Buy Me Books

I have confidence that most English majors, or English teachers find solace in libraries and bookstores. More so bookstores than libraries, as the bookstore allows for ownership. They allow the buyer to purchase a ticket to a world unknown.

There's two types of book stores - chain bookstores, and private bookstores. In the private bookstores there is a quiet resemblant of the silence in a library. A silence allowing the books to do the talking. The calling out to a new audience delicately tip toeing through lengths of shelves that need a ladder to reach the top. A book gives us direct insight to the author's mind; an intimate relationship unattainable any other way, and a bookstore is full of hundreds of these relationships waiting to bloom.

Unfortuatnely, as a college student, new or used books are too expensive and instead we must turn to websites like Amazon.com. It is no bookstore, but it suffices. The other day I mentioned that I spoke with The Professor about the class I will be taking with her. We ended up putting a tentative book list together. It is as follows (they're all links):

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure
Oscar Wilde - "The Importance of Being Earnest"
Samuel Beckett - Endgame
E.M. Forster - A Passage to India
Evelyn Waugh - The Loved One
W.Somerset Maugham - The Moon and Sixpence
John Fowles - The Magus
Laurence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Zadie Smith - White Teeth

It's British Lit, and while I've read the classics - "The Rape of the Lock", Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein - but I'm looking forward to reading some more current stuff, and some other classics.

If you have money and don't know what to do with it, buy me the cheapest books on this list.