The Urchin Bookshelf is an ever-changing, adaptive entity that gives us life, teaches us lessons, and slowly ruins our eyesight. One thing that we Urchins have in common, among many other things, is that we can all enjoy reading. Geo works in a bookshoppe for Joyce’s sake, and the other two use his position to score discounts, but he doesn’t mind because it’s all part of his role as bookseller/cultural advocate. Sarah can read a book while walking around her apartment, one of the few multi-task acts she can accomplish. Margaret reads actual screenplays. Does anybody else do that? Not anyone else we know. In our undying effort to share and promote all that is good and pure in art, here are some of the books found on the Urchin Bookshelf.
Top Shelf
What We’re Reading
The Dusty Bookshelf
And remember, you can make a difference by getting your books at libraries, used bookshoppes, and independent bookshoppes! Book lovers must support book lovers, not big business!
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Gravity’s Rainbow? Why bother? Want to read a book about war that grabs you by the scruff of your neck and doesn’t let go until you’ve read it? Try ‘Dispatches’, by Michael Herr. It is journal by a reporter who spent a year in Vietnam and once it is read, there is no doubt in your mind about when America truly lost its hymen. By rape. It was a long, slow, painful, thorough rape. It was a war that wasn’t allowed to be a war; it was classified as a police action. The gulf war and Iraq were and are bad, but before Vietnam we were virgins.
I appreciate the recommendation, but I don’t read Gravity’s Rainbow for war. That’s a bit like reading Catcher in the Rye for the rye. -Geo
Hey, great reading list you got there. Think I might take a chance with A Grief Observed, from what is written it sounds really good.
I agree wholeheartedly about Lord of the RIngs – only I believe it to be an actual history of our subconscious past lying covered over with the detritus of our present and when we read it we hearken back to that golden age which was threatened by the dark forces of the present….