Wow, that's a lot of reading :) May have to steal this meme, though I haven't read nearly as much stuff! I silently wooped at #25 because I actually knew which sonnet that was \o/ 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun', right?
Btw, it's not really a lot of reading when you consider that some of these books are long-term projects so to speak. Some books I read in a few hours as for example Seven Daughters and Seven Sons or Shadow Spinner (about Sherazade and her story telling) and some take a while to digest. Sacred Games is a good example for one such book. I couldn't read it in one go. Much as I wanted to. I had to stop after every chapter and digest what I had read. Was actually the first time that I consciously stepped back from a book (time and again) because I had the feeling I was too much involved.
Oh and steal away. I'm always curious what other people read because I might learn of some interesting title that way. Am always on the look-out for new books to read.
Agatha Christie is one of my favorite authors also. I used to read her when I was a child and I can read her books over and over. I love the characters almost as much as the resolution of the mystery.
I like your choice of plays. I'd include Much Ado about Nothing and The Importance of Being Earnest" in my list also.
An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge sounds so familiar! What is it about? I so agree with you about Stephanie Meyer and those stupid books. I can't wait for all the books to be made into movies so we can just get them over with and hopefully forget about them!
I love the sonnet by Shakespeare(130),though I must confess I didn't know it by the number. What are Terry Pratchett's books about?
Re. the plays: Both demand a different approach from me. I can't read Shakespeare's plays. Not first anyway. I have to see them on stage before I can ever read them (and not hate them). While I can easily read any Wilde without ever having to see the actual play. (Though I try to naturally. After all, plays are made for being seen and not read.)
If I know any Shakespeare sonnet, I know it most probably by number. That's because I didn't read them - didn't even know they existed - until the first year in university; and there, they always referred to the sonnets by number. (Well, actually by Roman numerals. Those nutjobs.) *shrugs* It stuck. My first lecture in Introduction to English and American Literature went something like this: prof: And next week we're going to discuss Shakespeare's sonnet XVIII. Kay: Huh, they're numbered? ... waitaminute, he wrote sonnetsAlright, Terry Pratchett ... Well, Good Omens (the one he wrote with Neil Gaiman) is about
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Btw, it's not really a lot of reading when you consider that some of these books are long-term projects so to speak. Some books I read in a few hours as for example Seven Daughters and Seven Sons or Shadow Spinner (about Sherazade and her story telling) and some take a while to digest. Sacred Games is a good example for one such book. I couldn't read it in one go. Much as I wanted to. I had to stop after every chapter and digest what I had read. Was actually the first time that I consciously stepped back from a book (time and again) because I had the feeling I was too much involved.
Oh and steal away. I'm always curious what other people read because I might learn of some interesting title that way. Am always on the look-out for new books to read.
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I like your choice of plays. I'd include Much Ado about Nothing and The Importance of Being Earnest" in my list also.
An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge sounds so familiar! What is it about?
I so agree with you about Stephanie Meyer and those stupid books. I can't wait for all the books to be made into movies so we can just get them over with and hopefully forget about them!
I love the sonnet by Shakespeare(130),though I must confess I didn't know it by the number.
What are Terry Pratchett's books about?
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Re. the plays: Both demand a different approach from me. I can't read Shakespeare's plays. Not first anyway. I have to see them on stage before I can ever read them (and not hate them). While I can easily read any Wilde without ever having to see the actual play. (Though I try to naturally. After all, plays are made for being seen and not read.)
If I know any Shakespeare sonnet, I know it most probably by number. That's because I didn't read them - didn't even know they existed - until the first year in university; and there, they always referred to the sonnets by number. (Well, actually by Roman numerals. Those nutjobs.) *shrugs* It stuck.
My first lecture in Introduction to English and American Literature went something like this:
prof: And next week we're going to discuss Shakespeare's sonnet XVIII.
Kay: Huh, they're numbered? ... waitaminute, he wrote sonnetsAlright, Terry Pratchett ... Well, Good Omens (the one he wrote with Neil Gaiman) is about ( ... )
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