Comments on: Book Reviews: Are They Necessary? http://www.elifbatuman.net/2007/12/23/book-reviews-are-they-necessary/ Notes from the literary C-list Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:08:38 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Indran Amirtthanayagam http://www.elifbatuman.net/2007/12/23/book-reviews-are-they-necessary/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Indran Amirtthanayagam Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:28:32 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2007/12/23/book-reviews-are-they-necessary/#comment-29 Elif, you are a wonderful and elegant humorist. I love this piece and look forward to reading more about the comedy traffic school and other misadventures. I am also intrigued by your comments on poets and their typographic devices. I write a blog where I post poems in English, French and Spanish, the three languages in which I write the usually m-dashless poems. Do take a look and I would like to link your blog to my site with your permission. take care Indran http://indranamirthanayagam.blogspot.com Elif, you are a wonderful and elegant humorist. I love this piece and look forward to reading more about the comedy traffic school and other misadventures. I am also intrigued by your comments on poets and their typographic devices. I write a blog where I post poems in English, French and Spanish, the three languages in which I write the usually m-dashless poems. Do take a look and I would like to link your blog to my site with your permission.

take care

Indran

http://indranamirthanayagam.blogspot.com

]]> By: Elif http://www.elifbatuman.net/2007/12/23/book-reviews-are-they-necessary/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Elif Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:54:33 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2007/12/23/book-reviews-are-they-necessary/#comment-23 <p>Thank you, Dr. Golburt. While I was Googling "Rearranging the Furniture" to find the <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051024/batuman" rel="nofollow">link to my Shklovsky review</a>, I also found a mention of the review by a reader in, I think, Seattle, who finds comfort in Shklovsky because of her <a href="http://personals.nwsource.com/blog/691/post_8943.html?dcb=personals.nwsource.com&highid=3060902_52138 ">obsession with rearranging her furniture</a>.</p> <p>This actually really made me want to move a bookcase. Instead, however, I am going to go cook an <a href="http://almostturkish.blogspot.com/2007/10/vegeterian-stuffed-eggplants-imam-bayld.html" rel="nofollow"><i>imam bayıldı</i></a> (in honor of the baby Jesus). The recipe is from <a href=""http://almostturkish.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Almost Turkish Recipes</a>, for which I feel a great affinity ever since I made another of the olive-oil recipes and it came out really well, at which point I started poking around the site, and discovered not only an enormously entertaining and quite Shklovskian piece on the <a href="http://almostturkish.blogspot.com/2007/12/vegetarian-potato-casserole-with-green.html" rel="nofollow">refunctionalization of lentils</a>, inspired by Turkish propaganda legend "Auntie Lentil" (Mercimek Teyze, pictured <a href="http://www.kurtsan.org/ayse%20baysal.jpg" rel="nofollow">here</a>), but also a <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/03291775178560434313" rel="nofollow">profile of the author</a>, revealing her to be a US-based student of literature, whose favorite books include <i>A Rebours</i>! She is a decadent! No wonder she is a good cook. </p> Thank you, Dr. Golburt. While I was Googling “Rearranging the Furniture” to find the link to my Shklovsky review, I also found a mention of the review by a reader in, I think, Seattle, who finds comfort in Shklovsky because of her obsession with rearranging her furniture.

This actually really made me want to move a bookcase. Instead, however, I am going to go cook an imam bayıldı (in honor of the baby Jesus). The recipe is from Almost Turkish Recipes, for which I feel a great affinity ever since I made another of the olive-oil recipes and it came out really well, at which point I started poking around the site, and discovered not only an enormously entertaining and quite Shklovskian piece on the refunctionalization of lentils, inspired by Turkish propaganda legend “Auntie Lentil” (Mercimek Teyze, pictured here), but also a profile of the author, revealing her to be a US-based student of literature, whose favorite books include A Rebours! She is a decadent! No wonder she is a good cook.

]]> By: luba http://www.elifbatuman.net/2007/12/23/book-reviews-are-they-necessary/comment-page-1/#comment-22 luba Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:28:49 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2007/12/23/book-reviews-are-they-necessary/#comment-22 cheer up, Elif! I actually only read book reviews for things I've read (usually they are yours; that gives you an idea of the extent my experience with book reviews), and I actually enjoy them a lot: they rearrange the furniture in my mind (this would be an excellent point to introduce a link to your Shklovsky review). cheer up, Elif! I actually only read book reviews for things I’ve read (usually they are yours; that gives you an idea of the extent my experience with book reviews), and I actually enjoy them a lot: they rearrange the furniture in my mind (this would be an excellent point to introduce a link to your Shklovsky review).

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