Artemesia is one tough read! *groans* I do not claim, by any means, to be a book worm or a literary connoisseur. I do not pretend to know books I have not read or suggest any without devouring it myself first. If I like the premise enough, why not? But I haven’t been this stuck since I read Anne Rice’s Witching Hour back in college. The problem is that I really have to set aside time to finish it instead of just letting it sit at my office desk or be stowed away in my bag. I don’t want to concede defeat. I LOVE the subject and the writing is spectacular but it’s a pet peeve of mine when the adjectives run the entire length of the book. I love colorful phrasings and the vividness of it all but GOOD LORD. *massages temples* I suppose it comes with the territory of reading book about painters and living in fuckin’ Europe .. *grumblegrumble*
So even with the degree of difficulty that Artemesia has afforded me, I shall forge on to pack more books than I could ever read in my entire life, and you, my favorite and lonely reader, are tasked to scour the world for the good ones. So put down that Twilight series and buy me a book by Glen Duncan. I picked up my first Glen Duncan when I was in New York a couple of years ago, a book called, “I, Lucifer“, “God offers the Devil a deal: come to earth and take over the body of a poor soul who has just committed suicide, stay out of trouble for one month in this body, and gain re-entry into Heaven. The story is told as a confession by Lucifer himself.“
It was one of the coolest reads I’ve had. So now, I am looking into this author to see what else he other additions he can bring to my bookshelf. My copy of “I, Lucifer” is sadly with a former officemate of Teh Douchebag so I might as well mark that for dead. If you want to make me happy for Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Rizal Day, New Year, Valentine’s, Graduation day, my mother’s birthday, my birthday, your birthday, Cookie Day, BJ and Steak Day, and every other day in the calendar, get me one of his books. Look, I’ll even make it easy for you and make links to the books, synopses, and the Add To Shopping Cart Button.
I, Lucifer
[Buy for Uneditedmara because she is teh shiznit.]
Death of an Ordinary Man
Clark, a recently deceased history teacher, appears at his own funeral, hovering over the mourners. Ghost-like, “a radical amputee… [n]o body, but a maddening imposture of sensation,” he glides through the action, tuning into the thoughts of his father, Frank; his wife, Cheryl; his college-age son, Luke; and his daughter, 17-year-old Gina.
[Buy for Uneditedmara because I fear pain.]
The Bloodstone Papers
A listless part-time teacher and writer of pornographic novels helps his elderly father quench a decades-old thirst for revenge.
[Buy for Uneditedmara because she might be nice enough to send me something.]
Weathercock
This is the confession of Dominic Francis Hood – Roman Catholic, sadist, conspirator to murder, witness to a miracle. Dominic’s childhood had the usual cardinal points: the love of his family, a vague belief in God, a general curiosity, an emerging libido.
[Buy for Uneditedmara because I can borrow it from her when she's done since it looks like an interesting read and doesn't have anything to do whatsoever with the C word in the title .. nothing whatsoever.]
This may or may not be an actual photo of me reading the books you WILL BUY for me.
