"I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim." Frida Kahlo
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2012 Reading List
- Angels (Fiction); Denis Johnson
- Catching Fire (Fiction); Suzanne Collins
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Fiction); Jonathan Safran Foer
- Flying At Night: Poems 1965-1985 (Poetry); Ted Kooser
- Head Off & Split (Poetry); Nikky Finney
- Just Kids (Biography); Patti Smith
- Miracles Don't Care Who You Are (Poetry); James Lineberger
- Mockingjay (Fiction); Suzanne Collins
- Murder in Mayberry: Greed, Death, and Mayhem in a Small Town (non-fiction); Mary Kinney Branson
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Fiction); Ken Kesey
- Raven Stole The Moon (Fiction); Garth Stein
- The First Queen of England: The Myth of Bloody Mary (Biography); Linda Porter
- The Hunger Games (Fiction); Suzanne Collins
2011 Reading List
- 1984 (fiction); George Orwell
- All The King's Men (fiction); Robert Penn Warren
- Blue Nights (Memoir); Joan Didion
- Boy Alone: A Brother's Memoir (Memoir); Karl Taro Greenfeld
- Dollhouse (Poetry); James Lineberger
- Food Rules: an eater's manual (non-fiction); Michael Pollan
- Horoscopes for the Dead (Poetry); Billy Collins
- If I Die In A Combat Zone: Box Me Up And Ship Me Home (Memoir); Tim O'Brien
- In Defense Of Food (non-fiction); Michael Pollan
- Inside Of A Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, And Know (non-fiction); Alexandra Horowitz
- John Lennon (Biography); Phillip Norman
- Lynch on Lynch (non-fiction); Chris Rodley
- Making Toast (non-fiction); Roger Rosenblatt
- Migrations: New & Selected Poems (Poetry); W.S. Merwin
- Ray (Fiction); Barry Hannah
- Seeds: One Man's Serendipitous Journey to Find The Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers (non-fiction); Richard Horan
- Stoner (fiction); John WIlliams
- The Book of Men (Poetry); Dorianne Laux
- The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes (non-fiction); Randi Davenport
- The End of the World As We Know It (Memoir); Robert Goolrick
- The Help (fiction); Kathryn Stockett
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (non-fiction); Rebecca Skloot
- The Night Circus (fiction); Erin Morgenstern
- The Sweet Hereafter (fiction); Russell Banks
- Things Fall Apart (fiction); Chinua Achebe
- Tree of Smoke (fiction); Denis Johnson
- Zelda (biography); Nancy Milford
2010 Reading List
- A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
- Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
- Daughters of the House, Michele Roberts
- Every Last One, Anna Quindlen
- Falconer, John Cheever
- Fear of Flying, Erica Jong
- Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien
- I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon, Crystal Zevon
- Jesus' Son, Denis Johnson
- Let The Great World Spin, Colum McCann
- Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe, David Herbert Donald
- New And Selected Poems: Volume One, Mary Oliver
- Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion
- Rabbit, Run; John Updike
- Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, Sharon Olds
- Superman:The Chapbook, Dorianne Laux
- The Belly of Paris, Emile Zola
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas
- The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
- The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
- The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
- The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead
- The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski
- The Unswept Room, Sharon Olds
- Watership Down, Richard Adams
- What We Carry, Poems by Dorianne Laux
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2 comments:
Good quote.
Hell, great quote.
Ever read any John Irving?
Isn't it Hotel New Hampshire in which the beloved dog, Sorrow, stuffed after death, floats upon the ocean?
I think I need to read some Irving again.
Maybe his words will bolster me, buck me up, push me through a wall.
I like John Irving but have not read Hotel New Hampshire. I will put it on my "to read" list. I have read The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and A Widow For One Year.
Love this quote, too. Frida has always fascinated me. I hope to go see her Blue House at some point in time.
Reading Just Kids. You will indeed want to read it.
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