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 Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:51 am
Ho boy...let's see if I can list what all I read and about when I did so. I moved a lot from school to school as well as between grades and classes so this is likely going to be a weird list. I have a terrible sense of time so I really can not remember the grades so well but I will try my best.
A lot of them are the same as Sara's as far as the book and grade.
Required (that I can remember)
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder 3rd grade as well
Charlotte's Web E.B. White 3-4 grade
The Cay Theodore Taylor grade... 4?
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle 4-5?
Freckle Juice Judy Blume not sure when, but it was prolly 4th grade
Hatchet by Gary Paulson -- 6th grade
Number the Stars Lois Lowry 6th grade
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 6th grade along side Number the Stars
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 7th grade
7-9 grade I moved so much I can not remember much so... on to High School
The Scarlett Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Odyssey by Homer
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Crucible Arthur Miller
Julius Caesar William Shakespeare
Beowulf
Macbeth William Shakespeare
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
I know there are some others but I just can't remember right now... so on to college:
Epic of Gilgamesh for history
Gormenghast Trilogy by Myrvyn Peake for literature
Samurai Tradition Class:
Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai
The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan Eiko Ikegami
Legends of the Samurai by Hiroaki Sato
Feudalism In Japan Peter Duus
The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori by Mark Ravina, I -loved- this book
Ways of Seeing John Berger art appreciation
Leisure will be a separate post ^^;;
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Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:06 pm
Leisure in order from as far back as I can remember to now no matter how silly or embarrassing some might be....and boy...some are embarrassing... I was an indoors kid so I have read a lot...
Little House in the Big Woods
By the Shores of Silver Lake
The Long Winter
On the Banks of Plum Creek
The Golden Book of Birds
Various Fairy Tale collections
The Snow Queen
Snot Soup
Baby
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
The Chocolate Touch
Werewolves don't go to summer camp
One day at Horror Land
Sat Cheese and Die
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
Be Careful What you Wish For
The Call of the Wild
The Time Machine
Peter Pan
Robinson Crusoe
The Swiss Family Robinson
Around the World in 80 Days
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Complete Fables of Aesop
Little Women
A Little Princess
The Secret Garden
The Three Musketeers
Alice's Adventures in Wonder Land
The Lost World
The Jungle Book
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Wind in the Willows
White Fang
The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
Treasure Island
Tom Sawyer
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Frankenstein
Dracula
Gulliver's travels
Tarzan of the Apes
The Hound of Baskervilles
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Odyssey
The Aeneid
The Iliad
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Pride and Prejudice
Sherlock Holmes
War and Peace
Ivanhoe
The Last of the Mohicans
Moby d**k
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
Canterbury Tales
Don Quixote
Outcast of Redwall
Mossflower
Redwall
Salamandastron
Martin the Warrior
The Queen's Own Fool
Shade's Children
Shadow Spinner
Sabriel
Fahrenheit 451
The Illustrated Man
Macroscope
Red Mars
Blue mars
Green Mars
Taliesin
Merlin
Arthur
Pendragon
Grail
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
Rice Without Rain
Snow Falling on Cedars
Joyluck Club
The Bonesetter's Daughter
Saving Fish From Drowning
The Kitchen God's Wife
The Wizard of Earthsea
The Blue Sword
The Hero and the Crown
The Star is my Destination
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Gunseller
The Eye of the World
A Game of Thrones
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Complete Collection of Poe
Flowers in the Attic
If There Be Thorns
Petals in the Wind
Seeds of Yesterday
Kushiel's Dart
It
Misery
Rose Madder
The Gunslinger
The Drawing of the Three
Wasteland
Skeleton Crew
Dreamcatcher
Desperation
The Dark Side
The Stand
The Mist
Carrie
Salem's Lot
Cujo
The Shining
Different Seasons
Insomnia
Bag of Bones
The Eyes of the Dragon
Everything's Eventual
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Pet Cemetery
Gerald's Game
Needful Things
The Tommyknockers
The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon
Dolores Claiborne
Four Past Midnight
Thinner
Fight Club
The King's Dragon
Prince of Dogs (currently reading)
Bah tired of listing books, I'll add more when I remember them
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:09 pm
I have been reading Don Quixote as of late (and have only about 100 pages left), and I've quite enjoyed it. I didn't realize it would be as funny as it has been, and I've found myself almost laughing aloud in some places. Unfortunately, the second book is considerably more mean-spirited, and I know I shall absolutely detest the end.
Has anyone else read Don Quixote? And if so, do you prefer it, or the much more optimistic adaptation Man of La Mancha? Both have their merits, but I think I much prefer the musical's end, in which Don Quixote never relinquishes his dream, regardless of how unobtainable it may be. I also like the portrayal of Aldonza/Dulcinea in the musical, as she strives to become the Dulcinea of his imaginings as she spends more time with him.
