6/3/2000

This doesn't really count as a reading list item, because it's been several years since I read it. But when I was still a production slave that nobody quite knew what to do with, one of my jobs was to proofread Maggie Cassidy. It didn't take me long to read, but took me forever to proof. I kept getting drawn into the snowblind beauty of the New England scene, the trainsong, the adolescent rush. I've not read anything before or since that called to mind so vividly the thought of fresh kisses, nor the taste of young love. And it made me ache.
posted 1:54 AM

5/30/2000

I never got around to reading Mircea Eliade's three-volume History of Religious Ideas when I was in school, though I did read The Sacred and the Profane, which was quite good. So, now I'm in the middle of the second volume. Hey, it's fascinating stuff.
posted 2:10 AM
One book I've been reading for months: Gotham. Expect to check back in a few more months and discover that I'm still reading it. Not that it isn't good, it's just very long.
posted 2:05 AM
When I finish one of the other books I'm reading, I'm going to pick up Opened Ground, a collection of poetry by Seamus Heaney. Some of you may recognize the poet from the excellent magazine Double Take, which has included an excerpt from "The Cure at Troy" for as long as I've been subscribed.
posted 12:49 AM

5/29/2000

I've been reading Linkers and Loaders by John Levine. An excellent reminder that all of the software we take for granted is still just a collection of sequential zeroes and ones fed to a processor one word at a time.
posted 2:37 AM