November 26, 2003

 the books you recommended 

last week i asked for book suggestions. i thought it might be helpful to post a list of all the submissions i got.


  • The Apprentice by Jacques Pepin
  • Kitchen Confidential or A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdin
  • Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
  • Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson
  • Uncivil Seasons by Michael Malone
  • Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon by Chuck Palahniuk
  • A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  • The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
  • "anything by Michael Moore, Al Franken, or Molly Ivins"
  • Jonathan Franzen's book of essays, How to be Alone
  • Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions
  • Philip Roth's The Human Stain
  • Kurt Vonnegut's Hocus Pocus
  • Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge
  • Connie Willis' Passage or To Say Nothing of the Dog
  • "anything by Tim Sandlin"

there's a ton of good stuff here! thanks for the tips! i hope to read a good deal of them.

i checked out from the library tim sandlin's "honey, don't", david sedaris' "me talk pretty one day" and a book of short stories called, "the dictionary of failed relationships" (which actually looks pretty funny).

somhow i got signed up for a trial issue of "budget living" magazine, too, so i'll be taking that with me as well.

the trip to the beach begins in about 4 hours!! yay!

Posted by xta at November 26, 2003 01:56 PM | TrackBack
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