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On SATURDAY, you Bitches will have your turn to tell us what you've been reading during the months of SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER for The 2016 Infomaniac Book Challenge.
TODAY, we look at the Mistress's list of books for September and October. Links to summaries are included in the titles as The Mistress was too lazy to write her own reviews.
NON-FICTION:
Seinfeldia: How a Show about Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong (published 2016)...
A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression by Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe (published 2016)...
Wasting Time on the Internet by Kenneth Goldsmith (published 2016)...
A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age by Daniel Levitin (published 2016)...
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen (published 2016)...
FICTION:
The Altogether Unexpected Disappearance of Atticus Craftsman by Mamen Sánchez, translated by Lucy Greaves (published 2016)...
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift...
I hear you asking, "But Mistress. You were sick in bed for 2 weeks. Why didn't you read more books?" The Mistress read mostly magazines during those 2 weeks, that's why.
And as you noticed from the photo in the previous post, there is something to be said for reading magazines.
Yay! First!
ReplyDeleteFrom now on, I'm going to imagine that you read just like Debbie Harry does!
Or does she read like you...?
The Mistress does not move her lips when she reads.
DeleteUnless it is to sip a martini.
wouldn't debbie harry read the mistress?
DeleteOne read a "shit ton" of books in the last two months. One must set a calendar reminder to post on Saturday.
ReplyDeleteKEVIN: One will get sent to the Oubliette if one forgets.
DeleteI want to yell "Hey, Springsteen! Get off that Corvette!".
ReplyDeleteLX: According to his memoir, Springsteen didn’t learn how to drive until he was in his mid-20s. Yet many of his songs are about cars.
DeleteAnd he confesses to being a terrible driver.
Bruhahaa ... "Nebraska" in one yell !
DeleteI am intrigued by:
ReplyDeleteA Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression;
Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age;
The Altogether Unexpected Disappearance of Atticus Craftsman;
And Wasting Time on the Internet is what I'm likely to do if I end up recovering from illness. No reading. Mostly likely the internet & the tv listings.
EROS: In reading “A Square Meal” I was shocked to learn that the government at one point forced people to prove they were starving before they would give them relief.
DeleteBy this time, the people had become malnourished and had developed diseases related to malnutrition, such as rickets.
Worth reading if you're interested in American history from this era.
Frankie Foulbowel's Bedtime Stories For Adults. I read it in bed last night, I laughed so much I woke the maid up in the room next to mine, I heard the cloppering sound of a glass being positioned on the partition wall, she was listening in to see if I had a man in there. Midweek! The chance would be a fine thing.
ReplyDelete'What else have you been reading?' I hear you ask.
Mrs Brown's Family Handbook and How It Works annuals (all very highbrow).
MITZI: I'm not asking until Saturday so now you’ve blown your wad and won’t have any comment to make on Saturday’s post.
DeleteNonetheless, I want to get my hands on “Mrs Brown's Family Handbook and How It Works” so I may learn how to use the tea towel as a weapon.
I saw Mr Seinfeld not very often, some were funny, I think the usually crappy translation killed the most off. He seemed to me like the natural heir to Mr Allen, but I may be totally wrong.
ReplyDeleteAre there recipes in the depression book ? In Germany we had soup kitchens after WWI and again in the early thirties. In some places they are there again. But now the poor can have dirt cheap food in the local "Tafel" (table), where surplus from supermarket is used, instead of throwing it into the bin. You must be a registered poor, what means that you have to show a card from the rotten "Sozialamt". Some years ago I qualified. Usually one does not have to suffer from scorbut before being admitted to the holy trug, but it helps. And do not believe that those nice people in the social administration would forget to remind you that all this is payed for by "other people". That is especially nice when they say it to old people who can't live from the pension after forty years of maloche. But I digress, sorry.
Interesting selection as usual, dearest Mistress, the obligatory tear jerker included *ducks*
BTW can you give me your copy of Leather Nun when you are finished ?
MAGO: Yes, there are some recipes but they’re incredibly bland and believe me, you wouldn’t want to eat “Liver Loaf.”
Delete... öööh ... *remembers the Mistress' no-stains-policy* ... We have Leberkäse, the famous "liver cheese" without liver.
DeleteDon't ask, ad mustard.
but did you like the books you read?
ReplyDeleteNORMA: Yes, I liked all these books. There were two books not mentioned here that I didn’t like so I tossed them aside, using the Rule of 50.
DeleteWasting Time on the Internet!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your list.... I will add them to my list of books I'd like to read.
SX
When we’re “wasting time,” we’re actually creating a culture of collaboration. We’re reading and writing more—and quite differently.
DeleteI like it already.
SX
MISS SCARLET: The author shows that it's okay to waste time on the Internet, guilt-free.
DeleteAnd who doesn't like to get that kind of validation?
Plus, cats on the Internet!
DeleteLX: Yes, and that's the whole POINT of the Internet!
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