Let's make a list...

I've said before that I want to start reading more classic works of literature - books, plays, even poetry, which I've never been into before. So I'm going to make a list, off the top of my head, of some of the authors/books/stories I want to read. Please make suggestions for additional works/authors.

Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov (actually, pretty much anything by Nabokov)

The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams

Hans Christian Andersen's stories (I've read them, but it was a long time ago)

Franz Kafka

Emily Dickinson

Leaves of Grass and Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman (I know the former is a collection and the latter a poem)

The Bible - I've read parts of the Pentateuch and the New Testament, but I think I should read it all.

The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins.

Bleak House and A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens.

The Iliad and The Oddyssey (I read most of the latter in high school)

The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer

Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville

All of Don Quixote, by Miguel Cervantes

The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas (this one I actually want to read in French, if possible)

I can't think of any more right now. Anyone care to add to the list? Classic science fiction is legit, since I need to read more of that too. As long as it's not the Foundation series.

Windows (not the operating system)

It took more than an hour, a lot of frustration and some creativity, but I have now insulated the windows in my room with a kit that consists of plastic and double-sided tape. I had to use broad Scotch tape, too, to hold down some of the corners. And the plastic sheets were not long enough for my windows, so I had to cut off some of the excess from the side and tape it to the bottom. The result isn't pretty, but it keeps the drafts out surprisingly well. Tomorrow I think I'll do the same to the kitchen windows.

Oh, and it's only four days until Philcon...