All the cool kids post to their blog pictures and commentary about the awesome books that they receive. Of course, the cool kids, do not pay for most of the books that they receive since they are reviewers, publishers, and/or publicists. I, on the other hand, pay for my books because I am none of the above. This does not stop me from wanting to take pictures of books and post them on my blog however!
Behold the almighty stack:
I have read very little Borges and feel that this is a serious hole in my literary world, thus the Borges book. A quick quote from Borges:
Reading, meanwhile, is an activity subsequent to writing—more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
- From the Preface to the First Edition of A Universal History of Iniquity
The Pirsig book is very well-known. I can remember seeing it on my Dad’s bookshelf when I was growing up. I have always been interested in it.I know very little about it. Should be interesting.
I read about Permuted Press just this week via Jeff Vandermeer’s blog. In reality it was Matt from Enter the Octopus guest blogging for Jeff. The Undead: Headshot Quartet consists of four zombie novellas. Day by Day Armageddon is a zombocalypse novel written in the style of a journal. I am new to the zombie genre and look forward to both of these.
These two are both authors that I am familiar with. The Open Curtain is a novel by Brian Evenson, who I recently blogged about. I recently finished Evenson’s other published novel, Father of Lies. It was good though not great. I liked the method of exposition that he used, but the story was a bit forced and too bitter. It was all too obvious that the book was a not-too-thinly-veiled attack on the Mormon Church. (More background on this here if you want it.)
A World too Near is the second volume of The Entire and the Rose trilogy. Book one, Bright of the Sky, has set my expectations high. Kenyon has pulled off some epic world-building with a fascinating premise.
There it is. My first, though hopefully not last Book Stack post.
Well actually I have to work…
