List time! You know I love a good response to a published list and Powell’s the wonderful bookstore in Portland and creator of the Indiespensible book subscription service, created a list of the 25 books that you need to read before you die. It’s a great list, of which I’ve only read like three books.
List time! I was scanning the interwebs the other day and came across Powell’s list of the 25 books you should read before you die. I was amazed at the diversity of the books and thought this might be a fun thing to attempt. Note to self: lists like this are difficult, particularly trying to
I recently got a tumblr ask about what my favorite gay books/movies were and I’d figured I’d share the results here. I decided to retile the post queer to encompass more groups btw. As I was crafting the answer for this, it struck me just how much of this content I didn’t see/read till I was well into college. I mean with the exception of three of those books and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, I hadn’t experience ANY of this till I turned 18, which is crazy. I’ve made up for much of that time lost as you can see below, even though I have a long way to go. Anyways, here’s some stuff for you all to check out with what’s left of your summer. Anything I should add to the list?
It’s the first Terence’s Tuesday Top 10 (hooray alliteration) and man is it a doozy. I fear I’ll have nowhere to go but down but why not aim high? GQ recently did a post about the top 21 books of the 21st Century that every man should read and it inspired me to make this list. This was actually really difficult to do considering this is spanning from 2001 to now I can i can barely remember what book I read last week (Lover At Last by JR Ward if you’re wondering) let alone since 2001. I also took out books in a series (so no Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, or Robert Langdon books). You also won’t find plays, non-fiction, or internet fan fiction on the list, which is why the final list looks so geared towards the latter half of the time frame. So after reaching Claire Danes levels of ugly crying to cut this list down to 10, I managed to get it to my top books. Check it out!