January 2005

Top Picks of 2004 by lz in Top 10 Books on 16Jan2005

Here are my top picks for 2004. The Winners 1. The Gay Place by Billy Lee Brammer 2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 3. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton The Honorable Mentions 1. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi 2. All Over Creation by...

Il Colore Ritrovato by lz in Reprints on 16Jan2005

Excerpt from Il Colore Ritrovato To the question what is the difference between Venice and Milan other than a difference in tone, in the sunlight, and in the air, the answer is that Milan is where you busy yourself with the world as if what you did really mattered, and...

The Pacific by lz in Reading Archive on 16Jan2005

Great writing... Reprint of excerpt from first story is here. Every story I read is better than the next. Il colore Ritrovato was great, and it keeps spiralling upward. Just finished Perfection, where a 13 year old Hasidic Jew teaches Mickey Mantle about baseball/God. Also a great story about the...

My Life by lz in Reading Archive on 06Jan2005

Reminder to get Clinton's reading list for his travels through Europe/USSR. Great-- Just returned the library book without getting Clinton's bibliography for his European travels during Oxford years. Must work on that. Regardless, this was an interesting book-- it took 500 pages to get him into the White House, and...
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