1. One book that changed your life. Thornton Wilder's Theophilus North which I read some fifteen years ago, and probably did not fully understand, but which also probably ruined me for life. It's an older, wittier, sadder, funnier, more tense (because older) Catcher in the Rye kind of story. I recently rediscovered the beloved old copy in our Tacloban home when I was there for the holidays. The book is as old I am. This year marks its 30th anniversary. And the character, Theophilus, is 30 years old.
2. One book you have read more than once. All the Nabokovs.
3. One book you would want on a desert island. Any thick paperback I can turn into edible pulp or sanitary wipe.
4. One book that made you laugh. My cousin's.
5. One book that made you cry. Lacan's Ecrits. Too difficult. Heartbreaking.
6. One book you wish had been written. Lacan in poetry.
7. One book you wish had never been written. Can't think of any.
8. One book you are currently reading. Children Playing Before The Statue of Hercules. An anthology of short stories edited by David Sedaris.
9. One book you have been meaning to read. Purgatorio.
I am tagging Dyndyn, Jet, Maryanne
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3 comments:
hehe. kulitin mo naman si husband weng na gumawa rin ng list! para mapilitan mag-update ng blog. :)
Hi, Daryl! I did it na. :)
Hmm. Wish I could go to Dumaguete this summer, if only to smoke Astro cigarettes and sit by the boulevard at night while eating barbecue. Hahah! My goals in life have become so much more mundane.
huh! will do it when the boss isn't watching, hehe. wilder is responsible for "the bridge over san luis rey"(?)ba adto? i read that book a long time ago and i seem to remember to be moved by it.
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