First of all: Baby! That's fantastic. I didn't know it was out and about in the world already! Second, what leads you to say you think paleo is so obviously unhealthy? I don't really know too much about it, but it has always seemed reasonable to me. My understanding was it was basically: most of the...

43. My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk 417pg 44. Our Man in Iraq by Robert Perišić 202pg 45. Under a Cruel Star by Heda Margolius Kovaly 192pg 46. Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner 181pg Continuing with the Turkish theme, I read this Orhan Pamuk book. It's the second Pamuk book I've read and I'm p...

41. A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdı Tanpınar 447pg 42. Subtle Bodies by Norman Rush 236pg I started studying Turkish this year and so I'll probably be trying to read some Turkish books. A Mind at Peace is about Mumtaz, a man whose love affair with a divorced mother has just ended. Most of the the boo...

40. The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald 237pg Another reread of a W.G. Sebald book. This feels like a beautiful warm-up for his masterpiece (in my opinion it's NOT Austerlitz!) The Rings of Saturn. If you want to read a melancholy novel that is extremely beautiful but where not much happens and there's alo...

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37. On Writing by Jorge Luis Borges 167pg 38. The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson 244pg 39. On Elegance While Sleeping by Viscount Lascano Tegui 174pg The first was a collection of nonfiction things Borges wrote about writing. I'd read a few of them before, but it was nice to read them all together ...

1. A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 by John Richardson 500pg 2. A Life of Picasso: 1917-1932 by John Richardson 592pg 3. Vertigo by W.G. Sebald 263pg 4. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 116pg 5. Pastoralia by George Saunders 188pg 6. Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald 221pg 7. The Success and Failure of Picasso by...

I read a book (or two?) before I left for Croatia that I didn't post here, and I have it written down at home, but I can't for the life of me remember what they are, but I'll log what I've read here so far and then put in the missing books when I return home. I brought The Savage Detectives by Rober...

1. A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 by John Richardson 500pg 2. A Life of Picasso: 1917-1932 by John Richardson 592pg 3. Vertigo by W.G. Sebald 263pg 4. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 116pg 5. Pastoralia by George Saunders 188pg 6. Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald 221pg 7. The Success and Failure of Picasso by...

1. A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 by John Richardson 500pg 2. A Life of Picasso: 1917-1932 by John Richardson 592pg 3. Vertigo by W.G. Sebald 263pg 4. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 116pg 5. Pastoralia by George Saunders 188pg 6. Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald 221pg 7. The Success and Failure of Picasso by...

1. A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 by John Richardson 500pg 2. A Life of Picasso: 1917-1932 by John Richardson 592pg 3. Vertigo by W.G. Sebald 263pg 4. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 116pg 5. Pastoralia by George Saunders 188pg 6. Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald 221pg 7. The Success and Failure of Picasso by...

1. A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 by John Richardson 500pg 2. A Life of Picasso: 1917-1932 by John Richardson 592pg 3. Vertigo by W.G. Sebald 263pg 4. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 116pg 5. Pastoralia by George Saunders 188pg 6. Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald 221pg 7. The Success and Failure of Picasso by...

1. A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 by John Richardson 500pg 2. A Life of Picasso: 1917-1932 by John Richardson 592pg 3. Vertigo by W.G. Sebald 263pg 4. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 116pg 5. Pastoralia by George Saunders 188pg 6. Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald 221pg 7. The Success and Failure of Picasso by...

I will be doing an intensive Croatian language program at the University of Zadar on the Croatian coast from the end of May until July 6th this summer. I have distant relatives in Croatia and will probably travel to Zagreb at some point afterwards to visit them and then out to the eastern part of Cr...

1. A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 by John Richardson 500pg 2. A Life of Picasso: 1917-1932 by John Richardson 592pg 3. Vertigo by W.G. Sebald 263pg 4. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 116pg 5. Pastoralia by George Saunders 188pg 6. Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald 221pg 7. The Success and Failure of Picasso by...

1. A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 by John Richardson 500pg 2. A Life of Picasso: 1917-1932 by John Richardson 592pg 3. Vertigo by W.G. Sebald 263pg 4. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 116pg 5. Pastoralia by George Saunders 188pg 6. Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald 221pg 7. The Success and Failure of Picasso by...

1. A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 by John Richardson 500pg 2. A Life of Picasso: 1917-1932 by John Richardson 592pg 3. Vertigo by W.G. Sebald 263pg 4. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 116pg 5. Pastoralia by George Saunders 188pg 6. Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald 221pg 7. The Success and Failure of Picasso by...

Congratulations Jeremy! 1. A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 by John Richardson 500pg 2. A Life of Picasso: 1917-1932 by John Richardson 592pg 3. Vertigo by W.G. Sebald 263pg 4. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 116pg 5. Pastoralia by George Saunders 188pg 6. Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald 221pg 7. The Success a...

1. A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 by John Richardson 500pg 2. A Life of Picasso: 1917-1932 by John Richardson 592pg 3. Vertigo by W.G. Sebald 263pg 4. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 116pg 5. Pastoralia by George Saunders 188pg 6. Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald 221pg 7. The Success and Failure of Picasso by...

1. A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 by John Richardson 500pg 2. A Life of Picasso: 1917-1932 by John Richardson 592pg 3. Vertigo by W.G. Sebald 263pg 4. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 116pg 5. Pastoralia by George Saunders 188pg 6. Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald 221pg 7. The Success and Failure of Picasso by...