By now, I’ve made myself hate the short story I began this past semester. It seems a good enough reason as any to return to my real vocation: reading.
Books I’ve Read Since Spring Semester ‘08 Came to Its Unpropitious Close:
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
- Location: Coach Bus, Spain (Madrid, Toledo, Granada)
- Dates: May 24 - May 28
- Comments: I should have read this when I was about 15, but as it was, I read it now. Summer before my last year of college and I’m more disillusioned with academia than Waugh’s interwar Oxfordians. Sadly, the miniseries is not available on Netflix online, or I would be spending the next week in a Jeremy Irons-induced stupor.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
- Location: Coach Bus + hotel room, Spain + Portugal (Seville, Lisbon)
- Dates: May 29 - 30
- Comments: Even I can’t believe I’d never read this before. Epic. Heart-wrenching. American. Plus, Elia Kazan’s version is available to watch instantly on Netflix. James Dean-induced stupor expected soon.
Chip Kidd, The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters
- Location: Tiny room in Schapiro (Columbia University)
- Dates: June 7
- Comments: Good is Dead. Also, graphic design is cool.
Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
- Location: Subway cars, tiny room in Schapiro, etc. (New York City)
- Dates: Presently reading
- Comments: I am never writing a song about love again, unless it involves a boy monster falling in love with Hercules. And, may I also say, adjectives! They’re del.icio.us.
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It’s okay Ash. I only got to Brideshead Revisited last summer. The miniseries is so worth it. Netflix it!