THE BOOKWORMS OF RVA

"Not that they were even together that long. Soon enough she was answering casting calls and getting..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:22:17 -0400

“Not that they were even together that long. Soon enough she was answering casting calls and getting some theatre work, onstage and off, and Doc was into his own apprenticeship as a skip tracer, and each, gradually locating a different karmic thermal above the megalopolis, had watched the other glide away into a different fate. — INHERENT VICE, Thomas Pynchon”

bookshelfporn: Librairie Ptyx - Bruxelles

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:41:36 -0400

bookshelfporn:

Librairie Ptyx - Bruxelles

Inherent Vice trailer narrated by Thomas Pynchon

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:02:18 -0400

Inherent Vice trailer narrated by Thomas Pynchon

Our current pick!

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:19:50 -0400

Our current pick!

"” —- in Inherent Vice one detects a feeling that recalls Proust’s lament that “streets..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 22:23:41 -0400

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” —- in Inherent Vice one detects a feeling that recalls Proust’s lament that “streets and avenues are as fugitive, alas, as the years.” Not only is the L.A. of that time lovingly re-created, it is also enthusiastically re-imagined as the endless, stoned-out summer many would like to remember it as.”

— Donald Brown review of Inherent Vice

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- http://quarterlyconversation.com/inherent-vice-by-thomas-pynchon-review

Thanks everyone who came to our monthly meetup today! The...

Sun, 12 May 2013 22:14:43 -0400

Thanks everyone who came to our monthly meetup today!

The Bookworms have selected Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice as the new book of the month and we can’t be more excited. Specially since a movie treatment of this novel is in the works by none other than Paul Thomas Anderson!

Meeting: 6pm Sunday 9th June at Lamplighter Roasting Company

BOOKWORMS MEETUP TODAY! SUNDAY 6pm @ LAMPLIGHTER ROASTING COMPANY

Sun, 12 May 2013 16:30:56 -0400

BOOKWORMS MEETUP TODAY!

SUNDAY 6pm @ LAMPLIGHTER ROASTING COMPANY

A fellow bookworm got to attend a talk with our Author of the...

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:17:25 -0400

A fellow bookworm got to attend a talk with our Author of the Month last night in NOLA!

A fellow bookworm got to attend the talk by our author of the...

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:02:13 -0400

A fellow bookworm got to attend the talk by our author of the month in New Orleans tonight

BOOKWORMS MEETUP: MAY 12, 6pm SUNDAY @ LAMPLIGHTER ROASTING CO.

Wed, 01 May 2013 13:04:41 -0400

BOOKWORMS MEETUP: MAY 12, 6pm SUNDAY @ LAMPLIGHTER ROASTING CO.

At Logan International

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:36:53 -0400

At Logan International

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Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:42:08 -0400

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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:05:47 -0400

A PRAYER “Lord, may we love all your creation,all the earth and every grain of sand in it.May...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:28:04 -0400

A PRAYER

“Lord, may we love all your creation,
all the earth and every grain of sand in it.
May we love every leaf, every ray of your light.

May we love the animals;
you have given them the rudiments of
thought and joy untroubled.
Let us not trouble it;
let us not harass them,
let us not deprive them of their happiness,
let us not work against your intent.

For we acknowledge that unto you all that is
like an ocean, all is flowing and blending,
and that to withhold any measure of love
from anything in your universe
is to withhold that same measure from you.
Amen”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

— Libreria Acqua Alta bookshop in Venice ( via Fictional...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:02:47 -0400

— Libreria Acqua Alta bookshop in Venice ( via Fictional Woods )

pwatemvcu: Frank O’Hara, “Having a Coke with You”

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:52:18 -0400

pwatemvcu:

Frank O’Hara, “Having a Coke with You”

Thanks everyone who brought their unique perspectives on Michael...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 22:53:45 -0400

Thanks everyone who brought their unique perspectives on Michael Chabon’s Wonderboys in our first meeting of the Spring!

We are extremely excited to have picked The Flame Throwers by Rachel Kushner which is the most buzzed about book in the lit. scene at this very moment!

Our meeting will be at Lamplighter Roasting Company on Sunday May 12, 6pm. We have decided to have meetups on every second Sunday of the month.

Mark your calendars and start reading! Check the NPR review below:

Rachel Kushner’s brilliant lightning bolt of a novel, The Flamethrowers, straddles two revolutions: the squatter-artist colonization of Manhattan’s SoHo in the 1970s, and the rise of Italy’s radical left during the same period. Its young artist narrator, Reno, is wistful and brutally candid at once, with a voice like a painting — lush and evocative — but also like a scythe. “Enchantment,” she says, describing her dashed hopes after a one-night stand, “means to want something and also to know, somewhere inside yourself, not an obvious place, that you aren’t going to get it.”

http://www.npr.org/2013/04/04/175351776/racing-from-art-to-revolution-and-back-again-in-the-flamethrowers

Chabon on record-stores in Oakland BOOKWORMS MEETUP: 6pm APRIL...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 11:49:28 -0400

Chabon on record-stores in Oakland

BOOKWORMS MEETUP: 6pm APRIL 7, SUNDAY

@ LAMPLIGHTER ROASTING COMPANY

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Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:01:44 -0400

“Thank you for going on this journey with me. I’ll see you at...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:48:45 -0400

“Thank you for going on this journey with me. I’ll see you at the movies.”

— Roger Ebert, 1942-2013