Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Monica: Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (271 pages)
Favorite Quote: "'How does a man with a beautiful girlfriend manage to have a blow job from a prostitute, get found out and get away with it?' I panicked. My mind went blank. 'Well?' he said. 'Well? Come on, say something!' 'Well, maybe,' I said, because it was the only thing I could think of, 'it was because somebody swallowed the evidence.'"
Monica: Looking for Alaska by John Green (221 pages)
Favorite Quote: "Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia"
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Monica: Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini (287 pages)
Favorite Quotes/Excerpts: "I go to the bathroom for an Appearance Check. I've been doing a lot of Appearance Checks lately. I've noticed that I'm kind of ugly. I mean, I have brown hair and brown eyes - good, right? - but under a critical light, which is how the world views you, I can see how I might resemble someone with palsy."
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Monica: More Than They Could Chew by Rob Roberge (306 pages)
Favorite Quotes/Excerpts :
"I've been a drug addict, I know my ounces, my metric weights, if need be. Metric was supposed to be the thing of the future back in the seventies. By turn of the century we'd be zipping quietly from town to town in our electric cars. We'd pull into a charging station and ask how many kilometers it was to Dallas. But it didn't work out that way. The future of the past is rarely the present. Only Ed Begley Jr. has an electric car and only scientists, addicts, and narcotics officers can tell a kilo from a pound and do the math in their heads."
"I walk over and take a look at Maggot Arm Joe's arm. The inside of his arm looks like someone took a chunk of it out with a mellon baller. There's a big recess, and the skin's all slick, it catches the light, shiny as a latex miniskirt.
I say, 'So that's healed? That's how it'll look?'
Arlo says, 'That's close. Some muscle will fill back in. But when you destroy muscle, you change the shape of the body.'
I look down at the slick recess in his arm.
Maggot Arm Joe says, 'It's not so bad.'
'You are a lucky man,' Arlo says. 'Medical ingenuity- there should be a thank-you section in Hallmark for medical ingenuity. The scars that a surgery would have left in that beautiful arm of your would have been just savage. There would have been an ugly hole in that arm.'
I look down at what looks like a big ugly hole in his arm."
"I've been a drug addict, I know my ounces, my metric weights, if need be. Metric was supposed to be the thing of the future back in the seventies. By turn of the century we'd be zipping quietly from town to town in our electric cars. We'd pull into a charging station and ask how many kilometers it was to Dallas. But it didn't work out that way. The future of the past is rarely the present. Only Ed Begley Jr. has an electric car and only scientists, addicts, and narcotics officers can tell a kilo from a pound and do the math in their heads."
"I walk over and take a look at Maggot Arm Joe's arm. The inside of his arm looks like someone took a chunk of it out with a mellon baller. There's a big recess, and the skin's all slick, it catches the light, shiny as a latex miniskirt.
I say, 'So that's healed? That's how it'll look?'
Arlo says, 'That's close. Some muscle will fill back in. But when you destroy muscle, you change the shape of the body.'
I look down at the slick recess in his arm.
Maggot Arm Joe says, 'It's not so bad.'
'You are a lucky man,' Arlo says. 'Medical ingenuity- there should be a thank-you section in Hallmark for medical ingenuity. The scars that a surgery would have left in that beautiful arm of your would have been just savage. There would have been an ugly hole in that arm.'
I look down at what looks like a big ugly hole in his arm."
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Monica : Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams (277 pages)
Favorite Quote/Excerpt:
"... Then what with one thing and another, I thought it prudent to jump out the window again, being fresh out of other options at the time. Luckily for me the jetcar was there, otherwise I'd have to fall back on ingenious quick thinking, agility, maybe another shoe or, failing all else, the ground."
"... Then what with one thing and another, I thought it prudent to jump out the window again, being fresh out of other options at the time. Luckily for me the jetcar was there, otherwise I'd have to fall back on ingenious quick thinking, agility, maybe another shoe or, failing all else, the ground."
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