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This is a late night Top Ten Tuesday, because Mondays and Tuesdays are OFFICIALLY THE WORST DAYS OF MY LIFE. I have to be on campus, either in class or working, for 12 hours. It stresses me out to no end, but I think Top Ten Tuesday is delightful, so here I am. Maybe I could try out this thing called "planning" and write it on the weekend. But let's not pretend that I'm not busy drinking then. Ok, anyway.
Popular Authors I've Never Read
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Ten More Things for Me To Feel Guilty About in My Life
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Ten More Things for Me To Feel Guilty About in My Life
I am not sure if "popular" should mean currently popular or ever popular. So I will try to start contemporary, but I might admit to some classics failings.
1. Junot Diaz - I want to. I really do. I have checked out his books from the library before, but for some reason I have never started one. What's wrong with me?
2. George R. R. Martin - I want to read him, but I also want the TV show to always be surprising. I'll check him out in a few years, I guess.
3. John Green - I personally don't think I care about this one, but everyone loves him so much and he seems like a nice guy who would be so friendly to people who like his books. He would be a great neighbor. I bet he owns a snow blower that I could borrow whenever too.
4. Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go is never let go by people at the library, so what's a girl to do?
5. Margaret Atwood - Genuinely don't know what she has written, but I also know that I am wrong for not knowing.
6. Isaac Asimov - Uh oh, this isn't contemporary. As a lover of sci-fi, I am ashamed. I know nothing of any world.
7. Thomas Pynchon - I know I would probably love him and actually own Gravity's Rainbow, V., and The Crying of Lot 49. They have been just sitting and waiting for years.
8. Joan Didion - I don't want to talk about it. This list is making me anxious. Just two more to go, I hope I can make it through before the self-loathing gets too devastating.
9. Charles Dickens - I don't know who I am. I need to throw one in that will make me feel better...
10. Jodi Picoult - Never have and I probably never will. I can't care. Maybe she's great. I don't know. I hope not, because look at all these other people I have been neglecting.
That was painful, but it's humbling to confront your failings once in a while... right?
UPDATE (3/5): Just got Never Let Me Go at the library. Things are changing already.