Summer reading, anyone?

[so_lily_briscoe]

I, in my Donnean daze, am going to go ahead and lay claim to my right to post here, undergrad or no undergrad. Anything to procrastinate. In a regression back to 5th grade, ladies' magazines, and other juvenilia, I'd like to resuscitate the term "summer reading." I, unlike most of my fellows here (I imagine), am facing a summer of total lack of intellectual structure. I get to read whatever I want between now and whenever I start a Ph.D. I do recognize that most folks will be reading toward their research goals - however, if such reading takes place during the summer, it still qualifies as summer reading. Might I suggest that we all post reading lists, whether research-oriented or not? Say, three-to-five books you intend to read, and three-to-five you recommend to others. Game? I intend to read: 1) Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor 2) Slavoj Zizek, Looking Awry 3) Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language 4) Jonathan Sawday, The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture 5) Edward flipping Said, Orientalism, at long bloody last. I recommend: 1) Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry 2) Gail Kern Paster, The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Discipline of Shame in Early Modern England 3) Pascal Morin, L'eau du bain 4) Monique Truong, The Book of Salt