2. 100 Years of Solitude --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. Love in the Time of Cholera --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5. Madame Bovary --Gustave Flaubert
6. Catcher in the Rye --J.D. Salinger
7. East of Eden --John Steinbeck
8. Crime & Punishment --Fyodor Dostoyevsky
9. The Satanic Verses --Salman Rushdie
10. TBA
Can one become addicted to reading? I think I have. I haven't watched more than an hour of television in over a week. I have read three books in almost the same number of days. I am considering, quite seriously, upping the number of books I read this summer to 15 or even 20.
I am addicted to the written word.
I suppose this was bound to happen. One can only read so much literature before the quest to define your own tastes takes hold and you read just about everything you get your hands on. I've always been an avid reader but I cannot remember the last time I was reading with such devotion--such ferocity.
I'm currently reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This book is astounding!! (yes, two exclamation marks). I am so enamored by this book that last night I had dreams where all the characters had Spanish names and I was relating to the characters of my dreams as though they were characters in this novel. Come to find out Marquez was influenced by another great author I've only recently read, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who may become one of my new favorite authors. His Notes from Underground I read almost over night, and I have every intention of going back and reading it again fairly soon. Incredible.
There you have it. Though I'm starting to worry I am placated by the idea that being addicted to reading is far more pleasurable than being addicted to crack. Not that I know from experience. Actually, since I don't know I won't make a comparison. I'll just say that I feel safer being addicted to reading and I'm fairly certain that it won't drive me to the brink of financial, familial and emotional ruin.
And thats good, right?
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