Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

23 February 2009

So recently I bought this journal

At Borders. It is a 'book journal'. One half is "Books To Read" and one half is "Books Borrowed/Lent"
Here is the Recommendations I have received so far this year

From Quinn:
Still Life With The Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
Jonothan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
Without Feathers - Woody Allen
Shopgirl - Steve Martin
The Portable Dorothy Parker- Dorothy Parker

From Vita:
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues - Tom Robbins
The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test - Tom Woolfe
Love In A Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
My Life as a Fake - Peter Carey
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
Crack Up At The Race Riots - Harmonie Korrine

Linda in Canada:
Travels Through The Paintbox - Victoria Finlay

Emily in the USA
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

Laura (my ex crim tutor when I asked for feminism recommendations)
Women and Crime - Frances Heidensohn
Pornography and Civil Rights, Intercourse and Pornography - Men Possessing Women all by Andrea Dworkin
Sexual Politics - Kate Millet
Cunt - Inga Muscio
The Word of a Woman - Jan Jordan

I need to speed up it would seem

28 November 2008

Books you should read

Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

Candy by Luke Davies

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis