Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelieavably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

50 Books to Read Summer 2008

Happy Hooker by Xaviera
A Heatbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill Rumford
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Mullet Madness by Alan Henderson
Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
A Sense of Honor by Jim Webb
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
A Course in Miracles Sue
Intermediate Man John Locks
Bias by Bernard Goldberg
Evidence of Harm by David Kirby
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Death Be Not Proud by John J. Gunther
Superior Women by Alice Adams
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell

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