Last bag!

Also last walk to work (well, bus stop - I DID have a huge bag of books) today from the apartment - Monday I'm moving and then Tuesday I'll be commuting to Cambridge from Brookline for the first time...


Mostly books I never get around to reading, like:

Lightning Rods - Helen DeWitt (2011)
Not sure why I have this; I read something else by the same author, I think, but if it's the book I'm thinking of, I didn't love it, so I'm not sure that I would have sought out another one.


In the Kitchen - Monica Ali (2009)
I think because Brick Lane was checked out?

The Abruzzo Trilogy - Ignazio Silone (2000)
Well, OBVIOUSLY because it's all stories set in Abruzzi[/o]! And also because it just makes me sad how little comes up when you search for books about (or in, or vaguely near) Abruzzo.

Dirty South - Ace Atkins (2004)
Heh. The title just makes me laugh. I am totally sure I grabbed this one off the shelf based on the spine along.

Leeches - David Albahari (2011)
I either read something else by Albahari and really liked it, or read something I really liked and then Albahari was mentioned either in a quote on the back or acknowledgements or something?

A Feather on the Breath of God - Sigrid Nunez (1995)
The Dud Avocado - Elaine Dundy (1958, 2007)
These two are both totally different, but also both kind of concerned with the whole coming-of-age / blossoming into womanhood / etc. thing. And well praised. They're also both small paperbacks and I am really tempted to hold on to them and just pack them since they wouldn't take up too much space.




And a book I read half of last Aug./Sept (I think):

Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape - Kirk Savage (2009)
I really liked this book, solid public history, but it's larger than a normal book and pretty heavy, which made it next to impossible to read in bed, and that's pretty much the only place/time I had to do any reading over the last year, so it kind of languished on the blanket chest.

And one I read half of some other time:
Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree - Tariq Ali (1992-2000: confusing)
I liked this, I'm not sure why I never finished it. I think I was always waiting until I could give it a good chunk of sober, not-exhausted time, and never found it...