So far, my summer has been work, work, and more work. Between interning from Mon-Thurs and working Friday nights and Saturday mornings, I barely have any time for myself - let alone, time to hang out with friends and all that jazz. And when I do get time for myself, I don't do any of the things I say I want to do, i.e. watch movies, read, write, draw, sort through all the random shit in my room, etc.
I'm trying to change that because, honestly, it makes no sense.
In hopes of me bettering myself, here's a little reading list I've put together (one for movies, coming soon). The list is obviously tentative, but definitely books I want to read sometime during the course of this year.
I should also mention that I'm currently reading Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie, and after that, I plan on starting Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Yes, it's a classic and all, but I'm really doing it because the movie is coming out soon.
- The Bell Jar : Sylvia Plath
- anything and everything written by Haruki Marukami
- Night Train to Lisbon : Pascal Mercier
- something by Proust
- something by Rumi
- One Hundred Years of Solitude : Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Lolita : Vladmir Nabokov
- Vanity Fair : William Makepeace Thackeray (really only because I love his name)
- Madame Bovary : Gustave Flaubert
- some auto-biographies
- The Little Prince : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Les Miserables : Victor Hugo
- re-read The Catcher in the Rye : J.D. Salinger (as well as, some of his other stuff)
- Siddhartha : Hermann Hesse
- On the Road : Jack Kerouac
ETC. ETC. ETC.
Everyone should make lists. They're pretty helpful, even if they are idealistic.
What books do you want to read?
