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[akeyoftime]

I'm always building up To-Read lists, which invariably get lost or forgotten, so that every few months, maybe once every year or two, I start over. Some books find their way back on, some stay forgotten. The current list looks a lot like this (except that it's handwritten and on two pieces of scrap paper).

-Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
-Wicked (because I've already read half of it, damnit)
-The Lost Steersman (and anything else in the series!)
-The Language of Power
-Anansi Boys
-The Picture of Dorian Gray
-A Confederacy of Dunces
-Watership Down
-Clothed-In-Fur
-Ubu Plays
-Wide Sargasso Sea
-Feminism and its Discontents
-Reading Lolita in Tehran
-Decoding Adversiting
-The Vagina Monologues
-Feminist and Religion/Women and World Religions (or some variation on this theme)

If you're read that list (well done, you), you may have already guess that I picked up the second half of that list in an acadmic bookstore :P I think I am going to have to make a point of reading A Confederacy of Dunces this summer, since it's been on my lists since high school.

Comments

[sofisticat.livejournal.com]

Looks like a good list. I've read some of the books o your list, but not all.
I've made a list that I keep on my computer and add to it as I find new books.

[akeyoftime.livejournal.com]

That's a clever way to keep track of it.

Any books on the list that you particularly enjoyed?

[sofisticat.livejournal.com]

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. That's a book I recommend. And anything by Jeantette Winterson. The last one of hers I read was Lighthousekeeping.

[whatsupdog.livejournal.com]

Have you heard of the Temeraire series? Basically, it's the Napoleonic war, but with dragons thrown in. His Majesty's Dragon is the first in the series, and I quite recommend it.

[akeyoftime.livejournal.com]

The cliffhanger on the fourth book was cruel and unusual punishment!

[whatsupdog.livejournal.com]

Haha...I wouldn't know. I'm in the middle of book three right now.

[akeyoftime.livejournal.com]

Be happy, then, that the fifth book is slated for early July!

[user-lain.livejournal.com]

STEERSWOMAN'S ROAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[akeyoftime.livejournal.com]

SO GOOD! I can't wait to see Bel and Rowan bust some more heads and find some more questions.

[user-lain.livejournal.com]

The Lost Steersman is my FAVOURITE book in the series so far.

[partytodamascus.livejournal.com]

skip dorian gray and read demian by herman hesse instead.
also, if you haven't read the red tent, please do. ignore anything hugh says on the subject, because it's fantastic.

[akeyoftime.livejournal.com]

How about I read both, y/y?

I've been meaning to read The Red Tent. Thanks for reminding me! (Duly noted, ingore Hugh's critcisms.)

[akeyoftime.livejournal.com]

I don't even remember what Anansi Boys is supposed to be about :P Awesomesauce win! (Don't tell me, I'll get there sooner or later.)

[neonanightshade.livejournal.com]

I own a copy of Reading Lolita in Tehran if you want to borrow it. I haven't read it yet, because I decided I wanted to read all of the books that they read before I read it. :P But once I can find it (many things are still in boxes....) you're welcome to it.

I may also own Anansi Boys, if you need that one.

[akeyoftime.livejournal.com]

Actually, I really like your idea of reading the books they read first. I think I'll be adopting that.

I'd love to borrow your copy of Anansi Boys. As I am not a legal resident of our fair city, using the library system is always a bit complicated.