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With a review like this, it’s gotta be good: We’re just about the happiest we’ve ever been with this book, and it’s mostly because of all the vomit stories and references to Arby’s.

Mmm. Arby’s.

Feedback From James Joyce’s Submission of Ulysses to His Creative-Writing Workshop.
Thanks, CzelticGirl!

Czech book design from the 1920s: pretty pretty!

Best Amazon reviewer ever.

Matt Warden’s book is out. Go, Matt!

…and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

It’s Bloomsday!
Tonight, Stephen Colbert is playing Leopold Bloom in the annual Bloomsday on Broadway. Not in New York? It’ll be on WBAI 99.5, which has a feed.

Three years ago, we were in Dublin for Bloomsday, and Russ proposed. (YAY, RUSS! YES!) Tonight, we’ll be taping the WBAI feed and enjoying some fine whiskey at Brocach.*

Which I will sorely need…

How to order food.

Google’s holiday logo
Bloomsday 100 official site
The Internet Ulysses
James Joyce Center
ErinGoBlog: Bloomsday 2002
I cannot find any Bloomsday events in Madison. Fie!

I started rereading the book last night and have worked up a powerful thirst. Who wants to meet up for gorgonzola sandwiches washed down with burgundy* and Guinness?

* at the wedding** we served a gorgonzola puffpaste appetizer with a burgundy cream sauce
** when we get around to it, our rings (claddaghs) will be engraved with “yes I said yes I will Yes***.”
*** someday I may get around to posting the text of Superior to Fear, the wedding book we wrote.

I use “we” when I mean “you.” “As we saw in the previous chapter…” “We’ll work through this example line by line.” And so forth. Apparently we won’t be working through this example. You will be working through this example; I will be in the Bahamas drinking my royalty check.

William Thackeray
Starts very enjoyable and grows tedious. Has no hero and I hated all the characters by the end, and wished they would all die, or at least not suck as much. Perhaps that was Thackeray’s point.

William Gibson
Kind of neat. Damn but I want one of those Buzz Rickson jackets, sight unseen. A very interesting comment on advertising and branding in that I’m not the only one: the jacket didn’t exist until the book came out, and the manufacturer had enough requests to start producing it in black. Please Hollywood don’t let Carrie Ann Moss star in the movie. (That goes double for Neuromancer!)

Elsebeth Lavold
Cool stuff and enough design technique to apply the concepts to your own designs.

Debbie Stoller
Good basic overview of knitting techniques with historical information and simple but attractive patterns. Fun and a lot of cool people are featured, like Becky.

Thomas E. Connolly, ed
Useful essays.

James Joyce
I enjoyed this much more than I did when I read it in high school. I owe quite a debt to this book, as it is what finally pushed my father out of the Jesuits. “I will no longer serve that in which I no longer believe.” I’ll read the essays I found, then reread it.

Madeline Albright
She knits!

Harry Blamires
Absolutely indispensible.

James Joyce
On hold until next year. But oh, so good.

Salman Rushdie
As much as I generally fiercely dive into any Rushdie, I can’t get into this one and it’s back on the shelf for now.

Dave Eggers
OMG what is all the fuss about? Depressing and annoying. Didn’t bother finishing and I won’t.

Derek Powazek

Judith Martin
The definitive guide to how not to be a bad bride or bad guest. If more people listened to Judith Martin the world would be a much better place.

Jim Thatcher et al.

How Ron Lieber
OK, I guess. Not as many ideas as I’d have hoped.

Sinclair Lewis
Eh, not his best. More for the completists in the house… however, average Lewis is a better read than many any day.

The Cluetrain Manifesto
Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searles, David Weinberger

Cause Celeb
Helen Fielding
She writes the most terrific men… Of course, I still see Colin Firth as O’Rourke. Habit, I guess.

The Friendly Jane Austen
Natalie Tyler

Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser

Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain

A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal
Anthony Bourdain

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Eric Schlosser

Web Redesign : Workflow That Works
Kelly Goto & Emily Cotler

Fury
Salman Rushdie

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J.K. Rowling

Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame & Degradation in the 80s
Hunter S. Thompson

How to Read a French Fry
Russ Parsons

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K. Rowling

Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J.K. Rowling

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Matt Beaumont
Very popular with my friends who work in agencies, keeps getting passed around. I’d like it back!

The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Melissa Bank
Goodie, more chicklit…

Harry
Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone
J.K. Rowling

Speaking with the Angel
Nick Hornby, ed.
really enjoyed this

Main
Street
Sinclair Lewis

Naked Pictures of Famous People
Jon Stewart

Paddy
Clarke, Ha Ha Ha
Roddy Doyle

Dear Liar
Jerome Kilty

Back to Methuselah
Bernard Shaw
Yes the whole thing. And I sat through it, too.

Shopgirl:
A Novella
Steve Martin

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
(yes, again!)

Bridget Jones’ Diary and The Edge of Reason
Helen Fielding
(yes, again!)

The Reivers
William Faulkner

The Bad Girl’s Guide to Getting What You Want
Cameron Tuttle
(Note to all girlfriends: you’re getting this for your birthdays.)

The Prodigal Parents
Sinclair Lewis

Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence

Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home In Italy
Frances Mayes

The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton

Sex and the City
Candace Bushnell
blergh

Don’t Make Me Think! A Commonsense Approach to Web Usability
Steve Krug

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
Louis Rosenfield & Peter Marville

The Man From Main Street: A Sinclair Lewis Reader
Selected Essays & Other Writings, 1904 – 1950

The Nun’s Story
Katharine Hulme

The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Salman Rushdie