• the crying lot of 49 - thomas pynchon
• on beauty - zadie smith
• mao II - don delillo
• after henry - joan didion
• absalom, absalom! - faulkner
• dubliners - james joyce
• the castle - kafka
• fear and trembling - kierkegaard
• immortality - milan kundera
• shikasta - doris lessing
• all the pretty horses - cormac mccarthy
• runaway - alice munro
• a word child - iris murdoch
• ada - nabokov
• thus spake zarathustra - nietzsche
• novels 1944-1962 - dawn powell
• swann's way - proust
• sabbath's theater - philip roth
• anna karenina - leo tolstoy
• rabbit, run - john updike
• the waves - virginia woolf

• Lauren F. Winner and Simone Weil
• my favorite childhood books
• coziness
• "Material" by Alice Munro
• Yeats
• orange blossom; mandarin
• The West Wing
• John Cale
• library books
• the Brontë sisters
• India
• pinks, purples, gold, light blue, rose, sea green
• wooden jewelry boxes
• green tea, healthy food, lots of coffee

• Mulder says, "Scully's a medical doctor"
• Scully says, "Mulder, that's impossible"
• plug for regression hypnosis
• anti-smoking message
• "Samantha" or "my sister"
• "He's dead."
• Mulder kicks in a door
• Twin Peaks alumnus/alumna guest star
• Scully or Mulder point a gun at Skinner
• Mulder cries
• "I refuse to believe that."
• "By/For whom?"

• learn french
• learn (another language)
• play piano well
• paint well
• knit a sweater
• knit/crochet a blanket
• take ballet classes
• study art history
• study religion
• study Shakespeare

• Anna Karenina
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles
• The Goldfinch
• Bleak House
• Crime and Punishment
• Wolf Hall
• Ada
• 1Q84
• The Corrections
• Underworld
• Little Dorrit
• Oliver Twist
• The Golden Notebook
• Light in August
• Middlesex
• Freedom

currently:

• cathedral | raymond carver
• freedom | jonathan franzen
• drift | rachel maddow
• excellent women | barbara pym
• I married a communist | philip roth

ongoing:

• hope in the dark | rebecca solnit
• changing my mind | zadie smith
• oblivion | david foster wallace
• brief interview with hideous men | dfw
• pastoralia | george saunders
• the djinn in the nightingale's eye | a.s. byatt

next:

• pale fire | nabokov
• american tabloid | james ellroy

• new shoes
• Badger balms (sleep, stress, meditation, focus)
• books:
  • the four agreements
  • Noam Chomsky
  • behind the beautiful forevers
  • half the sky
  • Nabokov
  • Steinbeck (library of america)