Mmm..Summer Reading
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
reading number four, pure delight every time
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
Ha, ha: Pablo
Still, I've been looking forward to reading this one since picking it up last summer
Catch 22
Joseph Heller
stillllllll working on it!
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sarah...again. Why am I destined to never finish the books I'm held accountable to her for? However, this one I actually own--and actually love--so maybe it holds more hope than Catch 22.
Don Quixote
Cervantes
Started
Loved
Went 10 months without ever opening again...
This brilliant character sketch needs to be reclaimed from the shelf in my room
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
J.K. Rowling
This one needs a rereading (#5) before the new one comes out--der
which brings me to...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling
Hallelujah!
This was retrieved after a forty minute drive from Eastville to the nearest book store. "Taking it slowly", I still finished in three days. I was very well pleased with the way Rowling treated the last book, and I enjoyed it immensely.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I've tried Spanish-English-Spanish again
and still I have no success
I'm going to try again and, gosh darnit, I'm going to finish!
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Um...Lit Club?
Anyone remember?
I stole the school's copy and I still haven't finished.
My only goal is to finish by graduation
because...
I would feel ashamed returning it to its dusty shelf in the Larts room without first giving it the dignity it deserves of actually reading it.
Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck
I also borrowed this one from Larts.
I also enjoyed it but never finished it.
I have a problem, but I'm going to rectify it this summer.
Seriously
I am.
(Maybe)
(I'll try)
Robert's Rules of Order
Purely because I think I should,
but I probably won't
because
look at my track record above
The Practical Prophet
Bishop Ken Untener
I seriously love this one
the only reason I HAVEN'T finished is because I'm afraid to finish
reading this is like taking nice little snack breaks in between my other books.
If I recommend anything,
I recommend this one.
A Generous Orthodoxy
Brian D. McLaren
picked up sometime in March and just started
I'm really enjoying it thus far--clear perspective, fairly easy reading
This is probably the kind of thing I would take to the beach at least
The Book of Mormon
Because
No, I really think just because BYU offers a free course on it
and I'm curious and own two copies
Why?
I seriously don't know.
Do you?
Main Street
Sinclair Lewis
How have I still not read this?
Wait...I know why
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
finished! ending is best--even if it's sometimes slow in the getting to
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
Read abridged five years ago when I didn't really know it was abridged.
Would really like to read in full because if I'm missing out on the fullness of my favorites Jean Valjean and Eponine then I really need to find out what I'm missing. Note: It's really kind of surprising how many libraries only carry the abridged version of this. I ordered the unabridged and it will be here soon!
Readings for Liberal Education
Garage sale find
I am--at least in part--interested in its massive contents
Scivias
Hildegard of Bingen
would devour in minutes if I could find it anywhere around here
library?
Barnes and Noble?
Nada.
will have to order.
Writings of C.S. Lewis
I have read parts in separate volumes.
After being given this for my birthday, I really have no excuse not to read the rest.
C.S. Lewis=love
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Don't...want...to
but they sent me a free copy
they=the brainwashing horror that is the Ayn Rand Institute
the least I could do is read it
someday
Scarlett
Alexandra Ripley
Because I really want to see how they (yes, the mysterious they again) ruined the brilliance of the original ending in Gone with the Wind with a 270-some page postscript.
The Wind Done Gone
Alice Randall
Bleck! I started this one--such a waste of time.
The Wayward Bus
John Steinbeck
my find at a cute bookshop up north.
Should read? No?
Steinbeck is yummy.
I'm also not quite sure why all the references to food in my commentary.
I did eat today.
Seriously.
The Winter(s) of our Discontent
John Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Why is this the only one of his I can't get through?
I seriously will.
It's another one of those goal things.
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Even seeing the massive list above, I've been dreaming of reading this one again--
pretty much since I set it down last summer
A Tale of Two Cities
Oliver Twist
David Copperfield
I'm not quite sure what my problem with Dickens is. I love the man. I love his beginnings. I just can't keep going. My goal is to get through even one of these.
