Ask, and you shall receive. So here’s a list of books that I found funny. I am only covering fiction here, which is hard because I find that not a lot of fiction books are…
Posts tagged Douglas Coupland
Getting things off my spleen
Going back to work after having a week off blows. Hard. After reading The Gum Thief I have convinced myself that I have spleen problems. I am not sure where a spleen is located but…
The Gum Thief
Remember how excited I was about reading Douglas Coupland’s The Gum Thief? Yeah, that dried up and blew away leaving a vague sense of disappointment behind. What we have here is an epistolary (god I…
As slow as a 1999 modem
Oh God. I came home today and because I can’t do anything but be lethargic, I picked up the book closest to the comfy green chair and started reading it. It was Douglas Coupland’s The…
Exercising the Sister #1 Power of Tune Out
Since I’m Sister #1 I sometimes get to be a bit of tastemaker for the Sisterclub. Now that I think about it, that’s totally delusional. They generally ignore me and go right on listening to…
happy international iBook delivery day!
allegedly the iBook is going to be delivered today. we still don’t have a name. lots of wonderful suggestions, i cannot deny that. it also seems that y’all have a knack for picking names that…
ohmygod. ohmygod. ohmygod. ohmygod. i am never washing these shoulders again
let’s get this out of the way right off the bat. . . DOUGLAS COUPLAND HUGGED ME. me. yes me. i was hugged by DOUGLAS COUPLAND. the stink, sister #2, and i ventured to the…
eleanor rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
yesterday afternoon, when i finished reading Douglas Coupland’s Eleanor Rigby, i shut the book, curled into the fetal position and started to cry. a reaction that even surprised me a little bit. i cried, and…
the fatal flaw
i’ve been happily chugging through Douglas Coupland’s Eleanor Rigby all weekend. i’m pretty much loving it except for one thing. the narrative jumps around in time quite a bit, some of it takes place in…