Enter your email Address

ENTROPY
  • About
    • About
    • Masthead
    • Advertising
    • Submission Guidelines
    • Info on Book Reviews
  • Essays
    • All Introspection
      Creative Nonfiction / Essay

      Salt and Sleep

      January 15, 2021

      Creative Nonfiction / Essay

      Revolution for Covid

      January 14, 2021

      Creative Nonfiction / Essay

      WOVEN: My Precious: On Leaving My Abusive Ex-Husband and Being Left with the Ring

      January 13, 2021

      Creative Nonfiction / Essay

      The Birds: Saw-Whet

      January 7, 2021

      Introspection

      The Birds: A Special Providence in the Fall of a Sparrow

      January 2, 2020

      Introspection

      Returning Home with Ross McElwee

      December 13, 2019

      Introspection

      The Birds: In Our Piety

      November 14, 2019

      Introspection

      Variations: Landslide

      June 12, 2019

  • Fiction
    • Fiction

      The Birds: Little Birds

      December 11, 2020

      Fiction

      The Birds: Perdix and a Pear Tree

      December 9, 2020

      Fiction

      The Birds: A Glimmer of Blue

      November 23, 2020

      Fiction

      The Birds: Circling for Home

      November 13, 2020

      Fiction

      The Birds: The Guest

      November 9, 2020

  • Reviews
    • All Collaborative Review Video Review
      Review

      Perceived Realities: A Review of M-Theory by Tiffany Cates

      January 14, 2021

      Review

      Review: Danger Days by Catherine Pierce

      January 11, 2021

      Review

      Review – : once teeth bones coral : by Kimberly Alidio

      January 7, 2021

      Review

      Review: Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante

      December 21, 2020

      Collaborative Review

      Attention to the Real: A Conversation

      September 3, 2020

      Collaborative Review

      A Street Car Named Whatever

      February 22, 2016

      Collaborative Review

      Black Gum: A Conversational Review

      August 7, 2015

      Collaborative Review

      Lords of Waterdeep in Conversation

      February 25, 2015

      Video Review

      Entropy’s Super Mario Level

      September 15, 2015

      Video Review

      Flash Portraits of Link: Part 7 – In Weakness, Find Strength

      January 2, 2015

      Video Review

      Basal Ganglia by Matthew Revert

      March 31, 2014

      Video Review

      The Desert Places by Amber Sparks and Robert Kloss, Illustrated by Matt Kish

      March 21, 2014

  • Small Press
    • Small Press

      Gordon Hill Press

      December 8, 2020

      Small Press

      Evidence House

      November 24, 2020

      Small Press

      death of workers whilst building skyscrapers

      November 10, 2020

      Small Press

      Slate Roof Press

      September 15, 2020

      Small Press

      Ellipsis Press

      September 1, 2020

  • Where to Submit
  • More
    • Poetry
    • Interviews
    • Games
      • All Board Games Video Games
        Creative Nonfiction / Essay

        How Zelda Saved Me: The Inspiration, Feminism, and Empowerment of Hyrule

        November 2, 2020

        Board Games

        Session Report: Victoriana and Optimism

        December 14, 2019

        Games

        Best of 2019: Video Games

        December 13, 2019

        Games

        Hunt A Killer, Earthbreak, and Empty Faces: Escapism for the Post-Truth Era

        September 21, 2019

        Board Games

        Session Report: Victoriana and Optimism

        December 14, 2019

        Board Games

        Ludic Writing: Lady of the West

        July 27, 2019

        Board Games

        Session Report: Paperback and Anomia

        July 27, 2019

        Board Games

        Ludic Writing: The Real Leeds Part 12 (Once in a Lifetime)

        November 10, 2018

        Video Games

        How Zelda Saved Me: The Inspiration, Feminism, and Empowerment of Hyrule

        November 2, 2020

        Video Games

        Best of 2019: Video Games

        December 13, 2019

        Video Games

        Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the Spirit of Generosity

        December 31, 2018

        Video Games

        Best of 2018: Video Games

        December 17, 2018

    • Food
    • Small Press Releases
    • Film
    • Music
    • Paranormal
    • Travel
    • Art
    • Graphic Novels
    • Comics
    • Current Events
    • Astrology
    • Random
  • RESOURCES
  • The Accomplices
    • THE ACCOMPLICES
    • Enclave
    • Trumpwatch

ENTROPY

  • About
    • About
    • Masthead
    • Advertising
    • Submission Guidelines
    • Info on Book Reviews
  • Essays
    • All Introspection
      Creative Nonfiction / Essay

      Salt and Sleep

      January 15, 2021

      Creative Nonfiction / Essay

      Revolution for Covid

      January 14, 2021

      Creative Nonfiction / Essay

      WOVEN: My Precious: On Leaving My Abusive Ex-Husband and Being Left with the Ring

