I can read good

I found the following note from August, 2010 on my facebook.

I'm doing the 25 book challenge. In the next year, I want to read 25 books, to include many of the "high school" books I never read. 

(And which of these books have I actually read since then?)

1. To Kill a Mockingbird

2. Siddhartha, Hermen Hesse

3. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift

4. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

5. Catcher in the Rye

6. Scarlett Letter

7. One flew over the cuckoo's nest

8. The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

9. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

10. Night, Elie Wiesel

11. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zorah Neale Hurston

12. 1984

13. Catch 22

14. Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

15. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros

16. Paradise Lost, Milton

17. Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson

18. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides

19.Dante's Inferno

 Wow. 3 1/2 books (haven't finished 1984 yet!) in 2 years. Fail.

Books that Rock

Today I want to share a few books that I think everyone should read. Well, maybe not everyone. But reading them will make me think you are very "with it."

Changed my life. Changed the way I look at the human condition. If there is no other book from this list you care about, read this one.

Ishmael
Daniel Quinn

I can't even explain what this book is about or why I love it. I just do. And if you like excellently weird stories, you will too.

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Tom Robbins

I generally do not like romantic things. But this classic is GOOD! I found myself shouting into the pages, "Just tell Mr. Rochester you love him!!!"


Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë

This book of poetry is outstanding, strange and strangely inspiring. A weird guy loaned me a copy once. I promptly married him.

Born in the Year of the Butterfly Knife 
(click title to view publisher's webpage)
Derrick C. Brown

Best contemporary collection of love poems out there. No joke. I read from this book at my own wedding.

Last American Valentine
(click title to view publisher's webpage)
Ed. Derrick C. Brown