My Life Line

Let me introduce you to the love of my life. There is something about the way the pages curl into soft yet sharp angles the more people love them…. like women I suppose. I love the faint hint of finger prints in the corners or the way a hard cover will snap quickly like a shy child. MMMMM. I love books….

Books I am Currently Reading:

  • Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis

Books I read and loved:

  • Paradise Lost by John Milton
  • Aeropagetica by John Milton
  • A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  • The Complete Stories by Flannery OConnor
  • The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
  • A Handmaidens Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  • Wicked, The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
  • Happiness, TM by Will Ferguson
  • Lamb: the Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s childhood pal by Christopher Moore
  • Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • More, Now, Again by Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Enders Game by Orsan Scott Card
  • Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston
  • The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Lolita by Vladamir Nabokov
  • Bend Sinister by Vladamir Nabokov
  • Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
  • The Good Body by Eve Ensler
  • The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway
  • The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemmingway
  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  • The Land Breakers by John Ehle
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
  • Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch

Books I have read and did not like:

  • She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
  • The Natural by Bernard Malamud
  • Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Monroe
  • Runaway by Alice Monroe
  • Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maquire
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
  • Save Me From Myself by Brian “Head” Welch

Books On my “To Read” Shelf:

  • Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
  • White Oleander by Janet Fitch
  • Stardust by Neil Gaiman
  • High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
  • Are We Rome? The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Fate of America by Cullen Murphy
  • Son of a Witch by Gregory Maquire
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Three Versions of the Truth by Amy Knox Brown
  • Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
  • Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
  • W.A.R. : The Unauthorized Biography of William Axl Rose by Mick Wall
  • Slash by Slash and AnthonyBozza


6 Responses to “My Life Line”

  1. A very amusing life.

    aporia24 said this on January 25, 2008 at 2:47 am

  2. thanks

    kirbyann said this on January 25, 2008 at 2:48 am

  3. now that you’ve read others, time to live your own … vicarious living is nothing like the tangibles; sight, touch, taste, scent … living your truth can make for the best fiction, and soon another person’s “life line” will include you.

    nate hansen said this on January 29, 2008 at 4:07 pm

  4. BTW Good Omens is one of my fav books. I could just read it forever.

    Drew said this on February 6, 2008 at 11:01 pm

  5. I need to make a copy of your book list and add a lot of them to my “to read” list. The overlapping areas show me that really? We probably like similar characteristics in books. :)

    cassafrass said this on February 21, 2008 at 4:44 am

  6. great list… I’d add poems by Gwen MacEwen, Elizabeth Bishop, ‘Blue Estuaries’ by Louise Bogan, poems by Irving Layton, poems by C.P.Cavafy, ‘America’ and ‘Howl’ by Allen Ginsberg, some poems by Anne Sexton.. anything by Henry Miller
    The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker…etcetc

    deanjbaker said this on July 9, 2008 at 2:51 pm

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