Shelving always inspires me to make a book list.

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Books to read (after I've finished In the Skin of a Lion:

1. 
   Mrs. Dalloway
2. 
   Hairstyles of the Damned
3. 
   The Remains of the Day
4. 
   book of Adrienne Rich poems my sister gave me for X-Mas (I think, The Dream of a Common Language ?)
5. 
   The Diaries of Anais Nin

Comments

[sparsium]

in the skin of a lion is my favorite book! how are you liking it?

[blue_quiet]

I'm liking it. So far, not as much as I loved The English Patient, but I'm only about a 1/3 into it, so that could very well change.

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P.S. I see you are back on LJ :)

[sparsium]

i think the first time i read _in the skin of a lion_ it took me a bit to get into it. it probably wasn't until having read it three times in a row that my love for it really blossomed. i love _the english patient_ too, though. ondaatje is my favorite. have been seriously considering doing grad school at the u of toronto because he teaches there. have you read _anil's ghost_? that's the first ondaatje i read, and i highly, highly reccommend it. after your already-lengthy list, of course.

and yes, back on the lj. it's about time, i think.

:)

[parsley409]

i never finished the diaries of anais nin, but there are some really good parts. have you read henry miller stuff already?

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I haven't read any Henry Miller yet, though I've been meaning to read Tropic of Cancer for quite awhile. Funny to find this comment on Anais Nin, 'cause today in my Art History class the instructor showed a slide of Tinguely's self-destructing machine (has a really long name, I can't remember) and I wondered why it seemed familiar, until I remembered Anais Nin and the scene about it in Collages.