This morning, in a hurry to get to work, I missed the B61 bus by an icy quarter block. This was probably brought on, in part, aside from everything else, by a sudden compulsive need to obscure my reading material from fellow subway passengers. So there I was, rushing to get out the door, stopping for an extra few minutes to hastily construct a brown bag book cover for the paperback book I happened to spy on the book shelf this morning. I'm not sure where that particular paperback book came from, or how it ended up on my shelf in my line of sight this morning, but it was written by a fellow that Daniel Lin recently said I might find interesting. As this author's name is splashed headily in large print across the original book cover, I noticed it and placed it as such immediately. On that cover, along with said author's name and the book's goofy, self-help title (embarrassing enough in their own right) was the scourge of stamps-of-approval everywhere and self conscious subway riders alike: Oprah's Book Club. And so with equal parts curiosity, wonderment and shame, I bundled up my little guilty pleasure in brown and paper at the cost of missing the B61 bus. Fifteen minutes of client time is no match for a commute of disinterested if furtive skimming.
More Missteps in a Life Full of Lack of Confidence
This morning, in a hurry to get to work, I missed the B61 bus by an icy quarter block. This was probably brought on, in part, aside from everything else, by a sudden compulsive need to obscure my reading material from fellow subway passengers. So there I was, rushing to get out the door, stopping for an extra few minutes to hastily construct a brown bag book cover for the paperback book I happened to spy on the book shelf this morning. I'm not sure where that particular paperback book came from, or how it ended up on my shelf in my line of sight this morning, but it was written by a fellow that Daniel Lin recently said I might find interesting. As this author's name is splashed headily in large print across the original book cover, I noticed it and placed it as such immediately. On that cover, along with said author's name and the book's goofy, self-help title (embarrassing enough in their own right) was the scourge of stamps-of-approval everywhere and self conscious subway riders alike: Oprah's Book Club. And so with equal parts curiosity, wonderment and shame, I bundled up my little guilty pleasure in brown and paper at the cost of missing the B61 bus. Fifteen minutes of client time is no match for a commute of disinterested if furtive skimming.
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that is basically how I feel about my tattoo. I didn't think you were affected by such trifles. This is a glorious moment indeed. I will now proceed to beat you in basketball and wrestling.
You may yet beat me regularly at basketball. That been in the works for years. But never will you ever beat me at wrestling.
i used to get real embarrassed when people noticed I was reading 'Lolita' on the 4 train.
Mothers would be sitting with their daughters - across the way from me, and they would be looking at that cover and then at me- and i would be looking at their daughters and then at the book - it was real uncomfortable...
actually, anonymous LOVED that he was reading Lolita on the 4 train. He would seek out mothers with daughters. I was there. He made a big deal about it.
WHAT WAS THE BOOK!!!
I thought about it last night. Kelvin, I think you will kick my butt at wrestling the older we get. I reckon you are one of those late blooming wrestling phenoms.
And exactly how many times have you read 'Lolita' "anonimo"?
It seems like you were always reading that book.
i tried nabokov's other books but they did nothing for me - this forced me to acknowledge that it wasn't his writing style i was obsessed with - it was just the subject matter of 'Lolita'
this is very difficult for me to discuss, even in this format.
please, we must never bring this up again...
i read eat pray love and had to put a book cover on it. eff that ess! the consualte flag paper makes a great book cover. eat and 1/2 of pray were pretty good. love made me feel embarrassed for the author.
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