Updated! My year in books
Since moving to DC, I have noted that my voraciousness for written words has once again increased to a feverish pitch. I put off watching movies, etc. in order to read. The time spent on the metro commute helps too. Here's my attempt to reconstruct my year through the books that I've read starting on the plane ride out. Some of these are out of order and some might be forgotten and therefore not on the list.
September:
Wicked by Gregory MacQuire
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Theatre and It's Double by Antonin Artaud (not yet finished)
Tape Op Collection (not yet finished)
October:
Poems on Theatre by Bertholdt Brecht
A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
100 Selected Poems by e.e.cummings
The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay
November:
Radio Silence: A Visual History of Hardcore (not yet finished)
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall (re-read)
Can You Hear It?* by William Lach & the NY Met
The Sound of Colors* by Jimmy Liao
December:
Around this time I was sleeping a lot and collaging quite a few x-mas cards. I know I was reading, but I honestly can't remember what. I left that load of books at home when I came back to visit WA state. I was also trying to move and figure out my life so I think I was just very scattered in general.
January:
Hemingway and Bailey's Bartending Guide to Great American Writers by M. Bailey & E. Hemingway
In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfootby Graham Roumieu
(something is missing here--whatever I was reading on the plane ride back to DC)
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Dream Keeper by Langston Hughes
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Apple Vol. 1 Udon Publishers
All in a Day* by Cynthia Rylant
February:
Style, Naturally by Summer Rayne Oakes
The Inferno by Dante Aligheri translated by Mandelbaum
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Cinema Muto by Jesse Lee Kercheval
Taboo by Yusef Komunyakka (not yet finished)
Fight, Flight, Surrender by Brett Dean McGibbon (re-read)
March:
The Story of Ferdinand* by Munro Leaf
A Boy Named Shel by Lisa Rogak
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (re-read--of course)
The Hedonism Handbook by Michael Flocker (re-read)
Dawn of Mourning for Fallen Night by Brett Dean McGibbon (re-read)
Foreplay to Soul Come by Brett Dean McGibbon (re-read not yet finished)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
March:
The Story of Ferdinand* by Munro Leaf
A Boy Named Shel by Lisa Rogak
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (re-read--of course)
The Hedonism Handbook by Michael Flocker (re-read)
Dawn of Mourning for Fallen Night by Brett Dean McGibbon (re-read)
Foreplay to Soul Come by Brett Dean McGibbon (re-read not yet finished)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
April:
The Dragon Machine* by Helen Ward
Poetry as Insurgent Art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
One Square Inch of Silence by Gordon Hempton
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen (advanced proof)
The Leaves of Grass 1855 ed. by Walt Whitman
Miss Rumphius*
May:
Border Songs by Jim Lynch (adv. copy)
Water Sound Images by Alexander Lauterwasser (in progress)
Brighter Graphite by Michael Horvath
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (most enlightening book of the year thus far)
Everyday Drinking by Kingsley Amis (most recommended book for bartenders thus far)
Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Lia Block
Subterreanean Kerouac (in progress)
June:
Where Does the Wind Go When it Stops?*
Leonardo, the Terrible Monster*
The Color of Earth by Kim Dong Hwa
The Art Project compiled by the Northwest Playwrights Alliance
Wirtten on the Sky: Poems from the Japanese translated by Kenneth Rexroth
Songs of Love, Moon, & Wind: Poems from the Chinese translated by Kenneth Rexroth
*--denotes children's picture books
Um, yes, I can safely say I've read more poetry this year than any year before it. There are also quite a few books that I've picked up, read a few pages of, and put down before getting too much into them. I can count at least three or four that didn't make the "not yet finished" cut on the account of being "not quite started". Um, yeah, apparently this is what I do with my time aside from working and sleeping and occasionally cooking, cleaning, and going out.
September:
Wicked by Gregory MacQuire
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Theatre and It's Double by Antonin Artaud (not yet finished)
Tape Op Collection (not yet finished)
October:
Poems on Theatre by Bertholdt Brecht
A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
100 Selected Poems by e.e.cummings
The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay
November:
Radio Silence: A Visual History of Hardcore (not yet finished)
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall (re-read)
Can You Hear It?* by William Lach & the NY Met
The Sound of Colors* by Jimmy Liao
December:
Around this time I was sleeping a lot and collaging quite a few x-mas cards. I know I was reading, but I honestly can't remember what. I left that load of books at home when I came back to visit WA state. I was also trying to move and figure out my life so I think I was just very scattered in general.
January:
Hemingway and Bailey's Bartending Guide to Great American Writers by M. Bailey & E. Hemingway
In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfootby Graham Roumieu
(something is missing here--whatever I was reading on the plane ride back to DC)
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Dream Keeper by Langston Hughes
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Apple Vol. 1 Udon Publishers
All in a Day* by Cynthia Rylant
February:
Style, Naturally by Summer Rayne Oakes
The Inferno by Dante Aligheri translated by Mandelbaum
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Cinema Muto by Jesse Lee Kercheval
Taboo by Yusef Komunyakka (not yet finished)
Fight, Flight, Surrender by Brett Dean McGibbon (re-read)
March:
The Story of Ferdinand* by Munro Leaf
A Boy Named Shel by Lisa Rogak
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (re-read--of course)
The Hedonism Handbook by Michael Flocker (re-read)
Dawn of Mourning for Fallen Night by Brett Dean McGibbon (re-read)
Foreplay to Soul Come by Brett Dean McGibbon (re-read not yet finished)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
March:
The Story of Ferdinand* by Munro Leaf
A Boy Named Shel by Lisa Rogak
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (re-read--of course)
The Hedonism Handbook by Michael Flocker (re-read)
Dawn of Mourning for Fallen Night by Brett Dean McGibbon (re-read)
Foreplay to Soul Come by Brett Dean McGibbon (re-read not yet finished)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
April:
The Dragon Machine* by Helen Ward
Poetry as Insurgent Art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
One Square Inch of Silence by Gordon Hempton
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen (advanced proof)
The Leaves of Grass 1855 ed. by Walt Whitman
Miss Rumphius*
May:
Border Songs by Jim Lynch (adv. copy)
Water Sound Images by Alexander Lauterwasser (in progress)
Brighter Graphite by Michael Horvath
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (most enlightening book of the year thus far)
Everyday Drinking by Kingsley Amis (most recommended book for bartenders thus far)
Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Lia Block
Subterreanean Kerouac (in progress)
June:
Where Does the Wind Go When it Stops?*
Leonardo, the Terrible Monster*
The Color of Earth by Kim Dong Hwa
The Art Project compiled by the Northwest Playwrights Alliance
Wirtten on the Sky: Poems from the Japanese translated by Kenneth Rexroth
Songs of Love, Moon, & Wind: Poems from the Chinese translated by Kenneth Rexroth
*--denotes children's picture books
Um, yes, I can safely say I've read more poetry this year than any year before it. There are also quite a few books that I've picked up, read a few pages of, and put down before getting too much into them. I can count at least three or four that didn't make the "not yet finished" cut on the account of being "not quite started". Um, yeah, apparently this is what I do with my time aside from working and sleeping and occasionally cooking, cleaning, and going out.