I Purchased . . .

[queerbychoice]

Love Invents Us by Amy Bloom (thanks to Ill Scientist)
Beginning with O by Olga Broumas (thanks to Bre)
Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland (thanks to a whole variety of people including Frank, Melody, and most notably Imp)
The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis De Bernieres (thanks to Morgan)
The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish by Neil Gaiman (thanks to Frank)
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (thanks to Raven)
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein (thanks to Raven)
Borderliners by Peter Hoeg (thanks to a combined dialogue of Morgan and Frank)
The Invention of Heterosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz (I picked this one out all by myself, aren't you proud of me?)
Native Speaker by Chang Rae Lee (thanks to Frank)
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan (thanks to Frank)
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn (thanks to Raven)
Candide by Voltaire (thanks to Bre)

Comments

[venus-flytrap.livejournal.com]

oooh i just read Ishmael - let me know when yr done cause i'd love to chat.

[aliendreamer.livejournal.com]

I can't buy more than two books at once because I get option paralysis (that's a Coupland term, by the way) and don't know what order to read them in. Plus I've spent most of my life being frustrated by my lack of ability to read as fast as I'd like. I used to be such a fast reader when I was little, but maybe I was just skimming or I lost braincells or something. See, apparently, people recognise words when they read in one of two ways: either by the vowel pattern in the word, or by the shape of the letters. Some people (like my American friend Nicole) apparently read in both ways at once and so go twice as fast as the rest of use mere mortals.

Now wasn't *that* fascinating?

_Imp