The Decemberists, Postal Service, Smashing Pumpkins, Dvorak, Howie Day, Mickey Avalon, Barenaked Ladies, Indigo Girls, Jimmy Eat World, Camille, Paris Combo, Damien Rice, Bloc Party, Brandi Carlile, Jack Johnson, The White Stripes, Imogen Heap, Radiohead, Yael Naim, Ratatat, MGMT, Laskoviy Mai, Hubert Laws, Pink, St. Germain, Snoozebox, Sigur Ross

Les Poupees Russes, Shooting Dogs, L'auberge espagnole, He Loves Me He Loves Me Not, Zemlya

Poor Folk, Master and Margarita, 1984, Anna Karenina, Le Petit Prince, Khalil Gibran, Blindness, D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow, Doctor Zhivago, Lolita

He fell silent and she also fell silent. Then she began rummaging through her handbag searching agonizingly for a topic and finding only a broken comb.

Nabokov's the Defense

And she was afraid, troubled. Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one's own life.

D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow