READIN started out as a place for me
to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly)
how to design a web site.
There has been some mission drift
here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of
the main things I write about here are
reading books,
listening to (and playing) music, and
watching the movies. Also I write about the
work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.
The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.
See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.
READIN has been visited approximately 236,737 times since October, 2007.
Thanks to Mark for sending me this photo of Gazprom's headquarters in St. Petersburg -- this architectural monstrosity will be in my mind next time I pick up Inherent Vice:
Wow! Spotify was not around yet a few years back when I tried to build a playlist of songs from Inherent Vice from YouTube videos... Now GalleyCat's Jason Boog has answered the call with his own playlist. Boog has shared a bunch of other literary-themed playlists, too. Thanks for the link, Christine!
posted evening of August 15th, 2011: Respond ➳ More posts about Readings
"Be quiet the doctor's wife said gently, let's all keep quiet, there are times when words serve no purpose, if only I, too, could weep, say everything with tears, not have to speak in order to be understood."
-- Blindness, Jose Saramago
"Doc tried calling her name but of course words out here were only words."
-- Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon
posted evening of October 19th, 2014: 1 response ➳ More posts about Epigraphs
A new blog is a-birthing: Haquelebac (son of Foutasnon, father of Vitdegrain, great-grandfather of Pantagruel) is the latest project from the reliably interesting John Emerson -- no posts yet, but he says they are coming by Monday.
Best commentary yet on the The Millionslist comes from Alvy Singer, who asks, "What sort of list, using terms so hyperbolic, so spectacular -- OF THE MILLENIUM!! -- can be afforded the luxury of including not a single book which has not yet been translated into English?" He suggests the list be called, "The Greatest Fiction of the Millenium Published in English, Taking for Granted that the Rest can be Abstracted Until It Is Translated to English."
