Books I Have Read June 2005

I've been checking out my journal. Dream documentations, half-finished poems, desperate prayers, lists. I rather like it.

The long lists, for example, are testament to the eccentricity of my reading habits,

"Myths and Legends of Ireland"
“Njal’s Saga”
“The Rig Veda”
John Ashbery’s “Chinese Whispers”
John Bastin’s “Olivia Mariamne Raffles”
Dan Brown’s “Angels and Demons”
Tim Burton’s “The Death of Oyster Boy”
Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”
Nina Epton’s “The Golden Sword”
Otto Fong’s ”Sir Fong”
Joanne Harris’s “Chocolat”
Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw”
Jonathan Kirsch's “The Harlot by the Side of the Road”
Koh Beng Liang’s “The Last Three Women”
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner’s “Freakonomics”
Leona Lim's “Our Sisters, Their Stories”
Audre Lorde’s “Zami: A New Spelling of My Name”
Leslie Lung’s “Freedom of Choice”
Melissa Mathison's “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” (screenplay)
Campbell McGrath’s “American Noise”
Roman Polanski's “Rosemary’s Baby” (screenplay)
Richard Sale’s “The Xenophobe’s Guide to the Icelanders”
Shinji Saijyo's “Iron Wok Jan”
Teh Yik Koon's ”Mak Nyahs: Malaysian Male to Female Transsexuals”
Ruth Vanita’s “Queering India”
Jules Verne’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth”
Mark Waddon’s “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time”
James L. Watson’s “Golden Arches East: McDonald’s in East Asia”
Cyril Wong’s “Below: Absence”
Arthur Yap’s “The Space of City Trees”
Yong Shu Hoong’s “Isaac Revisited”