It's now February, and the big question is: What did you read in January?
It's now February, and the big question is: What did you read in January?
com-pas-sion (n.) [ME. & OFr. <LL. (Ec.) compassio, sympathy < compassus, pp. of compati, to feel pity < L. com-, together + pali, to suffer] sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help; deep sympathy; pity
Dostoevsky Forum!
The Fountainhead
Notes From the Underground
Lolita
Pretty much all books for my class
The Wizard of Oz
Peter Pan
The Owl Service
and I am currently 5 chapters from finnishing Light in August
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
For me, this month has been my most productive month as far as reading goes. I read the following:
For School:
Oedipus Rex; Sophocles
Othello; Shakespeare
Death of a Salesman; Arthur Miller
For Leisure:
Antigone; Sophocles
Phaedra; Jean Racine
Eugene Onegin; Pushkin
Partial Reads:
The Brothers Karamazov; Dostoevsky (approximately half, or ~400 pgs)
Resurrection; Tolstoy (about 450/560 pages)
Odds are I'm probably forgetting something, but as far as I can tell, that's all that I read. Eugene Onegin was my most favorite; Death of a Salesman was my least.
com-pas-sion (n.) [ME. & OFr. <LL. (Ec.) compassio, sympathy < compassus, pp. of compati, to feel pity < L. com-, together + pali, to suffer] sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help; deep sympathy; pity
Dostoevsky Forum!
In January I read:
Värmebölja - Viveca Lärn
New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere - Anna Gavalda
Åkes bok 2.0 - Kristina Lundgren
Across the Nightingale Floor - Lian Hearn
The Tales of Beedle The Bard - J.K. Rowling
Problembarnets århundrade - Mats Börjesson & Eva Palmblad
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris) - Victor Hugo
Finished the Iliad, read C.S. Lewis' Surprised by Joy and Jane Austen's Persuasion, and started Modern British Poetry, edited by Louis Untermeyer.
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
The Atom Station, Halldor Laxness
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
The Heart of a Dog, Mikhail Bulgakov
The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
After the Quake, Haruki Murakami
Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata
The Slow Man, J M Coetzee
and two parts of Teach us to outgrow our madness, Kenzaburo Oe
oh, and 1/2 of Finn Family Moomintroll and Comet in Moominland, and Prince Caspian. Those were for the kids though, honest
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The new york Trilogy - Auster
Panic in Box C - John Dickson Carr
The Stand - Stephen King
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (alright started in late December but finished January first!)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry
The Aeneid by Virgil
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I'm basically done with Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and a hundred or so pages into The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
I wanted to start the new reading year off right!
I AM THE BOY
THAT CAN ENJOY
INVISIBILITY.
I read:
The Favoured Child - Philippa Gregory
Beowulf - Seamus Heaney translation
The End of Harry Potter - David Langford
Catcher In The Rye - J. D. Salinger
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
JPod - Douglas Coupland
The Theban Play - Sophocles
Lolita - Vladmir Nakabov
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She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.”
Lolita, Vladmir Nakobov
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights (reread)
In the middle of Lies My Teacher Told Me by Prof. James Loewen
Wow, y'all read a lot....
Magic Lantern - Ingmar Bergman
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
Short Stories - Samuel Beckett
Ourania - J.M.G. Le Clézio
Les Enfants terrible - Jean Cocteau
Who Is Me - Pier Paolo Pasolini
"And the worms, they will climb
The rugged ladder of your spine"
great expectations (again)
far from the madding crowd
the dubliners
lady chatterly's lover
all for uni as usual, no time for my own reading
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
Tony Buzan, Use Your Head
Maeve Brennan, The Visitor (Novella)
Balzac, Sarrasine (Short Story)
Dominic O’ Brian, Brilliant Memory
Matthew Lewis, The Monk
Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
? Essential Art History (got to strengthen my art knowledge, very enjoyable book)
Robert Hellenga, Philosophy Made Simple (novel – utter pap)
Bits of:
Wordsworth, Keats, Milton (Paradise Lost), Dante (Paradise) Shakespeare, Ocean Sea (gave up, papish), re-capping criticism for Uni and other small bits and pieces.
Currently reading “Anatomy of Criticism” Northrop Frye (just come today from the U.S.) and re-reading Milton, Paradise Lost, though got to start reading more stuff almost solely for Uni soon.
I had a rather busy month:
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Light in August by William Faulkner
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
expectabam bona et venerunt mihi mala praestolabar lucem et eruperunt tenebrae - Job 30:26
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