my next book
currently i'm reading my 'k' book, but the book after that will be "glaciers," by alexis m. smith.
from the inside flap:
"Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fixes her computer, and dreams of the perfect vintage dress move over a backdrop of deteriorating urban architecture and the imminent loss of the glaciers she knew as a young girl in Alaska...For Isabel the fleeting moments of one day can reveal an entire life. While she contemplates loss and the intricate fissures it creates in our lives, she accumulates the stories - the remnants - of those around her, and she begins to tell her own story."
so far, so good.
from the inside flap:
"Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fixes her computer, and dreams of the perfect vintage dress move over a backdrop of deteriorating urban architecture and the imminent loss of the glaciers she knew as a young girl in Alaska...For Isabel the fleeting moments of one day can reveal an entire life. While she contemplates loss and the intricate fissures it creates in our lives, she accumulates the stories - the remnants - of those around her, and she begins to tell her own story."
so far, so good.

5 Comments:
that looks very interesting!
at first i thought that working with damaged books in the basement of a library sounded wonderful. then i realized i wouldn't get much work done because if i was alone with books i'd spend all my time reading them.
i think i'd like to try it, though
This also makes me think of that movie we watched last night.
yes, i suppose it does :)
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