books. 7 October 2007

check back for updates on what i’m reading.
here’s a hint: it’s too much at once.

Here is the list of what I’ve actually completed this semester:

On Chesil Beach—Ian McEwan
Fahrenheit 451—Ray Bradbury
Operating Instructions—Anne LaMotte
A Mind Apart—Susanne Antionetta
Eat, Pray, Love—Elizabeth Gilbert
The Golden Compass–Philip Pullman

2008 Reading:
Atonement—Ian McEwan
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly—Jean-Dominique Bauby
The Year of Living Biblically—AJ Jacobs
Born Standing Up—Steve Martin
The Buffalo, Ben, and Me—Todd Parnell
The Year of Magical Thinking—Joan Didion
A New Earth—Eckhart Tolle
The Jane Austen Book Club—Karen Joy Fowler
Holy The Firm—Annie Dillard
A Grief Observed—CS Lewis
The Power of Now—Eckhart Tolle
Twilight—Stephenie Meyer

It seems measly compared with the others I have started and/or plan to read…sometime.
I am a manic, distractable reader. There’s an ample list waiting in the wings:

On Writing Well
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Writing Life
Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006
The Prestige
The New Kings of Nonfiction
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Third Jesus
The Stories of English
Eat Pray Love (again…before Italy)
God of the Small Things
Best American Essays 07
Best American NonRequired Reading 07
The Areas of my Expertise
Yarn Harlot
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Plainsong
Me Talk Pretty One Day

And I am always open to suggestions.