Hmmmm, what DON'T I like to read? Well, let's see.... since my thesis
is on AIDS life writing, and representations of illness and the body in
literature, I've devoted most of my reading to illness narratives and
body theory. However, you can only take so much of that before you go
batty. Also, since I work for an Aboriginal college with a mandate to
have high Aboriginal content, I've been teaching and researching North
American Aboriginal texts. But, in my free time, I like to kick back
with just about anything. I just finished David Sedaris's "Me Talk
Pretty One Day" which is even better than "Naked." Oh God, I was almost
pissing myself from laughter -- especially the part when his French
class is discussing Easter! Also, as has been said here before, love
love love love the Bridget Jones's Diaries, especially the second one.
Hmmmm, what else have I read lately..... Oh yeah...lol... reread all my
Judy Blume childhood novels this month in bed (still rereading Sally J.
Freedman) which I seem to do every year or two. Contemporary authors I
really dig are feminist/disabled activist/essayist Nancy Mairs,
Armistead Maupin, Louise Erdrich, Sedaris, Carol Shields, (can't believe
I am admitting this) Bret Easton Ellis, Wally Lamb, and on and on and
on. Oh yeah, and got a thing for Anais Nin too... and basically any
diary I can get my hands on. OH! I can't forget Ira Levin.. lol...I
really get spooked still from Rosemary's Baby and the Stepford Wives.
And anything spooky too. I really love the modernists, especially D.H.
Lawrence and V. Woolf, and have a HUGE obsession with all things Mary
Shelly, and Toni Morrison, but when it comes down to it, even though I
love these writers, I reread and reread them because of work -- either
teaching them or thinking of writing something on them, or whatever, but
I don't make a bowl of popcorn at night and curl up with "Ulysses" or
whatever. So, in other words, my reading has two purposes -- one set of
authors for work and one for reading in the tub!
THANK GOD IT IS FRIDAY, NOT A MOMENT TOOO FRIGGIN' SOON!
Evian
np: something that sounds like Natalie Cole on the radio
