when everything stops moving so fast your head spins
and you're not used to the motionlessness
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
nothing to say today. i've made like 10 bracelets since i've been here. now just to mail them out. i feel content doing that. productive. i suppose i could make some necklaces too.. i've been making earrings but they're not super great. haven't really gotten into the creative groove for that yet.
am reading midnight's children. i got all these lists of the western english speaking world's greatest books, and i'm going to try to count them off. classics and whatnot. i've read a few, mostly thanks to high school english class. but we shall see. they (obviously) don't read as fast as other books i've been reading.. also keeping a list of all the books i read this year. last year it was 83. since april this year it's been 5. it's funny, because it took me like a month to read shades of grey, and then i read the other 4 in the last couple of weeks.
next week i should go to the library. and the bookstore. pick up some more. I'm so antsy. impatient. to read and write more, and create. I love it. i've always felt this creative energy within and had urges to expel it, to use it, emote it, but have felt unable to... now I've just been doing it anyway. and it's okay. it works. it'll do. it'll get better :]
am reading midnight's children. i got all these lists of the western english speaking world's greatest books, and i'm going to try to count them off. classics and whatnot. i've read a few, mostly thanks to high school english class. but we shall see. they (obviously) don't read as fast as other books i've been reading.. also keeping a list of all the books i read this year. last year it was 83. since april this year it's been 5. it's funny, because it took me like a month to read shades of grey, and then i read the other 4 in the last couple of weeks.
next week i should go to the library. and the bookstore. pick up some more. I'm so antsy. impatient. to read and write more, and create. I love it. i've always felt this creative energy within and had urges to expel it, to use it, emote it, but have felt unable to... now I've just been doing it anyway. and it's okay. it works. it'll do. it'll get better :]
The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Ryeby J.D. Salinger- The Grapes of Wrathby John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper Lee- The Color Purpleby Alice Walker
- Ulyssesby James Joyce
- Belovedby Toni Morrison
The Lord of the Fliesby William Golding- 1984by George Orwell
- The Sound and the Furyby William Faulkner
- Lolitaby Vladmir Nabokov
Of Mice and Menby John Steinbeck- Charlotte’s Webby E.B. White
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manby James Joyce
- Catch-22by Joseph Heller
Brave New Worldby Aldous Huxley- Animal Farmby George Orwell
- The Sun Also Risesby Ernest Hemingway
- As I Lay Dyingby William Faulkner
- A Farewell to Armsby Ernest Hemingway
- Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad
- Winnie-the-Poohby A.A. Milne
- Their Eyes Were Watching Godby Zora Neale Hurston
- Invisible Manby Ralph Ellison
- Song of Solomonby Toni Morrison
- Gone with the Windby Margaret Mitchell
- Native Sonby Richard Wright
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nestby Ken KeseySlaughterhouse-Fiveby Kurt Vonnegut- For Whom the Bell Tollsby Ernest Hemingway
- On the Roadby Jack Kerouac
The Old Man and the Seaby Ernest Hemingway- The Call of the Wildby Jack London
- To the Lighthouseby Virginia Woolf
- Portrait of a Ladyby Henry James
- Go Tell it on the Mountainby James Baldwin
- The World According to Garpby John Irving
- All the King’s Menby Robert Penn Warren
- A Room with a Viewby E.M. Forster
- The Lord of the Ringsby J.R.R. Tolkien
- Schindler’s Listby Thomas Keneally
- The Age of Innocenceby Edith Wharton
- The Fountainheadby Ayn Rand
- Finnegans Wakeby James Joyce
- The Jungleby Upton Sinclair
- Mrs. Dallowayby Virginia Woolf
- The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum
- Lady Chatterley’s Loverby D.H. Lawrence
- A Clockwork Orangeby Anthony Burgess
The Awakeningby Kate Chopin- My Antoniaby Willa Cather
- Howards Endby E.M. Forster
- In Cold Bloodby Truman Capote
- Franny and Zooeyby J.D. Salinger
- The Satanic Versesby Salman Rushdie
- Jazzby Toni Morrison
- Sophie’s Choiceby William Styron
- Absalom, Absalom!by William Faulkner
- A Passage to Indiaby E.M. Forster
- Ethan Fromeby Edith Wharton
- A Good Man Is Hard to Findby Flannery O’Connor
- Tender Is the Nightby F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Orlandoby Virginia Woolf
- Sons and Loversby D.H. Lawrence
- Bonfire of the Vanitiesby Tom Wolfe
- Cat’s Cradleby Kurt Vonnegut
- A Separate Peaceby John Knowles
Light in Augustby William Faulkner- The Wings of the Doveby Henry James
- Things Fall Apartby Chinua Achebe
- Rebeccaby Daphne du Maurier
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas Adams- Naked Lunchby William S. Burroughs
- Brideshead Revisitedby Evelyn Waugh
- Women in Loveby D.H. Lawrence
- Look Homeward, Angelby Thomas Wolfe
- In Our Timeby Ernest Hemingway
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokiasby Gertrude Stein
- The Maltese Falconby Dashiell Hammett
- The Naked and the Deadby Norman Mailer
- Wide Sargasso Seaby Jean Rhys
- White Noiseby Don DeLillo
- O Pioneers!by Willa Cather
- Tropic of Cancerby Henry Miller
- The War of the Worldsby H.G. Wells
- Lord Jimby Joseph Conrad
- The Bostoniansby Henry James
- An American Tragedyby Theodore Dreiser
- Death Comes for the Archbishopby Willa Cather
- The Wind in the Willowsby Kenneth Grahame
- This Side of Paradiseby F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Atlas Shruggedby Ayn Rand
- The French Lieutenant’s Womanby John Fowles
- Babbittby Sinclair Lewis
- Kimby Rudyard Kipling
- The Beautiful and the Damnedby F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Rabbit, Runby John Updike
- Where Angels Fear to Treadby E.M. Forster
- Main Streetby Sinclair Lewis
- Midnight’s Childrenby Salman Rushdie
i want to read all of the books in all of these posts.
- ULYSSESby James Joyce
THE GREAT GATSBYby F. Scott Fitzgerald- A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MANby James Joyce
- LOLITAby Vladimir Nabokov
BRAVE NEW WORLDby Aldous Huxley- THE SOUND AND THE FURYby William Faulkner
- CATCH-22by Joseph Heller
- DARKNESS AT NOONby Arthur Koestler
- SONS AND LOVERSby D.H. Lawrence
THE GRAPES OF WRATHby John Steinbeck- UNDER THE VOLCANOby Malcolm Lowry
- THE WAY OF ALL FLESHby Samuel Butler
- 1984by George Orwell
- I, CLAUDIUSby Robert Graves
- TO THE LIGHTHOUSEby Virginia Woolf
- AN AMERICAN TRAGEDYby Theodore Dreiser
- THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTERby Carson McCullers
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVEby Kurt Vonnegut- INVISIBLE MANby Ralph Ellison
- NATIVE SONby Richard Wright
- HENDERSON THE RAIN KINGby Saul Bellow
- APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRAby John O’Hara
- U.S.A.(trilogy)by John Dos Passos
- WINESBURG, OHIOby Sherwood Anderson
- A PASSAGE TO INDIAby E.M. Forster
- THE WINGS OF THE DOVEby Henry James
