Fall Reading
Fall... is loud in these parts. I have a tree in the back yard that bears a fruit/nut that looks a lot like a lime, but is, in fact, hard as a baseball. When it gets windy, at night and early morning, the nuts fall loudly, like mini nature bombs. It's actually very cool.
I am currently reading:
Please feel free to share what's on your Fall list.
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Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Blind Willow Sleeping Woman by Murakami
Teach Us to Overcome our Madness by Kenzaburo Oe
George Saunders (In Persuasion Nation)
Aimee Bender (The Girl in the Flammable Skirt)
A.M. Homes (Music for Torching)
Richard Powers (Gain)
Carole Maso (Ava)
Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
Rikki Ducornet (Entering Fire)
Andrew X Pham (Catfish and Mandala)
Paul Auster (The Music of Chance)
Louise Erdrich (Love Medicine)
Don DeLillo (White Noise)
Toni Morrison (Jazz)
Philip Roth (American Pastoral)
I think that tree is probably a sweet gum.
I'm reading poetry and books on web design.
ummmm...would "The Gospel According to Adam" by Muhammad Aladdin be on your list?
:P:P:P:P
sweet gum, eh?
omg alaa i';m such an asshole. your noveldoesn't come upon my mac, so i have to go to the library and print it on a PC...and i will! soon! i promise!
LOL!!
it's okie, ya've been forgiven!
:P
(waiting to come here to give ya the real printed version)
love ya
mmmm
ancient evenings norman mailer
the levant trilogy olivia manning
the genius of omar el akkad
cloud atlas david mitchell
love in the time of cholera gabriel garcia marquez
this is my first comment on your blog!
but i have been a fan for quite a while
hey Hebe...welcome!
Selections from Alf Leileh wa Leileh (Haddawy translation)
Some Ovid
William Blake Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Eros the Bittersweet (Anne Carson)
Tropic of Cancer
How to Make Love to a Negro (Dany LaFerriere, out of print, wild 80s response to Henry Miller)
Duras' The Lover
House of the Sleeping Beauties (Kawabata)
Before Night Falls (Arenas)
The Miller's Tale (Chaucer)
All of these for Micheline Aharonian Marcom's fiction workshop with the theme "Eros, Ecstacy and the Gods"
We are all writing wild shit in that class, inspired by the reading.
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