Is there anything more vulgar, more irritating, more vacuuous than management-speak? I think I have reached my saturation point. I'm existing in a world of self-improvement books, of highly effective people and their seven fucking habits. If one more person tries to "touch base" with me... maybe I'll just play dumb: "You want to touch my WHAT??"
I was really sick on monday. So sick that I seem to have lost five pounds in two days. Ick, not good. I'm drinking water like a madwoman to get better.
I'm reading a book of Angela Carter stories now, which I am digging. It's a little over the top, but I'm in the mood for that right now. Before that, I polished off Murakami's Hard-boiled Wonderland and The End of The World, which I loved, and gave to Kenn to read. I adore Murakami. His style is perfectly concise and restrained, but his subjects are often bizarre and profound. I've noticed that his male protagonists tend to be The Everyman, while his female characters are the more interesting characters that drive the plot. I enjoy that. He just bowls me over.
I just made "milkshakes" with fresh strawberries, vanilla soy ice cream, and vanilla soy milk. YUM.
Have I ever mentioned that I am obsessed with food? I am. I love food.
I was really sick on monday. So sick that I seem to have lost five pounds in two days. Ick, not good. I'm drinking water like a madwoman to get better.
I'm reading a book of Angela Carter stories now, which I am digging. It's a little over the top, but I'm in the mood for that right now. Before that, I polished off Murakami's Hard-boiled Wonderland and The End of The World, which I loved, and gave to Kenn to read. I adore Murakami. His style is perfectly concise and restrained, but his subjects are often bizarre and profound. I've noticed that his male protagonists tend to be The Everyman, while his female characters are the more interesting characters that drive the plot. I enjoy that. He just bowls me over.
I just made "milkshakes" with fresh strawberries, vanilla soy ice cream, and vanilla soy milk. YUM.
Have I ever mentioned that I am obsessed with food? I am. I love food.
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Which angela carter book are you reading? the Bloody Chamber (her reinterpretations of various fairy tales... a great book)?
I recently read Hard Boiled Wonderland, which is a great book... the thing is, it was hard for me to process in some ways before I instantly identified certain things as cliches simply because I'm reading an influential work at face value without evaluating its effects (if that makes sense? kind of like how, often, people who watch Pulp Fiction for the first time might dismiss it as something they've seen before). But I can see the innovation and it has some wonderful imagery.
I'm currently plowing through Cryptonomicon, which is damn fun.
Your food posts always make me happy... people who talk extensively about food make me happy (I actually read people's ljs if they discuss food pretty frequently). I think it's because a lot of people take meals for granted, so someone who actually breaks down & appreciates the composites is neat.
Anyway, if you see this, hi! The Carter book I'm reading is the collect short works, it's called Burning Your Boats. It includes The Bloody Chamber, which I quite liked. I've really liked all the fairy tales, though I find some stories overdone. A story about a beautiful vampire that compares sex and death? How original.
Murakami is, for me, the flip side of that coin. I love the way he twists cliches into something new and invigorating. But I am also a big fan of concise, straight-forward, economical writing (so you can see why Carter doesn't always thrill me).