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
5 comments:
"gospel according to flying spaghetti monster" rocked my world. :)
is that book a parody or a mockery? pick one. :)
it is a "reality fiction". :)
Oh Anj! this is being creatively organized... :)
being creatively organized is another term for being crazily OC. hahah
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