Hasty inspired me
One of my dearest friends inspired me to come up with my reading list this year...
Hasty 16/11/05: kahapon wala ako magawa so i checked out the list for the pulitzer prize winning novels. happy naman ako that i've read some previous winners. "the mambo kings play songs of love" won in 1990. some of the other pulitzer prize winning books i've read are: "a good scent from a strange mountain" by robert olen butler (1993) (na super ganda even though in one of the stories ay nilait niya ang patis galing sa pilipinas), "the hours" by michael cunningham (1999), "middlesex" by jeffrey eugenides (2003). meron akong "interpreter of maladies" by jumpa lahiri (2004), pero di ko pa feel basahin. nabili ko nga pala itong book na ito for 200 pesos sa isang small sari-sari store sa caticlan last year.
Bestfriend, I hope you could give me an idea or a review of the Hours, Middlesex and Mambo Kings!
These are the books from the Pulitzer list that I am interested in reading this year(including the source - hehehe organised na kung kanino ko hihiramin di ba?)...
FICTION
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) - GREG
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) - LIB (VCT F COLO)
1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - LIB (F HIJ)
1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) - LIB (RG CUNN)
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - LIB (F EUGE)
NON FICTION
1983 Is There No Place On Earth For Me? by Susan Sheehan (Houghton Mifflin) - LIB (920 FRU)
1998 Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (W.W. Norton) - BRETT
2003 "A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power (Basic Books) - LIB (304.66309 POWE)
BIOGRAPHY
1989 Oscar Wilde by the late Richard Ellmann (Alfred A. Knopf) - LIB (DVD F WILD)
1990 Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia (Princeton University Press) - BRETT
1993 Truman by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster) - LIB (920 TRU)
1996 God: A Biography by Jack Miles (Alfred A. Knopf) - LIB (231 MILE)
1997 Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (Scribner) - KAREN/ LIB (VCT F ANGE)
HISTORY
1947 Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter 3rd (Little) - LIB (355.07 BAX)
1990 In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow (Random House) - LIB (959.9 KAR)
ALSO by Pulitzer Authors:
Deadly feasts : tracking the secrets of a terrifying new plague / Richard Rhodes. - LIB (618.8 RHO)
The youngest parents : teenage pregnancy as it shapes lives / Robert Coles ; with Robert E. Coles, Daniel A. Coles, Michael H. Coles ; photographs by John Moses and Jocelyn Lee. - LIB (205.325 COLE)
Sex on the brain : the biological differences between men and women / Deborah Blum. - LIB (612.6 BLUM)
Fear itself : the origin and nature of the powerful emotion that shapes our lives and our world / Rush W. Dozier, Jr. - LIB (152.162 DOZ)
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton - LIB (VC F AGEO)
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed / Jared Diamond.(Follow up to Guns, Germs... - LIB (304.28 DIAM)
Visions of technology : a century of vital debate about machines, systems, and the human world / edited by Richard Rhodes. - LIB (609 RHOD)
What inspired me to make a list?
I've had an opportunity to read some books last year - even comic books (I went through a phase of Far Side and Dilberts - and yes I've read them all - even Cartoons from the New Yorker!).
Read heaps during the holidays too - I really like Reader's Digest (I take it to the gym while waiting for my class) for it's useful and quite current tidbits of info. Tried a Sophie Kinsella - "Confessions of a Shopaholic" but I'm afraid I might pass on the Shopaholic bandwagon - it was a bit too popcorn. But hey, I'll still give her a go with "The Undomestic Goddess" if I can get my hands on a copy...
Just finished Further Under the Duvet by Marian Keyes too. She's very Chick-lit. I still like her. :)
~Nis I'm sending you a little book Penguin did of her shorts so you could give her a go - see if you like her :)
Hmm, I think the only unfinished book I have under the bed is the Anthology of Australian Folklore - after I finish it I'll start with my list...yay!
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1980 & Prior (or not in LIB) - the Untrackables!
1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) -X
1984 The Social Transformation Of American Medicine by Paul Starr (Basic Books) -X
1964 Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter (Random) -X
1970 Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson (Norton) -X
1918 Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed by William Cabell Bruce (Putnam)
1932 Theodore Roosevelt by Henry F. Pringle (Harcourt)
1934 John Hay by Tyler Dennett (Dodd)
1939 Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren (Viking)
1940 Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII by Ray Stannard Baker (Doubleday)
1957 Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy (Harper)
1958 George Washington, Volumes I-VI by Douglas Southall Freeman, and Volume VII, written by
John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth after Dr. Freeman's Death in 1953 (Scribner)
1959 Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet by Arthur Walworth (Longmans)
1964 John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate (Harvard Univ. Press)
1978 Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate (Harcourt)
1980 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (Coward, McCann) -X
1987 Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
by David J. Garrow (William Morrow)
1991 Jackson Pollock by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (Clarkson N. Potter)
1926 A History of the United States by Edward Channing (Macmillan)-X
1981 American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin (Harper & Row) -X
1988 The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876 by Robert V. Bruce (Alfred A. Knopf) - X
Hasty 16/11/05: kahapon wala ako magawa so i checked out the list for the pulitzer prize winning novels. happy naman ako that i've read some previous winners. "the mambo kings play songs of love" won in 1990. some of the other pulitzer prize winning books i've read are: "a good scent from a strange mountain" by robert olen butler (1993) (na super ganda even though in one of the stories ay nilait niya ang patis galing sa pilipinas), "the hours" by michael cunningham (1999), "middlesex" by jeffrey eugenides (2003). meron akong "interpreter of maladies" by jumpa lahiri (2004), pero di ko pa feel basahin. nabili ko nga pala itong book na ito for 200 pesos sa isang small sari-sari store sa caticlan last year.
