Books

I read on more than a few PCV blogs before coming here that in the PC, you'll finally have the time to read all those classics you'd been meaning to get to. Being a huge reading geek, this was one of many selling points, and I'm happy to say it's also turned out to be very much true. It's cold and dark outside and the Russian comedy specials don't do it for me (large Russian men wearing poorly-applied makeup, dressed like babushkas, with host family laughing and pointing, "That's really a man!"), so most of the time you can find me cooped up in bed with a book from the volunteer swapping library. I'm not even discerning, which will become apparent once you see what I've read.

So anyway, I was thinking it might be cool to post my book list up here, to give you time-challenged individuals ideas of books to check out (or, in some cases, avoid) and show you what I've been up to. The bold ones are recommended. I'll keep editing this list from time to time, so check back, and if you read anything you think I'd like, email me the title, or better yet, drop it in the mail....

[P.S. re photo: this is the view from the window in my bedroom. I love it.]

1. While I was gone - Miller
2. Microserfs - Copeland
3. Collected tales of Nikolai Gogal - trans. by Pevear and Volokhonsky (I highly recommend "Diary of a Madman")
4. Property - Valerie Martin
5. Clear and Present Danger - Clancy
6. Trash - Dorothy Allison
7. Waiting - Hi Jin
8. A Virtous Woman - Kay Gibbons
9. Heart full of lies - Ann Rule
10. Auntie Mame - Patrick Dennis (fun, fun, fun!)
11. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri (!)
12. The Shipping News - Proulx
13. The Syndrome - Case
14. The Alphabet Versus the Goddess - Shlain
15. A Painted House - Grisham
16. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Angelou
17. On Writing - Stephen King (the first section, his autobiography, is fantastic)
18. Nothing...except my genius - Oscar Wilde
19. Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot - Franken
20. Guns, Germs and Steel (just starting this one...)