Whatever Shall I Read?

[shanmonster]

Here's what's handy and tempting me.

1. Bad Girls of the Bible - Liz Curtis Higgs
   
2. Hula - Lisa Shea
   
3. King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table -Roger Lancelyn Green
   
4. Treasure Box - Orson Scott Card
   
5. Beholder's Eye - Julie E. Czerneda
   
6. The Aeneid - Virgil
   
7. Little, Big - John Crowley
   
8. The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
   
9. The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers - Elizabeth Benedict
   
10. Poisoned Embrace : A Brief History of Sexual Pessimism - Lawrence Osborne
    
11. Walking on Glass - Iain Banks
    

So, what shall I read? Any suggestions from this list?

Edit: I'm going with The Aeneid....

Comments

[chadnfrood.livejournal.com]

Trust a classicist to suggest the Aeneid.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

As a classics grad, I was leaning toward that choice, to begin with.

[elanya.livejournal.com]

Either Bad Girls of the Bible, or The Shipping News. I'm not sure that the first will be good, but it should be... interesting, at least.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I intend on reading both, although I don't hold high hopes for the former.

[snowy-kathryn.livejournal.com]

Either 'Bad Girls of the Bible' or 'The Aeneid.'

[f00dave.livejournal.com]

She went with your second choice. ;-)

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I did.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

I am a sucker for Czerneda. She has some style things I don't like, but I love the Web Shifters.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I've never read anything by her before, so she's on my list for this year.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Mindless, hmm? We'll see how I feel after The Aeneid.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I've been wanting to read this one for years. I will get to it soon, I hope.

[safadancer.livejournal.com]

Just FYI, unless you have read Annie Proulx before and enjoyed it, skip "The Shipping News". Annie Proulx makes me want to throw my book against the wall rather than keep reading it. She seems wholly incapable of making her writing interesting in all that "I'm such a clever writer, aren't I?"

I would highly recommend "A Reader's Manifesto" for reasons why. Also for a hilarious literary book to read.

[hypatia360.livejournal.com]

Sometime, you might add Skinny Legs and All, by Tom Robbins to your list... if you haven't read it already. It's silly, eclectic, and in a lesser version of Kurt Vonnegut type style, but there is a belly dancer... and a guy accidentally brings to life a goddess worshiping stick and shell by screaming "Jezebel, do me like the painted hoar you are" (or something like that).

Nicole