I failed to mention I'm also busy reading cookbooks
If anyone's got any recommendations in that department, I'd love to hear them. I'm not afraid to try anything new - and I'm usually partial to Asian-esque cuisine, from Indian, to Thai, to Vietnamese.
Now that I'm living in a virtually cable-less world (As luck would have it, I manage to pick up the channel that broadcasts both Ed and 24) I'm going to start putting even more stock in reading. I've been on a non-fiction kick lately, recently having finished Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies (a longish book that essentially reitterates the same thing over and over) and currently reading Jeffrey Steingarten's The Man Who Ate Everything: And Other Gastronomic Feats, Disputes, and Pleasurable Pursuits and Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson. Basically, if it's got a colon in the title, I'm on board. I'm slowly compiling a list of other books to read, so when I'm at the library I know what to grab. The Minor Fall, The Major Lift recently listed a bunch of noteworthy books, so I've added a lot of them to my list, as well as a few I've wanted to read for a while - or had recommended here in the past. I came across this site, Bookfilter, which looks promising. Particularly this thread. Anyhow, here's the list of stuff I plan on picking up once I'm through with what I'm currently reading. As always, if you've got any additional recommendations, or think I ought to refrain from reading the book, let me know:
Los Gusanos - John Sayles
Mile Zero - Thomas Sahnchez
Homeboy - Seth Morgan
Going Native - Stephen Wright
What I Lived For - Joyce Carol Oates
Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, Ironwood - William Kennedy
Everything - Raymond Carver
Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin
The Collected Stories... - Richard Yates
God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Letting Go - Philip Roth
The Stories of... - John Cheever
The Portable... - Dorothy Parker
Catch 22 - Joseph L. Heller
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Inifinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Sherlock Holmes Anthology - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Collected Short Stories - Roald Dahl
Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
My mom discovers new music through the Canadian morning show, Canada A.M. Usually she likes typical Mom stuff, like Norah Jones, but this morning she was very impressed by Robbie Williams' performance.
Finally done with the not-very-good pictures. Let me know if there are any errors:
House Pictures. You can click on the pictures to see an even bigger picture, but chances are you won't feel the need to