mousme: A view of a woman's legs from behind, wearing knee-high rainbow socks. The rest of the picture is black and white. (Ducklings)
mousme ([personal profile] mousme) wrote2003-10-13 11:29 pm

One down, sixty-three and a half million to go

Am hesitating between Eco's The Name of the Rose and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. So many books, so little time...

On my immediate reading list (apart from those two):

Don Quixotte (I keep threatening to read this and never get around to it, a lot like I did with Moby Dick —I wonder if there's a parallel?) -Miguel Cervantes

The God of Small Things -Arundhati Roy

Trionfo della Morte -Gabriele d'Annunzio (must rummage and find my Italian dictionary if I want to have a snowball's chance in Hell of getting through that)

The Cairo Trilogy -Naguib Mahfouz (I hope I spelled that right)

À la recherche du temps perdu -Marcel Proust

The Pastures of Heaven -John Steinbeck

Hoping that reading will keep me this side of sane for a while. Off to bed now.

[identity profile] djs-specs.livejournal.com 2003-10-13 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
À la recherche du temps perdu -Marcel Proust

AAAAAAAAHHH!!! I know that one! It was a joke in the 'Cat License' sketch in MPFC (the one that leads into 'Eric the Half a Bee' song on the album).

Hehehehe... Literary I ain't!

What?

[identity profile] fearsclave.livejournal.com 2003-10-14 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
There's very little in there of any practical use whatever. I'll bring you some stuff to read at lunch. The latest Cameron Spence sound fun?

Re: What?

[identity profile] mousme.livejournal.com 2003-10-14 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
*grin*

Sure. Why not? I'm trying to catch up on classics and contemporary stuff. :)

Ooh! Ooh!

[identity profile] curtana.livejournal.com 2003-10-14 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
Read the Eco! Though NoTR isn't my favourite of his books, it's still really, really, really good! :)

[identity profile] ipanicked.livejournal.com 2003-10-14 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
if you are calling (some word i have never known, arthur I think) of a la recherche du temps perdu a looney, I shall have to ask you to step outside!


hee hee!

[identity profile] curtana.livejournal.com 2003-10-14 09:34 am (UTC)(link)
"the author" :)

[identity profile] mousme.livejournal.com 2003-10-14 12:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Umm, what?

I think all of you must be smoking crack. People have been leaving comments that I don't understand at all lately.

Why is no one sharing the crack with me, huh?