Summer Reading

My summer reading list is a work-in-progress. It usually is. I start out with a rather lengthy list and then two books in, I find something else I want to read and the whole system gets disrupted. In many ways, I'm a list-oriented person (as my spiral planner and dry erase board can attest), but when it comes to reading, I sometimes have trouble following an already demarcated path. So we'll see how far I get in this one, which I've intentionally kept brief:

SUMMER READING 2010

FICTION:

1. Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami

2. The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien

3. The Well and the Mine, by Gin Phillips

4. Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami

5. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

NONFICTION:

1. Articulating Life's Memory: U.S. Medical Rhetoric About Abortion, by Nathan Stormer

2. Cultural Amnesia: America's Future and the Crisis of Memory, by Stephen Bertman

3. Black Dogs and Blue Words: Depression and Gender in the Age of Self-Care, by Kimberly Emmons

There are several more books related to medical rhetoric that I plan to check out; I'm not sure how in-depth I'll read them (it may be more of a skimming/browsing process). I also plan to browse some composition/rhetoric journals. This is all toward helping me decide what I want to research for my PhD. Sometimes I really miss Beverly Cleary.