      January 13, 2021

      Creative Nonfiction / Essay

      The Birds: Saw-Whet

      January 7, 2021

      Introspection

      The Birds: A Special Providence in the Fall of a Sparrow

      January 2, 2020

      Introspection

      Returning Home with Ross McElwee

      December 13, 2019

      Introspection

      The Birds: In Our Piety

      November 14, 2019

      Introspection

      Variations: Landslide

      June 12, 2019

  • Fiction
    • Fiction

      The Birds: Little Birds

      December 11, 2020

      Fiction

      The Birds: Perdix and a Pear Tree

      December 9, 2020

      Fiction

      The Birds: A Glimmer of Blue

      November 23, 2020

      Fiction

      The Birds: Circling for Home

      November 13, 2020

      Fiction

      The Birds: The Guest

      November 9, 2020

  • Reviews
    • All Collaborative Review Video Review
      Review

      Perceived Realities: A Review of M-Theory by Tiffany Cates

      January 14, 2021

      Review

      Review: Danger Days by Catherine Pierce

      January 11, 2021

      Review

      Review – : once teeth bones coral : by Kimberly Alidio

      January 7, 2021

      Review

      Review: Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante

      December 21, 2020

      Collaborative Review

      Attention to the Real: A Conversation

      September 3, 2020

      Collaborative Review

      A Street Car Named Whatever

      February 22, 2016

      Collaborative Review

      Black Gum: A Conversational Review

      August 7, 2015

      Collaborative Review

      Lords of Waterdeep in Conversation

      February 25, 2015

      Video Review

      Entropy’s Super Mario Level

      September 15, 2015

      Video Review

      Flash Portraits of Link: Part 7 – In Weakness, Find Strength

      January 2, 2015

      Video Review

      Basal Ganglia by Matthew Revert

      March 31, 2014

      Video Review

      The Desert Places by Amber Sparks and Robert Kloss, Illustrated by Matt Kish

      March 21, 2014

  • Small Press
    • Small Press

      Gordon Hill Press

      December 8, 2020

      Small Press

      Evidence House

      November 24, 2020

      Small Press

      death of workers whilst building skyscrapers

      November 10, 2020

      Small Press

      Slate Roof Press

      September 15, 2020

      Small Press

      Ellipsis Press

      September 1, 2020

  • Where to Submit
  • More
    • Poetry
    • Interviews
    • Games
      • All Board Games Video Games
        Creative Nonfiction / Essay

        How Zelda Saved Me: The Inspiration, Feminism, and Empowerment of Hyrule

        November 2, 2020

        Board Games

        Session Report: Victoriana and Optimism

        December 14, 2019

        Games

        Best of 2019: Video Games

        December 13, 2019

        Games

        Hunt A Killer, Earthbreak, and Empty Faces: Escapism for the Post-Truth Era

        September 21, 2019

        Board Games

        Session Report: Victoriana and Optimism

        December 14, 2019

        Board Games

        Ludic Writing: Lady of the West

        July 27, 2019

        Board Games

        Session Report: Paperback and Anomia

        July 27, 2019

        Board Games

        Ludic Writing: The Real Leeds Part 12 (Once in a Lifetime)

        November 10, 2018

        Video Games

        How Zelda Saved Me: The Inspiration, Feminism, and Empowerment of Hyrule

        November 2, 2020

        Video Games

        Best of 2019: Video Games

        December 13, 2019

        Video Games

        Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the Spirit of Generosity

        December 31, 2018

        Video Games

        Best of 2018: Video Games

        December 17, 2018

    • Food
    • Small Press Releases
    • Film
    • Music
    • Paranormal
    • Travel
    • Art
    • Graphic Novels
    • Comics
    • Current Events
    • Astrology
    • Random
  • RESOURCES
  • The Accomplices
    • THE ACCOMPLICES
    • Enclave
    • Trumpwatch
Literature

What I Want to Read

written by Alex Kalamaroff October 17, 2014

I want to read something fun.

 

I want to read something nigh-incomprehensible.

 

Or something surreal and sickly sardonic. Something Gutter Operatic.

 

I want to read every book I own that I haven’t read yet, mostly to assuage my guilt.

 

I want to read a novel composed entirely of metaphors stupider than my penis.

 

I want to read your next novel.

 

I want to read a novel that’s strictly social media updates about the world’s end.

 

I want to read a novel narrated by a fearsome chinchilla.

 

I want to read a novel by George Saunders.

 

I want to read that harlequin romance Lynn Cheney penned.

 

I want to read a novel composed entirely of the letter “e.”

 

I want to read a novel that’s 10,000 blank pages. It will be the longest novel I have ever read.

 

I want to read the sequel to Repo Shark.

 

I want to read the novel that Dashiell Hammett did not write between 1935 and his death in 1961.

 

I want to read Mary Gaitskill’s next novel.

 

I want to read the books boorish high school administrators seek to ban, screaming, “But think of the children!” Another way to say this is I want to read books that don’t think of the children.

 

I want to read more novels published in 1976.

 

I want to read the next Claire DeWitt mystery.

 

I want either cosmic forces or a divine being or cheerful djinn to grant me an additional ten hours every day during which time the only thing I am permitted to do is read.

 

I want to read the novels that people say have changed their lives, so my life can be changed too.

 

I want to learn Russian so I can tackle Pushkin in the original and become more intimately involved with the intricacies of samovars.

