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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
★★★☆☆
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: February 2006
Vladimir Nabokov
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: February 2006
Yasunari Kawabata
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: January 2006
Haruki Murakami
★★★☆☆
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: January 2006
Haruki Murakami
★★★★☆
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: January 2006
Jared Diamond
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: December 2005
William Shakespeare, Leah S. Marcus
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: December 2005
José Saramago
★★★★☆
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: December 2005
W.G. Sebald
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: December 2005
William Faulkner
★★★★☆
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: November 2005
Jack McDevitt
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: October 2005
W.G. Sebald
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: September 2005
Haruki Murakami
★★★★☆
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: September 2005
José Saramago
★★★★☆
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: August 2005
Cormac McCarthy
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: July 2005
Bernadette Mayer
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: June 2005
Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: June 2005
Julio Cortazar
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: June 2005
James Salter
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: April 2005
Jeff Talarigo
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: April 2005
Ian McDonald
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: April 2005
William Gibson
★★☆☆☆
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: April 2005
Donald Barthelme
★★★★☆
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: March 2005
Alice Notley
★★★★★
Scott Gilbertson
Read in: March 2005