-scary books? check
flashlight? check
Snacks? check
I think i am ready
- Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
- Anne Rice, Interview With the Vampire
- Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
- Virginia Woolf, The Waves
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando
- Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
- Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
- Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
- Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness
- Nadine Gordimer, Burger's Daughter
- Harriette Simpson Arnow, The Dollmaker
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
- Willa Cather, My Ántonia
- Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
- Erica Jong, Fanny
- Joy Kogawa, Obasan
- Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
- Doris Lessing, The Fifth Child
- Doris Lessing, The Grass Is Singing
- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
- Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
- Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
- Lore Segal, Her First American
- Alice Walker, The Color Purple
- Alice Walker, The Third Life of Grange Copeland
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
- Muriel Spark, Memento Mori
- Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
- Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
- Susan Fromberg Shaeffer, Anya
- Cynthia Ozick, Trust
- Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
- Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife
- Ann Beattie, Chilly Scenes of Winter
- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer
- Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays
- Mary McCarthy, The Group
- Mary McCarthy, The Company She Keeps
- Grace Paley, The Little Disturbances of Man
- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart
- Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
- Mona Simpson, Anywhere But Here
- Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
- Toni Morrison, Beloved
- Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
- Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mr. Fortune's Maggot
- Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools
- Laura Riding, Progress of Stories
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
- Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower
- Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
- A.S. Byatt, Possession
- Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
- Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle
- Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
- Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
- Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca
- Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
- Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
- Barbara Pym, Excellent Women
- Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
- Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
- Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
- Nancy Willard, Things Invisible to See
- Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Disturbances in the Field
- Rosellen Brown, Civil Wars
- Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
- Harriet Doerr, The Mountain Lion
- Stevie Smith. Novel on Yellow Paper
- E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
- Rebecca Goldstein, The Mind-Body Problem
- P.D. James, The Children of Men
- Ursula Hegi, Stones From the River
- Fay Weldon, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
- Katherine Mansfield, Collected Stories
- Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills
- Louise Erdrich, The Beet Queen
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
- Edna O'Brien, The Country Girls Trilogy
- Margaret Drabble, Realms of Gold
- Margaret Drabble, The Waterfall
- Dawn Powell, The Locusts Have No King
- Marilyn French, The Women's Room
- Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter
- Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
- Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
- Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle
- Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
- Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day
- Alice Hoffman, The Drowning Season
- Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
- Penelope Mortimer, The Pumpkin Eater
Jesus,Mary and Joesph being mentally ill is time consuming. I have been going to three different doctors. I had to have blood drawn to make sure my meds for being a depressed maniac was not harming my physical self too much. In between it all though I managed to read The World Is Flat. It is about the flatting of the world in the economical sense. This is the same author who wrote the Lexus and the Olive Tree. He explains precisely how and why the "grunt work" in the American economy is being outsourced. Leaving, theoretically at least, the job of pushing the limits of what is possible to us Americans. A new Revolution is almost upon us. As they said in Star Trek, let us go boldly where no one has gone before".
If anyone is interested I finally got a list of all the books I have read since Oct 31 2006. Although I dont think I am going to make my goal of 200 read books this year I think I at least read more than the average American, That and Grad school leaves no time for pleasure reading. Click here
I have been sad ever since one of my favorite authors Anne Rice is now only writing Jesus books. Not that theres anything wrong with that but I do miss Lestat and Armand. So I was at the library and saw
It claimed to be on the same kind of vampire story as Ann Rice. The writing style is completely different. The Vampires are even different. The only thing that was constant in both authors was that it had vampires and the struggle between good and evil. However it was still a good book.
Next time I will know how to divide my time.
