Books Books Books
Bold books are those I've read:
Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of
Augie March
Bront
Ã
«, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Bront
Ã
«, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton -
The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of
Courage
Dante - Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and
Punishment
Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George - The
Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann
Wolfgang von - Faust
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller,
Joseph - Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes
Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Joyce,
James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis,
Sinclair - Babbitt
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel Garc
Ã
a - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Plath,
Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western
Front
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William -
Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko,
Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of
Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Thoreau,
Henry David - Walden
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut,
Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard - Native Son
The Sound of Silence
Alright, there are many reasons for my silence. A. My computer is dead. Dead-dead. Derek's going to rig one up for me out of mostly parts
that he has and I'm going to try to sell my laptop for parts. B. I have no internet (why bother if I have no computer?) C. I have no job yet, sadly. Well, I do have a job, a decent paying job that
I'm going to really really like, only it won't start until September. So Monday Derek and I are going looking for more job applications. Blah. D. I was very very sick. I had the cold from hell.
I spent my birthday laying on the couch feeling miserable. Derek cooked me a wonderful dinner, and we just kind of kicked back. He also spoiled me a little, buying me Invader Zim on DVD as well as
Empire Records - the fan edition. He also bought me a fantastic step-stool from Target. Pine with a natural finish, two steps, with a lid that lifts up over a little storage area. We found it in
the kid's furniture section of the store and I fell in love with it. Derek was really sweet and bought it, surprising me with it when he came home on my birthday. I love my apartment only there's a
lot of shelves in the cupboards in the kitchen that I just can't reach.
Last Thursday Jill, Derek's mom, came down to see my new apartment. Unfortunately I had a head full of snot and
was pretty miserable the entire time. She bought me a really cute charm bracelet for my birthday where the charms are actually links, eliminating the hanging, dangling bits that irritate me about
charm bracelets. We went and had lunch at Roadhouse Grill and then went to CostCo to stock up on random bulk food items. I now have 6 pounds of frozen meatballs, 4 pounds of flash frozen chicken
breasts and a buttload of trashbags. We also picked up olive oil, tomato sauce and pudding cups. Lots and lots of pudding cups. Then I went home and slept.
Tomorrow I'm having a
housewarming of sorts. We had an impromptu "I'm really really not unpacked but let's have some beer" get together, back when my dad was still in town, with Derek and some of our friends. Tomorrow
is going to mostly be his family-his mom, grandmother, stepfather, and our friend Ben (Derek's roommate). I'll be meeting his stepfather and grandmother for the first time. We're heading back from
Corvallis shortly (Derek's at work as I type this) and intend to go buy party food on our way home. We'll be grilling, which will be fun and I think I'm going to spend this evening alternating
between cooking and cleaning the hell out of my apartment. Having been sick, things let slide just a little bit. Oh well.
Until next time.