- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson - Now, to be honest, I haven't had this one that long and the plan is in place to read it on an upcoming flight. I figure it's best to read it first before I see the Swedish film - I'm guessing I'm going to like those two versions too much to bother with the American remake. (Why o why must Americans remake everything?)
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson - I rarely read nonfiction but I find that Bryson keeps the pace moving right along, plus he's pretty funny. This book is technically Mr. Mouse's but he's willing to share.
- Ulysses by James Joyce - No, really, I am going to read this one of these days. Mr. Mouse and I need to find a cabin in the middle of nowhere and in between hikes and mountain bike rides, I shall drink whiskey and read this book. Yes I said yes I will yes. Or something like that.
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - My mother will be appalled that I haven't read this yet. I might have but I don't think so. I think I tried but kept falling asleep and so probably put it aside from some swords-and-sandals fantasy series.
- The Coming of the King by Nikolai Tolstoy - This is another one that I may possibly have read - seeing how it's historical fiction/fantasy with Welsh names and thus right up my alley - but I just don't think so. Not yet. Maybe soon as I seem to be on a Welsh mythology kick of late (book review to come soon).
- Contact by Carl Sagan - I have not seen the Jodie Foster vehicle and have no intention of doing so. This is another one that would be on the mountain cabin/whiskey list.
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Persig - Let's be honest. I'm never going to read this. I tried back in high school or maybe college - a long time ago, regardless - because everyone was all, "Ooh, it's so good," and I tried it and was all, "Ack - boring."
- Wild Fruits by Henry David Thoreau - Someone gave this to me as a gift ages ago, Thoreau's final and unfinished manuscript whereby he ponders religious and philosophical ideas whilst opining and sketching native North American plantlife.
- Collected Poems by George Seferis - I had to read some of these for a study abroad program in Chania, Crete. Seferis is the national poet of Greece or something and I suppose they're good poems. I struggle with poetry, though.
Originally created as a recap blog for my friends too busy to watch t.v., I've branched out to movies, books, food, life in general. No politics tho', don't worry.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Titles Nine - #10
Wow: it's been over a year since my last "Titles Nine" post. What can I have been doing in all that time? Best not to ask, I guess. For those of you come late to the party, this series is where I go to my bookcases and pick out nine books to share with you. Usually it's just nine books sitting there in a row although sometimes there's a theme: cookbooks, comics, Stephen King. This time there's a theme: books I own and while I'm always intending to read them, I've just never quite gotten around to it. Yet.
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