A Guy's Moleskine Notebook

Thoughts and reflections on works of fiction and literature. Pondering of life through pictures and words. Babbling about gay rights. Travelogues and anecdotes.

[1] Annie Proulx: Brokeback Mountain

[2] Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha

[3] Yu Hua: To Live

[4] Alan Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty

[5] Colm Toibin: The Master

[6] Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind

[7] William James: The Varieties of Religious Experience

[8] Charles Higham: The Civilization of Angkor

[9] Graham Greene: A Burnt-Out Case

[10] Dai Sijie: Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch

[11] Alan Hollinghurst: The Swimming-Pool Library

[12] Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita

[13] Colm Toibin: The Blackwater Lightship

[14] Alan Hollinghurst: The Folding Star

[15] Ross King: Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

[16] Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov

[17] Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections

[18] Colm Toibin: The Story of the Night

[19] John Banville: Shroud

[20] Leo Tolstoy: Resurrection

[21] Peter Hessler: River Town, Two Years on the Yangtze

[22] Ian McEwan: The Atonement

[24] Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera

[25] Ignacio Padilla: Shadow without a Name

[26] Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose

[27] Richard Russo: Straight Man

[28] Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground

[29] Alan Hollinghurst: The Spell

[30] Hermann Broch: The Death of Virgil

[31] James Baldwin: Giovanni's Room

[32] Ken Kesey: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

[33] Xingjian Gao: One Man's Bible

[34] C. Jay Cox: Latter Days

[35] Harper Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird

[36] William Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew

[37] Daniel A. Helminiak: What The Bible Really Says about Homosexuality

[38] James Baldwin: Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

[39] Kenji Yoshino: Covering - The Hidden Assault of Civil Rights

[40] Italo Calvino: If, On a Winter's Night A Traveler

[41] Arthur Phillips: The Egyptologist

[42] George Orwell: 1984

[43] Michael Warner: The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and Ethics of Queer Life

[44] Andrew Sullivan: Virtually Normal

[45] Henry James: The Wings of the Dove

[46] Jose Saramago: Blindness

[47] Umberto Eco: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

[48] Dan Brown: Da Vinci Code

[49] Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go

[50] Ken Follett: The Pillars of Earth

[51] Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace

[52] Michael Thomas Ford: Alec Baldwin Doesn't Like Me

[53] Jonathan Franzen: How To Be Alone

[54] Jonathan Lethem: The Fortress of Solitude

[55] Matthew Pearl: The Dante Club

[56] Zadie Smith: White Teeth

[57] Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Double

[58] Jose Saramago: The Double

[59] Andrew Holleran: Dancer from the Dance

[60] Heinrich von Kleist: The Marquise of O & Other Stories

[61] Andrew Holleran: In September, the Light Changes

[62] Tom Perrotta: Little Children

August 04, 2006

10 Questions on Books

Cipriano tagged me on this book meme. Here are my responses:

1. One book that changed your life:
What The Bible Really Says About Homosexuality by Daniel A. Helminiak. It absolves me from the guilt and fear that used to afflict me being a gay man.

2. One book that you have read more than once:
Ha! Need I say more. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulkagov. I made numerous references to my all-time fave novel throughout this blog! Read it!

3. One book you would want on a desert island:
The Complete Works of Shakespeare

4. One book that made you laugh:
First one off my head is the one for which I just posted the review: Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me and Other Trials from My Queer Life by Michael Thomas Ford. Even the title cracks me up.

5. One book that made you cry:
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx.

6. One book that you wish had been written:
A Guide to Writing Elegant Prose & Literary Erudition without Boring Your Reader

7. One book that you wish had never been written:
The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips. It still embitters me that I paid money for this.

8. One book you are currently reading:
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem.

9. One book you have been meaning to read:
Gosh, Ulysses by James Joyce.

10. One person you will tag:
Greg @ A Life in the Day.

Happy Friday! Happy reading!

1 Comments:

Greg said...: Posted! I'm going to have to find a copy of The Master and Margarita as you keep mentioning it....; 8/07/2006 9:10 AM