In response to the “Reading List” post a bit ago, Jana B wanted to know what I’m reading now. I picked up “The Language of Baklava” at work last weekend, and I couldn’t put it down. And that was even before I knew there were recipes involved! I’m pretty close to the end, so I’ll write a bit more about it once I’ve finished.
Here’s a book meme I picked up at Caro’s Lines and she picked up elsewhere:
Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you might read, cross out the ones you won’t, underline the ones on your book shelf, and place parentheses around the ones you’ve never even heard of.
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby – F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
(His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J. K. Rowling
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark HaddonLord of the Flies – William Golding
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (My mother-in-law would be outraged that I haven’t read this)
1984 – George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J. K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I don’t remember anything about this. Maybe I should read it again)
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
(The Secret History – Donna Tartt)
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Atonement – Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon (I tried to read this, but I couldn’t find a copy. Someone — Felicity Huffman, maybe — recommended it in “O” magazine, which I was reading while my car was being worked on.)
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Dune – Frank Herbert
There’s a good chance that there are more of these than I noted on my bookshelf. I need a card catalogue.