Summer of sci-fi & Pink Floyd

Of Cixin Liu’s El Problema de los Tres Cuerpos

en español

y de turntable

y de música nueva (gracias amigos)

y de Domingo por la noche

y Pink Floyd

you are never really alone

when you have books...
some older pictures of me
happy with my books...

"There's more to life than books, you know. But not much more."
& "The goodness of privacy in a warm room with books."
— Morrissey #Morrissey

2006, cottage studio in Normal Heights, San Diego, this place was surrounded by skunks, possums and homeless cats, I adopted two cats for myself and found home for another 3.

2008? same studio Normal Heights, San Diego. I was fit, so much yoga!

December 2014, at the wonderful Skylight Books, in Los Feliz, Los Angeles, California. www.skylightbooks.com

Pulse by Julian Barnes, coming soon yet

yet yet not soon enough
Julian Barnes is one of my preferred authors
i love his cleverness and subtle graceful sarcasm
i've read a couple of his books
the wonderful collection of short stories
The Lemon Table
his 'tour de France' Flaubert's Parrot



one of my favorite novels ever
Arthur & George
based on a real-life case of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's life

with every book, Barnes keeps his voice and talent flawless
yet every books is so different from the other one

truly a genius of our now-a-days literature

his new collection of short stories, Pulse
is already being read in England
it won't be published here in the US until May 2011
but that is OK, i still have one of his books in
my bookshelf waiting to be read
Nothing to Be Frightened Of

so i won't be frightened of not having enough Barnes book to read
and i will wait patiently for the next...

in the meantime i am actually reading this other book
Room by Emma Donoghue
a dark dark tale, but more on that later

Top 10s | Books | guardian.co.uk

i love books, and maybe because i am lazy
i love books lists and compendia too, too
i love The Guardian's UK books section
and one of my favorite sub-sections of that section
is their Top 10 lists
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/toptens



the lists are written by an specific author on an
specific subject, usually one that the author
is an expert on

some of the lists are very focus and proper
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/may/30/top10s.shakespeare
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/mar/18/japanese.novels

some are timeless
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/04/linda-buckley-archer-top-10-time-travel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/31/best-ghost-stories

some are quirky
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/feb/10/top-10-potato-books
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/17/paul-murray-top-10-wicked-clerics
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/dec/19/top10s.smelly.books

some are just fun
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/27/tiffany-murray-rock-n-roll-novels
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/02/shirley-hughes-top-10-picture-book-characters

and they all open a little door to the magical
world of book-reading... if you like books lists
give The Guardian's UK Top 10 a try
you can dive in yourself
and find your favorite ones!

Flavia de Luce

"Long ago and far away"
~Flavia de Luce, Dogger, "The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie"



Saturday morning glory
phone ringers off
3 cats fast asleep
neighbors quiet


Frau Kitty through plants
Frau Kitty is the sweetness at the bottom of my pie life!



Lucky woke up for the picture, went back to sleep


Herr Gatito mellow, enchanting when he's asleep on my closet for once
he's not allowed there but since Luck's visit he's been a bit 'edgy'
to put it nicely, so to give him (and me) some peace

nothing like the beauty of the silence to read!