http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wasnt_this_about_books You may have noticed that I have blogged about celebrities and Scientology, but not at all about books. All the publishers, as is the thing at BEA, are giving away tons of advance copies of their fall and winter lists. Yesterday, I mostly walked around the floor picking up books and having publishers push books into my hand. There's a stack of books about three feet high in my hotel room. I am concerned about bringing it all home with me, and airplane luggage weight limits. Here are some books that are in my hotel room right now. What... Copyright 2008 Sat, 31 May 2008 13:00:00 -0800 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:03:02 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Book hint: mail them to yourself Media Rate (used to be called Library Rate). Not too expensive. They'll get there in a week or so.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wasnt_this_about_books#c1037257 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wasnt_this_about_books#c1037257 Books Sat, 31 May 2008 13:22:11 -0800 Murakami will always be weird, even if his work is nonfiction. That is what makes him so delightful as an author, a surreality in all things that still seems to make sense.

]]> Jaye http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wasnt_this_about_books#c1037267 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wasnt_this_about_books#c1037267 Books Sat, 31 May 2008 13:41:49 -0800 the one about celine dion is by carl wilson, and its the most impt book about taste and popular culture i have read in a decade, esp. in how it realtes it to geography, gender, sexuality, race and class,

]]> anthony http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wasnt_this_about_books#c1037284 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wasnt_this_about_books#c1037284 Books Sat, 31 May 2008 14:32:49 -0800 Murakami could write a menu or directions on how to assemble a box and it would be the best fucking read in the history of the world...

]]> M http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wasnt_this_about_books#c1037290 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wasnt_this_about_books#c1037290 Books Sat, 31 May 2008 15:06:30 -0800 @3 -- you meant to write "important", right? I agree -- it's the best 33 1/3 I've read.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wasnt_this_about_books#c1037297 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wasnt_this_about_books#c1037297 Books Sat, 31 May 2008 15:29:29 -0800 Can we get some comments about the weird photos you're using to illustrate these posts? Thanks.

]]> Gurldoggie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wasnt_this_about_books#c1037462 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wasnt_this_about_books#c1037462 Books Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:14:09 -0800 I'm hearing a lot of buzz about THE GARDEN OF LAST DAYS by Andre Dubus III - and that was before Stephen King's article in EW! Pick it up if you haven't and it's available!

]]> booklova http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wasnt_this_about_books#c1037492 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wasnt_this_about_books#c1037492 Books Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:45:40 -0800 Cosign on the Celine Dion 33 1/3 book. Required reading for pop music critics.

]]> Eric Grandy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wasnt_this_about_books#c1037540 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/wasnt_this_about_books#c1037540 Books Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:03:02 -0800