28 October 2008

The gauntlet is thrown.


So that we're not sitting around waiting too long (and so that there's something up here for people to read), J and I have decided to give each other three books to start with.

And I'm kicking it off.  I've toyed with this for a while, but I've finally narrowed it down to:

* Perfect Skin by Nick Earls 
* The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz
* A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

There are a heap of others I'd like to foist upon her, of course, but this seems like a good start.  I'm going with light-ish stuff to start with for a bunch of reasons, key among which is that I want us to be able to get through these fairly quickly and onto your suggestions.  Assuming, that is, that we get suggestions from you, which I really hope we will.

Over to you, J.  Give me something to fill my time.  And in the meantime, I'll check back in shortly with my own brief reviews of these books.

XOXO



1 comment:

Tim said...

Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times by Geoff Nunberg

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman

Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman

Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip across America with Einstein's Brain by Michael Paterniti

The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel Levitin