Me Bad and List for 2013

What was I reading in 2012?  How can there be 20 unread letters on last year's bucket list?  Maybe that was the wrong name ... did I think I would die when I finished the list?  It will be renamed "Fill My Literary Void List" for 2013.

2012 certainly was a year of distractions, faint resolve, and lack of diligence.  Not only do I intend to keep plugging away at these authors, but I will come up with a real, new them for 2013 by tomorrow.

B:  Fire Next Time by James BaldwinD:  Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
F:  The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 
G:  Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
H:  The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
I:  Exit the King by Eugene Ionesco
K:  Flowers of Algernon by Daniel Keyes and The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milos Kundera
L:  The Giver by Lois Lowry and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Leguin 
M:  Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell  and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
N:  Miguel Street by V. S. Naipaul 
O:  The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
P:  The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe and A Cab at the Door and Midnight Oil by V.S. Pritchett
Q:  Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey
R:  All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque -- March 18, 2013
S:  Grapes of Wrath and/or Of Mice and Men by John Steinback
T:  The Art of War by by Sun Tzu and Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
U:  Gunnar's Daughter by Sigrid Undset
V:  Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
W:  Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton or Beau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren and Decline and Fall by Evenlyn Waugh and My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
X:  NEED SOMETHING FOR THE LETTER X
Y:  Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates -- March 19, 2013
Z:  We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Here we go 2013:  the tangent-driven, one word search list.

A for Attraction:  Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes by Jena Pincott -- January 17, 2013
Artful by Ali Smith -- March 3, 2013 (Happy Hundredth Birthday Daddy)
B for Bonk by Mary Roach -- April 15, 2013 
C for Celebrity:  The Frenzy of Renown by Leo Braudy -- March 3, 2013  
F for Fashion:  Paris Fashion by Valerie Steele -- January 17, 2013 
G for Gulp by Mary Roach -- May 28, 2012
H for Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks -- September 8, 2013
S for Stiff and S for Spook by Mary Roach -- June 22, 2013
Tangents on Ali Smith:  Girl Meets Boy and There but for the -- March 10, 2013
TransAtlantic by Colum McCann -- July 6, 2012



Off List Tangents:
Leadership and Crisis by Bobby Jindal -- March 18, 2013 
After Visiting Friends - A Son's Story by Michael Hainey -- March 30, 2013 
Girl Gone by Gillian Flynn -- March 30, 2013
Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight -- Juky 7, 2013
Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell -- July 28, 2013
Life Time by Liza Marklund -- September 8, 2013
Little Green by Walter Mosley -- September 9, 2013
Brave Genius by Sean Carroll --December 25, 2013

Book Club Books:
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien -- March 3, 2013 
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks -- April 2, 2013 
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett -- April 15, 2013
Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson -- May 28, 2013
The Price by Arthur Miller

Movie Reviews:
The Horse Whisperer -- March 10, 2013
The Motorcycle Diaries -- March 10, 2013 
Abe Lincoln, Vampire Hunter -- March 18, 2013