Here's what my list of books I am definitely reading this fall:
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I sincerely love this book even if it is such a chick flick classic. It makes me happy, and plus, afterwards I get to watch the six hour Colin Firth erotica version.
- Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff. Call me gay, but I love Elizabeth Taylor. I watched the movie with her in it earlier this summer, and I was in heaven. So I decided to read a biography about Cleopatra. I love biographies about ill-fated historical figures. The Marie Antoinette one I read a while back was marvelous.
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I saw the movie with the dashing young Kenneth Branagh in it and I have been meaning to get to this one and just haven't. But I bought my own copy, which means I HAVE to read it now.
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I read this one two years ago, but it was a bit of a rushed reading so I am not sure I really appreciated. It's a sobering book that I will have to save for a week when I have time to just sit and cry a bit.
- Other books I'm considering: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, and World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks, and The Lady in the Tower by Alison Wier.
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Of the ones you're considering, I've only read The Secret Life of Bees, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm very intrigued by the zombie one...
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