- Being Dead, Jim Crace
- City of Glass, Paul Auster
- All the Pretty Horses, Corcmac Mccarthy
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
- A Moveable Feat, Ernest Hemingway
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelly
- The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
Favorite books in no real order
•Gilgamesh (David ferry translation)
•The passion according to GH by Clarice lispector
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Burton Raffel translation)
•le princesse de Clèves by mme de Lafayette
•mrs dalloway//Orlando//the waves - all by virginia Woolf
•paradise lost by John Milton
•autobiography of red by Anne Carson
•the poetics of space by gaston bachelard
•house of leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
•theory of colors//metamorphosis of plants by Goethe
•meno//symposium//republic by Plato
•ethics of ambiguity By simone de beauvoir
•invisible monsters by chuck Palahniuk
Bonus: not a book but: the wasteland by ts Elliot
-stereotypical theater child
-is told he’s mature for his age, and now at 25 he writes poop jokes for a living
-performs plays (not musicals he can’t sing) around Kansas up until high school
-realizes quickly theater is not in fact “cool” as his mom would describe
- he trudges on until a traumatic family event sends him into a existential abyss of self questioning
-goes to college for film in California on scholarship
-completely reinvents himself to match his surroundings ditching the stereotypical theater persona (KC Austin I call him)
-falls into heavy self medication and begins to have panic attacks (cute!)
-Covid 19 happens (lol)
-goes home
-graduates school and moves to L.A
-is now trying to figure out how to get back to KC Austin
-so far so good!