read all the books on my shelves

Middlemarch
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

recommended by Barbara Kingsolver in her collection of essays, ‘Small Wonder.’ – which is a book-crossing book i found in the wild today at the seattle muni courthouse. i had to search a vacant desk to find it – thankfully the guard was about 50 feet away and seemed occupied.

ps. and to help me in this goal, i’m going to take a lesson from Kingsolver, and say if a novel doesn’t begin to reach me in 30 pages – out with it!

“As long as we are emotionally protective, our breathing can not be free.”

Kristin Linklater, Freeing the Natural Voice, 1976

The previous list is complete. I read ‘Death in Venice’ in Italy, which was something. Also read ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower.’

X Notes From Underground – Dostoyevsky
X The Balcony – Genet
Paradise Lost – Milton
An Actor Prepares – Stanislavsky
A Director Prepares – Bogart, Ann
Self Relaince – Emerson

After this, I’ll read something funny.

I’ve got these 2 recently:

Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

Let’s hope I get into some phil. DOCTOR phil, that is!!

(j/k)