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[May. 21st, 2007|11:24 am] |
Here is a list I stole from one of my friends:
Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart
Alexie, Sherman The Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Allison, Dorothy Bastard Out of Carolina
Al-Shaykh, Hanan The Story of Zahra
Alvarez, Julia In the Time of the Butterflies
Anaya, Rudolpho Bless Me, Altima
Baldwin, James Giovanni's Room
Benitez, Sandra A Place where the Sea Remembers
Butler, Octavia Kindred
Cao, Lan Monkey Bridge
Chopin, Kate The Awakening
Cisneros, Sandra The House on Mango Street
Collins, Billy Picnic, Lightning
Conrad, Joseph The Heart of Darkness
Dangarembga, Tsitsi Nervous Conditions
Danticat, Edwidge Krik? Krak?
Deloria, Ella Cara Water Lily
Divakaruni, Chitra The Mistress of Spices
Doty, Mark Heaven's Coast
Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
Emecheta, Buchi The Joys of Motherhood
Erdrich, Louise Love Medicine
Erdrich, Louise Tracks
Faqir, Fadia Nisanit
Farah, Nuruddin Sweet & Sour Milk
Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying
Frazier, Charles Cold Mountain
Gaines, Ernest J. A Lesson Before Dying
Garcia, Christina Dreaming in Cuban
Gilman, Charlotte P. The Yellow Wallpaper
Goldberg, Myra The Bee Season
Guterson, David Snow Falling on Cedars
Haruf, Kent Plainsong
Hegi, Ursula Stones from the River
Hemingway, Ernest In Our Time
Hogan, Linda Solar Storms
Holthe, Tess Uriza When the Elephants Dance
Howe, Leanne Shell Shaker
Hurston, Zora N. Their Eyes Were Watching God
Jin, Ha Waiting
Jordan, June Kissing God Goodbye
King, Thomas Green Grass, Running Water
Kincaid, Jamaica My Brother
Kingsolver, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible
Kingston, Maxine H. Woman Warrior
Kogawa, Joy Obasan
Kushner, Tony Angels in America
Lorde, Zamy A New Spelling of My Name
Marquez, Gabriel One Hundred Years of Solitude
Mahfouz, Naguib The Journey of Ibn Fattouma
Martel, Yann Life of Pi
Monette, Paul Becoming Man
Morrison, Toni Sula, Beloved
Mukherjee, B. The Middleman and Other Stories
Naylor, Gloria Mama Day
Ninh, Boa The Sorrow of War
Nye, Naomi Shihab 19 Varieties of Gazelles
O'Brien, Tim Going After Cacciato
O'Brien, Tim The Things They Carried
Otsuka, Julie When the Emperor was Divine
Paley, Grace Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Power, Susan Grass Dancer
Roy, Arundati The God of Small Things
Rulfo, Juan Pedro Paramo
Senna, Danzy Caucasia
Sijie, Dai Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress
Silko, Leslie M. Ceremony, The Gardens in the Dunes
Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club
Tan, Amy Kitchen God's Wife
Troung, Monique The Book of Salt
Watson, Larry Montana 1948
Wicomb, Zoe You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town
Winterson, Jeanette Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Yamamoto, Hisaye Seventeen Syllables |
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[Dec. 18th, 2006|11:24 pm] |
Least favorite words:
kiss
simper
prawn |
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[Jun. 2nd, 2006|02:13 pm] |
Summer 2006:
The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins)
Persepolis I & II (Marjane Satrapi)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
The Slynx (Tatyana Tolstaya)
Postville (Stephen Bloom)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene)
Bonjour Tristesse (Francoise Sagan)
Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
Mysticism for Beginners (Adam Zagajewski)
Solaris (Stanislaw Lem)
Stations of Desire (Ibn 'Arabi/Michael Sells)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
The Wisdom of Father Brown (GK Chesterton)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)
Monologue of a Dog (Wislawa Szymborska)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Milan Kundera)
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Portrait of the Author as a Young Man (James Joyce)
Reservation Blues (Sherman Alexie)
Love Medicine (Louise Erdrich)
Holy the Firm (Annie Dillard)
Travesties (Tom Stoppard)
I, The Jury (Mickey Spillane)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran)
The Heart of the Matter (Graham Greene)
The Country of the Pointed Firs (Sarah Orne Jewett)
The Elegant Universe (Brian Greene)
Portnoy's Complaint (Philip Roth)
Fall 2006:
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Haruki Murakami)
The Eye of the Heart (ed. Barbara Howes)
Music Through the Floor (Eric Puchner)
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Immortality (Milan Kundera)
Sula (Toni Morrison)
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy (Tim Burton)
Laughter in the Dark (Vladimir Nabokov)
The Dream of a Common Language (Adrienne Rich)
The Bhagavadgita
Winter 2006-2007:
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
Two Cities (Adam Zagajewski)
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Haruki Murakami)
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
Averno (Louise Glück)
The Burn (Vassily Aksyonov)
The Real Inspector Hound (Tom Stoppard)
After Magritte (Tom Stoppard)
Spring 2007
Possession (AS Byatt)
Conversations with Tom Stoppard (Mel Gussow)
Dirty Linen (Tom Stoppard)
Collages (Anais Nin)
Tremors (Adam Zagajewski)
Difficult Loves (Italo Calvino)
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (GK Chesterton)
Arcadia (Tom Stoppard)
The Brothers K (David James Duncan)
Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko)
Of Love and Other Demons (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Teaching a Stone to Talk (Annie Dillard)
To Read:
War Trash (Ha Jin)
A People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn)
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Cosmicomics (Italo Calvino)
Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Vineland (Thomas Pynchon)
That Distant Land (Wendell Berry)
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[Apr. 6th, 2006|12:53 pm] |
Ooh, tagged by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.6) cadaver_ous!
Name ten of life's simple pleasures that you like most, then pick ten people to do the same. Try to be original and creative and not to use things that someone else has already used.
1. Coloring with crayons.
2. Feeling intense and crazy because of that great part at the end of the Firebird Suite when it changes to 7/4 time.
3. Reading sad and complicated books when it's raining outside.
4. Drinking tea when it's raining outside.
5. Saying exactly what you mean.
6. When you fall asleep on an airplane and wake up and suddenly the sky is bright and golden and all sorts of colors that it wasn't before.
7. Finding handwritten messages on things in antique stores (Charlotte--Happy birthday, darling. Always, John. 1945).
8. Waking up to your cat purring on your stomach.
9. Being alive on the first warm day of the year.
10. Coming home. |
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[Mar. 22nd, 2006|05:05 pm] |
Words
Chesapeake
morpheme
inland
indigo
indigent |
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[Feb. 16th, 2006|10:25 pm] |
Words
Echolalia
Larynx/laryngeal
Revel(ry)
Knave |
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