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�� summer reading ��

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 Shikibu
  • Hopscotch, Julio Cort�zar
  • La casa de los esp�ritus, Isabel Allende
  • The Woman and the Ape, Peter H�eg
  • Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
  • The Feast of Love, Charles Baxter
  • Bend Sinister, Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Uses of Literature, Italo Calvino
  • Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garc�a Marquez
  • Catch-22, Joseph Heller
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

    books that are not novels:

  • Burning the Box of Beautiful Things, Alex Seago
  • The Art of Describing, Svetlana Alpers
  • The Collected Journals of Thomas Merton, vols 4-7
  • Just Let Me Say This About That, John Bricuth
  • My Life, Lyn Hejinian
  • Tender Buttons, Gertrude Stein
  • Girls on the Run, John Ashberry

    except 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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