[vikingchick]

"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. Did anybody else have to read that little gem EVERY SINGLE YEAR?

LOL. Yes, yes. Along with "The Lady or the Tiger?"

[vikingchick]

The World According to Garp by John Irving. Read in an American Lit class. Sick and twisted, but readable. Flashback: The professor wore Birkenstocks. He remarked that he had met Irving, and he was the best-looking author he had ever met.

I was also instructed to read Only Cowgirls Sing the Blues The Crying of Lot 49 and Lolita. The choice of Lolita--(well-written, clever, extremely deviant) is interesting, because Nabokov wasn't American, so why was it assigned for American Lit???

These are the things I ponder late at night.