- THE AMBASSADORSby Henry James
- TENDER IS THE NIGHTby F. Scott Fitzgerald
- THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGYby James T. Farrell
- THE GOOD SOLDIERby Ford Madox Ford
- ANIMAL FARMby George Orwell
- THE GOLDEN BOWLby Henry James
- SISTER CARRIEby Theodore Dreiser
- A HANDFUL OF DUSTby Evelyn Waugh
- AS I LAY DYINGby William Faulkner
- ALL THE KING’S MENby Robert Penn Warren
- THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REYby Thornton Wilder
- HOWARDS ENDby E.M. Forster
- GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAINby James Baldwin
- THE HEART OF THE MATTERby Graham Greene
LORD OF THE FLIESby William Golding- DELIVERANCEby James Dickey
- A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series)by Anthony Powell
- POINT COUNTER POINTby Aldous Huxley
- THE SUN ALSO RISESby Ernest Hemingway
- THE SECRET AGENTby Joseph Conrad
- NOSTROMOby Joseph Conrad
- THE RAINBOWby D.H. Lawrence
- WOMEN IN LOVEby D.H. Lawrence
- TROPIC OF CANCERby Henry Miller
- THE NAKED AND THE DEADby Norman Mailer
- PORTNOY’S COMPLAINTby Philip Roth
- PALE FIREby Vladimir Nabokov
LIGHT IN AUGUSTby William Faulkner- ON THE ROADby Jack Kerouac
- THE MALTESE FALCONby Dashiell Hammett
- PARADE’S ENDby Ford Madox Ford
- THE AGE OF INNOCENCEby Edith Wharton
- ZULEIKA DOBSONby Max Beerbohm
- THE MOVIEGOERby Walker Percy
- DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOPby Willa Cather
- FROM HERE TO ETERNITYby James Jones
- THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLESby John Cheever
THE CATCHER IN THE RYEby J.D. Salinger- A CLOCKWORK ORANGEby Anthony Burgess
- OF HUMAN BONDAGEby W. Somerset Maugham
- HEART OF DARKNESSby Joseph Conrad
- MAIN STREETby Sinclair Lewis
- THE HOUSE OF MIRTHby Edith Wharton
- THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTETby Lawrence Durell
- A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICAby Richard Hughes
- A HOUSE FOR MR BISWASby V.S. Naipaul
- THE DAY OF THE LOCUSTby Nathanael West
- A FAREWELL TO ARMSby Ernest Hemingway
- SCOOPby Evelyn Waugh
- THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIEby Muriel Spark
- FINNEGANS WAKEby James Joyce
- KIMby Rudyard Kipling
- A ROOM WITH A VIEWby E.M. Forster
- BRIDESHEAD REVISITEDby Evelyn Waugh
- THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCHby Saul Bellow
- ANGLE OF REPOSEby Wallace Stegner
- A BEND IN THE RIVERby V.S. Naipaul
- THE DEATH OF THE HEARTby Elizabeth Bowen
- LORD JIMby Joseph Conrad
- RAGTIMEby E.L. Doctorow
- THE OLD WIVES’ TALEby Arnold Bennett
- THE CALL OF THE WILDby Jack London
- LOVINGby Henry Green
- MIDNIGHT’S CHILDRENby Salman Rushdie
- TOBACCO ROADby Erskine Caldwell
- IRONWEEDby William Kennedy
- THE MAGUSby John Fowles
- WIDE SARGASSO SEAby Jean Rhys
- UNDER THE NETby Iris Murdoch
- SOPHIE’S CHOICEby William Styron
- THE SHELTERING SKYby Paul Bowles
- THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICEby James M. Cain
- THE GINGER MANby J.P. Donleavy
- THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONSby Booth Tarkington
- ATLAS SHRUGGEDby Ayn Rand
- THE FOUNTAINHEADby Ayn Rand
- BATTLEFIELD EARTHby L. Ron Hubbard
- THE LORD OF THE RINGSby J.R.R. Tolkien
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRDby Harper Lee- 1984by George Orwell
ANTHEMby Ayn Rand- WE THE LIVINGby Ayn Rand
- MISSION EARTHby L. Ron Hubbard
- FEARby L. Ron Hubbard
- ULYSSESby James Joyce
- CATCH-22by Joseph Heller
THE GREAT GATSBYby F. Scott Fitzgerald- DUNEby Frank Herbert
- THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESSby Robert Heinlein
- STRANGER IN A STRANGE LANDby Robert Heinlein