 

I want read to Henry James instead of merely admiring him.

 

I want to read more Agatha Christie!

 

I want to read another Teju Cole twitter-essay.

 

I want to read the poems Stalin’s goons shredded like utopian dreams.

 

I want to read a short story that’s got no chance in hell of getting published in The New Yorker.

 

I want to make a distinction or rather reject one. Sometimes people differentiate between reading and reading for pleasure. To me it’s all the same soup.

 

I want to read all that German philosophy. But only if said philosophy gets restructured to better resemble a well-plotted whodunit.

 

I want to read everything Two Dollar Radio has published.

 

I want to read more Valeria Luiselli.

 

I don’t want to read any more emails unless said emails are at least approximately 40,000 words long and contain a decent narrative arc.

 

I want you to text me a bit of flash fiction. Seriously. (585) 705-7908.

 

I want to spend all Sunday reading.

 

Sometimes people ask me, “What are you up to tonight?” I wish I could always reply, “Reading.”

 

I want to call in sick tomorrow and read The Jane Austen Rules, which I promised Brian Hurley I’d write a review for.

 

I want to read all of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling in a single sitting.

 

I want to read something silly.

 

I want to reread Brian Jacques’s Redwall series, mostly because these were my and Katharine’s favorites book when we were eight.

 

I want to reread A Wrinkle in Time too.

 

I want to read dense non-fiction exploring important topics I don’t know very much about, which is pretty much everything.

 

I want to read love poetry.

 

I want to read too much into every passing moment.

 

I want to read whatever Katharine is currently reading so we can Skype about it!

 

I want to read more joke one-liners.

 

I want to one day own a house or decent-sized condo and in this home have a chair that is known as the “Reading Chair,” and the only thing that one is allowed to do while seated in said chair is read. (Of course.)

 

I want to read something zany.

 

I want to read something honest.

 

I want to read the stories of those who brave enough to speak truth to power.

 

I want to hire Nabokov’s ghost to write descriptions of the everyday objects that surround me and then have these descriptions read to me.

 

I want to read something that at first I adamantly disagree with but later on agree with, at least a little bit.

 

I want to read memoirs of resistance.

 

I want to read that justice still matters.

 

I want to proofread the next draft of the novel I’m working on.

 

I want to read tales of your success.

 

I want to read a book review composed entirely of thought fragment.

 

I want to read whatever it is that will change our lives.

What I Want to Read was last modified: October 16th, 2014 by Alex Kalamaroff
booksNabokov's Ghost Will Edit Your Work (Reasonable Rates)The Alex and Katharine Twin Book ClubTwo Dollar RadioWhat To Do When You Call In Sick From Work
0 comment
0
Facebook Twitter Google + Pinterest
Avatar
Alex Kalamaroff

Alex Kalamaroff is a writer and educator living in Boston. He is the Book Reviews Editor for Entropy. alex [at] entropymag.org / @alexkalamaroff

previous post
10 Literary Haunted Places
next post
Poets Paying the Thesaurus A Visit

You may also like

How to Travel With Your Demons by Lillian Ann Slugocki

February 22, 2016

The Place That Didn’t Exist by Mark Watson

October 14, 2016

Dear Leader by Damian Rogers

October 15, 2015

Shiny New Up Against the Old: Wendy S. Walters’ Surreal Reality in Multiply/Divide

January 2, 2018
Facebook Twitter Instagram

Recent Comments

  • Lisa S Thank you so much for your kind words and your feedback. I can only hope my story is able to help someone who needs it.

    WOVEN: This isn’t love ·  January 8, 2021

  • Ann Guy Thank you, Josh. And glad you didn’t get tetanus at band camp on that misguided day.

    A Way Back Home ·  December 24, 2020

  • Ann Guy Thank you, Tyler! Great to make a connection with another Fremonster. I had a wonderful catchup with your uncle while doing research for my essay. I think Fremont is a microcosm of what’s occurring...

    A Way Back Home ·  December 23, 2020

Featured Columns & Series

  • The Birds
  • Dinnerview
  • WOVEN
  • Variations on a Theme
  • BLACKCACKLE
  • Literacy Narrative
  • COVID-19
  • Mini-Syllabus
  • Their Days Are Numbered
  • On Weather
  • Disarticulations
  • The Waters
  • Session Report series
  • Birdwolf
  • Comics I've Been Geeking Out On
  • Small Press Releases
  • Books I Hate (and Also Some I Like)
  • The Poetics of Spaces
  • Fog or a Cloud
  • 30 Years of Ghibli
  • Tales From the End of the Bus Line
  • Cooking Origin Stories
  • YOU MAKE ME FEEL
  • Ludic Writing
  • Best of 2019
  • The Talking Cure
  • Stars to Stories
  • DRAGONS ARE REAL OR THEY ARE DEAD
  • Foster Care
  • Food and Covid-19
  • LEAKY CULTURE
  • Jem and the Holographic Feminisms
  • D&D with Entropy

Find Us On Facebook

Entropy
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

©2014-2020 The Accomplices LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Read our updated Privacy Policy.


Back To Top