Celebrating International Literacy Day with Stephen King

Greetings to our blog readers in Italy, Ukraine, and Sweden.

We are thrilled to see that someone from the coastal African nation of Gabon has checked out our blog!

Today is International Literacy Day, so we thought we'd post a random list of ten novels we need to read again as we listen to Depeche Mode:

1) Misery. Stephen King. 1987 (pict. top)

2) Choke. Chuck Palahniuk. 2001 (pict. center)

3) Bright Lights, Big City. Jay McInerney (pict. bottom)

4) The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald. 1925.

5) The Chosen. Chaim Potok. 1967.

6) The Hours. Michael Cunnigham. 1998.

7) The Breakfast of Champions. Kurt Vonnegut. 1973.

8) Netherland. Joseph O'Neill. 2008. (The author is half-Irish, and half-Turkish)

9) Deliverance. James Dickey. 1970. 

10) Chilly Scenes of Winter. Anne Beattie. 1976.

http://www.lonelyplanet.com

http://www.internationalliteracyday.com

http://www.jaymcinerney.com

http://www.hplct.org (Hartford Public Library; McInerney was born in the Connecticut capital)/

Summer Concerts 2009

I am anticipating a hectic week at work starting tomorrow, so I am posting this tonight.

Here is a partial list of some hip (and perhaps not-so-hip) acts who are hitting the road this summer with some select dates on their respective tour schedules.



May 31 REO Speedwagon (w/Styx and 38 Special) Morrison, Col. (Red Rocks)

June 6 Coldplay, Nashville, TN.

June 8 Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Phoenix, Ariz. (Marquee Theatre)

June 13 Depeche Mode, Munich, Germany*

June 18 Huey Lewis and the News, Vienna, Va. (DC) (Wolf Trap Performing Arts Center)

July 16 Journey Walker, Minn.,(Moondance Jam Festival)**

July 27 Gogol Bordello St. Petersburg, Fla. ,(Janus Landing)

Aug. 7 Def Leppard (w/Cheap Trick and Poison), Raleigh, NC

*-Depeche Mode will come to North America in July

**-Marks the debut of their North American tour