acculturation : book-learning : lists : books, preciousssss

just finished:
Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis
They Call Me MadDog: A Story for Bitter, Lonely People, Erika Lopez

reading:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling

rereading:
Ladders to Fire, Anais Nin

just started to read:
Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, Anthony Swofford

intending to read next:
I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe
The Crimson Petal and the White, Michel Faber
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang, Joyce Carol Oates
The Informers, Bret Easton Ellis

intrigued by and might just have to read sometime soon:
Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War, Sebastian Faulks
Don't Think of An Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate, George Lakoff

vainglory : affectation : language : fanciful coinage, a.k.a. assorted nouns and verbs that i wish to make part of my daily vocabulary

autohagiography
badinage
bafflegab
blatherskite
blustrification
cataglottism
cockamamie
codswallop
collyrium
contumely
cosset
donnybrook
drollery
dumfungled
excogitate
flapdoodle
flummery
fracas
fribble
frippery
fustilugs
goshbustified
jactitation
nepenthes
pecksniffian
potchky
puerility
raillery
salmagundi
snollygoster