Summer Reading List { somewhat incomplete + constantly updated }

[ant_ithesis]

For the first time in ever, I am posting my summer reading list. @-)1) If you have a book you think I'd like, comment with title and author

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[fistfuloftheory]

Did you ever wonder why all the emo kids read The Perks of Being a Wallflower? For some strange reason, I haven't. I want to, but I haven't. I hate being emo.

Try:

White Oleander by Janet Fitch
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Le Divorce by Diane Johnson
The Effect of Living Backwards by Heidi Julavits

They're all nice, light, sappy and hormonal.

As for me, I'm in the midst of reading Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. It's the cutest thing ever.

But, dammit. I still want Irving Welsh.

[ant_ithesis]

You know how I got Perks into my list? I took a quiz on OK!Cupid called something like "What Book Should You Read Next?", and that was the first title that came up. >:D

I've read Le Divorce ;o

[fistfuloftheory]

Holy shit. Perks is a stapple for being emo.

Sample line:

I'm both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

Weh.

I like Le Divorce. It made me hate the French.

[ant_ithesis]

I think you'd like Twins ;;)

[fistfuloftheory]

Synopsis?

and, aren't you done with A Hundred Years in Solitude ?

[ant_ithesis]

My copy of A Hundred mysteriously disappeared, remember?

Two teenagers struggle with identity and self-determination in Dermansky's entertaining debut.To the casual observer, twins Chloe and Sue are exactly the same-even their father mixes them up sometimes. Of course, Chloe understands that they're very different people, but Sue wants nothing more than to be one with Chloe, whom she's convinced is prettier, smarter and nicer. The chapters alternate between the voices of Sue and Chloe, moving quickly but seamlessly through their high school years with their attendant dramas and tragedies. It feels primarily like Sue's story, though, because it is her desire to hold on to her perfect intimacy with Chloe that sets the plot in motion. And it is Sue's voice-variously deadpan, yearning, and frequently repetitive to good effect-that carries most of the novel's emotional weight. (Though Chloe has her moments: "I did everything for Sue. She needed me as if I were the oxygen she breathed, but she didn't understand what it cost me.") While

[fistfuloftheory]

Poor you. *pat*

Also, why does Twins sound like Brokeback Mountain with uteri?

[ant_ithesis]

Haha, uteri.

[fistfuloftheory]

What a fucking long thread! Ha ha, uteri.

[_stillframe_]

UTERI TOTALLY!

Ah, Deskitty. Since someone already suggested something by Sarah Dunant, I'd recommend 'The Birth of Venus'. And if you're into Mr. Coelho, 'Veronika Decides To Die' is a personal favorite.

[fistfuloftheory]

I second Veronika Decides to Die...

I got that for Kat on her birthday. ;]

[ant_ithesis]

Monty, do you have a copy of Veronika? I'mma borrowin' from you.

I'm getting another Haruki Murakami novel today, Sputnik Sweetheart. I think you'd like what I just finished, Dance Dance Dance. Peep too. It made me go @_@!!!

The guy is good. I'll proudly lend my copy wrapped in a sarong.

[headsterns]

Ditto.

...

Veronika...It's an interesting book *agree* but its not really Coelho's best.

Eeh..to be really honest.

I like the Alchemist. XD

[fistfuloftheory]

I liked that one too, but my favorite of his is Eleven Minutes .

[ant_ithesis]

WHICH ONE ARE YOU HITTING ME WITH YOU MEANIE LENDING ME. ;;)

Ack. Sarah Dunant. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Major slip-up again on my behalf. I'll tell you tomorrow. XDDDDD

[fistfuloftheory]

If I'm lending you anything, you better lend me something too, you filthy whore-slut.