Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Really a lazy month, considering my new year's resolution is to read at least a hundred books this year, which is only too much if I continue to only read one book per week. That's not taking into consideration that I have some fairly hefty reads on my list coming up, and these were all relatively light.
Never mind. Roll on February I suppose.
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Making History - Stephen Fry
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
"On the road" - J Kerouac
"The woman in white" - W Collins
"Giovanni's room" - J Baldwin
"The cider house rules" - J Irving
Through the darkness of future past
the magician longs to see
one chance out between two worlds
'Fire walk with me.'
Twin Peaks
"Insatiability" - Stanislav Ignacy Witkiewicz
“The Curious Incident of the dog in the night-time” - Mark Haddon
"Collected Poems" - C. Cavafys
"El libro de los abrazos" - Eduardo Galeano
"The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao" - Junot Diaz
...As a moth mistakes a bulb
for the moon, and goes to hell...
-Tom Waits-
That book is just wow to the Nth magic, eh?Originally Posted by lupe
I only read two books:
Simon Armitage 'Kid'
Jack Kerouac 'On the Road'
And I munched lines out of many others and then threw them through closed windows.
I did really enjoyed it...
...As a moth mistakes a bulb
for the moon, and goes to hell...
-Tom Waits-
Pere Goriot-- Balzac
The Charterhouse of Parma-- Stendhal
Onitsha-- Le Clezio
Madame Bovary-- Flaubert
Marcel Proust, A Life-- Carter
Stendhal wins by a nose...
Just started In Search of Lost Time which means I won't be posting in a "What Did We Read" thread for 2 months
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman. Interesting 'babblings' with good points accompanied by fact based opinions
The New York Trilog- Paul Auster
The Portable Beat Reader
Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose
The Manifesto of Surrealism - Andre Breton
If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino
Did you enjoy Magic Lantern?
"Do you mind if I reel in this fish?" - Dale Harris
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn." - Ernest Hemingway
Blog
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
And a few Dutch books. Yesterday I started reading Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue (in the café of the lost youth/childhood) and was surprised how well the French reading went
Where you a landscape,
I'd walk through you
Yes. If you like Bergman's films you should enjoy it. He talks a lot about his work for the theater as well as television and cinema and the way he relates his relationships with his parents, children, wifes and other artists is very interesting (especially if you've seen Fanny & Alexander). It's all also pretty well written.
"And the worms, they will climb
The rugged ladder of your spine"
Notre Dame de Paris ~ Victor Hugo
To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee
The Fifth Elephant ~ Terry Pratchett
Eugene Onegin ~ A. S. Pushkin
A Rose for Emily ~ William Faulkner
And I'm still reading "A History of Science" by John Gribbin...
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
James Joyce
It is a fatal miscarriage, so ill to order affairs, as to pass for a fool in one company, when in another you might be treated as a philosopher. Jonathan Swift
I studied this for a course I took last year! I don't even think I read the whole thing haha. Did you like it?\\
Most of January has been Philosophy readings for school...
I've read selections from:
Socrates (well, technically it was Plato)- The Euthyphro
Epictetus- The Enchirideon
Williams
Harman
Ayer
Epicurus
Bentham
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I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
Waiting for a winter to be done.
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
In all that I could never overcome?
Wow, you were able to fit a bunch of great reads within the month! What did you think of Eugene Onegin? of The Hunchback of Notre Dame?
Another thing: my best friend's favorite author is Terry Pratchett. Is he any good? My friend even went so far as to do a scratch board of him in art class, which turned out great. I've jokingly dubbed it "Death with a cowboy hat."
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 Princess ~ D.H.Lawrence
The Trespasser ~ D.H.Lawrence
Commentary on each
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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