Ok... this list won't be as good as the one that got eaten, but if it's worth doing once, it's apparently worth doing again.
This is for Meta who wanted to know what I'm reading.
Categories:
Books I'm actively reading (active is a relative term - it means I am in the middle of the book somewhere and intend to read the rest)
Books I have queued up to read
Books I have completed recently
Books I started to read, but put down and still intend to finish some day
Books/authors I would like to read but need to borrow/buy the books
See extended entry for the actual lists.
Books I'm actively reading (active is a relative term - it means I am in the middle of the book somewhere and intend to read the rest)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera - amazing writing, wonderful language, proves I am not worthy as a "writer".
Andrea di Robilant - A Venetian Affair
Deepak Chopra - The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire
J.R.R. Tolkien - Return of the King
Robert Hopcke - There Are No Accidents - Synchronicity and the Stories of Our Lives
Books I have queued up to read
Gregory Maguire - Wicked - The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Umberto Eco - Baudolino (although I should probably read Foucault's Pendulum first)
Rosanne Knorr - The Grown Up's Guide to Running Away from Home
Ross King - Michaelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Majgull Axelsson - April Witch
Books I have completed recently
Woefully few
Tillie Olsen - Tell Me A Riddle
Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet
Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
Books I started to read, but put down and still intend to finish some day
Dava Sobel - Galileo's Daughter
Nancy Milford - Savage Beauty
Books/authors I would like to read but need to borrow/buy the books
(Note this is not a plea for presents - merely a reminder to me of things I'll get when I get some of the above books knocked off the list.)
Foucault's Pendulum
Charles Bukowski
Virginia Woolf
Anais Nin
Actually, you should probably read Baudolino first, and see if you like Eco before taking on Foucault's Pendulum which can be kind of a pain in the ass sometimes.
If you want to borrow To the Lighthouse, I have it. I also have the shorter and lesser known Orlando, which is funny... but there's a reason it's not as well known.
And tell me how you liked the Marquez book (well, evidently you already like it), I've been wanting to read it!
Posted by: metamanda at March 1, 2004 12:49 AMNew blog looks good.
You can probably get Foucault's Pendulum from meta, now that I'm done reading it. I'm hoping that Baudolino is better, as Foucault's Pendulum is overweight and bloated, with intermittent flashes of humor and brilliance. I had to pick it up three or four times before I finally committed to finishing it. And each time I reached a point thinking, "oh, now the plot is actually going to get moving," only to be fooled again.
Posted by: kwc at March 1, 2004 12:54 AM