Sinister: reading list for cool kids

[Laurel Girvan]

yikes, the secret history.  i read that at my wits end (yes i know some of
you think i'm there all the time, thank you) for a book while sitting in a
crowded bus on a circuitous mountainside road in greece.  that said, i
thought it was terrible, though a welcome distraction from the
ear-splitting greek folk music the bus driver had insisted on playing all
morning. (it was also sort of a joke since it's about a group of murderous
classics students - of course i am one and was stuck in a foreign country
with about 15 others.....) 

also on books, if you liked 'sophie's world' try gaarder's next book 'the
solitaire mystery.'  i thought it was even better than sw.  has anyone
else read 'the mysteries of pittsburgh' by joseph chabon? it's not recent
or anything,but someone just pointed it out to me and i'm in the middle of
it now.  it's beautiful, especially this passage at the end to which i am
going to treat you:

   but i can never learn to be a world as phlox was a world, with her own
   flora and physics, atmosphere and birds.  i am left, as coleridge was
   his useless dream poem, with a glittering sock and a memory...to say i
   loved phlox implies no need or lack of need of her, she was a world i
   gained and lost...i only wish i had seen her one last time.

there's more but you'll have to read it yourself! (do do)

laurel
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