Stop me before I read again!

[pepperedmoth]

The pile of books on my bedside table is growing shockingly huge, so I decided to see what I had gotten myself into by compiling an orderly list. Behold, my summer reading list. I'm in the middle of at least half of these, but if I finish them all by autumn it really will be a miracle.

Barclay, Robert. Barclay's Apology.
Bloom, Harold. Jesus and

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[pepperedmoth]

Oh, I want to read three cups of tea at some point! You'll have to tell me how it was.

[metallicdragon]

Very impressive! Normally I'd figure that with your ability to read a book a day you'd be done in a week and a half, but now that you're so busy I'm not sure!

Guns, Germs and Steel is great- very engaging and funny as well as informative and thought-provoking. That's the only one that I can help you with, though- I think I started and then misplaced Mrs. Dalloway at one point and I've heard good things about The Road.
I haven't been very good with sticking to books once I start them, but so far I've read The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Chocolat, both of which I loved. And The Little Prince, haha.
I'm currently reading Swann's Way as well, in addition to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea which I'm pretty sure you've already read and The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois.

I'm excited to see you! At the moment I'm filling out an application to work at Bomber's... Cross your fingers for me!

[pepperedmoth]

Oh, I hope you get the job at Bomber's! Of all us sisters, you're the only one that's hip enough to work there. ;-) I'll have to come and visit you at work so I can scarf down one of those fabulous chicken quesadillas . . . mmm . . .

Anyway, I really love Mrs. Dalloway (that's one of the ones I'm halfway through) so if you find it again I recommend it. I really should read the Hunchback of Notre Dame, but I will refrain from adding it to my reading list right now. And Swann's Way . . . oh dear . . . I've been reading that one for more than a year! Sigh.

Good luck! Can't wait to see you in a couple of weeks . . . for OUR BIRTHDAY!!

[sevenravens]

You should finish The Road so you can see the movie when it comes out in the fall... :)

[pepperedmoth]

Oh, movies, pshaw!

What are you reading?

[sevenravens]

I live with a film student, so movies matter. :)
The Road is quite a book - I read it last winter. Dreadful stuff, beautifully written.
I just finished a book called Into the Beautiful North, about a group of Mexican teens who realize there are no men left in the town, and so plan an epic journey north to gather up some of the men who left Mexico and bring them back to protect their village from drug runners. It's great!
I'm also re-reading an amazing book called Dreamhunter that's set in sort of Victorian New Zealand where a rift has opened up into "The Place" where only certain people can go, and when they do, they bring dreams out with them and then dream them for audiences in theaters... I really recommend it, and the sequel, Dreamquake.

[koffilnmeined]

The only one I've read is "The Road," and if you can get used to the constant sentence fragments, it's extremely well done.

Books I have currently started include:
Flannery O'connor, "Collected Works"
Andre Dubus, "Broken Vessels"
John Gardner, "The Art of Fiction"
Tom Bailey, "Crow Man"
Naomi Klein, "No Logo"

I have plans to read, hopefully before the end of the summer,

Virginia Held, "Feminist Morality"
Arthur Schopenhauer, "On the Basis of Morality"

And if I really have an overabundance of time, which hasn't happened yet:

Stephen King, "Dreamcatcher"
Immanuel Kant, "Grounding for the metaphysics of morals"
David Willis McCullough, ed., "Great Detectives"

We shall see, we shall see.

[pepperedmoth]

Oh, good list. Glad I'm not the only one who tends to read philosophy for enjoyment!