Summer Reading LIIIIIISSSSST (of my own choosing)

[selbsportrait_a]

-Vladimir Nabokov-  everything he's ever written (ahem.)  Starting with.  . .  King, Queen, Knave
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez- Memories of My Melancholy Whores
-Mo Hayder- Pig Island
-Steve Martin- The Pleasure of my Own Company
-(someone whose last name is between the Letters H and M, I can't find it online)- The Woody
-Boris Pasternak- Doctor Zhivago
-Ha

Comments

[nostrapotomus]

Y'know, I need to get through some of the Russian classics, and a bunch of other things besides -- anything you'd like to recommend? Any category, just something you think I should read.

[selbsportrait_a]

ummmmm. . . Wigfield, by Amy Sedaris and Steven Colbert and someone else, Devil in Nanking by Mo Hayder (depressing book, though), A Hero of Our Times by Mikhail Lermentov (it's also translated by Vladimir Nabokov- it's one of my absolute favorite books), Lamb, by Christopher Moore, oooh, and Ludmila's Broken English by DBC Pierre.

it's a pretty random list, but I enjoyed all of them. Also Lolita if you haven't read it, and Laughter in the Dark because it's just an awesome book, period.

[nostrapotomus]

Fabulous. I'll look into all of those. Also, no I haven't read Lolita yet, because I am a terrible slacker.

[selbsportrait_a]

all of them are available from the library!!! Mostly in the one I work at, in fact. (as in, part of the collection.)

and I forgot, Frank O'Hara's poetry, and possibly his modern art criticisms, if you're into that (which you probably not, and I am probably the only person to ever check out that abstract expressionism criticism book from the 60s at the ASCPL)