I'm keeping "What I've Been Meaning to Read but Haven't Got Around to it Yet Because of Cable and Dog Park Attendance" list.
"Oh The Glory of it All" - Sean Wilsey
"My Friend Leonard" - James Frey
"Specimen Days" - Michael Cunningham
"Collapse" - Jared Diamond
"Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green" - Joshua Braff
"War Trash" - Ha Jin
"How We Are Hungry" - Dave Eggers
"Nice Big American Baby" - Judy Budnitz
I'm obviously very heavy on the young-hip-max obnoxious-Eggerish crowd, so help me. Any others to suggest or add? Any to suggest I delete, immediately? I think I have at least two or threee memoirs on this list too (ugh), and 2 short story compilations, so I'm in need of some serious fiction. "The Historian" isn't high up on my list really, but something similar to that could do.
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Fartsy junk:
- Blur made the list.
- Unhealthy obsession with color? Try here and here.
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I just picked up Marc Estrin's The Education of Arnold Hitler, based on the author's performance in an NPR inverview. I haven't cracked it yet, but the guy sounded very Mark Twain funny.
I read specimen days. I enjoyed it, but it's not compelling to me for some strange reason. Interesting ideas, though. I am currently reading the Eggers collection. He reminds me of Hemingway in his prose style but with a postmodern sensibility. Even the structure of the collection is reminiscent of In Our Time.
that guardian list would be a lot more impressive if they got the artists' names right. it's william holman hunt people, not richard. why do they hate stanley spencer? and horrors, apparently, i am deeply unfashionable in my liking of blur.
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