I wear glasses because as a child I would stay up late, covers pulled over my head, reading by the dim light of a dying flashlight. At least that's what an eye doctor told me when I was younger. Probably a load of crap, but I still love reading and I still often do it by poor light far later in the night than is reasonable.
I've always taken notes while reading, usually with a pen and paper, but sometimes as highlights in the Kindle. And of course since I have all this stuff in text files I thought might as well put it online. So here you have it, books I've read and things I've thought about them.
Cormac McCarthy
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: July 2008
Elizabeth Bishop
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: March 2008
Jorge Luis Borges
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: March 2008
William T. Vollmann
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: January 2008
Haruki Murakami
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: January 2008
Robert D. Kaplan
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: December 2007
H. G. Wells
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: November 2007
Daniil Kharms
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: November 2007
John Lukacs
★★★★☆
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: September 2007
Simon Winchester
★★★★☆
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: July 2007
Roberto Bolano
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: April 2007
Giff Beaton
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: March 2007
Yasunari Kawabata
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: March 2007
Marcel Proust
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: February 2007
Cormac McCarthy
★★★★☆
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: February 2007
Laura Solomon
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: January 2007
Marcel Proust
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: January 2007
Nikolai Gogol
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: December 2006
Thomas Pynchon
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: November 2006
Thomas Pynchon
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: November 2006
Jonathan Evan Maslow
★★★★☆
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: November 2006
William Faulkner
★★★★☆
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: November 2006
David Foster Wallace
★★★★☆
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: November 2006
Julio Cortazar
★★★☆☆
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: November 2006