Books and Cynicism - My Two Favorite Things
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
—P.J. O'Rourke
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Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ~Ruth Rendell
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- Mella DP
- Chicagoland, Illinois, United States
- For the record, I don't actually live in a swamp, and am unlikely to move to the sort of place that has swamps.
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I read because I like to read, and I write because I like to write. But I also read to become a better writer, and write to become a better reader. And that's what I'm doing here.
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Email Mella: melladp at gmail, etc.
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Now Reading
- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
- The Golden Pot and Other Tales - E.T.A. Hoffmann
Read in 2009
- A Mixture of Frailties - Robertson Davies (1958)
- Maus - Art Spiegelman (1992)
- The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennet (2007)
- What Einstein Told His Cook - Robert L. Wolke (2002)
- Wild Nights! Stories about the last days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James and Hemingway - Joyce Carol Oates (2008)
- Leaven of Malice - Robertson Davies (1954)
- The Cat Inside - William S. Borroughs (1985)
- The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham (1925)
- Downtown Owl - Chuck Klosterman (2008)
- The Turn of the Screw - Henry James (1898)
- The World According to Bertie - Alexander McCall Smith (2007)
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian - Marina Lewycka (2006)
- The Tempest - William Shakespeare (1611?)
- Tempest-Tost - Robertson Davies (1951)
- The Overcoat and The Nose - Nikolai Gogol (1943, 1936)
- Good-Bye Mr. Chips - James Hinton (1934)
- Tea Time for the Traditionally Built - Alexander McCall Smith (2009)
- The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka (1914)
- The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov (1928/1940/1966)
- Revelations of Divine Love - Julian of Norwich (c. 1400)
- An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith - Barbara Brown Taylor (2009)
- Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith - Barbara Brown Taylor (2006)
- The Resurrection of the Body - Maggie Hammond (1994/2008)
- Corduroy Mansions - Alexander McCall Smith (2008/09)
- Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life - James Hawes (2008)
- Heart of a Dog - Mikhail Bulgakov (1925)
- The Fatal Eggs - Mikhail Bulgakov (1926)
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