Today we witnessed the happy arrival of both an Amazon.com order and a belated Christmas package. I have enough new books to last me at least. . . a week. Maybe longer!
Some of the highlights:
Friedrich Nietzsche -- Beyond Good and Evil
Michel Foucault -- The Foucault Reader
Azar Nafisi -- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Mako Yoshikawa -- Once Removed
Geerhardus Vos -- The Kingdom and the Church
We also received back copies of Bon Appétit and Organic Style magazines.
It was a good day on the lifestyle front all around -- while downtown today we picked up tickets to Charles Gounod's opera Roméo et Juliette for Saturday night.
Posted by Discoshaman at janvier 26, 2005 12:05 AM | TrackBack
Let me know how you like the Foucault. I've been meaning to read him for a while now and I'd love to know if the Reader is a good place to start.
Posted by: Paul Baxter at janvier 26, 2005 12:52 AMYeah for you! We get excited about packages of new books too even though it's not as rare an experience for us, probably, as it is for you.
Ask TulipGirl if she's going to read the Azar Nafisi book any time soon - I just finished Bel Canto last week and will probably start that one in another week or two... going to finish The Eyre Affair first...
Posted by: Megan at janvier 26, 2005 01:14 AMI am curious as to what you think of Reading Lolita in Tehran. I have debated getting the book so many times in the book store recently, but I just can't move myself to do so.
If anyone else has read it, let me know.
Posted by: Benjamin at janvier 26, 2005 05:02 AMReading Lolita etc is a good book, and its insights into an academic life under a totalitarian government are surprising, at times. I found the discussions of the literature less enthralling (except for when they provided a fresh comment on Iran) primarily because my taste and Nafisi's are dissimilar and because I think her reading of Lolita (at least the one presented in the book) is kind of simplistic, and also because I haven't gotten through Henry James yet. But it's a worthy book to read, defnitely.
The sex scenes are great, too.
Posted by: leftthecapitol at janvier 26, 2005 09:28 PM