28 June 2010
Summer Summer:
I am gearing up for a summer full of fantastic reading! There is a list of books that I want to read that could possibly stretch to Montreal and back, but I've narrowed them down to a "short" list.
Bless Me, Ulitma, Rudolpho Anaya
Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momoday
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men
Travels with Charly
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Having already read Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) and The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan), not to mention a bummer of a book club book, The Wives of Henry Oades (author to come later...I can't remember who she was for the life of me. Any-who, terrible book.), I am off to a great start, reading Steinbeck as we speak. My first experiences with Steinbeck were horrific, as I think that all high schoolers experiences are, but East of Eden has got me. The first sentence, "The Salinas Valley is in Northern California." is so seductively simple. I am at the point where all of the story lines converge---I can hardly wait to read again once I put it down.
Also on my mind are There Is a Bird On Your Head and Elephants Cannot Dance, by Mo Willems, and Skippy Jon Jones, by Judy Schachner. Being extremely gifted children's writers, Willems and Schachner are my top picks of the summer, both for my library drama productions and for my niece and nephew. : )
Bless Me, Ulitma, Rudolpho Anaya
Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momoday
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men
Travels with Charly
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Having already read Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) and The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan), not to mention a bummer of a book club book, The Wives of Henry Oades (author to come later...I can't remember who she was for the life of me. Any-who, terrible book.), I am off to a great start, reading Steinbeck as we speak. My first experiences with Steinbeck were horrific, as I think that all high schoolers experiences are, but East of Eden has got me. The first sentence, "The Salinas Valley is in Northern California." is so seductively simple. I am at the point where all of the story lines converge---I can hardly wait to read again once I put it down.
Also on my mind are There Is a Bird On Your Head and Elephants Cannot Dance, by Mo Willems, and Skippy Jon Jones, by Judy Schachner. Being extremely gifted children's writers, Willems and Schachner are my top picks of the summer, both for my library drama productions and for my niece and nephew. : )
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