Books of the Summer:

Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen

Kilter: 55 Fictions – John Gould

Complete Stories – Flannery O’Connor

The Cello Suites – Eric Siblin

The Turning – Tim Winton

The Riders – Tim Winton

Gargoyles – Bill Gaston

Where I’m Calling From (selected stories) – Raymond Carver

Not as much reading this summer as last… possibly from the combo of 1. writing more 2. nice weather 3. television series on dvd*

*never much of a TV watcher because of commercials and the fact that I don’t have television, but the over-arching story lines in a few shows…  60min an episode x 12 episodes a season x seven seasons = I’ll just not type the total in.

Though my novel reading has been on hold since January, my short fiction addiction has had a chance to amp. Here’s the list of books I’ve read since January (not counting edits for peers, literary journals, poetry books, or readings from my Japanese Lit course.)

The Elephant Vanishes – Murakami Haruki

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman – Murakami Haruki

Fine Just the Way it is – Annie Proulx

Unaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri

Runaway – Alice Munro

Too Much Happiness – Alice Munro

Collected Stories – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott

In Persuasion Nation – George Saunders

Black Outs – Craig Boyko

Birds of America – Lorrie Moore

Burning Chrome – William Gibson

Any suggestions to add? Planning to purchase Mark Jarman’s new book after I heard him read at Fort Cafe, as well as Bill Gaston’s short fiction works.