In case you're wondering about the name, by the way, it's a character from Jeanette Winterson's "The Passion." She's not particularly significant to me, except for the fact that she's bigger than most people and, well, I was born in the Year of the Dog. I most certainly didn't choose the name because of its obvious connotations (I don't have enough of a backbone to be an actual, self-professed bitch), which explains the little epigraph. Don't ask me about the epigraph, I have no idea why I wrote that, but don't you think it sounds catchy, sort of?

So that's done.

I was thinking of the books I've read this school year that didn't count as schoolwork and I came up with this measly list (in no particular order):

- "Wasteland" by Francesca Lia Block
- "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers
- The Shopaholic Series by Sophie Kinsella (I feel bad about these books because I think I conned BJ's sister into getting all three. She was only supposed to get the first one but then I figured I'd borrow it and then I'd want to read the next two so ... yeah)
- "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce
- "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" by Thornton Wilder
- "A Dog's Life" by Peter Mayle (borrowed from Camille)
- "Bitch" by Elizabeth Wurtzel (which I haven't finished)
- "Gut Symmetries" by Jeanette Winterson
- "Boating for Beginners" by Jeanette Winterson
- "Disgrace" by JM Coetzee
- "On the bright side, I'm now the girlfriend of a sex god:Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson" by Louise Rennison

... and that's about all that I remember so far. There must be more that I've forgotten. That's not very much, considering the fact that I had a different book every two weeks during sophomore year. But, hey, that was sophomore year.

Here are the books I've read for school this year:

- "Therapy of Desire" by Martha Nussbaum
- "Nicomachean Ethics" by Aristotle translated by Terence Mills
- "Dogeaters" by Jessica Hagedorn
- "Awaiting Trespass" by Linda Ty-Casper
- "Monsoon Collection" by Ninotchka Rosca
- "Tar Baby" by Toni Morrison (re-read it for a paper. Beautiful, beautiful book)
- "A House for Mr. Biswas" by VS Naipaul
- "Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston (I want to write like this woman)
- and all things Postcolonial feminist.

Not bad. I just wanted to make a list. For posterity's sake. I think I'll do this next year.