I got this little journal, "BOOKS TO READ", one day in Boston before I left home. I saw this list of suggested reading for an MFA program at some university, and have taken it upon myself to independently try to follow this particular list's recommendations of books to read in each category of literature. Hence, I've started writing down titles and authors of assorted fiction books to get and read. I have about one page, front and back, finished so far. I have read too many books about history and resistance and social theory. I should complete my library with a more rounded fiction section of great literature.

If you have any recommendations for me, leave a comment or message me in some other medium. No Stephen King or some bullshit novel like that. Or if you wanna see the MFA list/the books I've chosen to read, let me know.

I started Samuel Beckett's "Molloy" this evening, and I really like it so far. I can't so much pin down yet why I am so intrigued by Beckett's style of writing, but the story is so under developed that its good. Here's a little excerpt if it:

"But it is not the kind of place where you go, but where you find yourself, sometimes, not knowing how, and which you can not leave at will, and where you find yourself without any pleasure, but with more perhaps than in those places you can escape from, by making an effort, places full of mystery, full of familiar mysteries. I listen and the voice is of a world collapsing endlessly, a frozen world, under a faint untroubled sky, enough to see by, and yes, frozen too."

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I've been toying with the idea of changing my major/s around and doing something with sociology or creative writing or ethnic studies or just English. Not really too sure what I'm going to do yet. I just wrote a short story about my Dad a few nights ago, and I really like it a lot. Who knows.

I'm picking up Nick in LA on Saturday night with Dalan, and then hanging out all weekend with him until Monday night when I bring him back to LA. Stoked. Tomorrow morning, I have class and then at night is First Thursday as well as Bici Centro, the bike co-op, is open so I can try to get a new bike instead of my well over 30lb three speed "hunker".