Organized According to Literature

Because I am an unabashed bookworm and a stickler for organization and this blog has become a day-to-day chronicle of my life, I thought of organizing three years' worth of posts according to the titles of some of the books that rocked my world. Here are the book titles that I used as labels (and what the posts under them are about):

• A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole). About men and how they can be such dunces at times
• A Frolic of Her (His) Own (William Gaddis). About memes
• A Moveable Feast (Ernest Hemingway). About food
• A Sentimental Education (Vladimir Nabokov). About school life
• Beloved (Toni Morrison). About D
• Bleak House (Charles Dickens). About how bleak the Philippines can sometimes be
• In the Beauty of the Lilies (John Updike). About poetry and passages from books that I find beautiful.
• In This Our life (Ellen Glasgow). About everyday life
• Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace). About being facetious
• Little Women (Luisa May Alcott). About women and our frivolous ways
• Look Homeward, Angel (Thomas Wolfe). About home and family
• On the Road (Jack Kerouac). About travel
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez). About solitude
• Portrait of a Lady (Henry James). About me
• Remembrance of Things Past (Marcel Proust). About reminiscing and reminiscences
• Sense and sensibility (Jane Austen). About trying to make sense of things
• The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton). About my friends from childhood
• The Ghost Writer (Philip Roth). About writing
• The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood). About work
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers). About being lonely
• The Moviegoer (Walker Percy). About movies
• The Pursuit of Love (Nancy Mitford). About love and relationships
• The Uncommon Reader (Alan Bennet). About books and reading
• This Side of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald). About things and places in the country that I find beautiful.
• Vanity Fair (William Thakeray). About being vain
• Waiting (Ha Jin). About waiting
• Where Angels Fear to Tread (E.M. Forster). About being irreverent