ll right, so yesterday’s Top Ten topic was one I’d actually done months ago: Ten Books I’d Like to Reread. I was thinking of adding another 10 books to the list and posting that but I couldn’t think of anything beyond Madame Bovary and The Second Sex (both for the newer translations). I’ve fallen into something of a reading slump (I’m reading but ridiculously slowly…because it’s Fall and that’s how I roll in the Fall apparently), which means nothing to review. Anyway, I tweeted yesterday that I plan to name all the children I have no intention of having after Salinger characters. Now today I see that there’s an old Top 10 topic from February called Characters (and Literary Figures) That I’d Name My Children After so I figured I’d do that…even though I have no plans to have children.
1. Franny (Frances) from Franny and Zooey – well I’ve said many a time that Franny Glass is my homegirl.
2. Zooey from Franny and Zooey – this one’s short for Zachary but I’d probably just name the kid Zooey. Jury is out on whether or not I’d use this for a boy or girl. Either way, I’d definitely pronounce it Zoo-ey, not Zoe-y
3. Holden from The Catcher in the Rye – I have this itching desire to name a GIRL Holden to be honest. And why not? I mean, what the hell is a Holden anyway?
4. Boo Boo from “Down at the Dinghy” (Nine Stories) + numerous mentions in other Glass stories – You know, Boo Boo is such a ridiculous name for a child, and to be fair, it’s only her nickname (real name is Beatrice), but I always thought there should be more Boo Boo Glass, so this would be my homage to her.
5. Esmé from “For Esmé — With Love and Squalor” (Nine Stories) – more ridiculous Salinger names.
6. Salinger – middle name? I don’t know but I’m on a Salinger theme here so I figured I’d might as well keep it up and yeah I have actually thought about this.
OK, and now for some non-Salinger related names
7.Sylvia after Sylvia Plath – Actually I’ve always liked the name Sylvia
8. Eveline from Anthropology of an American Girl – Eveline, called Evie throughout most of the novel, seems like a pretty name
9. Marcheline from Here on Earth – For short, she’s called March…never thought of using the month of March as a girl’s name until this book!
10. Gemma from A Great and Terrible Beauty – name of one of my favorite fashion models as well so it’s a natural choice (even though I spent a couple of years pronouncing it with a hard G sound for some reason)
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ay is National Short Story Month and I, being the chump I am, don’t care. OH SNAP! OK, that’s entirely not true. I mean, I’m doing a POST about it, which is more than I did for April’s National Poetry Month (yeah, how ’bout no?) but I don’t think I can even sit here and give you a list of my favorite short stories because they tend to fade from my memory pretty quickly unfortunately. Sometimes I can vaguely remember the plots, but I can’t remember the titles…or the authors. You can see then how my cup runneth over for short stories yeah? But I figured, maybe I’d give you some short story collections I’d recommend because I tend to be able to remember how a collection made me feel better than any one story. So here they are in no particular order, with links to the ones I’ve reviewed in the past…
