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- The very busy week in bookish LA is up at LAist
- Between getting my rear-ended car sorted and my presentation for tomorrow finished, I'm hoping I'll be able to make my way to the Min Jin Lee reading tonight of her new book Free Food for Millionaires. I haven't even cracked it open yet, on account of another book I'm reading on deadline, and on account of the number of pages that seem to be contained within Lee's book - it's a bit daunting sitting there in the stack. But I'll get to it. I will.
- Just as Hollywood seems to be recycling film re-makes only to re-make them again (what does that make them? tri-makes?), I took a brief look at some novels that are making their way to the big screen and got some interesting responses...including some impossible casting ideas for Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces.
- The ever-busy Dan Wickett has posted the sixth installment of the litblogger panel in which we offer our own silly answers. When answering questions in a vacuum, you can't help but suspect you will come off sounding like a pratt when all the responses are combined. I'm pleased to report that I only seem a bit prattish, not wholly so. I also worry that the maggot references will be obsolete in about two week's time if they aren't already. On the flip side, it's lovely to read the responses from others and get to know them a little better.
- I'm woefully aware that I owe some things: Ondaatje reading post, Pessl Roundtable Wrap-Up, other items that fail me as I type.
- As our honeymoon gets ever-closer and the idea of spending two weeks in Ireland becomes less a dream and more of a sure thing, I find that I'm sleuthing ways to carry hordes of books back from all the bookstores I'm finding in my travel-planning books. I'm organizing whole days around bookshops, book tours, author homes and poet pathways. I'm also feeling the pressure to finish up all the Irish reading I said I'd finish before I go. Once I get through the small pile on my desk...then...it will be all Ireland, all the time...really. Probably.