Category: Reading List

The Current Book List (Updated)

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Okay, so I finished Perfume: The Story of a Murderer and, thanks to a suggestion by tuvahelenw I stayed up until four in the morning today reading The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.  That probably wasn’t a good idea because I have a cold and the sleep deprivation can’t have been good for me, but I could not put that book down.  The tale is such a gripping one.  I was kind of young during the time in Afghanistan described in the second half of the book (2001 on) and honestly didn’t pay much attention to what was actually going on in the country.  The story is so raw and touching that I found myself shaking my head at times because I felt like I knew what was coming and just didn’t want to read it.

If you haven’t read The Kite Runner yet, I suggest that you do so.

As for Perfume, wow.  The story follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille.  The thing that I found most interesting about this book is that the murders are almost second-place to the storyline.  The author focuses heavily on the psyche of Grenouille and, as you see everything through his eyes, the murders hold far less horror than you might imagine.  That in itself is disturbing enough for me.

All in all Perfume is an excellent read.

So anyway, I plan on reading A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle next.  Here’s a view of the updated book list:

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Any suggestions about what I should read next?  Let me know in the comments 🙂

Also, I have several crochet posts that I’ll be back-dating later today (or possibly tomorrow).  I’ve been down sick all weekend and simply didn’t have the energy to pull anything together.

The Current Booklist

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Recently I’ve felt this weird desire to read more books.  I used to read voraciously in high school, but since then I’ve been caught in the “I’m too busy” mindset.  It’s not a good enough excuse for me anymore, so I printed off a list proclaiming to contain the 1000 greatest books of all time.  The goal is to read as many of them as I can.  So far I’ve read Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn and am now about halfway through Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind.

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Here are the first thirty books (chosen mostly at random) from the list.  And I’m reading them mostly at random as well.  Some of them (like The Count of Monte Cristo and Cloud Atlas) I’ve read a portion of at one point or another but never finished.  Others (like American Gods) I’ve read before but enjoyed so much that I’m going to read again.  There are a few that I struck off the list because I’d read them before and am not overly interested in reading them again.  At least not for the moment.

See any that you’ve read and would totally recommend that I read next?  Let me know in the comments 🙂