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Reading this summer
idiosyncratic:
I read pretty constantly, but I always catch the reading bug pretty hardcore in the summer. Must have something to do with the heat and that whole not wanting to move business. :)
The list:
- Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
- In The Pond by Ha Jin
- Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore by Ray Loriga
- Is Nature Enough?: Meaning and Truth in the Age of Science by John F. Haught
- Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure by Michael Chabon
- The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems by Michael Ondaatje
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
- If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways by Daniel Quinn
- The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene (I am waiting on this one as I just read Godel, Escher, Bach: And Eternal Golden Braid and that was rather heavy, Brian Greene has an awesome TED.com video on string theory that can be found http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/brian_greene_on_string_theory.html.)
So that is what I have planned for the next few weeks. :) I am looking forward to it!
Tom:
I've just finished reading Fight Club, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Jingo, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 and I am halfway through Three Days To Never by Tim Powers. What a fantastic 5 days it's been.
Tom:
It was pretty awesome and I was only just running through it for my English Extension 1 presentation and am planing on reading The Island of Dr Moreau as well. I'm going to go through it with a fine toothed comb later this week and get as much on 'the alien self' as I can. For the same topic we had to read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and it was a fuckin' bitch to read.
MissAmbiguity:
--- Quote from: Ikrik on 08 Jun 2008, 22:19 ---Oli
You will never finish Ulysses....ever. Anyone who says that they've read Ulysses is a liar UNLESS they've read it over a period of at least 3 months. If anyone tries to tell you that they've read that book in a week first laugh and then kill them in a horrible way, liars like that should be punished.
I'm personally planning to tackle it summer of next year as it will be my first year of university and I'll have 2 months longer for summer which will hopefully allow me to get somewhere through it.
--- End quote ---
I read it in three weeks... though I was reading it for academic purposes. *shrug* Could have done it faster if I didn't have four other classes. I'm so delighted there are so many Jim Butcher fans here. I read Storm Front and then got sidetracked by finals. I'm midway through Fools Moon. I'm also rereading Fall on Your Knees by Marie-Ann MacDonald. One of the best Canadian writers imo.
I'm also really surprised at how many people here are English students. For anyone that's not I have an eight page double spaced paper which is a summary to half a year's worth of my second year English theory class. It's a bit of a dull read, but I got an A on it. It was the minor portion of my midyear final -- I don't do things like this for fun =D
allison:
I've read lately what I think to be great stuff for summer. It's kinda light reading but it's still worth it.
jPod - Douglas Coupland (made me laugh so hard, people stared.)
The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland
Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
The Birth House - Ami McKay
Belong to Me - Maria Del Los Santos
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
Moody Food - Ray Robertson (this book will be a big hit amongst people who love music, hippies, drugs or Toronto.)
Box Socials - WP Kinsella
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