Lets talk turkey.
What the fuck does that mean? I mean, I can understand – Let’s get down to business – Let’s chew the fat – Let’s rap, but talk turkey? Who talks turkey?!
Oh well. My life – is goddamn boring right now. Lindsay is working weekends and of course, I have weekends off, this of course leaves for many, many hours of Counterstrike:Source, reading Something Awful, and thinking about things I could, and in most cases, should, be doing. I sit at home and accomplish a whole lot of nothing. I need something else going on I think. My next few posts will cover various things that I’ve been meaning to do.
Part One; Reading
I love to read, I really do – there’s only one problem. I’m so frequently plastered to a computer screen that my reading list boils down to:
SomethingAwful
Slashdot
CNN.com
TheOnion
You get the point, hardly the classics. I need to compile a list of books that I’d like to read – be it again, finish, or something new. Here’s what I have handy that I need to finish up:
Sarah Vowell – The Partly cloudy patriot
This book has been in my bag for ages. At some point I convinced myself at my old house that I would take public transportation to work, and this book would accompany me on my trip. That didn’t last long as I started working from home, and about as long as it lasted, is about as far as I got through the book.
Sarah’s writing is bloody brilliant, she makes an appearance on my top5 list as her wit and intellect are about the sexiest thing ever regardless of her plain appearance.
David Sedaris – Dress your family in Courduroy and Denim
I’ve read a lot of Mr. Sedaris’ writing and love it all. I never started this book – it took was purchased in the event that I finished up The Partly cloudly patriot . As you’ve already learned, this didn’t happen.
Here’s, what I want to read again:
Gabriel García Márquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
This book, wow, this book – w. o. w. I don’t know that I was ever so enthralled in a single piece of literature as I was in this book. I recall having the most amazing visualizations in my head of Macondo and the Buendía family, and for these reasons I must read this again.
The classics, Catcher in the Rye, To kill a mockingbird, and The Lord of the Flies. All of these books I read in high school and despite being far to cool to admit it then – I loved them. I really would love to revisit all of them.
Something new? I don’t know – anyone have any good suggestions?