Reading List

Currently on my list of books to read:

• Blindness by Jose Saramago
  
• Don Quixote (the second book) by Cervantes (Edith Grossman translation)
  
• The Good Thief by Marie Howe
  
• Tape for the Turn of the Year by A.R. Ammons
  
• Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
  
• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (hey, we have the same 3 initials. Me, Coetzee, and Jesus M'F'n Christ.)
  
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  

I just began "The Weight of the Body: Selected Poems" by Stanislaw Baranczak. I've loved other Polish poets like Milosz and Szymborska. Something about those eastern Europeans...

It's been a good run for poetry lately, but there are quite a few novels I want to get to. I always write suggestions down on scraps of paper and then lose those scraps. That short list represents three scraps I knew I was about to lose.

That's the main purpose of this post. I guess I'm also open to suggestions or reminders of suggestions. For the record, I also recently read "Mr. Messy," "Fiddle-i-fee," "Rusty's Bone," "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," and selections from "Winnie-the-Pooh."