read March 4, 2008

I’m always reading @ least one book & I read about a dozen magazines per month

Currently Reading: The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

Recently Enjoyed: History of the Snowman by Bob Eckstein; The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (BRILLIANT!); The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb; My Life in France by Julia Child w/ Alex Prud’homme; Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra (all 900 pages; plus notes!)

Favorites: Jane Eyre, Villette, Wuthering Heights (& the Brontes in general); Dickens; other big fat 19th century English novels; Robertson Davies; Michael Chabon; “Chick-lit”; modern gay fiction; A Suitable Boy; Annie Proulx; Zadie Smith; Jeffrey Eugenides; Alan Hollinghurst; Life of Pi; Bel Canto; Wicked; Was; John McPhee; “general interest” non-fiction; biographies of cultural figures; A Girl in Winter; Dennis Cooper; Dorothy Allison; Father of Frankenstein; Anywhere But Here; Rebecca; Francine du Plessix Gray; Nicholson Baker; The Debt to Pleasure…