basking in the flames

My best friend in high school has a journal now: sailorliebe.

And yes, each of us has always been like this.

paired readings

jinian linked recently to kate_nepveu's Paired Readings Page; the conceit offers a (perhaps more concise?) way to organize my thoughts on certain novels.

Here, then, are two pairs of books which I admire but don't like.

Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
White Apples, Jonathan Carroll

( cosmic understanding )

The Twenty-Seventh City, Jonathan Franzen
The Scar, China Miéville

( worlds and broken wires )