I was about to head to Eastwood last night to see what I could score at Fully Booked, where books were, yet again, at 20% off, when Don rang me up and asked me to join him and Jansen for some pizza at the Shang. I was a bit reluctant at first to postpone my book-buying binge, but pizza with a couple of feral but very good friends was just impossible to pass up (that the pizza was going to be free made it so).  About thirty minutes later I was at a table with the two, in front of several slices of California-style pizza. The pizza was good, but the concomitant chat was better. In between talking about our jobs and Lost, we of course talked about Tumblr, that place where we got to know one another and the inspiration to the faux logo shirt I was wearing last night.  After discussing our plans (or the complete lack thereof) for our collaborative Tumblr film blog and flinching at the mention of a certain tumblelog filled with blind items (an exercise in poor taste), we eventually arrived at the subject of Zet’s just founded Read Hard! Tumblr book club. I said I’d submit a photo of my ugly face beside my copy of Everything is Illuminated, Read Hard’s first selection, and here it is. Everything is blurred, but that cover actually reads: Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer a novel While I’m a huge fan of gray318’s iconic book cover design, I got this limited Olive Reader edition instead not only because it’s the only copy of the novel I found when I went looking for it around the metro last year but also because its cover design was done by another favorite artist of mine, Milan Bozic. Also, it’s a tribute to Safran Foer’s nascent genius that his novel was included in this limited series of paperbacks, in the company of such great works as Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar.  Lest I forget, I’ll still be participating in the Ilustrado online book club that I mentioned previously. I imagine it’ll be interesting to read both novels alongside each other, what with the parallels that can be drawn between the two, stylistically and thematically. For starters, the narrators in both novels were named after their respective authors. Also, the cover for the locally distibuted editon of Ilustrado was designed by none other than gray318. Then there’s the use of various literary devices in both novels. And… I think I better stop right here before I run out of thoughts to contribute to my online book clubs, both of them. And I think I still owe Fully Booked a visit.

I was about to head to Eastwood last night to see what I could score at Fully Booked, where books were, yet again, at 20% off, when Don rang me up and asked me to join him and Jansen for some pizza at the Shang. I was a bit reluctant at first to postpone my book-buying binge, but pizza with a couple of feral but very good friends was just impossible to pass up (that the pizza was going to be free made it so). 

About thirty minutes later I was at a table with the two, in front of several slices of California-style pizza. The pizza was good, but the concomitant chat was better. In between talking about our jobs and Lost, we of course talked about Tumblr, that place where we got to know one another and the inspiration to the faux logo shirt I was wearing last night. 

After discussing our plans (or the complete lack thereof) for our collaborative Tumblr film blog and flinching at the mention of a certain tumblelog filled with blind items (an exercise in poor taste), we eventually arrived at the subject of Zet’s just founded Read Hard! Tumblr book club. I said I’d submit a photo of my ugly face beside my copy of Everything is Illuminated, Read Hard’s first selection, and here it is.

Everything is blurred, but that cover actually reads:

Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer
a novel

While I’m a huge fan of gray318’s iconic book cover design, I got this limited Olive Reader edition instead not only because it’s the only copy of the novel I found when I went looking for it around the metro last year but also because its cover design was done by another favorite artist of mine, Milan Bozic. Also, it’s a tribute to Safran Foer’s nascent genius that his novel was included in this limited series of paperbacks, in the company of such great works as Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. 

Lest I forget, I’ll still be participating in the Ilustrado online book club that I mentioned previously. I imagine it’ll be interesting to read both novels alongside each other, what with the parallels that can be drawn between the two, stylistically and thematically. For starters, the narrators in both novels were named after their respective authors. Also, the cover for the locally distibuted editon of Ilustrado was designed by none other than gray318. Then there’s the use of various literary devices in both novels. And… I think I better stop right here before I run out of thoughts to contribute to my online book clubs, both of them.

And I think I still owe Fully Booked a visit.

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