Every Day I Read the Book

Since I've been home, I've taken up the art of "reading" again. I have all this spare time and since it's been unseasonably cold/cloudy out, I've been spending a lot of my time indoors with a book. In the past week, I finished "Miss Wyoming" by Douglas Coupland (which was all right) and the novella "Bear" by Marian Engel (which I quite enjoyed despite the TOTALLY FUCKED UP factor, but now I'm worried I'll blush like a schoolgirl everytime I see a bear. I feel like a co-conspirator...)

I was hoping people could leave their recommendations for good summer reading in the comments section of my blog. Is there one particular novel that has bowled you over, and that you think about on a weekly basis? Is there a character that sticks in your mind years after reading about him/her? Maybe it's your favourite book. Maybe it isn't. But when you were reading it, you were utterly absorbed in the author's fictional little world. I need that. I want that. Tell me what to read, please.

Just so I'm being completely fair, here are my recommendations to you:

• "Fall on Your Knees", Ann-Marie Macdonald
• "Lolita", Vladimir Nabokov
• "The Robber Bride", Margaret Atwood
• "Cannery Row", John Steinbeck
• "High Fidelity", Nick Hornby
• "White Teeth", Zadie Smith
• "Written on the Body", Jeannette Winterson
• "Nights at the Circus", Angela Carter
• "Life After God" and "Microserfs", Douglas Coupland

That was in no particular order, although the first two really are my very favourites.

Okay. Don't let me down, now.

(Now playing: "Golden Brown", The Stranglers)