bailey, everywhere

I'm Bailey, a small girl from a small town. I lived a year in Kyoto and I graduated from college in Chicago in June 2010. I lived in Boston for two years but it was a wash. I'm rebuilding from the ground up. I am intent on adventures. I like beautiful things, funny things, photography, Japan, and emoticaps. (I am a vegan in progress and sometimes it happens in public. I yell most frequently about religion, racism, "women's issues," feelings, and dresses.) My friends call me Etsuko. You write it like 悦子 and it is a very good name.
小さな町からの小さな女子ベイリー(悦子とも呼ばれてます、よく合った名前っす)です。一年間京都に住み、２０１０年６月にシカゴ大学から卒業しました。二年弱ボストンに住みましたが結局無駄でしたのでこれから完全なやり直し中。日常生活にも小さい冒険があると信じて過ごしています。趣味は美しいもの、おかしいもの、撮影、日本、とemoticaps。（只今ビーガン工事中でたまにその進歩も公にされます。頻繁に出て来る課題：宗教、人種主義、「女性問題」、感情、ワンピース。）どうぞ宜しくお願い致します♪

books: baby steps

I was talking to my friend James, who reads books, who is a boy who always has a book in his ample jeans pockets (boys have ample pockets, is my point, James is not ample), and I realized as I said for the umpthousandth time that I missed reading that I have plenty of time to fix that, now; that I probably had that time in college, too, but I wasted it, but now that I am out of school I have more time, enough time for books, if I try. I live two blocks from a small library, which gives me enough opportunity to get new books. So I am reading books again, and here is my list. (I have a Goodreads here.)

Finished:

  • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
  • The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
  • Waiting, Ha Jin
  • Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Machine of Death, ed. North, Bennardo, Malki !
  • A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
  • The Cloister Walk, Kathleen Norris
  • Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
  • The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
  • 天に堕ちる, 唯川恵
  • The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Run, River, Joan Didion

Working on:

  • Where I Was From, Joan Didion
  • The Death of Adam, Marilynne Robinson

Started but on hold:

  • A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn
  • Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace

Checked out (or otherwise acquired):

  • Translation and Subjectivity, Naoki Sakai

To read (suggestions welcome!):

  • Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
  • Pendulum, Amir D. Aczel
  • The Death of Vishnu, Manil Suri
  • The Hundred-Foot Journey, Richard C. Morais
  • The River Cottage Bread Handbook, Daniel Stevens
  • Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
  • Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
  • The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes