January Books

Even though it’s been over a year since I started writing down all the books I read and all of the movies I watch in a journal, I only started recording them on this blog since April, so I’m not going to quit yet.

Here’s a list of what I read in January.

To be honest, I’m a little disappointed in myself. Only five books, and only one of them poetry, but I will say there was a week in January when I honestly didn’t know how I was going to get everything done. I was teaching six classes, and had 500 pages to grade by Friday. But—it all got done, like always.

I’m going to start making a list of guilty pleasure books for former English majors, because I’ve been reading a number of them that are really good.  Maybe guilty pleasure is the wrong phrase, because there’s nothing to feel guilty about, but they’re sort of beach reads for literature nerds. Books about loving books and writing.

My list would only be three books long, and it would include:

1. All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost: Lan Samantha Chang

2. The Marriage Plot: Jeffrey Eugenides

3. The Secret History: Donna Tartt

Can anyone think of more? All three of these are fantastically addicting books. I just finished The Marriage Plot last night, and I think it’s going to mark the end of my fiction binge for a time. Back to nonfiction and poetry in February. 

More later, blogging world.