Book-land!

The Man Booker Dozen has been announced...jengjengjeng..and sad to say, I can't get most of the books here in NZ. Gotta get them specially ordered for meself at bookstores or get 'em online.

The books that are in the running for the prize-

Darkmans by Nicola Barker
Self Help by Edward Docx
The Gift Of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
The Gathering by Anne Enright
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Gifted by Nikita Lalwani
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
Consolation by Michael Redhill
Animal's People by Indra Sinha
Winnie & Wolf by A.N. Wilson

Mister Pip? Mister Pip I can def' get in Auckie. It's everywhere!!Since the writer hails from New Zealand. Blah. I don't plan to read it.

I've finally read White Teeth by Zadie Smith, and I must say, it's brilliant! Currently reading her third novel; On Beauty (starts getting interesting after page 100 or so) and right after that, I wanna get my hands on her second; The Autograph Man.

Then I shall wait (im)patiently for her fourth.OOOOOOO....Time..why must you be so slooowww...

Another writer I <3 so much is Mark Haddon. With him, I don't need to imagine all the little details. I just need to FEEL. And in that way, he's amazing. Both The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother are must-reads.

And the SIMPSON's Movie?


F-U-N-N-Y


Just before I chow-cincau, here are some quotes from the books above. Just so ya know what I'm babbling about.

Quotes from A Spot of Bother
"The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely".

"Did they ever go insane, children?Properly insane, not just handicapped like the Henderson girl? He was unsure. Perhaps there was not enough brain to malfunction till they reached university".

"Jamie was a homosexual. And what was wrong with that? Nothing whatsoever. So long as one was hygienic".

Quotes from White Teeth

"The principles of Christianity and Sod's Law (aka Murphy's Law)are the same: Everything happens to me, for me. If a man drops a piece of toast and it lands butter-side down, this unlucky event is interpreted as being proof of an essential truth about bad luck:that the toast fell as it did just to prove to you, Mr Unlucky, that there is a defining force in the universe and it is bad luck".

"Pain by itself is just Pain...But Pain+Distance can=entertainment, human interest,cinema verite, a good belly chuckle...disguised contempt".

"In a place where you are never welcomed, only tolerated. Just tolerated. Like you are an animal finally house-trained"

"....suddenly this thing, this belonging, it seems like some long, dirty lie..."