It's Christmas Eve, and we're all readers. Uh...what is the logical topic for this weekend's Weekend Writing Discussion?
Yeah.
This year (as I do every year), I put a bunch of books on my Christmas list. I was hoping to complete my Vonnegut collection (a hurdle that The Shutterbug - being her generally awesome self - helped me clear last night when she and I had our annual Christmas date and gift exchange), and I was hoping to receive a few other books besides, but the one book I am most excited about (and most anxious about!) is Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace.
DFW was one of the most intelligent, insightful writers of the last 50 years, Infinite Jest was his greatest work, and...I have still not read it. I put it on my Christmas list, but now I'm afraid that I might have buried it too deeply.
My fingers are crossed. And I'm sweating.
How about you, Dear Reader? Sure, you put several books on your Christmas list (right?), but what is the one book you most hope you receive wrapped in gaudy paper tomorrow?
Take a moment to spill. (Does anyone use the internet on Christmas Eve? If they do, it'll be cool to see what everyone says.)
And of course, come back tomorrow and spill again - let us know whether your Christmas quest was a success.
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Some of the books I've gotten for Christmas I've bought for myself. With my bonus I bought books two through four ("A Clash of Kings" "A Storm of Swords" and "A Feast for Crows") in George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" saga. I've had the first one for a while but haven't gotten around to reading it. HBO has adapted the series into a new series so I need to read it before it premieres.
ReplyDeleteI gave my brother a list of a few books I wanted. I'll find out tonight what he purchased for me.
The one I'd like the most - which I doubt I'll get - is "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Hemingway. I've yet to read any of Hemingway's work, besides sitting in Barnes and Noble and glancing through his novels, and I wanted to make that the first one.
Regardless, it's been a good Christmas thus far.
Hope you have a Merry one, Jordan.
Well well well, it does appear that no one visits the internet on Christmas Eve or Christmas. Frankly, I don't blame you.
ReplyDeleteWhile this blog post was a nearly epic fail (thanks, Mark, for flinging your thoughts out there for all of us to see), my quest for Infinite Jest was much more successful! Thank you, little sister.
From my youngest sibling, I also received E.M. Forster's A Passage To India and David Guterson's Snow Falling On Cedars
From The Shutterbug, I received the last 5 Vonnegut novels I did not own, and I received Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
Other than the absence of thoughts on this lonely post, it was a very good Christmas...