reallyenoughofthisnonsense Archives · I Will Dare https://iwilldare.com/tag/reallyenoughofthisnonsense/ A little bit of heaven & A whole lot of hell Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:49:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://iwilldare.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/cropped-medusa2-1-32x32.png reallyenoughofthisnonsense Archives · I Will Dare https://iwilldare.com/tag/reallyenoughofthisnonsense/ 32 32 31365837 For the record books https://iwilldare.com/2009/03/for-the-record-books/ Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:49:26 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=8088 It is 6:48 a.m. I’ve been up for 65 minutes. I just wanted that marked down for posterity somewhere.

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]]> It is 6:48 a.m. I’ve been up for 65 minutes.

I just wanted that marked down for posterity somewhere.

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]]> 8088 Stream of conscious reports from the front https://iwilldare.com/2008/07/stream-of-conscious-reports-from-the-front/ https://iwilldare.com/2008/07/stream-of-conscious-reports-from-the-front/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:47:10 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=7283 I have all five kids here today. It’s only 8:30 and I’m already ready for a nap. They are destroying my house and in the process making houses for their pet rocks. Nolan will only...

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]]> I have all five kids here today. It’s only 8:30 and I’m already ready for a nap. They are destroying my house and in the process making houses for their pet rocks. Nolan will only let us listen to Guided by Voices. It’s too hot to go the park so I feel a little trapped. None of them like Neutral Milk Hotel. Cade named his rock Rockus, Liam’s is Blue, and Nolan’s is Nolie, Jr.

I have class tonight and babysitting tomorrow and the Ethan Canin reading tomorrow night and on Thursday I will spend my day in a non-responsive coma, only to awaken on Friday and finish the story I’ve been dillydallying about with that is due a week from today.

I am rethinking that whole “too hot” for the park nonsense. This Supergenius HQ is not big enough for the six of us.

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So there’s still about eight books on the diningroom table and a few scattered about the various rooms, but I’m calling the Semi-annual Supergenius Book Reorg 08 done. And since I don’t have a job and a real problem with prioritizing my time, I counted most of the books. I present to you a break-down of my books. Are you excited?

  • 515 Fiction
  • 135 Non-fiction
  • 134 Short Story Collections
  • 14 Poetry

Further breakage Fiction:

  • 225 Novels
  • 120 Sweet Valley High
  • 77 Short Story Collections by a single author
  • 57 Multi-author Short Story Anthologies
  • 36 Misc. Other Crap Teen Romances (Caitlin, Seniors, etc.)
  • 16 issues of McSweeney’s

Further breakage Non-Fiction:

  • 29 books on writing/reference (thesauri, dictionaries, style guides)
  • 20 books about rock and roll
  • 8 books about journalism/journalists
  • 7 books on political philosophy

Most Popular Authors:

  • 14 John Irving
  • 13 Jeanette Winterson
  • 13 VC Andres
  • 12 Douglas Coupland
  • 8 Philip Roth
  • 8 Kurt Vonnegut
  • 6 Toni Morrison
  • 5 Amy Bloom
  • 5 Jonathan Lethem
  • 5 Lorna Landvik
  • 4 Lorrie Moore
  • 4 Mary Gaitskill
  • 4 Dave Eggers

Audiobooks not included in the numbers above:

  • 37 fiction
  • 14 non-fiction

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