Elise
When I'm not busy embodying the Red Sox by lamenting Alex Rodriguez, or riding my coveted green bicycle through the treacherous streets of North Oakland, I'm usually catching up on a great book. There's nothing better than warming up with a good book, a great cat, and chocolate soy milk.
...And here is some more inspiration.
*** August 2011 Newsletter Pick ***
I loved Kevin Henkes even before I read Kitten's First Full Moon -- and this book propelled me into full-blown Henkes obsession. It's the tale of a kitten who's convinced that the moon is actually a big bowl of milk suspended in the sky, and she's determined to make it hers. She tries everything she can think of to reach that perfect, round, smooth bowl of milk. Kitten learns a hard lesson, but luckily she has an owner who loves her. There's something so calm and reassuring about this book; Kitten's adventurous spirit and innocence take the fear out of darkness and nighttime.
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This book pretty much sums up my life and I highly recommend it to anyone who knows what a cat is. It is that good.
You know an author is good when he can engage you in a subject you would never otherwise consider. For me, that subject was basketball. Who knew Gilbert Arenas was so interesting? IV is a collection of articles Klosterman has written over the years on various pop culture icons, and he somehow makes every one of them interesting. Even Britney Spears.
American Psycho is one of my favorite books. There are numerous reasons why I think this is strange, namely I don't spend my nights at trendy NYC clubs desperately hunting down cocaine, or waste hours analyzing which of my friends has the most impressive business card and why, or have vivid fantasies (or realities...who knows?) about chopping people up and keeping them in my freezer. Patrick Bateman does and, for some reason, I can intimately understand his psyche. Ellis's exploration into and presentation of the mind of a serial killer is eerily realistic, even if it is fiction.