books: what i'm reading. freshly read. what's next. and, of course, the favorites. suggestions? comments? send me your thoughts....... my wish list lists: get crafty phunky.com favorite authors: tom robbins christopher moore don delillo alex garland lauren henderson favorite passage: "He would never finish the story. She started laughing and couldn't stop. I hadn't imagined she could laugh at all but his last remark sent a light to her face, almost broke it apart in a kind of whimpering mirth. Soon he was laughing too. They seemed to take their good feeling beyond the story he'd been telling. She sat facing the windshield, making that helpless sound. Their laughter had points of contact, found each other like instruments in a brass quintet, communicating subtle and lovely things." the Names - don delillo << go home

in rotation: Vineland - Thomas Pynchon Days of War, Nights of Love - CrimethInc. Lila - Robert Pirsig --------------------------------------------------------- recently: She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb the Tesseract - Alex Garland Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins the Witching Hour - Anne Rice --------------------------------------------------------- up next: A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole White Oleander - Janet Fitch Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding Ecstasy Club - Douglas Rushkoff One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez White Teeth - Zadie Smith --------------------------------------------------------- favorites: the Alchemist - Paulo Cuehlo Island of the Sequined Love Nun - Christopher Moore Rules of the Wild - Francesca Marciano the Solitaire Mystery - Jostein Gaarder Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver the Reader - Bernhard Schlink Rocket City - Catheryn Alpert the Names - Don DeLillo ---------------------------------------------------------