It's hard to post pictures when you're at work.

Hello everyone, I am trying to get over the last half an hour of my day. I'm really antsy because I left my house at 6:00am to go running at the AC. Anyhow I've become restless and decided I post something. But I don't have anything on make-up, yet. Hopefully later on tonight.

But I do have something else on my mind. Books. Postcolonial novels. After having a conversation with my cousins about how they hated taking English courses I was thinking about some of the postcolonial novels I read in class. Then I was thinking about some of the best books I read in 2009. Here is a preliminary list (no particular order):

1. Black Skin White Masks - Frantz Fanon

2. Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee

3. Life and Times of Michael K. - J.M. Coetzee.

Okay I know two of the three are written by the same writer, but they were damn good. I keep going back and forth choosing which one I like better, but I can't! I was reading Michael K on the streetcar on my way to work, and as this nice gentleman was getting off (I'm sure he was my age when he read it) he said, "You have good taste in books." Let me tell you that made my whole week! I don't even know if anyone has ever told me that I had good taste in books! And you know what, Michael K was good and so was Disgrace. What I love about Coetzee is that his narrative is so simple and so subtle, but his subtlety is what makes his narrative/story so powerful. I think that is one of his talents. He's also just so fascinating and mysterious, let alone being considerably handsome at 70 years old! Hahaha!

When I feel like it, I might talk about either books more. I would go into Fanon, but seriously you are going to wish I never started. I'm kind of snobby about Fanon because I'd rather talk about him with people who really appreciate him over tea :D

Here are some other books that I enjoyed and that I really recommend:

1. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

2. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje

3. Amsterdam - Ian McEwan

I would be open to recommendations, but don't get offended if I don't read it right away. I am currently trying to read 4 books (all 400pg plus, of course) all at once. Talk to me in a month. Hopefully I will have more time.