I do not accept reading tips from strangers, especially from indecisive men whose shirt collars are a dramatically different color from the main portion of the garment.
Joe QueenanTags: reading strangers collars shirts
Here I am referring to the types of books that thirtyish women devour at private swim clubs, often to the dismay of their drowning children.
Joe QueenanGreat writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.
Joe QueenanGood books to not invite unanimity. They invite discord, mayhem, knife fights, blood feuds.
Joe QueenanTags: book-clubs
If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.
Joe QueenanTags: reading books reading-books
A friend tells a story about taking his ten-year-old son to a Jets game. The game was being played during a driving rain on a freezing cold day, and the Jets lost by twenty points to a team they were supposed to beat. As they headed toward the exits, the boy looked up, with tears in his eyes, and asked, 'Dad, why are we Jets fans?
Joe QueenanTags: sports football fandom new-york-jets
Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.
Joe QueenanHe used books the same way he used alcohol: to pretend that he was not here, and if he was here, that he was happy for a change.
Joe QueenanBooks are a way of saying: This room seems to have more than its fair share of bozos in it.
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