20.VI.2004 :::: 13.12 np: kristin hersh, �snakeoil�
in honor of the solstice, i present my Summer Reading List, which i had best finish by the equinox if i know what's good for me: novels: The Tale of Genji, Murasaki ShikibuHopscotch, Julio Cort�zarLa casa de los esp�ritus, Isabel AllendeThe Woman and the Ape, Peter H�egMrs Dalloway, Virginia WoolfThe Feast of Love, Charles BaxterBend Sinister, Vladimir NabokovThe Uses of Literature, Italo CalvinoLove in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garc�a MarquezCatch-22, Joseph HellerA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joycebooks that are not novels: Burning the Box of Beautiful Things, Alex SeagoThe Art of Describing, Svetlana AlpersThe Collected Journals of Thomas Merton, vols 4-7Just Let Me Say This About That, John BricuthMy Life, Lyn HejinianTender Buttons, Gertrude SteinGirls on the Run, John Ashberryexcept for Portrait of the Artist, all items in the list are things i have never read before. please don't make mean jabs at me for not having read say Catch-22 before, i'm just posting this in public to make sure i actually go through with The List instead of just sinking into all my comfortable favorites.
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