My top 12 Books/Poems (in order):
1. The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter — Carson McCullers
3. Ariel — Sylvia Plath
4. The Sun Also Rises — Hemingway
5. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn — Betty Smith
6. For Once Then Something and Home Burial — Robert Frost
7. Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston
8. The Awakening — Kate Chopin
9. Dubliners — James Joyce
10. Bridge to Terabithia — Katherine Paterson
11. Wasteland — T.S. Eliot
12. Absalom, Absalom — William Faulkner
other writers: Fernando Pessoa, Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg…
“Think enough and you won’t know anything”
-Kenneth Patchen
“I never think of the future — it comes soon enough”
-Albert Einstein
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
-Rene Descartes
So, currently, I’m stalled out in the middle of Anna Karenina. Chapter one of Part IV to be exact.
Has anyone read this? Or rather, has anyone ever finished this? Can someone motivate me to keep going? I’d hate to put it down and pick up the Sookie Stackhouse novels that are waiting for me instead (lent from a friend!).
Here’s links if anyone else wants to get started on it (or Sookie I suppose)…
I had to recommend this:
The Book of Disquiet
by Fernando Pessoa
Just trust me. Buy it. It’s an amazing book comprised of papers from one of Pessoa’s alter egos. But, his observations on the world are amazingly accurate, amusing and moving.
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