I know that I'm going to be posting later today for the BBAW topic, but I love my Top Ten Tuesdays and just wouldn't be able to get through the week without my fix...
Top Ten Tuesdays is a weekly meme run by The Broke and The Bookish (if you're hopping around for BBAW, definitely go check this one out!). Every Tuesday they post a Top Ten Topic for us to answer. This week's question is "Top Ten Books I'm Dying to Read." I'm struggling with this one, which is surprising since I have a TBR pile that is slowly taking over my room...
Top Ten Books I'm Dying to Read
1. Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Different Languages by Guy Deutscher. I've always been interested in the ways language shapes our understanding of the world (and of our place with/in it). I've had Deutscher's book on my shelf for a while now but live keeps interrupting!
2. High Tide in Tuscon: Essays From Now or Never by Barbara Kingsolver. (One of) My mission for the year was to familiarize myself with essay writers/writing and, since BK is one of my all-time favorite writers (Poisonwood Bible!!) I grabbed her collection to get myself going. Still haven't managed to crack the cover though...
3. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. Language games, conspiracy theories, meta-fictionality... there are so many juicy tags attached to this book. Friends are always shocked (and appalled) that I haven't gotten to this yet.
4. The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins. Before you start yelling at me about this.. I KNOW I have to read it, I KNOW it's supposed to be wonderful (except, possibly, Mockingjay?)
5. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson. I'm not allowed to watch the movie until I've read the book. And I hear the movie's incredible...
6. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. An epic Whodunnit about censorship that takes place at a library known as The Cemetery for Forgotten Books? Yes Please!
7. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant.
8. Songs of Enchantment by Ben Okri. This is the sequel to Okri's Booker Prize winning The Famished Road. Loved the first one, feel guilty I haven't touched the second
9. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie. I've read his controversial stuff (Satanic Verses in particular), so it'd be nice to engage with him as a storyteller instead of being caught up in the politics.
10. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon.
I haven't read "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" either. I'm not as smitten with the Scandinavian crime writers, as most of my friends in crime genre fandom. But I have seen the movie,and it is good, if not incredible.
ReplyDeleteI am so smitten by your background. Watercolors ..........
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, great list! Number three looks AWESOME.
Woah, the person above me used the word "smitten" too. Now I feel kind of dumb. Haha.
ReplyDeleteHa! The 'smitten' thing is too funny... especially since I wrote about how much I loved that word in my last Top Ten Tuesday post..
ReplyDeleteA remarkable list and now you've listed some that I completely forgot like The Shadow of the Wind(my friend reviewed this and she loves it!) and The Curious Incident.... So cool! I also love my Top 10 Tues. fix!
ReplyDeleteI hate to break it to you but I tried and miserably failed at reading The Red Tent so I'm curious to hear if you're successful and what you think of it. :)
Definitely read The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo! It does start off a bit slow, with lots of background and setting up but once it launches, it's awesome! And the next one is even better!
ReplyDeleteLoved The Shadow of the Wind and The Incident of the Dog...
ReplyDeleteWhile I like Eco, Foucault's Pendulum is not one of my favorites. Have you tried The Mysterious Flame of Queen Ioana? The concept of that one knocks me out.
#10 is definitely on my TBR
ReplyDeleteI added Haroun to my list. Rushdie is coming to Houston in December and I hope to have read it by then.
ReplyDeleteHere's my list:
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1. Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Different Languages by Guy Deutscher. Sounds good. Iwant to look into this book, too, now.
ReplyDelete2. High Tide in Tuscon: Essays From Now or Never by Barbara Kingsolver. BK is my all-time fav too!
3. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. Never even heard of it.
4. The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins. Give yourself a week-end of excitement. Read the whole series in one fell swoop.
5. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson. Not my favorite. Very dark.
6. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I had no idea this is about censorship. Now it is on my list, too. I just read his Prince of Mist this summer. It was just OK.
7. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. Lovely. Good discussion book.
8. Songs of Enchantment by Ben Okri. It's time I tried the first book in this series.
9. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie. Never read any of his stuff. About time, huh?
10. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon. Fun and interesting.
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