Usually I use the summer for pleasure reading (although I do that during school too) but the summer is when I can get most of it done. For example last year when I spent a month in Europe I read six books, mostly on trains.
So I already have a stack that I haven't read yet. It goes like this:
American Tabloid - James Ellroy
East of Eden - Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (TG don't be mad I'm not done yet)
Foundation -Asimov
on top of that there are a bunch of magazines I haven't finished, like the Arts & Letters and Religion issues of Lapham's Quarterly (I've read some, not all, and I love reading ALL)
Then there's the new issue of Monocle that I picked up, and then there's the books I really really really want. Like NOW.
Those are:
Solar by Ian McKewan -a novel about an over the hill nobel physicist (to satisfy my physics fetish)
Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead - a new biography by Paula Byrne - because I loved Brideshead Revisited and think Waugh was extraordinary, that book got me through swine flu
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano - I saw it in an ad on the subway, and I'm not gonna lie, the author looked really hot, also - prime numbers and being an isolated person (from the writeup on the ad) - sounds like good reading.
So that's everything I want to read or finish reading and then there's my school reading list:
The Novel (with Mike) list:
Robinson Crusoe (read it already)
Foe by J.M Coetzee
Tristram Shandy
Moby-Dick (read it already)
Emma - Jane Austen (read it already)
Little Casino - Gilbert Sorrentino
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Great Expectations - Kathy Acker
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
At Swim Two Birds - Flann O'Brien
Mrs.Dalloway (read it already)
The End of the Story - Lydia Davis
My other course, 20th Century American Lit list:
Paul's Case - Willa Cather
Souls Belated- Edith Wharton
The Beast in the Jungle - Henry James
The Awakening - Kate Chopin (read it already)
Mrs. Spring Fragrance - Sui Sin Far
selections from Up from Slavery - Booker T. Washington
selections from The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. Du Bois
Quicksand - Nella Larsen
The Wasteland/The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T.S. Eliot (read it already)
Hills Like White Elephants - Ernest Hemingway
Babylon Revisited - F. Scott Fitzgerald
A TONNE of Robert Frost stuff
A TONNE of William Carlos Williams (who I love, feverishly and a lot of whom I've read, thanks to the aforementioned Mike)
A Rose for Emily - William Faulkner
Good Country People - Flannery O'Connor
Petrified Man - Eudora Welty
Going to Meet the Man - James Baldwin
A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
Howl - Allen Ginsberg (already read, love)
selected poems of Sylvia Plath, Frank O'Hara, and Pat Parker
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Edward Albee
The Lady from Lucknow - Bharati Mukherjee
A Coyote Colombus Story - Thomas King
Cathedral - Raymond Carver
and finally People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk - Lorrie Moore
plus there will be a bunch of screenings
I so look forward to all of it - but how am I going to get all of my personal reading done? Oh the quagmire.
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2 comments:
Wow quite the list.
I dunno about you but in university I didn't get any personal reading done. Zilch. It wasn't until afterwards that I discovered books that were published post-1960.
Also also the photo of Paulo in the ad was very strategic. ;) Since he's some sort of uber scientist too it's almost unfair that he won the genetic lottery as well.
I know, as soon as I saw it I was like "this ad is designed to draw women in!" b/c of how good looking he was, but honestly the first thing I noticed was "PRIME NUMBERS" and I was like "maybe a science novel?" and then I thought "oooooh, that guy is *HOT*"
I know the list is ginormous - for the courses I mean, but *all* of the stuff for the 20th C class is contained within a reader and the Norton Anthology of American Writing. 75$ at U of T bookstore - crazy expensive, but crazy large, and I justify it by knowing that I'll have a lot of William Carlos Williams in one place =]
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