Friday, February 25, 2011

what i'm reading now...

2011!2 months in already. so far this year i have read

the emperor of all maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Galapagos by kurt vonnegut
the dispossessed by ursula K leguin
the moon is a harsh mistress by Heinlein
which were all excellent and i highly recommend,

I am currently reading
1. Gilead by Maryilynne Robinson

i plan on reading the following books, possibly in this order
2. Angle of repose by Wallace stegner
3.short stories by Flannery O' connor
4. Candy by luke davies
5. babel-17 by samuel delany
6. the border trilogy by cormac mcarthy
7. Star Maker by olaf stapleton
8. Autumn of the Patriarch by gabriel garcia marquez
9. Walden by thoreau
10. a people's history of the united states by howard zinn
11. arctic dreams by barry lopez
12. intruder in the dust by william faulkner
13. A confederacy of dunces- john kennedy toole
14. the master and margarita by mikhael bulgakov
15. space trilogy by c.s. Lewis
16.Golem 100 by Alfred bester
17. the violent man by A. E. Von Vogt
18. the Idiot by fyodor Dostoevsky
19. camp concentration by Thomas disch
20. As I lay dying by William Faulkner
21.life of Pi by yann Martel
22. redwall by Brian Jacques
23. to the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
24. the famished road by Ben okri

i guess if i read em all in a year, it would be pretty good, after a short non reading period after high school my appetite for books has steadily increased. i find it helpful to have a stack of books ready to go, so i don't have to look for one when i finish a book and am hungry for the next one.

i will definetly make a post with table information for wondercon before it happens, our books will be for sale! and i will be sitting there drawing
-george

2 comments:

Jelter said...

That's cool and all, but you should post what you've drawn this year instead.

Anonymous said...

Don't listen to haters, book lists rock. I've read about a third of those; wasn't too into the Stegner, Perelandra was bizarre and has wonderful descriptive passages, but also made me feel pretty creeped out by C.S. Lewis's ideas of morality. Don't expect too much plot from Okri, but his imagery makes it all worthwhile. O'Connor & Woolf: A+++

I keep hearing that cancer book is good; I'll get to it sometime. I recently read & would recommend Hans Fallada's Every Man Dies Alone.