D and I talked about putting together a kind of reading list for one another because we are always telling each other to read this or read that. We’re finally going to have some time in a few weeks to read something beyond readings from our course syllabi. And D reads so many books I’m sure she’ll out read me very quickly. And I’ve been following the idea that I need to write more than read and I want to follow that but perhaps I can find some time to read and investigate other story telling techniques. I’m hoping to hear her suggestions soon but here are a few I’m suggesting for her:
Play it as It Lays–Joan Didion
Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao–Junot Diaz
Revolutionary Road–Richard Yates
Ceremony–Leslie Marmon Silko
Angels and/or Resuscitation of a Hanged Man–Denis Johnson
The Man Who Killed the Deer–Frank Waters
(All of these I can lend as I have them on my shelf and I hope D can do the same.)
Here are D’s suggestions:
Virginia Hamilton: The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl
Christopher Paul Curtis: Bucking the Sarge
Pema Chodron: Awakening Loving Kindness
Jean Rhys :Wide Sargasso Sea
…Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits
I can think of so many, many more. Hopefully, though, you will enjoy these. I don’t have a copy of the Curtis book, but I’ll get it for you
Changing–Hamilton, Curtis, Allende, and Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.