Winter Holiday Reading Lists

[grace86]

I was wondering if any other students out there are also looking forward to the winter breaks to catch up on some long missed reading. I've been so busy this quarter that I can't wait to pull some of my books off the shelf, and, like bazarov....just eat them up..;)

So what are you all planning to read during break?

My list:

She and Allan
Don Quixote (I am in the last chapters of the novel)
Fathers and Sons
Sons and Lovers

Again, I play the optimist thinking I can get these all done. But hey, can't hurt right??

[Dori]

For the month of December, I have planned the following:

Joan of Arc: Maid, Myth, and History ~ Timothy Wilson-Smith
The House of the Dead ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fathers and Sons ~ Ivan Turgenev -OR- The Master and Margarita ~ Bulgakov
The Death of Ivan Ilych, The Kreutzer Sonata ~ Leo Tolstoy
1984 ~ George Orwell (if my English teacher can fit it in this month)

...and perhaps a few more books which catch my interest. Basically Russian literature with some American thrown in and a nonfiction book to top it off.

[grace86]

The Kreutzer Sonata is pretty short so it should be a quick read. It was a bit different but still enjoyable...classic Russian literature ;)

Quite a bit of reads for December!!

[Dori]

The Kreutzer Sonata is pretty short so it should be a quick read. It was a bit different but still enjoyable...classic Russian literature ;)

Quite a bit of reads for December!!

All of it probably amounts to little more than 1,000 pages - almost the equivalent of Don Quixote :D . I've already read half of my non-fiction book, which is just over 200 pages in length. I'll most likely be finished with that and Tolstoy by the end of the week.

[rgdmalaysia]

My current reading list....

A Dark Night's Passing by Naoya Shiga
Room at the Top by John Braine
World Light by Halldor Laxness
The Dark Room by Junnosuki Yoshiyuki
For Love Alone by Christina Stead
Bengali Girlhood by Taslima Nasrin
Cul De Sac by Kuroj Suroi
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker

[Nico87]

You should all read The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth!

[motherhubbard]

A Framework For Understanding Poverty by Ruby Payne – almost done
The Idiot by Dostoevsky (I didn't get to finish this once the semester started)
Listening is an Act of Love (new book from the Story Corps)
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
a collection of one act plays by Eugene O'Neill (holiday catharsis!)
what ever wins the Christmas reading poll-

[grace86]

You should all read The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth!

We should? :D Never heard of it! :p

[amanda_isabel]

hoping to finish les miserables... im not even halfway yet.. and i hope to get to reading great Expectations, that's about it, and other light novels to come my way...