As I was chatting with Josh on the phone this morning, I heard his dad in the background say, "Happy first day of Summer!" I was momentarily confused because I associate the first day of summer withe the end of school, rather than the real first day of summer. With that friendly reminder I realized that it must be (though the cold air coming through my slightly open window is no indicator).
But for me, it can't really be summer unless I have finished compiling my summer reading list. This year, rather than my usual list consisting mostly of classics and a few rand m books off my shelves that I haven't finished, I decided to work with a different theme. I'm going to continue reading more books about women in the Middle East, as well as increase my sci-fi/fantasy experience. (With a couple of exceptions)
It's a bit ambitious, but I'm going to give it a go.
A Fragile Stone (Michael Card)
Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them (John Ortberg)
The Bookseller of Kabul (Asne Seierstad)
Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
Earth Sea Trilogy (Ursula LeGuin)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Rowling)
A Movable Feast (Hemingway)
The Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick)
VALIS (Dick)
The Road to San Giovani (Italo Calvino)
Cosmicomics (Calvino)
The Dispossessed (LeGuin)
Always Coming Home (LeGuin)
The Periodic Table (Primo Levi)
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (Ecco)
Knight's Gambit (Georges Perec)
A Void (Perec)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
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