Recent Good Reads

I am now subscribed to Good Reads, an online resource for tracking and sharing what you’ve been reading. It helps to remind me of what I have read, especially since I have moved to mainly reading on my Kindle, which has the major defect of not leaving a physical trophy on the book shelf to impress my friends with. This is my Good Reads list, and below is what I have read recently:

• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vannegut (now reading in hardcopy)
• Timbuctoo by Tahir Shah
• A Tree Grows in Brooking by Betty Smith
• Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw (hardcopy)
• Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
• Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
• State of Wonder by Ann Pachett
• A Life Full of Holes by Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi, and
• Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

Each was good in its own way, but I would say that the biggest highlights were State of Wonder and A Life Full of Holes (and Skippy Dies if it weren’t so long winded).

And here are some of the titles on my Kindle waiting for a chance to be read:

• How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz (pre-ordered for mid September)
  
• Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
• Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
• In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
• The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
• Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Black Boy by Richard Wright
• Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
• Chicago : a Novel by Alaa Al Aswany
• If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck, and
• To the End of the Land by David Grossman

Why so many classics, you may ask? They’re easy to find for free on the net.

I should also mention that I have uploaded song lyrics onto my Kindle as a cheat sheet for when I sing my son to sleep at night.