Alain de Botton

Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.

Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

An interesting quote that has me interested in the book. Any of you read The Architecture of Happiness, or other de Botton works?

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Unrelated - I'm on a diet. Kind of. Not a traditional crash or fad diet, but a change-my-attitude-to-food diet. ( Read more... )

Just a note: I'm going to be cutting all d-word talk, for those who would prefer not to see it on their flist/dwircle.

my immediate To-Read list

These are things I've recently purchased, and need to get through before the September grind starts in full. Oh shiiiiiit.

comics
28 Days Later: London Calling, by Michael Alan Nelson and Declan Shalvey
The Fate of the Artist, by Eddie Campbell
Haunt of Horror, by Richard Corben and various
Chicken With Plums, by Marjane Satrapi

poetry
The Immigrint Suite: Hey xenophobe! Who you calling a foreigner?, by Hattie Gossett


What are you crazy kids reading?