The Zereps

i’m sure you’ve noticed the alarming uneventfulness of our blog lately…so have we…and since it’s summer there’s just not much to do (unless we put out large amounts of cash to escape the city, which we’re not likely to do). so i thought it might be nice to start blogging about the books i’ve read or am reading. now, i don’t read nearly as much as i’d like to, nor do i read all the books i would like, either, but i hardley ever read a bad one.

so….without further ado….the book i have just finished is Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried.

Here’s a small phrase from the book, “They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing–these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice…. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.”

i was surprised by how extraodinarily excellent this book is. i only picked it up from the book corner at work because i had finished another book, but after 3 pages i couldn’t put it down. i recommend it *very* highly. i actually had to take it home to read because it was way too heavy to read at work. so go out and buy it! i’m going to make eric read it, i think he would really like it. i generally don’t recommend books so highly, but this one deserves it…so go out and buy it!! (or get it from the library)

i’ve also finished a couple good reads in the last week or so that are worth mentioning.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was a great book. i don’t know why i haven’t read it sooner, since it’s *the* book that defined a whole generation. i will definately read it again sometime in the future, too.

George Eliot’s Middlemarch was also an excellent book. it’s a supurb look at 19th century english provincial life. i throuroughly enjoyed it and look forward to reading more books by her.

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