Bookends

I'm on the prowl for English MA programs across the country. In my search today (while also trying to work on editing my statement of purpose), I came across Art Garfunkel's website. I should mention I was listening to Simon & Garfunkel at this moment as well... oh the irony. Anyways, he has kept a list of the books he has read for the last 40 years (over 1000) and with it, lists of his favorites. If you're interested, here's the link:

Art Garfunkel's Library

Maybe sometime soon I will have a real post. Since last time I have finished Kafka on the Shore and After Dark by Haruki Murakami, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver and am currently in the middle of White Teeth by Zadie Smith so I've got a lot to say. I would like to get on it before the beginning of fall semester when I have to once again throw out pleasure reading.

Until next time,
happy reading.

who gives a shit?

Apathy and Other Small Victories***
by: Paul Neilan


So i bought this book at borders because a.) the cover had a suicidal bathroom symbol, b.) it said apathy in sign language, and c.) the author "is probably unemployed somewhere in Portland, Oregon" and i thought he could use the money. This is his first novel and upon finishing it i realized nothing really happened.  Don't get me wrong, it was funny, raw, enjoyable but surely nothing more than a fun read.  The novel follows Shane, an apathetic, cynical, roll out of bed, slacker. He is witty and crude, always telling it like it is, much like Holden Caulfield (Catcher in the Rye), Art Bechstein (Mysteries of Pittsburgh), or BEE's Clay (Less than Zero) but because Shane is really nothing more than his apathy and humor i didn't give a shit about him by the end of the novel. i could have cared less about him when it all came to an end and i don't know how i feel about that, i guess i am a bit apathetic.