Anyway, I have made an elaborate packing plan which involves giving everything away because I am too lazy to pack it. So I am going through our bookcase now and before I donate all my books to charity I thought I would see if there is anything here my friends and family might like to read. Let me know, peeps.
Can you also let me know if my links are working? I am new to this and kind of slow on the internet uptake.
Category 1: Well Known Books I Should Read, but I Don't Feel Like it.
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (I bought this because I thought my husband would like it, but he reads like one book a year and I'm not hanging on to this until 2040 with the hope that he gets around it.)
- All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot (I read this! It is about a country/farm vet in 1937. The cover says "The heartwarming true story... that has become the 'happiest book of the year'". So maybe if you like animals and feel like reading the happiest book of the year this is for you? However, the only story I remember is gross and involves a cow uterus. Just putting that out there.)
- Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (I think this one is about sex, people. Sex!)
- The Promise by Chaim Potok (I really loved "The Chosen". So much so that I suggested to my husband that we name our son Reuven. He was, unfortunately, not very receptive to that suggestion.)
- Davita's Harp by Chaim Potok.
- Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham. (Um, this is the abridged version. I have no idea what this book is about but if you have always wanted to read it but are short on time here is the abridged solution you have been waiting for.)
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (You will definitely be a more learned and all around better person if you read this book. I haven't read it, so you will at the very least be better than me.)
- Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger (I really meant to get around to this one, but then I remembered I didn't really love Catcher in the Rye.)
Category 2: Short Stories, Because I Don't Have a Lot of Free Time
I'm not linking these because the titles are pretty self explanatory.
- Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 (this collection mostly stinks, but there is one hilarious story about a loser who joins Cobra, as in the enemy of G.I. Joe, and has to tell everyone he works for the phone company, because Cobra training is TOP SECRET.)
- Best New American Voices 2001 (never even opened it.)
- Best American Short Stories 1998 (ibid.)
- Best American Short Stories 2001 (There is one in here I liked about a grandfather suffering from alzheimer's who tells the same chilling war story over and over.)
- Best American Sports Writing 2006 (Read the whole book; pretty good if you like sports.)
Stay tuned tomorrow for:
Category 3: Crappy Books that Don't Require a Lot of Thinking
Category 4: Memoirs, which Make Me Feel Better About the Direction My Own Life is Taking
Category 5: Pretty Good Books, Actually
1 comment:
Ok, this has been a horrid day at work which started with my check engine light going off on my way home and my dealer trying to stifle his laughter when he told me that it was caused by my gas cap not having been screwed on tight enough. In an effort not to appear like a Dumb Broad, I made up a story of having gotten gas in NJ over the weekend and the attendant must have done it. I don't know which is worse... that I lied or that it didn't even take me a nanosecond to come up with the story. I WAS in NJ this weekend, so it wasn't a complete lie. I don't know if you read comments on old posts, so perhaps my secret is safe out here in cyberspace...
That being said, I LOVE your first post and it greatly improved my mood. I could cry with how proud I am that you are finally putting your witty words out there for people to see! I particularly loved the "top secret COBRA training" in that the story was considered "Nonrequired Reading." Maybe it isn't that funny and I am just tired. Regardless- it worked for me!
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