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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
What Men Live By, Leo Tolstoy
The Iliad & The Odyssey, Homer
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
short stories by O. Henry
The Count of Monté Cristo, Alexandré Dumas
short stories by Raymond Carver
The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather
Making a Literary Life, Carolyn See
In Progress
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
“Malachy and I are back in the bed where Eugene died. I hope he’s not cold in that white coffin in the graveyard though I know he’s not there anymore because angels come to the graveyard and open the coffin and he’s far from the Shannon dampness that kills, up in the sky in heaven with Oliver and Margaret where they have plenty of fish and chips and toffee and no aunts to bother you, where all the fathers bring home the money from the Labour Exchange and you don’t have to be running around to pubs to find them.”
Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss
Selected Poems, Gwendolyn Brooks
Recently Finished
Writing Down The Bones, Natalie Goldberg
Little Children, Tom Perrotta
Equus, Peter Shaffer
Gotham Writers’ Workshop Fiction Gallery
Eventually
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
Truth and Beauty, Ann Patchett
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
The Adventures of The Woman Homesteader, Susanne K. George
A Room with a View, E. M. Forster
6 responses so far ↓
Amy // June 20, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Your book list is insanely intense!
So here’s an easy read when you’re feeling lighthearted: Marley & Me
Be prepared with kleenex!
Kelly // June 23, 2007 at 8:21 pm
I love the pic of JuJu! Looks like someone else I know…
Seri // August 30, 2007 at 10:17 am
I’ve read A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN several times! Betty Smith wrote another book called JOY IN THE MORNING. I think you would enjoy it also. I’ve read GEISHA - totally immersed from beginning to end. Add KITE RUNNER to your list and THE LOVELY BONES by Alice Sebold. Different, but captivating for some unknown reason.
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.”
William Styron
writerlulu // September 8, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Love that quote! Everyone write it down in their quote books, fast.
mary a. kaufman // December 17, 2007 at 9:59 pm
It’s easy to see, Linda, you enjoy a wide variety of subjects when it comes to your choice of reading matter. I seldom read a novel, but did read Angela’s Ashes some time ago. Mostly, my reading has been researching the origins of religions, especially the religions originating in the Mediterranean area.
Arti // January 7, 2008 at 8:54 am
Love your booklist…we share some common interests. Some of yours are my ‘finished’, some my ‘eventually’. Just wondering if you’ve seen the movie adaptations of them? Angela’s Ashes is good, so’s Memoirs of a Geisha.
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