Hey everybody,
I was just wondering what y'all are reading this summer, and whether you have any recommendations.
Probably the best I've read so far this summer are Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Atonement by Ian McEwan, and (if I can say this without being too cliche) Emma by Jane Austen.
Unfortunately, I haven't done a lot of writing this summer ... Perhaps I will before it's over.
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well, i had been working on /crime and punishment/, which is a great book so far. lately i've been cheating on /crime and punishment/ with the book /guns, germs, and steel/. it's a craaazy holistic study on why world cultures have developed the way they have.
my sister is trying to get me to read /moby dick/, but i'm resisting. thoughts?
reading during the summer is a whole lot easier than writing during the summer. do you journal? i find that's a good way to keep my hand in even when i'm not feeling creative.
to Karyn: READ MOBY DICK . . . (if you can handle it!)
yay for crime and punishment. . .
I reread the Great Gatsby. Read Blankets, an award-winning graphic novel. Read Chicken, Shadow, Moon & More (poetry) by Mark Strand. . .amusing. Those are the ones I'd recommend now. I'm currently reading East of Eden and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, both of which are amazingness.
Well, I've been reading the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer, some very good books. Of course...they're no 'classics' but there's something to be said for modern stuff.
Thanks, all.
Karyn: Oooh, I love C&P. Guns, Germs, and Steel sounds interesting -- the public library has it, but it's checked out right now.
I journal some, but not much lately.
Nathan: Hmm, I haven't found any American authors that I'm willing to spend 600 pages with. Have you finished East of Eden? Do you think I'd like it?
Will: Twilight, eh? Maybe I'll give that a shot -- I've heard a lot of people talking about it.
so far:
one flew over the cuckoo's nest by ken kesey
slaughterhouse-5 by kurt vonnegut
the idiot by fyodor dostoyevsky
the whitsun weddings by philip larkin
the satanic verses by salman rushdie
the sun also rises by ernest hemingway
high windows by philip larkin
midnight's children by salman rushdie
for whom the bell tolls by ernest hemingway
...of those i most highly recommend the sun also rises and slaughterhouse-5
oh, and i forgot blood meridian and the road by cormac mccarthy.
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