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Summer Reading List

>> Thursday, April 30, 2009 –  ,

I have started to compile my summer reading list for this year. So far, in no particular order -

Another Country by James Baldwin
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Food Matters by Mark Bittman
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

I'll have to add to this as I think of more, there are some classics that I'm sure I'll throw in there somewhere and perhaps a re-read or two.

I also have some tv shows to catch up on (Dexter and Battlestar Galactica) and films to watch (Star Trek, Coraline and The Orphanage). I keep thinking I should read Twilight, so many people love it, so it must be good right? Then I remember the craze over the Da Vinci Code (by Dan Brown) a few years back, and how that book was complete and utter drivel from start to finish. So perhaps I'll just watch the Twilight film, chuckle to myself and leave it at that.

Man I'm a snob.

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