the pursuit of happiness

FALL OUT BOY AMERICANA: here, here, and here. also, the entire oft-forgotten pax am days ep.

let us now consider the bookshelf of the author, who is trying to pack books for a ten-hour plane ride. out of 100 books on this shelf:

• twenty were written by women; seven of those women had the first name jane
• two were written by writers of color. writer, rather, as they're both ishiguro.
• twenty-five were written by authors still alive today; half (!) of those are history books. i only own eighteen total history books.

dead white men, the fourth of july, america! here is a quiz that will tell you which founding father you most resemble in personality, and it's not the one you'd think might follow that sentence. (forty-six books are by american authors.)

i'd like to say that this is more a reflection of my buying & taking-books-from-my-dad habits than my reading habits, as i'm more inclined to frequent the library than to spend money. (except when i rack up fines, oops!) that said, recent purchases include: 1) thomas mann's buddenbrooks, which will advance nothing, but which i will read anyway because it was specifically recommended to me because of my deep love for pride and prejudice, and 2) murakami's sputnik sweetheart, which i bought because it got me right to the 'free shipping' benchmark on bn.com.

p.s. @uswnt !!!