What were you reading the week of March 22, 1979?

[raccoon]

I was probably reading a Dorothy Eden or Mary Stewart book.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. March 1979--I was just wrapping up my PhD, so that might have dictated

some of my reading. In those days I was pretty much of a science fiction addict.

[NOW tense]

2. Probably 'Very Hungry Caterpillar'.

I was only 4 years old.

[Avalux]

3. Let's see....

I was 14 years old so that's probably about the time I started reading Tolkien - started with The Hobbit then spent most of that summer (1979) indoors reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy. My mother was seriously worried about me. :hi:

[patrice]

5. IMHO, The Silmarillion is one of the most beautiful things ever written.

[patrice]

4. I think that was my adult fantasy stage:

after Tolkein there would have been:
Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy
Stephen R. Donaldson's Thomas Covenant trilogies
Tom Robbins Another Roadside Attraction and others
Eric R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroborous

[Onceuponalife]

19. Cheers!

I just read Another Roadside Attraction a couple months ago. Loved it. Go, Plucky Purcell!!

[Trajan]

6. Some Vonnegut ....

Some Tolkien ...

Maybe even a little Kilgore Trout (Philip Jose Farmer - Venus on the Half Shell) ...

But hell .... I can only guess ...

[mckara]

7. "Just How Stupid Are We?" Rick Shenkman, About American Voters

And, The Secret History of the American Empire, John Perkins

[Warpy]

8. I was on Cape Cod

and the local library ran to Gothic novels and how to fix your car. Pickings were slim.

I was reading textbooks from used book stores, cookbooks the way normal people read novels, and whatever escapist trash was on the NYT best seller list.

That was the year boredom took over and I bought my first loom and taught myself how to weave.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. Reading?

Who had time for reading? I was working to get a brand-new legal practice off the ground. I bought books, but just stacked them up, hoping someday to have time to read them.

Twenty-five years later, that stack of books had become a room with four walls of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves filled with the books I'd tucked away. I was finished with the practice of law and had written a novel which was bought by a major publisher. Today I have the luxury of reading all those books and stacking them up as I finish, their next home our local library.................

[DUgosh]

10. Every night Josephine

by Jaqueline Susann

[madinmaryland]

11. Probably a calculus book.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. I don't remember, but at that point I had a gentleman friend who was an avid reader

He introduced me to Cold Comfort Farm, Pale Fire, Pnin, and the Edmund Crispin mysteries.

[Iggo]

13. I was a high school senior that year.

Beowulf or Macbeth. We read them both. I don't remember which one we were reading in the second semester.

[BlueIris]

14. Er...my fingers? Inside of my eyelids? (I was a fetus.) nt

[Jim__]

15. Maybe: "Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, In Watermelon Sugar.

But, I can't be sure.

[Adelante]

16. That was the year I read all of Jorge Amado's novels

Translated into English. I had seen the film "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands" and was motivated to read the books. I was entirely captivated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Amado

[LWolf]

17. Mary Stewart is probable.

As are Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, and Elizabeth Peters.

Or Twain, Du Maurier, Tolkein, or D.H. Lawrence. Or any paperback mystery I picked up anywhere.

[Onceuponalife]

18. Probably something Stephen King

I was 14. The Stand came out in '78, I read it when it was released in paperback. If not that, then The Shining or Night Shift.

[JitterbugPerfume]

20. Vonnegut

probably. He is still a favorite.

and Tom Robbins of course