Shopping spree. (Taken with instagram)
Shopping spree. (Taken with instagram)
Last time in the countryside. (Taken with instagram)
Brown cow does not care for Jarocki. (Taken with instagram)
Winding down. (Taken with instagram)
Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom | The Guardian
So fucking brilliant. I am at present trying not to devour Freedom. The fading page count feels apocalyptic.
The stories that recognise people as they really are – the books whose characters are at once sympathetic subjects and dubious objects – are the ones capable of reaching across cultures and generations
– Jonathan Franzen
Slang for
- me: I'm yours all day except for an hour haircut. Just waiting for Taylor to confirm.
- Mom: Taylor?!
- me: For a haircut. As friends.
- Mom: Ma wipes brow. :)
I quite liked this. A very ambitious plot for the masses maybe. I think I may have become annoyed were it not for the Search function in iBooks, but also maybe I should just suck less at memory.
This made me realize that I am all about the “great American novel” and I need to embrace it more. Not that committing to a genre doesn’t have it’s drawbacks too. I think I will stay open-minded to “books with buzz” and reviews I find interesting in the NYT, Globe, or Guardian, but otherwise…knowing what you like can be a great thing. And I love America. Having spent the year traveling the Old Continent, drinking espresso, seeing “the” places and “the” paintings, the so-called fathers of what I should appreciate about this modern life (or even the fact that I have one), there is still nothing I prefer to a stretch of blacktop, red dirt, big sky, Kathleen Edwards, and a Vitamin Water. As long as it leads to the Pacific.
The problem with modern people (one of the problems) was that they’d forgotten how to be humble.
– Hari Kunzru
