Thursday, July 24, 2008

Summer Reading List

Since I miss the long-gone primary school days of required summer reading, I decided to make a list up for myself (this time based on my own interests rather than some educational board requirements):
  • [X] The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil, Nikolai Gogol
  • [X] The Areas of My Expertise, John Hodgman
  • [X] A Granta Confessional, (anthology)
  • [X] Moomin Volume 1, Tove Jansson
  • [X] Moomin Volume 2, Tove Jansson
  • [X] I Was Told There'd be Cake, Sloan Crosley
  • [X] Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
  • [X] One! Hundred! Demons!, Lynda Barry
  • [X] Atmospheric Disturbances, Rivka Galchen (read 1/2 of this book)
  • [X] Put the Book Back on the Shelf: A Belle and Sebastian Anthology
  • [X] The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
  • [X] Chicken with Plums, Marjane Satrapi
  • [X] Embroderies, Marjane Satrapi
  • [X] an absurd amount of zines!
  • [X] Mome
  • [X] Skipping Towards Gomorrah, Dan Savage
  • [ ] The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes, McSweeney's editors
  • [X] Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category, edited by Dave Eggers, Keven Shay, Lee Epstein, John Warner, Suzanne Kleid
  • [X] McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. Issue Number 13, edited by C. Ware
  • [ ] New Haven, Daniel Clowes
  • [ ] Beleiver Book of Writers Talking to Writers, edited by Vendela Vida (interesting name meaning...)
  • [ ]The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever, Christopher Hitchens
  • [ ] The Autism Book, S. Jhoanna Robledo, Dawn Ham-Kucharski
  • [X] Ghost World, Daniel Clowes
  • [ ] Dicks and Deedees, Jamie Hernandez
  • [X] Christina and Charles, Austin English

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