read more books for fun

White Noise, Don DeLillo
White Teeth, Zadie Smith

currently working on:
Theory of Religion, Georges Bataille
The Face of Another, Kobo Abe

(Should I make the transition over to All Consuming?)

and found it more beautiful than the first time I’d read it. It’s one of the best book recommendations I’ve ever gotten, I think. I’d like to reread The Corrections next, I wonder if I will have time while I’m home?

I am getting excited about my summer reading list! But I’m also looking forward to finding other things to read. I want to go into next year with a really solid social theory background. I don’t know that that’s something I can do on my own, though. But you know what? It doesn’t matter – summer is great because I’ll have as much free time as I want!

I need to remember to find the Chip Kidd book somewhere. Maybe I should start using “All Consuming.”

I want to read more social and aesthetic theory, as well as more modernist fiction.

So far this is what I’m thinking of reading:
Theodor Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment
Henry Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media
plus lots of Hemingway, Faulkner, Nabokov, etc.

I can’t wait for summer! And free time! I made a list of all of the things that I want to do this summer that makes me really happy every time I look at it.

Charles Bukowski, Love Is A Dog From Hell
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

just finished:The Quiet American, Graham Greene
Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury

in progress:Love is a Dog from Hell, Charles Bukowski

on hold:Wild East: Stories from the Last Frontier, ed. Boris Fishman
The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Charlotte Cotton
Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Wassily Kandinsky
Erotism, Georges Bataille

I should start using my reading journal again.

in progress:Wild East: Stories from the Last Frontier, ed. Boris Fishman
The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Charlotte Cotton
Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury

next up:Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Wassily Kandinsky
Erotism, Georges Bataille