Tuesday, April 7, 2009

It's Been a While

I am a really horrible blogger, but I will make an attempt to improve.

As I've been absent for the last few months, I thought I'd share my reading list (fiction). I also have a nonfiction reading list that's not quite as interesting.

My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead (An anthology edited by Jeffrey Eugenides; to be finished)
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Ulysses by James Joyce
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

I'm currently reading Capote's Portraits and Observations, a collection of both his fiction and nonfiction short works. Every piece of his is perfection incarnate. After years of reading his work, I am continually impressed and surprised by his impeccable command of language, craft and ability to capture an ephemeral essence in words.

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