Bestfriend, I hope you could give me an idea or a review of the Hours, Middlesex and Mambo Kings!
These are the books from the Pulitzer list that I am interested in reading this year(including the source - hehehe organised na kung kanino ko hihiramin di ba?)...
FICTION
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott) - GREG
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace) - LIB (VCT F COLO)
1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - LIB (F HIJ)
1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) - LIB (RG CUNN)
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - LIB (F EUGE)
NON FICTION
1983 Is There No Place On Earth For Me? by Susan Sheehan (Houghton Mifflin) - LIB (920 FRU)
1998 Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (W.W. Norton) - BRETT
2003 "A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power (Basic Books) - LIB (304.66309 POWE)
BIOGRAPHY
1989 Oscar Wilde by the late Richard Ellmann (Alfred A. Knopf) - LIB (DVD F WILD)
1990 Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia (Princeton University Press) - BRETT
1993 Truman by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster) - LIB (920 TRU)
1996 God: A Biography by Jack Miles (Alfred A. Knopf) - LIB (231 MILE)
1997 Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (Scribner) - KAREN/ LIB (VCT F ANGE)
HISTORY
1947 Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter 3rd (Little) - LIB (355.07 BAX)
1990 In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow (Random House) - LIB (959.9 KAR)
ALSO by Pulitzer Authors:
Deadly feasts : tracking the secrets of a terrifying new plague / Richard Rhodes. - LIB (618.8 RHO)
The youngest parents : teenage pregnancy as it shapes lives / Robert Coles ; with Robert E. Coles, Daniel A. Coles, Michael H. Coles ; photographs by John Moses and Jocelyn Lee. - LIB (205.325 COLE)
Sex on the brain : the biological differences between men and women / Deborah Blum. - LIB (612.6 BLUM)
Fear itself : the origin and nature of the powerful emotion that shapes our lives and our world / Rush W. Dozier, Jr. - LIB (152.162 DOZ)
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton - LIB (VC F AGEO)
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed / Jared Diamond.(Follow up to Guns, Germs... - LIB (304.28 DIAM)
Visions of technology : a century of vital debate about machines, systems, and the human world / edited by Richard Rhodes. - LIB (609 RHOD)
What inspired me to make a list?
I've had an opportunity to read some books last year - even comic books (I went through a phase of Far Side and Dilberts - and yes I've read them all - even Cartoons from the New Yorker!).
Read heaps during the holidays too - I really like Reader's Digest (I take it to the gym while waiting for my class) for it's useful and quite current tidbits of info. Tried a Sophie Kinsella - "Confessions of a Shopaholic" but I'm afraid I might pass on the Shopaholic bandwagon - it was a bit too popcorn. But hey, I'll still give her a go with "The Undomestic Goddess" if I can get my hands on a copy...
Just finished Further Under the Duvet by Marian Keyes too. She's very Chick-lit. I still like her. :)
~Nis I'm sending you a little book Penguin did of her shorts so you could give her a go - see if you like her :)
Hmm, I think the only unfinished book I have under the bed is the Anthology of Australian Folklore - after I finish it I'll start with my list...yay!
================
1980 & Prior (or not in LIB) - the Untrackables!
1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House) -X
1984 The Social Transformation Of American Medicine by Paul Starr (Basic Books) -X
1964 Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter (Random) -X
1970 Gandhi's Truth by Erik H. Erikson (Norton) -X
1918 Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed by William Cabell Bruce (Putnam)
1932 Theodore Roosevelt by Henry F. Pringle (Harcourt)
1934 John Hay by Tyler Dennett (Dodd)
1939 Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren (Viking)
1940 Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII by Ray Stannard Baker (Doubleday)
1957 Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy (Harper)
1958 George Washington, Volumes I-VI by Douglas Southall Freeman, and Volume VII, written by
John Alexander Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth after Dr. Freeman's Death in 1953 (Scribner)
1959 Woodrow Wilson, American Prophet by Arthur Walworth (Longmans)
1964 John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate (Harvard Univ. Press)
1978 Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate (Harcourt)
1980 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (Coward, McCann) -X
1987 Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
by David J. Garrow (William Morrow)
1991 Jackson Pollock by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (Clarkson N. Potter)
1926 A History of the United States by Edward Channing (Macmillan)-X
1981 American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin (Harper & Row) -X
1988 The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876 by Robert V. Bruce (Alfred A. Knopf) - X