' worth of New Yorkers, plus or minus a few
- "The Conscience of a Liberal" by Paul Krugman (my boyfriend)
- last Sunday's New York Times
- "A General Theory of Love" by Lewis, Amini and Lannon
- "The Vogue Book of Knitting"
- "The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are" by Daniel Siegel
- "The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-being" by Daniel Siegel
- "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace. . .One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson
- a koigu scarf (pattern: Carnival) about 1/3 finished
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