read 5 books this summer

Gah! Had to return the Allende before I could finish, and Chabon’s The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, which I was planning on reading. I will plan to finish John Ashbery’s A Worldly Country this weekend and might get started on Mayakovsky or the latest William Gibson after that.

Read Your Name Here by John Ashbery. Started A Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende.

Finished The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

next up is Your Name Here by John Ashbery and A Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende

I’ve started the first book and am about 100 or so pages into it – The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

This challenge got off to rather a bad start.
The first book i tried to read was At swim, two boys; this turned out to have a beginning almost like the stream of consciousness narrative in Ulysses. After falling asleep twice while attempting to read it i gave up. i’m assured it gets much better and easier to read but i wanted something a little easier to begin with.

so i continued…
reading a book called blood sugar but got irritated a third of the way through by a characters prejudiced views of the irish…

i’ve also started reading anais nin’s diraries, pratchett’s night watch, the last of the dragons by e. nesbit, from london with love (an erotic novel about female spies, tehe, i found it in a cafe, it claims to have passion on very page!)... and countless others, none of which i finished.

so here’s the shameful truth; the only book i’ve completed reading this summer has been harry potter and the deathly hallows…

oh the shame.
:)

oh and i bought the book on tape of brideshead revisited in a charity shop for a few cent. listened to that. that kinda counts…

so 2 down, 3 to go.

I am 190 pages of 300 into On the Road by Jack Keroac. I have a free night tonight- maybe I’ll finish it…

Other books on my desk:

Running with Scissors
Short Stories of Dostoyevsky (or however you spell it… not on this desk) (Half finished)
Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
The Orchid Theif (also Half finished)

Since when did i become too busy to read books? Sadly, I think it’s been a whole year since I finished one. Reading on the subway doesn’t count because I can never really pay full attention, and reading while I’m lying in bed means that I get through 5 sentences. This summer I want to read 5 good books. Any suggestions? I think I’ll start with Jane Eyre (i never finished it).

3 months and 5+ books and no college to get in the way. it seems like an easy enough goal i just want to be conscious of it.
hmm, i’ll have to make a list of the books before i begin.

finish exams monday! yay! and hopefully got from now till end of september to do this- there are lots of books i want to read, one of them being my new Nick Drake biography smiles but lots of others so shall decide along the way, goal is at least a book a week but will see how it goes.