I'm enjoying reading a bit more actual books. Is anyone else on Good Reads? I am teatotaller there as well and would like to see what else people are reading.
I read Brokeback Mountain this month! It's because I've been reading everything by Annie Proulx - she is definitely one of my favourite authors.
Others are Margaret Atwood - definitely recommend her Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake, and just about everything else (well, Penelopiad was kinda boring ;).
If you're on a British kick do check out Rose Tremain - amazing storyteller. Perhaps The Way I Found Her, a coming of age story, or just about any of her volumes of short stories. They are great. She's one of those authors where it's hard to point out the best book, it's the whole of her work that impresses, even if not all books are equally engaging. But I know of no other author who included themes of sex change, incest, homosexuality, pedophilia.
I like dystopic themes, so I loved Cormac McCarthy's The Road, though that's super depressing, and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.
If you want gay themes then definitely Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, which blew me to pieces, and Alan Hollinghurst, maybe his The Swimming-Pool Library". Not porn per se, but gay through and through, baths, gay cinemas, cruising spots, the lot.
Oh, and I went through your book meme, funny how my reading is much more European :) Though you have to read Catch 22, really.
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I've read the Road because I love post-apocalyptic more than dystopic. Rose Tremain sounds interesting. I'll go check out the offerings. Kazuo Ishiguro is one of those authors that I've never read but mean to.
And my book meme is probably lacking in anything European because I would have read a lot of those things my last year of high school except that I went off to Germany for a year. So I did read Brecht, Thomas Mann and Christa Wolff but no Shakespeare, Bronte, or Dickens.
Others are Margaret Atwood - definitely recommend her Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake, and just about everything else (well, Penelopiad was kinda boring ;).
If you're on a British kick do check out Rose Tremain - amazing storyteller. Perhaps The Way I Found Her, a coming of age story, or just about any of her volumes of short stories. They are great. She's one of those authors where it's hard to point out the best book, it's the whole of her work that impresses, even if not all books are equally engaging. But I know of no other author who included themes of sex change, incest, homosexuality, pedophilia.
I like dystopic themes, so I loved Cormac McCarthy's The Road, though that's super depressing, and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.
If you want gay themes then definitely Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, which blew me to pieces, and Alan Hollinghurst, maybe his The Swimming-Pool Library". Not porn per se, but gay through and through, baths, gay cinemas, cruising spots, the lot.
Oh, and I went through your book meme, funny how my reading is much more European :) Though you have to read Catch 22, really.
Btw, love your new layout.
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I've read the Road because I love post-apocalyptic more than dystopic. Rose Tremain sounds interesting. I'll go check out the offerings. Kazuo Ishiguro is one of those authors that I've never read but mean to.
And my book meme is probably lacking in anything European because I would have read a lot of those things my last year of high school except that I went off to Germany for a year. So I did read Brecht, Thomas Mann and Christa Wolff but no Shakespeare, Bronte, or Dickens.
Am off to look at your link.
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