Books I Read in 2013

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral by Diane Ackerman

Froth on The Daydream by Boris Vian

Breakfast At Tiffany’s by Truman Capote *

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Shining by Stephen King

A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov *

Sailor Moon, Vol. 1 by Naoko Takeuchi

Getting My First Hug by Steven E. Yates

Zelda by Nancy Milford

Just Kids by Patti Smith

* Denotes I book I had read before

“Please bring strange things.
Please come bringing new things.
Let very old things come into your hands.
Let what you do not know come into your eyes.
Let desert sand harden your feet.
Let the arch of your feet be the mountains.
Let the paths of your fingertips be your maps
And the ways you go be the lines of your palms.
Let there be deep snow in your inbreathing
And your outbreath be the shining of ice.
May your mouth contain the shapes of strange words.
May you smell food cooking you have not eaten.
May the spring of a foreign river be your navel.
May your soul be at home where there are no houses.
Walk carefully, well-loved one,
Walk mindfully, well-loved one,
Walk fearlessly, well-loved one.
Return with us, return to us,
Be always coming home.”