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So I asked Darth Jap if she had a copy of The Wide Sargasso Sea because it was on her senior class reading list and I want to read it and I've never found it at the library. She didn't, but she was like COME SIT WITH ME WHILE I HIGHLIGHT THE BOOKS ON THIS LIST THAT YOU SHOULD READ. And we sat, and she underlined, and I nodded. I borrowed her copy of something-or-other, I asked her if she'd ever read Closing Time, the sequel to Catch-22, and she hadn't because obviously no one's read that book but me. Then she was all MAKE ME A LIST OF BOOKS YOU THINK I SHOULD READ OR DARTH JAP WILL HAVE TO CHOKE A BITCH. Or, not at all, but that's what she seems like inside my head.
The list so far (remember, this is an English teacher, so I'm aiming for shit-you-ain't-never-heard-of books):
Gerald Kersh - Night and the City
Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities; If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Umberto Eco - Foucalt's Pendulum
Harlan Ellison - Slippage (specifically, "The Man who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore"); Angry Candy ("The Region Between")
And honestly that's it, because really I just read lots of Ian Fleming, Patrick O'Brian and P.G. Wodehouse. And because I don't remember what books I've read unless the titles are right in front of my face.
The list so far (remember, this is an English teacher, so I'm aiming for shit-you-ain't-never-heard-of books):
Gerald Kersh - Night and the City
Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities; If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Umberto Eco - Foucalt's Pendulum
Harlan Ellison - Slippage (specifically, "The Man who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore"); Angry Candy ("The Region Between")
And honestly that's it, because really I just read lots of Ian Fleming, Patrick O'Brian and P.G. Wodehouse. And because I don't remember what books I've read unless the titles are right in front of my face.