London Reading List

I read a lot of books while I was in London for four months. Here they are.

1. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje (I love his imagery.)
2. The Eyre Affair- Jasper Fforde (Very fun book, going to try others in the series when I can)
3. Slaughterhouse Five- Kurt Vonnegut (Oh Vonnegut.)
4. Breakfast of Champions- Kurt Vonnegut (So full of beautiful sentences and kind cruelties.)
5. The Cinnamon Peeler- Michael Ondaatje (The book that made me start writing poetry again)
6. Cloud Atlas- David Mitchell (Toes the line of too much wink-nudge and won me over anyway)
7. Tess of the D'Urbervilles- Thomas Hardy (So much more depressing than I remember.)
8. Demons in the Spring- Joe Meno (Still my favorite collection of short stories possibly ever)
9. The Little Prince- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (In french and english. Adorable.)
10. Maus- Art Spiegelman (Yeah, I'd never read it before. So glad I finally did.)
11. Candide- Voltaire (Funny. Anachronistically, uproariously, wisely, unpretentiously funny)
12. Habibi- Craig Thompson (Can that guy DRAW or what?! So many lush pages.)
13. Art and Life- John Ruskin (So began my induction to the cult of the pre-raphaelites)
14. Oblivion- David Foster Wallace (Insanely talented writer.)
15. How We Are Hungry- Dave Eggers (Also dang good, but a little too winky/desperate at times)
16. The Lamp of Memory- John Ruskin (More Ruskin genius)
17. Stepford Wives- Ira Levin (Short, but chilling and very slickly written)
18. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius- Dave Eggers (Entertaining and ANNOYING.)
19. Middlesex- Jeffrey Eugenedies (A gripping read but also kind of heavy-handed and clumsy.)
20. The Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot (Dude was a genius.)
21. The Road- Cormac McCarthy (Grim and oh so pretty.)
22. All the Pretty Horses- Cormac McCarthy (Not as grim, but beaauuutiful.)
23. Letters to a Young Poet- Ranier Maria Rilke (Basic life truths from a thoughtful poet.)

I've also started Gilead by Marilynne Robison and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John LeCarre. I'm going on a cruise with my family next week and have decided to try and read Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace while I'm on the boat. We'll see how that goes.