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February 21, 2005
Stocking the Bookshelf
Picked up Jonathan Franzen's How to Be Alone and Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle today at the very friendly little bookstore Three Lives & Company on West 10th in the village (on my way to E&C). Have also just finished The Stranger (Albert Camus), which was great -- somewhat like Kafka. I've been reading Life & Times of Michael K (J.M. Coetzee) but it's so damn depressing that I've put it down for now and picked up Murakami. For kicks, two lists...
Recommended, if you haven't already read them:
- Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
- Motherless Brooklyn, Johnathan Lethem
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
- Atonement, Ian McEwan
- Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
- In America, Susan Sontag
- Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
- Philip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy
- The Glass Palace, Amitav Ghosh
- The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
- Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
- The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje (old, but a favorite)
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (ditto)
On my list:
- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
- Don Quixote, Cervantes
- The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
- Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
- Heir to the Glimmering World, Cynthia Ozick
- The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
Also, for quick takes on this year's new fiction, and to see literary bloggers pair them with each other in a kind of boxing match, visit the TMN Tournament of Books.
Posted by csageday at February 21, 2005 09:37 PM
Comments
I've come in to see the photos of Clay swinging on the Gates (yes he is vain and sent the link so we could view his butt...) and just happened to see your comment on the knitting. AND thought to say that there is a device (at least here in Europe) where the needles are somehow connected to each other and it makes knitting in circles TREMENDOUSLY easier...
Posted by: Ellen at February 26, 2005 04:29 PM