Summer Plans

First off: Please everyone listen to this episode of this American life on Guantanamo Bay prison. Habeas Schmabeas 2007 Granted it’s a little old, it came out last year. But I hadn’t heard it yet and if you already listened to it there are new updates. Plus it is pretty relevant considering the discussion involving Gitmo earlier this Tuesday. Listening to it made me ashamed and proud to be an American. It won a peabody, and it is seriously the best investigation into the prison I have heard/read. Amazing stuff. It seriously spawned a 2 hour conversation between deedee and I about how we could try to change the world.

I leave for Penn State in about a week. I am a little nervous. Anyways I gots lots of reading planned to do this summer, it’s heavy on Japanese Lit, but I just took a class in the subject and I read pretty much none of the authors I wanted to in that class (except Endo). So I’m doing it on my own. Everyone else can put up their summer reading lists to share! BOOP BOOP SUMMER READING CLUB! If you finish them I will buy you a personal pan pizza at Pizza Hut. So everybody BOOK IT!
TO READ SUMMER 2K7:
Silence Shusaku Endo
Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
Spring Snow Yukio Mishima. He killed himself after he finished the last page of this series. I am 1/2 through and I really dig the style.
Kokoro Natsume Soseki
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, Kenzburo Oe
Y the Last Man Vol. 9 Bryan K. Vaughan
The Scientist as Rebel Freeman Dyson
Finally, I know it’s a little lame but… Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J.K. Rowling

Comments (3) left to “Summer Plans”

  1. Sam wrote:

    Ok, I am really embarrassed to post this since they are all almost exclusively comics, but there are a shitload of them to make up for it. (Also, this is more of a general reading list than a goal for the summer, but i figure i will be done by summers end)

    Spiderman: Blue- Loeb/Sale
    Dark Victory- Loeb/Sale
    Spiderman: Torment- Todd McFarlane
    Batman: Broken City- Brian Azzarelo/ Eduardo Risso
    7 Soldiers- Grant Morrison
    Earth X- Waid
    The Authority
    100 Bullets- Azzarelo
    Transmetropolitan
    Preacher- Ennis
    Kingdom Come
    Batman Year 2- Miller
    Goldfish- Bendis
    Powers- Bendis
    Torso-Bendis
    Lex Luthor: Man of Steel- Azzarelo
    Gotham Central- Brubaker
    Fables
    Y the last man
    Walking Dead
    The Ultimates
    Sandman Vol. 5 and on
    Red Harvest- Dashiell Hammett
    The Maltese Falcon- Dashiell Hammett
    The Long Goodbye-Raymond Chandler
    The Big Sleep-Raymond Chandler
    Babel-17 -Samuel R Delany
    Slaughterhouse 5- Vonnegut

    I intend to enjoy HP 7 the same way I enjoyed the first 6. By having it read aloud to me by my mother.

  2. Emma wrote:

    Dude. Seriously. Every single This American Life makes me proud and ashamed to be an american. EVERY SINGLE ONE. But yeah, that one’s reeeaalll good.

  3. Maggie wrote:

    Oooh… i read the first one of Y the Last man and i want to read more… i’ll have to place that one on my list too!