Bookworm
My new job allows for ample reading time, which makes me happier than if it made me Queen of Doughnuts. Which sounds nice, but I just made it up, so it's not a real thing to wish, hope and dream for.
I'd like to take this opportunity to make some notes on the titles I have read in the past few months, in an effort to guide you in your own reading endeavors.
Here's my list:
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway): I have no idea how I made it through high school and college as a writing major without so much as reading the back cover of this book. It's super heartbreaking and worth the hour and a half it will take you to read it.
Waiting (Ha Jin): This one was read by me in an effort to read as many titles as possible by BU professors, since that is where I would heart to go to grad school. It's a simply written tale about waiting thirteen years to marry a girl and then wishing you hadn't. I think the message is "no happiness for anyone at anytime."
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers): This book is a lie book. It is not heartbreaking or genius. In fact, I have a feeling he didn't even work that hard to write it. It's mostly about how he did a bad job raising his brother after his parents died and then he loses the cremated remains of his parents.
Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel): A novel containing all the things I enjoy: magical realism, semi-steamy affairs and food.
Pastoralia (George Saunders): George is some sort of mad genius. His stories make little to no sense logistically, but are awesomer than awesome. He writes about a human zoo and elderly ladies coming back from the grave with a new found love for curse words. I say pick this title up ASAP.
This Side of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald): Capitan F. Scott is a maniac. This "novel" has no cohesion whatsoever. It's like first you're reading a short story, then some love sick poetry, then you're in the middle of a screen play yelling: "WHAT'S GOING ON??" Don't get me wrong, Fitzgerald is a hero, but Max Perkins should have scrapped his first efforts.
White Noise (Don DeLillo): This book is great in that it contains weird evacuation scenarios, sex in exchange for experimental drugs and experts on Hitler studies. Read up!
For sure there are more books than this, but I thought I'd give you the highlights. I'm sure you don't want to hear my thoughts on "The Little Engine that Could" or obscure 80's titles like "From Rockaway" or "Tracer."
I'd like to take this opportunity to make some notes on the titles I have read in the past few months, in an effort to guide you in your own reading endeavors.
Here's my list:
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway): I have no idea how I made it through high school and college as a writing major without so much as reading the back cover of this book. It's super heartbreaking and worth the hour and a half it will take you to read it.
Waiting (Ha Jin): This one was read by me in an effort to read as many titles as possible by BU professors, since that is where I would heart to go to grad school. It's a simply written tale about waiting thirteen years to marry a girl and then wishing you hadn't. I think the message is "no happiness for anyone at anytime."
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers): This book is a lie book. It is not heartbreaking or genius. In fact, I have a feeling he didn't even work that hard to write it. It's mostly about how he did a bad job raising his brother after his parents died and then he loses the cremated remains of his parents.
Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel): A novel containing all the things I enjoy: magical realism, semi-steamy affairs and food.
Pastoralia (George Saunders): George is some sort of mad genius. His stories make little to no sense logistically, but are awesomer than awesome. He writes about a human zoo and elderly ladies coming back from the grave with a new found love for curse words. I say pick this title up ASAP.
This Side of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald): Capitan F. Scott is a maniac. This "novel" has no cohesion whatsoever. It's like first you're reading a short story, then some love sick poetry, then you're in the middle of a screen play yelling: "WHAT'S GOING ON??" Don't get me wrong, Fitzgerald is a hero, but Max Perkins should have scrapped his first efforts.
White Noise (Don DeLillo): This book is great in that it contains weird evacuation scenarios, sex in exchange for experimental drugs and experts on Hitler studies. Read up!
For sure there are more books than this, but I thought I'd give you the highlights. I'm sure you don't want to hear my thoughts on "The Little Engine that Could" or obscure 80's titles like "From Rockaway" or "Tracer."