I TELL YOU I AM JUST LIKE YOU!

I've been so bad at updating this blog but the truth is, I am really struggling with finding something to read right now. I read Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin and it was so good, I just haven't been able to follow up on it. Read the short story The age of discretion by Simone de Beauvoir and then the first part of Jonathan Litell's The kindly ones, but nothing really gets me interested. Well OK, The kindly ones is something I really am interested in (if you haven't read about the controversy surrounding that book, I highly suggest you Google it) but I want to read something else, something that feels like me. Why have I already read The women's room? The golden notebook? The millstone? Cat's eye? Blonde? I don't know what to read, unless I re-read something (Drabble). So while continuing to search for the next great book, allow me to say hi (waving with a very strange hand):

CURRENTLY READING:

Sorry I've been so bad at updating, but won't really blog now either. Read Rosemary's baby by Ira Levin a couple of weeks ago. Since then, I've read some books in Swedish. You can check them out here: http://librisvedese.blogspot.se/

Like a tropical storm,
I, too, may one day become "better organized."
Tropical storm, Lydia Davis

SHE TURNED TO LITERATURE

Read Bright young things by Scarlett Thomas last week. It wasn't especially good, but had to get into reading mode again. Currently reading The women's room by Marilyn French. Finally! It's so good. Will put up quotes soon, when I'm not so busy and stressed out all the time.

Other book-related event: Going to see Lydia Davis at Kultuhuset here in Stockholm tomorrow. Am excited.

Before I went to Eastern Europe, I read Testimony by Anita Shreve. Really wasn't good. Wasn't bad either, just completely blah. Read Before I go to sleep by S.J. Watson and Back roads by Tawni O'Dell while away. The last one was wonderful.

Budapest, August

Read The golden notebook by Doris Lessing. Was truly great. Reading something that really isn't now right now. Going to Eastern Europe on Monday. Will drink cheap wine and eat cheap food and sleep at cheap hostels.