List of Books to Read in 2012

For I am a reader as well as a writer. In no particular order:

• A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
• The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald
• Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Betwixt by Tara Bray Smith
• Tales of Madman Underground by John Barnes
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Les Miserables by Hugo Victor
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan (once it comes out!)
• Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• A Tree Grows in Brookyln by Betty Smith 
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (summer reading list)
• The Little Prince by Atoine de Saint-Exupery
• City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare (when it comes out)
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (my childhood stank, obviously)

Oh lordy, wish me luck. As you can see, I read pretty much anything except for romance. I don't expect to enjoy all of these books, but I do want to read them in case I do. Have a happy new year!

Some updates.

Sorry it's been so long! Not that anyone's noticed, anyways, but I still faithfully update this blog as a sort of writing diary, I guess? Huh. It's been over month since the occurance, but I finished my novel! Congratulations to me. I'm in the editing stage and it's like a literary hell. All these passages and plot holes and bluh bluh. I'm so lazy. I can't deal with it right now, so I've been reading a great deal to take my mind off the novel and absorb some good writing skills, hopefully. Expect a truckload of book reviews in the near future.

Also I'm in the Philippines. It's really hot. I went scuba diving. Hurray.

And right now I'm watching Peter Pan (the live version from eight years back) and the Aunt just said, "There is nothing as difficult to marry as a novelist." I laughed and thought of a piece I read called You Should Date an Illiterate Girl, which led me to think of another piece I read called Date a Girl Who Reads, both of which I think are beautiful.

Okay, bye.