I just finished reading Oryx and Crake - what a good book! how creepy and awesome. i highly recommend it.
now i'm on to Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ... also good!
by 'reading' here i mean 'listening' ... i've got them on cd, downloaded on my ipod, so i can listen at work. it sure makes the time go faster!
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What I'm reading now:
Questions about Angels
Billy Collins - poetry
Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez - nonfiction
Everything is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer - this is the one i'm listening to on CD at work
Billy Collins - poetry
Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez - nonfiction
Everything is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer - this is the one i'm listening to on CD at work
home sweet home
Recommended Reading
- The Farmer's Handbook, poems by Wendell Berry
- Oryx and Crake and the Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood - both too arresting to put down, and terrifyingly realistic
- The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman - if you want to learn a lot of fun facts and be incredibly depressed
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
- Deep Economy, by Bill McKibben - this book is awesome. Everyone should read it.
- Epitaph for a Peach, by David Mas Masumoto
- The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
- The Maytrees, by Annie Dillard
- Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro ... if you want something bizarre that you can't stop reading
- Anything by Barbara Kingsolver - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Animal Dreams, Prodigal Summer, Small Wonders, Pigs in Heaven ...
- Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
- Jarhead, by Anthony Swofford
- Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut
- Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, by Ben Fountain
- Reasons to Live, by Amy Hempel
- Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey, by Chuck Palahniuk
- At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, by Amy Hempel
- Monster of God, by David Quammen
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