Tuesday, April 18, 2006

As Summer Nears, Juice Pulls Out List-Making Pen, Tries Not to Salivate

You know how I am. Lists, lists, lists. In addition to the "To Do" list, I have a "To Read" List and a "To Buy When Have Money" list. (I am really looking forward to getting a real paycheck. Don't get me wrong, waiting tables twice a month is swell, but dude, seriously.) There isn't much on that last one. A new sewing machine, mostly. I swanky one like like Sarah has. I don't have a "To Make" list, because I'm a little bit superstitious about that. I think the things somehow won't get done or lose their charm if I write them down. I also feel like since sewing/crafting is my outlet, it starts to feel like a chore if I make a to-do list of the things I wanna make. As for the reading list? Oh, boy. Currently, I have a stack of books on my little end table in the Sky Lounge, just begging for attention:

Until They Bring the Streetcars Back (Stanley Gordon West--local author)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (Haddon)
The Secrets of Jin-She-i (Alexander)
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali (Courtemanche)
The Known World (E. Jones)
Collected Novellas, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Kitchen Confidential (A. Bourdain)
The Time Traveler's Wife (Niffenegger)
Breath, Eyes, Memory (Danticat)

In addition, I'm maintaining this list of books to read:

The Tortilla Curtain
Candide (Voltaire)
Atlas Unplugged (Ayn Rand)
Don Quixote
Animal Farm
Actual Innocence
Fast Food Nation
The Working Poor
Running with Scissors
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
Dude Where’s My Country
Founding Mothers, by Cokie Roberts
The Tipping Point
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
The Antelope, John Noonan
Beaches, Blood, and Ballots, by Gilbert R. Mason, M.D. (Black Doctor, Civil Rights/Biloxi)

So, ahhhh...thoughts on any of those? Or, (dare I ask)...Any recommendations?

3 Comments:

At 10:57 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

A-HEM!!!!

Are any books in the large "to read" pile OVERDUE AT THE LIBRARY???

 
At 11:04 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I just read the known world. so good. so shocking. Mom

 
At 3:38 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

That's quite an impressive list. Only book I'd add is my all-time favorite: "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy.

-Summ.

 

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