If you ever decide to read Moby-Dick, I'd recommend looking for an abridged version.
posted by Kristin Buxton at 7:38 PM
Recently I discovered that the Seattle Channel's TV show with Nancy Pearl,
Book Lust, is available as an audio-only podcast in addition to the online video. I've found I'm much more likely to listen than I am to watch. Last night I was listening to her interview with Karen Joy Fowler and felt compelled to start one of Fowler's books,
Sarah Canary, which I'd had sitting around for years.
posted by Kristin Buxton at 7:45 AM
I'm going to try my first reading challenge in awhile: the
1% Well-Read Challenge. Between now and the end of next February I'm going to read 10 books from
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.
I may change my list later, but for now I'm planning on these ten:
1.
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
2.
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
3.
The Double by Jose Saramago
4.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
5.
Life of Pi by Yann Martell
6.
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
7.
Mao II by Don DeLillo
8.
Contact by Carl Sagan
9.
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
10.
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
All are books I own and have been meaning to read for awhile.
(via
Restless Reader)
posted by Kristin Buxton at 6:29 PM 
