Resolutions Pt. 2

I've read 16 books in 18 weeks. I've fallen behind in my goal to read one book a week. I blame this on Catch 22, which was approximately 5,500 pages long.

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Pastoralia by George Saunders
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
A Raisin in the Sun  by Lorraine Hansberry
An Unfinished Season by Ward Just
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

On the plus side I'm cooking more food than I ever have before, I've put 2,000 miles on my motorcycle in the past month, and the sun persists until 6 or 7 at night.

Here's a photograph of a Mexican Wolf that I took during a recent trip with my family to a local zoo:

Touring on the F4i

The demilitarized zone

So this week I finished reading Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. It was a really good book, possibly one of the best books that I have ever read. Of course, I have felt that way about almost every book that I've read this year. Maybe I'm just reading more closely, appreciating these books at a more intimate level, because I've experienced a more complete and nuanced sampling of the life-grinding-thought-crushing type of emotional trauma which seems to be a necessary precursor to all great fiction. I don't know for sure. I also read Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Also a good book.

If everything works out, I'll be graduating with my Master Degree and teaching certificate in just a few more short weeks.  Cue generic comments on the passing of time, etc. etc.


Here's a photograph of some peach cobbler that I made recently: