More Endings, More Beginnings

Catching up. Getting into the swing of things? Maybe. Wrapping up another year at university, getting all of my crap together (well pretending to--starting to shuffle through a pile of belongings until I'm distracted by some old letters) and getting ready to move out into a new place with some good friends next store. Moving in with perfect strangers, rolling the dice, playing a little Russian Roulette and crossing my fingers for the year to come. 

Getting so freaking excited to read the things that I want to read. Not that I read a lot of terrible books over the last nine months, but now I get to pick a few of my own. These are the books I actually enjoyed reading for class:

• Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch 5/5
• Jazz by Toni Morrison 4/5
• Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed 3.5/5
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 5/5
• The Color of Water by James McBride 4/5
• Paradise Lost by Milton 4.5/5
• Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan 4/5
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 5/5
• The Ghost Road by Pat Barker 3/5

My summer reading list so far:

• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewzki (heard it's super trippy, multigenre metafiction spookiness)
• S. by JJ Abrams (started this one back around Christmas but had to drop it for classwork)
• A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle (Irish Rebellion)
• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (Irish immigrant in Canada sent to prison for assisting in murder)
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Misty (State of Emergency in India)
• The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald (controversy of atomic physics at cambridge circa 1912)
•  Clash of Kings by George RR Martin (left off about two hundred pages in a year ago)
•  Possibly some more Dickens
• Definitely Romantics: Bring on all the Shelley, Blake, Coleridge, Burns, Keats, and Wordsworth
• Also Yeats

But moving on, getting out, breaking free of the establishment. Well, not quite. Taking spanish one and two this summer in order to graduate in the fall. You should expect me to be fully bi-lingual, or at least fluent in english and know how to say things like dresser in spanish by the end of the summer. 

Breathing deep. Seeing the wonderful world for what it is. Light broken by leaves, the evening sun burning in the panes. Just gorgeous. Delightful. I cannot wait to go floating down the river this summer. It's gonna be a good one. 

Here we go again,

M