the books you recommended 

last week i asked for book suggestions. i thought it might be helpful to post a list of all the submissions i got.

• The Apprentice by Jacques Pepin
  
• Kitchen Confidential or A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdin
  
• Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
  
• Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson
  
• Uncivil Seasons by Michael Malone
  
• Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon by Chuck Palahniuk
  
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  
• The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
  
• "anything by Michael Moore, Al Franken, or Molly Ivins"
  
• Jonathan Franzen's book of essays, How to be Alone
  
• Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions
  
• Philip Roth's The Human Stain
  
• Kurt Vonnegut's Hocus Pocus
  
• Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge
  
• Connie Willis' Passage or To Say Nothing of the Dog
  
• "anything by Tim Sandlin"
  

there's a ton of good stuff here! thanks for the tips! i hope to read a good deal of them.

i checked out from the library tim sandlin's "honey, don't", david sedaris' "me talk pretty one day" and a book of short stories called, "the dictionary of failed relationships" (which actually looks pretty funny).

somhow i got signed up for a trial issue of "budget living" magazine, too, so i'll be taking that with me as well.

the trip to the beach begins in about 4 hours!! yay!

Posted by xta at November 26, 2003 01:56 PM | TrackBack