The slowness and erratic nature of my Internet at home, combined with the lack of easy access to entertainment on Netflix and Hulu has helped me to catch up on reading literature. It's been wonderful.
I'm posting this list for accountability on my remaining to-read list, and just to show what I do on my down time when not running around taking pictures of random animals.
Coming Up
In progress:
- Ulysses... A good read but kind of an uphill battle. I reward myself with chocolate every time I get through 100 pages of this beast
Still to read:
- The Dark Tower VII
- Reread Faulkner's Light in August
- Reread The God of Small Things, (probably my favorite novel) which I'll start when I viisit Kerala, where it's set
- I would love to discover some more Indian novels. Suggestions welcome.
My Conquests
New Favorites
- Slaughterhouse 5
- Cat's Cradle
- The Dubliners
- The Illicit Happiness of Other People: The second novel of Manu Joseph, an Indian author. One of the best new books I've read in a while. I randomly picked it up at a local bookstore, and when recovering from my cold, I couldn't put it down. Here's a great quote that highlights his writing style.
Thoma....stares at the open textbook for hours and is distracted by the pain of the parallelogram, which is slanted forever. his nails scratch the page to straighten its tired limbs. It affects him, the great arrogance of the Equilateral Triangle, the failed aspiration of the octagon to be a circle, the eternal suffocation of the denominator that has to bear the weight of the unjust numerator, the loneliness of Pluto. And the smallness of Mercury, always a mere dot next to a yellow sun. In this world, there is no respect for Mercury.
Great, right?
Disappointments
- Manuscript Found in Accra...great quotes but found it to be a mediocre version of Gibran's The Prophet
Beloved Rereads
- The Dark Tower, Books I-VII
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