I’ve stopped moving just long enough to realize how tired and achy I am. Maybe my doctor was onto something.
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Inspired by a friend, who was spurred on by his friend, here is a list of the books I am in various stages of finishing:
– Making Waves, edited by Asian Women United of California
– Julie & Julia, Julie Powell
– Lies My Teachers Told Me, James Loewen
– Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
– Getting Things Done, David Allen
– Corpse, Jessica Snyder-Sachs
Additionally, I left home long enough this morning to pick up the following at the library:
– White Teeth, Zadie Smith
– The Portable Hawthorne, edited by Malcolm Cowley
– The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger
And finally, after a colleague emailed two of his favorite poems to me, I am happily flipping through a couple of favorites from my shelves: Kevin Young’s Jelly Roll and a collection of Anna Akhmatova’s work.
Last summer, I started thinking it would be a neat project to read my way through Modern Library’s 100 Best lists before my next decade rolled around. Those book lists, I thought, could be made more relevant to me with the creation of my own list of works by women, authors of color, and non-Americans that shouldn’t be missed. I managed to file away that idea without moving on it as the season slipped by, but I was reminded of it today while perusing the stacks and decided to create a starting point for my list — ten titles — by this summer’s end.
To add to all this reading goodness, a couple of friends and I have been tossing around the idea of starting a book club for several weeks now. While we certainly don’t need an excuse to socialize, we don’t seem to mind making up occasions to get together over drinks and snackage. I suspect that the group’s organization may fall on my shoulders if it’s going to move from “nice idea we keep talking about” to “actual thing we do every month”, but I don’t mind; besides, we could use something to fill the void left in our lives after American Idol ended (it’s all about the Soul Patrol, baby!).
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