it's porn but with words.

[themightybee]

I realize my last entry, posted all of ten minutes ago, centered on books, but I didn't want this to get lost in my rage.

My modern lit class is nothing but reading assignments, and since I've felt lost since finishing Middlesex (which I have a lot to say about at a later time), I am LOVING the syllabus.

I picked up the books I'd need and my mommy paid for them, so here's what I'll be working on until December:

• Rapture by Susan Minot
  
• Love Poem by Anne Sexton (my girl!)
  
• The Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway
  
• Ariel by Sylvia Plath
  
• Rubaiyat by Nazim Hikmet
  
• After Dark by Haruki Murakami
  
• House of Meetings by Martin Amis
  
• At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid
  
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
  
• Memoirs of a Muse by Lara Vapnyar
  

My first assignment is to read six of the Ernest Hemingway short stories. I love love love this class.

Comments

[inlipstickred.livejournal.com]

mmmm, reading. ♥_♥

i expect updates! tell me which ones i need to read!

[themightybee.livejournal.com]

nerd crack is the best crack.

i don't know what your feelings are on atonement, but the same guy wrote on chesil beach. and i always recommend anne sexton (if you're into poetry) because she's amazing.

[arathesane.livejournal.com]

I love that syllabus. Those are some great books.

[themightybee.livejournal.com]

My professor seems really into them, and he's apparently not even a fan of novels, lol.

[arathesane.livejournal.com]

Heh, that is pretty amusing. I have had some wonderfully loopy professors over the years.

I was trying to edit my comment to say those are some "wonderful writers"! I enjoy many of those writers but there are several books on your syllabus that I haven't had a chance to read yet. My personal reading list is absurd!

[state-unfair.livejournal.com]

Haruki Murakami!!! He is awesome. After Dark was not one of my faves- it felt too short to get anything done, but he is really really cool.