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| Reading at Graph Cafe in Chiang Mai, Thailand |
When I look at this list, I feel disappointed. 11 books in 6
months? I used to read 3 books a month when I lived in Portland. But then
again, I rode public transportation to work and spent many long rainy
afternoons at home reading.
Travel is a time for exploring, not spending all day with a
book. But sometimes the best kind of exploration is internal. Sometimes I don’t
want to be caught up in my own adventure, and I want to indulge in someone
else’s.
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| Reading on the beach in Nha Trang, Vietnam |
Half of these books are on gender and sexuality, which is
part of the homework I'm doing for a website I created on queer literature. The
other half are fiction of interest, from some of my favorite writers like Toni
Morrison and Jeanette Winterson.
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Reading on the slow boat to Luang Prabang, Laos
In chronological order: |
- How Poetry Saved My Life, by Amber Dawn – on a dark,
rainy plane from San Francisco to Hong Kong
- Trans/Love, edited by Morty Diamond – on the bed of my
guest house in Bali
- Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison – on the Mekong in
Laos
- Written on the Body, by Jeantte Winterson – from a
hammock at Mike’s house in Vientiane
- Home, by Toni Morrison – on the beach
in Nha Trang
- On the Road, by Jack Kerouac – on the train from
Hanoi to Hue, and Hue to Da Nang
- Gender Outlaws: The next Generation, by Kate Bornstein – from the bed of
my loft in Phnom Penh
- Redefining Realness, by Janet Mock – from my
living room in Chiang Mai
- The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison – from my apartment rooftop
in Chiang Mai
- Gender Failure, by Ivan Coyote and Rae Spoon- from my apartment balcony
in Chiang Mai
- The Chronology of Water, by Lidia Yuknavitch - from my apartment balcony
in Chiang Mai
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| Reading in the hammock at Mike's place in Vientiane, Laos |
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