the stone of nonsensicality
I just started Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal, and I can't tell y'all what a relief it is after - or rather, during - Malinche. Reading a book which is a) aimed at people approximately half my age and b) one I've already read in English is so much easier. I like Malinche very much (I think; I also think I have some serious issues with it, but it's hard to be sure), but about the only thing to be grateful for there is that Esquivel likes to repeat herself in several different ways, so after struggling through a page of description and philosophizing I can come away with the overall knowledge that Malinalli is cold and her feet hurt and not have missed anything plotwise.
On that note, I give you the Summerlist, which has been pruned again - this time because I seriously cannot take any more of this shite from scholars in the sixties on Spain. It's one thing to read old stuff about like France or England, because it's all like, "Ooh, they're so cool, empire, cultural importance, wonderful art, impressive leadership, la di da", and the prejudice is easier to stomach. But old stuff about Spain is so horrifically condescending that I give up.
Classics:
Favorite Poems of Emily Dickinson
Howards End
The Brothers Karamazov
For Fun:
Mike Ashley:
The Mammoth Book of King Arthur
Jennifer Lee Carrell:
Interred with Their Bones
Laura Esquivel:
Malinche
Juan Cano:
La Vida de un Picaro
Haruki Murakami:
Underground
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Kafka on the Shore
After Dark
Isabel Allende:
La ciudad de las bestias
City of the Beasts
Myla Goldberg:
Wickett's Remedy
Ellen Datlow:
Troll's Eye View
History and Stuff:
Marion Meade:
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Gail Collins:
America’s Women
Howard Zinn:
The Twentieth Century
E. S. Stevens:
Folktales of Iraq
Deborah Ellis:
Children of War
Laurie Stoff:
Spain
Graham Faiella:
Spain
Fiona Dunlop:
Spain
George Tyler Northup:
An Introduction to Spanish Literature
Buffy:
Buffy Goes Dark
Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon
The Truth of Buffy
The Existential Joss Whedon
Undead TV
Potterfest '09:
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Quidditch Through the Ages
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal
Harry Potter y la camera secreta
Harry Potter y el prisionero de Azkaban
Harry Potter y el caliz de fuego
Harry Potter y la Orden de Fenix
Harry Potter y el misterio de principe
Harry Potter y las Reliquias de Muerte
On that note, I give you the Summerlist, which has been pruned again - this time because I seriously cannot take any more of this shite from scholars in the sixties on Spain. It's one thing to read old stuff about like France or England, because it's all like, "Ooh, they're so cool, empire, cultural importance, wonderful art, impressive leadership, la di da", and the prejudice is easier to stomach. But old stuff about Spain is so horrifically condescending that I give up.
Classics:
Favorite Poems of Emily Dickinson
Howards End
The Brothers Karamazov
For Fun:
Mike Ashley:
The Mammoth Book of King Arthur
Jennifer Lee Carrell:
Interred with Their Bones
Laura Esquivel:
Malinche
Juan Cano:
La Vida de un Picaro
Haruki Murakami:
Underground
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Kafka on the Shore
After Dark
Isabel Allende:
La ciudad de las bestias
City of the Beasts
Myla Goldberg:
Wickett's Remedy
Ellen Datlow:
Troll's Eye View
History and Stuff:
Marion Meade:
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Gail Collins:
America’s Women
Howard Zinn:
The Twentieth Century
E. S. Stevens:
Folktales of Iraq
Deborah Ellis:
Children of War
Laurie Stoff:
Spain
Graham Faiella:
Spain
Fiona Dunlop:
Spain
George Tyler Northup:
An Introduction to Spanish Literature
Buffy:
Buffy Goes Dark
Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon
The Truth of Buffy
The Existential Joss Whedon
Undead TV
Potterfest '09:
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Quidditch Through the Ages
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal
Harry Potter y la camera secreta
Harry Potter y el prisionero de Azkaban
Harry Potter y el caliz de fuego
Harry Potter y la Orden de Fenix
Harry Potter y el misterio de principe
Harry Potter y las Reliquias de Muerte