Philip Larkin Collected Poems. This has some of my favorite poems in, and the timing seemed just right.
These next couple of weeks I'll be reading Infinite Jest and John Gardner's The Art Of Fiction, which is sure to be good because it comes with a Minstrel-seal-of-approval.
Philip Larken Collected Poems read. Very funny, very sad, very moving. A very good collection. Now on to Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
One-third of the way through North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. It's such a long book that could've used better editing, but I'm loving it anyway. It compares in some ways with Pride & Prejudice with its social commentary and the love/hate/misunderstood issues of the man and woman.
Just finished Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy, which should provide some pretty good fodder for developing my main character I love The Master and Margarita, btw.
For AP English, I've got to read In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, which I'm halfway through, and as of now it's gone from dull to exciting to extremely dull, and The Narratives of Frederick Douglass, which, as interesting as it sounds, is still incredibly dull.
I'm planning to read Innocent World by Ami Sakurai on the train today. I've a couple of hours to kill -- just to spend five minutes on-site filling out paperwork -- and it's only a short novella. Haven't read fiction in 1~2 months so it'll be a pleasant change. EDIT: finished this book. Wouldn't recommend it: zero character development, rushed and senseless plot, scenes seem to only occur for the sake of a shock factor that is never built up to or developed enough to make the reader care.
Read Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe, now reading A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe. Going through Defoe. Defoe Defoe Defoe.
I'm currently losing myself in a real nice light "chick-lit" book "Anyone but him" by Sheila O'Flanagan With a recent move and switch of jobs and heat with no a/c....it was kind of time for some light reading. My brain hurts too much to think any harder! LOL
American Gods - Neil Gaiman Bitten: Women of the Otherworld - Kelley Armstrong Forever Odd - Dean Koontz Gerald's Game - Stephen King
I read this booabout a year ago and never thought of recommending it to anyone. But, this book Is A EXCELLENT READ, You could probably google it sometime If you wish. But It is called A Winters end by Jean-Claude Mourlevat. I really really really Recommend this book! It was Amazing.
Canticles of Liebowitz by Walter Miller I think. It's semi-interesting, but I'm only on the first chapter. Just finished Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles. Liked some of it, especially its tie-ins to Farenhiet 451, but overall it wasn't my favorite.
I really liked Martian Chronicles, but I think I preferred Fahrenheit 451. I think I'll reread it because as I read Martian Chronicles first, I didn't notice any tie ins to Fahrenheit 451. I'm still supposedly reading The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason. It's interesting but I don't know, I just can't seem to get any further without wanting to read something else. I guess I'll try reading it again in the near future. Having given up with The Piano Tuner for now, I'm about to start The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden.
The firemen of Fahrenheit get a large mention during the Fall of the House of Usher chapter. It talks about the destruction of the books and the whole committee against things like novels, and whatnot. Also, the numerous mentions of the war that is about to happen in Fahrenheit and the fact that we will nuke ourselves to oblivion seems to be in conjunction with the other novel. When I read the Martian Chronicles, I really felt that people were in the same universe in both novels at times. At other times, of course, I didn't feel that way at all. I haven't really looked into it at all, so I can't say things for sure.
Oh that's actually really interesting how Bradbury has done that. I'll look out for those links when I reread the books.
