Reading Inventory

As always, in January, I make the decision to read a gazillion books. And every January the following year, I look back and realize I didn’t read half of the ones I’d wanted to-- BUT that I read others that just sort of fell into my lap and changed my life. Those are always the best.




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 In 2011--

I didn’t read Dosteoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.
But I did read The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls.

I didn’t read The Good Earth by Pearl Buck.
But I did read Wetlands by Charlotte Roche.

I didn’t read all the way through Gravity’s Rainbow by Pynchon, didn’t read Steppenwolf by Hess, and did not read The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck…

I did, however, read:

Every book Virgina Wolfe wrote,
Nearly every book Kurt Vonnegut wrote,
Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited,
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston,
The Color Purple by Alice Walker,
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
And J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, and Raise High the Roofbeams/Carpenters.

So, I figure, not a bad year. Not bad at all.

This year, I’ll read even more. We’ll see what titles I can boast in Januray 2013!