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verbminxThe New York Times Top 10 Books of 2005.
Murakami's Kafka on the Shore is listed first, though I'm not sure it's meant to be "#1".
I spent last night piling up boxes in my basement. I have a sore back. But I packed 4 boxes of books, and determined that the bookshelves in the room should take up another 10 at most. After what's in the living room and what's in my bedroom, I think I have gone from over 30 boxes to around 25. This is about 1.5 bx per shelf, with the exception of art books, which are more like 2 bx per shelf because they are oversized.
I have also managed to flatten nearly every book that was bowed because my terrible movers packed it on two different levels. (That is, you place a book so that half of it is part of one stack of books, and the other half is atop a stack that is slightly shorter. You then pile other books on top of it. When you unpack the victim, if it's been more than a couple of days, it will be both bloodied and bowed. This is "funny" when it's paperback Anne Rice, and not so funny when it's a large hardcover book about notable photography of the 20th century.)
I'm cold because we've adopted the new household temperature for the winter. Much colder than the summer household temperature. Requires socks at all times, even if slippers are also worn. I drink hot cocoa, hot cider, and hot tea, all the time.
Murakami's Kafka on the Shore is listed first, though I'm not sure it's meant to be "#1".
I spent last night piling up boxes in my basement. I have a sore back. But I packed 4 boxes of books, and determined that the bookshelves in the room should take up another 10 at most. After what's in the living room and what's in my bedroom, I think I have gone from over 30 boxes to around 25. This is about 1.5 bx per shelf, with the exception of art books, which are more like 2 bx per shelf because they are oversized.
I have also managed to flatten nearly every book that was bowed because my terrible movers packed it on two different levels. (That is, you place a book so that half of it is part of one stack of books, and the other half is atop a stack that is slightly shorter. You then pile other books on top of it. When you unpack the victim, if it's been more than a couple of days, it will be both bloodied and bowed. This is "funny" when it's paperback Anne Rice, and not so funny when it's a large hardcover book about notable photography of the 20th century.)
I'm cold because we've adopted the new household temperature for the winter. Much colder than the summer household temperature. Requires socks at all times, even if slippers are also worn. I drink hot cocoa, hot cider, and hot tea, all the time.
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Date: 2005-12-01 11:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-02 05:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-02 12:58 am (UTC)Perhaps I'm being unfair.
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Date: 2005-12-02 05:46 am (UTC)In the Murakami, though, the reference is actually to a character who adopts the name. Which I guess is tangentially a reference to the writer, but at the same time, not like in the other two books where part of the plot seems to hinge on characters sitting around reading those authors. (Not sure about the Fowler book, but I've read part of "Balzac" and IIRC it has to do with young Chinese peasants reading forbidden books that have been smuggled in, like Balzac.)
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Date: 2005-12-02 01:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-02 07:24 pm (UTC)Clearly the Murakami level, but are there people above him who couldn't get away with it or below him who could?
And does the rule go for other famous people, too - IE the novel Audrey Hepburn's Neck or maybe The Dream of Scipio? "Inquiring minds" etc.