14 May 2009

My Summer Reading List--A New Take on the Thursday Thirteen

Ok, so last night, I was lying in bed, watching Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban on DVD, and man I love that movie.  And I had a really good idea for today's T13.  Well, clearly I should have written it down, becuase I've totally forgotten it.  (You may note that I'm making an effort to post more regularly--this is part of a larger effort on my part to simply write more regularly.)

Anyhow, I'm working on putting together a summer reading list, so I thought this could be a collaborative T13.  You know, I'll start, and if any of y'all have suggestions, please contribute in the comments section.  So my "theme" for my summer reading list is this:  Virginia Woolf, 19th century novels, murder mysteries, lots of quickie YA lit, and rereads (this could include Harry Potter and JRR Tolkien).  Ok, so that's not really much of a theme, nor is there a lot of unity there.  I guess the connection is basically stuff Drennan reads for fun but doesn't HAVE to read for work.  So your suggestions should fall into one of the aforementioned categories. 

1.  Mrs. Dalloway (obviously Virginia Wolf, but also a reread)

2.  John Green's An Abundance of Katherines (YA, although not trashy like so many YA reads)

3.  Dickens's Old Curiousity Shop  (19th century)

4.  Finish PD James's Dalgelish series of novels (murder mystery)

5.  To the Lighthouse (also Virginai Wolf and reread)

6.  Harry Potter series (yes, the whole thing.  Do you think I can do it in 2 weeks?)

7.  The Waves (Virginia Wolf again, but not a reread)

8.  The Woman in White by Collins (which I've already started--19th Century)

And that's it of the top of my head.  Oh wait.

9.  CS Lewis's Till We Have Faces (definitely a rearead but an old favorite)

Ok, so that's really it--can you give me four more so I can get to 13?????

3 comments:

gocarcarcar said...

If you want to go totally VW Hermione Lee's biography is really just amazing--I know i've talked to you about ti before but it's personal and literary and about writing and women and love and madness and life and it's just a brilliant mesh of her personal writings and lee's insight.

oooh. and love the butterflies!

and yes, you can totally do harry p. in 2 weeks. that sounds like fun! i wonder how soon i can read them to owen?? we've watched the first one a few times together--quiddich is loads of fun--but i agree azkaban is just brillig! i adore gary oldman though...

Pajama Dren said...

I've read parts of Lee's bio, and I agree that it's super-duper. I love bios that combine journals and personal letters, you know?

gocarcarcar said...

i got her edith wharton bio for christmas but i just don't love edy as much as ginny.