Little Women
Lousia M. Alcott
Because it's been forever since I've reread this one. It's silly, but I love it. I've been dying to reread the scene where Meg buys the $10 boots and has a panic attack at her extravagance--which I know, seriously was, but I still love it.
Savage Inequalities
Jonathan Kozol
Eye-opening. It's a mark in the power of an author's writing to with one book go a long way toward changing my view on everything from affirmative action to SASA's admission standards. I definitely want to read more of his stuff. Kozol is the mastermind when it comes to writings on education equality.
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
I've had it forever.
I really need to read it.
Our Hearts were Young and Gay
Cornelia Otis Skinner--cute book; brain candy 1920's style
The Glass Castle
Jeanette Walls--Think Angela's Ashes with less diarrhea and swearing. And less angst. Wall's prose is honest but tidy with sparse emotion.
Pnin
Nabokov
Brillllliant.
Half-way
will finish soon.
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini---- This was brilliant. It lived up to everything I heard about it beforehand and more. I haven't had a book make me cry this much in a long time, but I also haven't read a book with this much skill in handling emotion in a long time. It was really kind of haunting at parts, but eye-opening. Very few other books have been written about Afghanistan before the Taliban and before 9/11.
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkein
C'mon. I'm seriously trying on this one. I've been trying since I finished the Hobbit in 3rd grade.
Grrr.
This is my face set in determination that I will finally conquer this one.
Can you see it?
I know.
Neither can I.
The Essential Augustine
Confessions
The Pocket Aristotle
Lectures on Philosophical Theology (Kant)
a pile I will get to
Etz Hayim
The David Story
Commentaries on Ruth & James
Commentary on the Gospels: Spurgeon, Wesley, Henry
I'm reading through Etz Hayim right now as I work through the books of law. As for the others, I'm assuming they'll come when I read through those sections of the bible. It's kind of hard to read a commentary out of its context, you know?
JW sermons and essays
seriously, if only I had 48-hour days. I've been working through it slowly though. I seriously want to frame "Character of a Methodist" and hang it on a wall somewhere...next to maybe his sermon on the means of grace. I would probably make more progress through his books if I could stop rereading those two.
Chocolat
Joanne Harris
Probably not as good as the movie
(because there's no Johnny Depp)
but maybe still good
Ursula, Under
Ingrid Hill
My mom's been raving about this one for almost a year, and now I know why. I pretty much inhaled this incredible book. This review sums it up well: "Ursula, Under is a delicious stew of birth, death, and love...It's a divine view of a family tree." Hearing me rave about it made my mom start to read it again.
The Pursuit of Happyness
Definitely want to read after seeing the movie.
The book will probably make me cry 10x more.
Is it sad that I cry more at happy endings more than sad endings? at least when they come after sad beginnings? I just picked it up from the library.
Freedom Writers
Movie again (which, for the record, Dempsey was absolutely horrible in)
Would rather read the book though
It came in from the library, but I never got to it. My mom read it though and seemed to enjoy it. I'll have to order it again.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Anne Fadiman
This book was absolutely incredible--extremely well-written and such a huge eye-opener. Fadiman has a gift with perspective well-leant by her journalism background.
What is the What
Dave Eggars
Center's site?
I think.
I was intrigued.
And it is also coming from the libary.
Everything that Rises
Lawrence Weschler
I read parts of this one and really enjoyed it. It's sort of amazing the connections this guy can draw between seemingly disparate things. I was drawn in by his brilliant convergences with 9/11 but turned away by his non-inspired political ramblings that took up another half of the book. If only for something new, this is definitely something to check out.
The Trouble with Islam: a Muslim's Call for Reform in her Faith
Irshad Manji
Her colloquial writing here is refreshing rather than stinted and cliched. Beware of some slower reading at parts, but keep reading.
13/48