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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
Music
Polyphemus
Almond Blossoms
Van Gogh
Lunar phases
Ghost Orchid
4 comments:
Love his face.
Love LOVE his hair.
Reminds me of my older brother's hair.
So, Tim was Jeff's dad?
I need to go google...
Yep. Tim was Jeff's dad. If you get a chance, read Dream Brother. It's about Tim and Jeff.
I love his face, hair, voice, too.
I read up on Jeff's father on the internet, and man oh man, did that make me sad.
How is it possible that 2 such beautiful human beings died so tragically, so young?
I'm loving the quote you posted above about how to climb a mountain.
Saddens me as well about Tim and Jeff. Dream Brother: The Lives And Music of Tim and Jeff Buckley does a decent job of telling you their stories.
I had just started listening to Jeff Buckley about 4-5 months before he drowned. I didn't know much about his dad at that point, and I just found it so sad to read about this incredibly talented man who was apparently getting himself pulled together and who thought his tolerance was higher than it was. Gone at 28. I think Jeff was 30 when he drowned.
The quote of above is one of my favorite passages from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (a book I reread about every 3-4 years). I have never climbed a "real" mountain, but I have climbed many of my own making.
What he says is so true.
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