I like them all, and it is my and not the authors’ failure that I have not finished them. But the stack is getting taller and I keep going to the library and I keep going on Amazon.com and now I have birthday gift certificates to spend. New books are constantly coming into my life and distracting me. What should I concentrate on?
Martin Amis – Experience: A Memoir
Saul Bellow – The Adventures of Augie March
Charles Baxter – Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
Daniel Amen, MD – Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
Marisha Pessl – Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Walter Kaufmann – Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
David L. Holmes – The Faiths of the Founding Fathers
T.C. Boyle – If the River Was Whiskey
Don DeLillo – End Zone
Daniel J. Meador – Unforgotten
Virginia Woolf – To the Lighthouse
I feel like right now changing my brain and changing my life are priorities, even though I usually don’t buy into self help. And then I also have this Jehovah’s Witness pamphlet to read – Would You Like to Know More about the Bible?
I wanted so badly to like Special Topics but it was pretty much a waste of time, unless you’re looking for a massively overclever required reading list with a bunch of fake titles thrown in. And not much to speak of in terms of inventive plot or storytelling.
Hopefully Ms. Pessl will find a decent editor for her next tome. She’s too hot (in pictures at least) to write off already (did I just write that?).
You’re right. She does take one hell of a publicity shot.
I have to roll my eyes at this one, though.