what i've been dreaming about

When I try to think about a book i read a long time ago, I can remember the story by thinking back to what I was doing while I read it- or where I was or lived. This also works inversely when I think about places I've been, or things I've done and can remember the book I was reading at that time and my memory is heightened again....

moreso my dreams are also heightened because all of a sudden every night I get into the plots of my novels and am the hero or pervert, or crime detective I am reading about in the daytime. strange, i know. My dreams are very vivid.
analyze that.

We've been on many planes and trains and a few boat rides where reading is the only thing that can keep me from thinking about how hot or cold or sleepless I am presently. It seems like everything in Thailand is super, SUPER air conditioned to compensate for the sweltering heat- and then all of a sudden i am wearing the puffy down jacket to bed on a train- the one I'd stuffed at the bottom of my backpack thinking I was done with it after france. ho- hum.

So these are the books I've just finished- and managed to pick of for free or for too many Baht at supermalls and at various hotels and bungalows:

Reading Lolita in broad daylight made me feel like a creep

but I ended up liking it, and then felt guilty for the sympathy and pity I felt for the main character; a pedophile.


Bought this one in Bangkok because it reminded me of you, shea, and this post I remember reading right before Gigi came:)

Had no idea i could be brought right back to 9th grade when I read Catcher in the rye the first time. Why does Salinger speak to the to me and mke me think I am in spiritual crisis? hmmm

and then I also read

which I loved, really really loved because it made me think about Sweden and how cool it is and that i want to go there again when it is not light for only 3 hours each day- and made me guess until the very last page. this book is a thriller/novel- and miranda recommended it to me not because she read it, but because she saw everyone reading it in the airport in the late summer and I am a total crowd follower.

This is by no means any trip documentation that family and friends are interested in, but I just want to remember what i read a lot better than I have been.
i'm going to write a real blog post now.