SUMMER READING LIST, YEAR 2

it's been a while that i've thought i should read goodbye, columbus (if only just for the title story) and bright lights, big city. (read into both of those titles as much as you should.) and for a look at the other side of the same coin, i should probably refresh myself on the beautiful and the damned as well. fitzgerald isn't at all bad. good thing, too. we wouldn't want this year's list to fall to the same fated procrastination as the one from last year. but it's ultimately the thought that counts, right? and the thought is to express it now before the fifth season of "gossip girl" starts this fall and i'm improperly thought of as just another wannabe dan humphrey. no way. the world can still wait for this lonely boy.