Books books and more books

December 14th, 2005

So…

I realized it’s getting close to a) Winter Break (OMGYESFINALLYSTAR :star:!) and b) the end of the year. The combination of these two things always makes me want to use up all of my holds at the public library, because, well, why not? I mean… they’re free. And I have the time to read.

So now I will have waiting for me (hopefully right after exams are over):

The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood.

Enchantment, Orson Scott Card.

L’A~(c)ternitA~(c) n’est pas de trop, FranA~ois Cheng.

Le complexe de Di, Sijie Dai.

Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise, Sijie Dai.

Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden.

Le coeur est un muscle involontaire, Monique Proulx.
– Yes, again. I swear I WILL finish it this year.

Harry Potter et la chambre des secrets, JK Rowling.

Uncle Tungsten, Oliver Sacks.

Anyone else have recommendations?

OH, and for those of you who were in New Shoots grade… 9, I think, go and find Intimate Distances. It reminds me of The Joy Luck Club, in a way.

Oh, and I still have to read: I. Another. The Space Between (Jamie Reid).

//EDIT: Oh, and another random thing. Remember the analytical lab of doom? DOOM?!! Lab marks are out 😀 And as it turns out, 91% :biggrin: I swear my TA marked my last lab reports easier after I told him I was worried about failing @_@;;

Now, my organic TA had better not fail me or he’ll be getting some very nasty viruses in his email :devil:

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7 Responses to “Books books and more books”

Anthony Says:

Here is my reading list:

Monkey: Folk Novel of China, Wu Ch’eng-en (trans. Arthur Waley)

Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden

Stanley Park, Timothy Taylor

Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography, Martin Lewis and Karen Wigen

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad.

But first, I still have 25/30 pages of essay writing remaining. And at some point I will have to take a crack at Nietsche, about whom I will be presenting the first first week in January.

December 14th, 2005 at 6:49 pm

Anthony Says:

Have you read The Jade Peony? I think I’ll add that to my list but I doubt I’ll get to it this winter.

December 14th, 2005 at 9:14 pm

Cat Says:

Heh, good luck on Nietsche (whose name I can never spell.)

I have read The Jade Peony — sometime last year, I think — and I meant to pick up All that Matters, too. *adds to list* It’s a good read. I don’t know; I’m always very partial to books that have Cantonese in them, because I can actually understand it :tongue:

December 14th, 2005 at 10:23 pm

Anthony Says:

It’s actually spelled Nietzsche. Apparently I couldn’t copy the correct spelling earlier from the spine of a book.

December 14th, 2005 at 10:50 pm

Sami Says:

Memoirs of a Geisha is good! Or at least from what I can remember ( I read it a long time ago)

And I laughed really loud when I read Uncle Tungsten. *sigh* Mr. Roberts. I miss you.

December 15th, 2005 at 12:51 pm

Neale Says:

Like you, I decided to use up all my holds before the year ended, which in my case meant checking out, um, comic book collections. The awful thing is that now the library calls every three days to tell me that an item is in. Don’t let it happen to you!
How is that Jaime Reid book?

December 15th, 2005 at 1:06 pm

Cat Says:

Heh, I actually haven’t read much of it. It’s a lot thicker than Intimate Distances is, so it’s a little more intimidating. There are some really interesting bits, though, and telling people “I read poetry” would be so satisfying. You know, if people ever asked.

*cue eye roll*

December 17th, 2005 at 12:13 am