My name is Nicole, I read a lot. I'm the author of All Encompassing Trip and moderator of the 50 Book Challenge Group here on Shelfari.
You can follow me on some of my travel adventures by visiting:
http://thesardonictraveler.blogspot.com/
Books on my "Own" shelf are books that I haven't read, and have been sitting here for ages, and I've either tried to read and lost interest, or haven't been inspired enough to pick up in the first place, so if you have any comments to help me with my indecision or lack of motivation, I'd love to hear them.
You can find me on Bookcrossing at http://bookcrossing.com/referral/knikkki or on MySpace at http://myspace.com/nicoledelsesto
Books I'm going to buckle down and read in 2009 (one per month, in no particular order)
1. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace (trying ... )
2. The Yiddish Policeman's Union - Michael Chabon (Completed May 09)
3. Thunderstruck - Erik Larson
4. The Light Bearer - Donna Gillespie
5. In the Company of the Courtesan - Sarah Dunant (completed March 09)
6. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
7. A Kafka (completed March 09 - The Metamorphosis)
8. The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
9. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy (Barely made it through on my 3rd attempt, July 09)
10. Fortune's Rocks - Anita Shreve (pretty sure this is the oldest book on my TBR) (completed Feb 09)
11. one of the 8 historical fictions my stepmother sent me - (completed January 09, Sepulchre - Kate Mosse)
12. Little Green Men - Christopher Buckley
Synopsis of All Encompassing Trip:
Meet Nikki Nasco: 40, single, obsessive, neurotic, unorthodox and unexpectedly fun. She is having a very normal day. She goes to the gym, she calls her mother, and she stresses out about not having her Top Five desert island CD s selected.
Meet Amber Lawson: 35, lesbian, driven, aerobics instructor. She too is having a very normal day. She attends law school, teaches Boot Camp and receives a phone call from Nikki, the purpose of which she never fully understands, but knows there is a deserted island involved.
And then the darkness comes...
In a world where coffee is no longer available, the only television shows are reality TV re-runs, and the animals are talking back, Nikki, Amber and a singing Coyote in a do-rag are out to restore the light (and hopefully prevent Nikki s eyes from being stolen by an Irish midget).
Normal is missing. Reward.
Del Sesto pays homage to Tom Robbins and Christopher Moore in this clever, insightful, and flat-out hilarious novel while maintaining an entirely original point of view, making All Encompassing Trip one of my favorite books of the year!
Jen Lancaster - author of Bitter is the New Black
All Encompassing Trip is a trip! Imagine Kafka, Kerouac, and Douglas Adams on the road, and you'll get a feel for this completely original, witty, and wild book that's (thank goodness!) anything but normal. Del Sesto's prose sparkles. What a great debut. -- Lori Jakiela, author of Miss New York Has Everything
Normal isn't taking any calls here. There's a reason this genre is called Bizarro and a fun book like All Encompassing Trip fits right in. Robert Tacoma author of Key Weird, Key Weirder and Key Witch
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