Dec. 31st, 2022

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Books from the pre-determined bookshelves -
Farewell My Concubine - I remember the movie as one of the many long CHinese epics that fucks with the characters in the Cultural Revolution. Leslie Cheung was in it. So far so good.

Wolf Hall by Rebecca ? - Oh yeah, that's the stuff. THis is what Alison Weir was trying to do with her historical fictions (and what she kind of succeeds with her actual histories). ONly about a 6th of the way in but loving it.

Perfidio by Jame Ellroy - Damn, this one is unpleasant but I can't look away. Ellroy's cops and scumbags are running around Los Angeles in 1941. If you are an Ellroy fan you know where these characters eventually end up (apparently the one becomes the James Cromwell character in LA Confidential)

Books that I get to choose from anywhere in my house (granted the pre-determined books are also chosen from anywhere in my house with the understanding that I won't get to them until about a year after choosing them)

THe Storis of John Cheever - I decided to get back into Tumblr with an intense book review - kind of like the best Twitter threads. I originally was going to do it with Les Miserables because that book defeated me in high school and I'm wondering if I am more patient with Victor Hugo going on and on about the Battle of Waterloo, his belief system, that priest that gives Jean Valjean his candle sticks, etc, etc. instead of the plot. Probably. After all since high school I have read Moby Dick, War & Peace, Infinite Jest and many other classic books that prove that I can read slow moving books where the author decides to take their time and go off on tangents.

But then I realized that I am reading a bigass book full of short stories. So check out https://www.tumblr.com/marlowe1-blog for more about this book.

THere's also The Magician King, but I just finished reading it. I was kind of hoping that I wouldn't start the Brenda Clough book until 2023 so I can include it.

Notable books in my Graphic Novel Pile next to my bed
Most of these are library books. Not all of them.

I'm slowly read Tale of the Genji, the JPS translation of the Bible and Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg. I put them in the graphic novel pile because I know I will eventaully finish them that way. I tried reading Tale of the Genji as a regular book off the shelf but it's REALLY slow. And I was losing track of characters.

Also I'm reading The Invincible Omnibook (his dad just went off crying like in the show), Jack Kirby Fourth World Omnibook (holy shit, it's like 1400 pages), Liminal Space by Junji Ito, YOur Name vol 2, MOrbius Collection (It's morbing time!) and others.

I'm also going to start a substack. Because I need to have a regular column. I tried it with Medium and I was getting maybe $1 in a good month. I will probably just write about Dybbuk PRess stuff.

Also finally editing The Emptiness Under the House (working title. I like it) so that's going to get published this year.

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