- A TOWN LIKE ALICEby Nevil Shute
BRAVE NEW WORLDby Aldous HuxleyTHE CATCHER IN THE RYEby J.D. Salinger- ANIMAL FARMby George Orwell
- GRAVITY’S RAINBOWby Thomas Pynchon
THE GRAPES OF WRATHby John SteinbeckSLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVEby Kurt Vonnegut- GONE WITH THE WINDby Margaret Mitchell
LORD OF THE FLIESby William Golding- SHANEby Jack Schaefer
- TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOMby Nevil Shute
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANYby John Irving- THE STANDby Stephen King
- THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMANby John Fowles
- BELOVEDby Toni Morrison
- THE WORM OUROBOROSby E.R. Eddison
- THE SOUND AND THE FURYby William Faulkner
- LOLITAby Vladimir Nabokov
- MOONHEARTby Charles de Lint
- ABSALOM, ABSALOM!by William Faulkner
- OF HUMAN BONDAGEby W. Somerset Maugham
- WISE BLOODby Flannery O’Connor
- UNDER THE VOLCANOby Malcolm Lowry
- FIFTH BUSINESSby Robertson Davies
- SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYINGby Charles de Lint
- ON THE ROADby Jack Kerouac
- HEART OF DARKNESSby Joseph Conrad
- YARROWby Charles de Lint
- AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESSby H.P. Lovecraft
- ONE LONELY NIGHTby Mickey Spillane
- MEMORY AND DREAMby Charles de Lint
- TO THE LIGHTHOUSEby Virginia Woolf
- THE MOVIEGOERby Walker Percy
- TRADERby Charles de Lint
THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXYby Douglas Adams- THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTERby Carson McCullers
- THE HANDMAID’S TALEby Margaret Atwood
- BLOOD MERIDIANby Cormac McCarthy
- A CLOCKWORK ORANGEby Anthony Burgess
- ON THE BEACHby Nevil Shute
- A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MANby James Joyce
- GREENMANTLEby Charles de Lint
- ENDER’S GAMEby Orson Scott Card
- THE LITTLE COUNTRYby Charles de Lint
- THE RECOGNITIONSby William Gaddis
- STARSHIP TROOPERSby Robert Heinlein
- THE SUN ALSO RISESby Ernest Hemingway
- THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARPby John Irving
- SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMESby Ray Bradbury
- THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEby Shirley Jackson
- AS I LAY DYINGby William Faulkner
- TROPIC OF CANCERby Henry Miller
- INVISIBLE MANby Ralph Ellison
- THE WOOD WIFEby Terri Windling
- THE MAGUSby John Fowles
- THE DOOR INTO SUMMERby Robert Heinlein
- ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCEby Robert Pirsig
- I, CLAUDIUSby Robert Graves
- THE CALL OF THE WILDby Jack London
- AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDSby Flann O’Brien
FARENHEIT 451by Ray Bradbury- ARROWSMITHby Sinclair Lewis
- WATERSHIP DOWNby Richard Adams
- NAKED LUNCHby William S. Burroughs
- THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBERby Tom Clancy
- GUILTY PLEASURESby Laurell K. Hamilton
- THE PUPPET MASTERSby Robert Heinlein
- ITby Stephen King
- V.by Thomas Pynchon
- DOUBLE STARby Robert Heinlein
- CITIZEN OF THE GALAXYby Robert Heinlein
- BRIDESHEAD REVISITEDby Evelyn Waugh
LIGHT IN AUGUSTby William FaulknerONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NESTby Ken Kesey- A FAREWELL TO ARMSby Ernest Hemingway
- THE SHELTERING SKYby Paul Bowles
- SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTIONby Ken Kesey
- MY ANTONIAby Willa Cather
- MULENGROby Charles de Lint
- SUTTREEby Cormac McCarthy
- MYTHAGO WOODby Robert Holdstock
- ILLUSIONSby Richard Bach
- THE CUNNING MANby Robertson Davies
- THE SATANIC VERSESby Salman Rushdie
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