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:18 am
tinuviel_nyx I have been reading Don Quixote as of late (and have only about 100 pages left), and I've quite enjoyed it. I didn't realize it would be as funny as it has been, and I've found myself almost laughing aloud in some places. Unfortunately, the second book is considerably more mean-spirited, and I know I shall absolutely detest the end. Has anyone else read Don Quixote? And if so, do you prefer it, or the much more optimistic adaptation Man of La Mancha? Both have their merits, but I think I much prefer the musical's end, in which Don Quixote never relinquishes his dream, regardless of how unobtainable it may be. I also like the portrayal of Aldonza/Dulcinea in the musical, as she strives to become the Dulcinea of his imaginings as she spends more time with him. By the sounds of it, I'd prefer the book.
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:40 am
I've been into reading romance novels lately. I'm hooked on the Carpathian Romances ( The Dark Series)by Christine Feehan. Very interesting, its not all sex. There is a lot of fight scenes and action. Though, there are some repetitive parts that flow from book to book. I recommend these to anyone interested in romance novels. Though it is an assigned reading, I have also been reading "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. Being only on chapter 7, I can not really review it, but what I have read is interesting. I do recommend this to anyone who likes learning about other cultures. To tinuviel_nyx, I read 5 or 6 of Don Quixote's adventures and watched Man of La Mancha. I truly liked Man of La Mancha better. I like how Don Quixote kept his optimism till the end. I also like the musicals version of Dulcinea much better than that of the book.
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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:25 am
I recently completed The Grapes of Wrath over our little vacation. I must say, when I started reading it, I hated it. The sentence structure seemed very short and choppy compared to that of the books I had been reading before it, and I couldn't stand the main character. However, by the fourth chapter or so, when the reader is introduced to the rest of the Joad family and their plight, I really began to enjoy the book. Aside from the characterization of Ma Joad and Jim Casy, the former preacher who travels with them, what I enjoyed most was the almost Beat-like stream-of-consciousness sort of writing in the chapters depicting the migrant situation.
However, I do have one final complaint with the work: the ending. To have invested so many hours and so many pages to this family, and then have the novel end in such a hopeless situation (and so abruptly) rather annoyed me. I understand that the old John Ford film ends a bit differently, so perhaps I will check it out for another perspective.
Upon finishing Steinbeck, I started the fantasy classic The Last Unicorn by Peters S. Beagle, upon which the classic animated film is based. I am more than halfway-through after a serious morning of reading yesterday, and aside from some anachronisms (which many of the review blurbs in the front cover of my copy found to be amusing), I am enjoying it. Much of the dialogue appears in the film, as the screenplay was by Beagle, so it has not differed much from my memory of my film. Still worth checking it out if one is a fan of the film or fantasy, though.
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Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 3:09 pm
I've begun reading A Clockwork Orange. I'm finding it hard because of the fusion of Russian and European slang in it. I'm about 50 pages in, and I can't really make much sense of it...
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:04 pm
I've wanted to read that for some time, but I never have. You'll have to let me know how it is.
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:25 pm
I'm starting White Oleander soon.
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:05 am
I'm currently reading Wuthering Heights, and while I didn't like it at first, I'm coming around to it now. Catherine is the most annoying character I've come across in a while, I must say, and I still feel sorry for Heathcliff, even when I know I shouldn't. Anyway, I'm enjoying the book, and I'll post a bit more once I've finished.
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:57 pm
Last weekend, I rushed out to buy The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie, as it was this month's book for a book club I wanted to join (the club is for adults who read children's and YA literature). I devoured it that night, but unfortunately, I lost track of time the night of the club and didn't go.
This book won the National Book Award in the Young People's Literature category back in 07, and I highly recommend it. It's about a Spokane Indian boy who transfer to an all-white high school and the various racial conflicts that ensue.
For leisure, I had been reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which I just finished earlier today. While I enjoyed it, at times I had to work through it, which is something uncommon for me. I don't suggest that anyone pick it up unless he's willing to put a lot of time into it, as there are multiple layers one ought to appreciate. I am contemplating whether I want to read Ulysses now, as I hear it is even more dense than this.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:59 pm
as of now I am almost done with White Oleander and about to start Night by Eli Wessel. I read it 4 years ago but I have to reread it for my religion class. damned libral arts college
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:31 pm
I read Treasure Island for the first time about a week ago, after having been familiar with the story since my early childhood. I enjoyed it for the most part, although the middle section was not half as exciting as it could have been. I know that the work was serialized for a year or two in a boys' literary magazine, so perhaps that is why some parts were better than others.
Currently, I am reading The Red and the Black, which is considered to be one of the first psychological novels. I am not very far into it, so I cannot judge the novel's quality as of now.
I also need to re-read A Wrinkle in Time within the next week or so, as that is this month's book club selection. I've not read it since fourth grade, so I'm interested to see how I perceive it now that I'm older.
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:24 pm
I've started reading The Picture of Dorian Gray and while I like what I've read, the habit of all of Wilde's characters to slowly go from having a conversation to musing aloud to themselves and setting themselves up for Wilde's admittedly brilliant little witticisms is beginning to wear on my patience. I may have more to say when I've read more of it.
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Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 8:34 pm
It only occurs to me now to do a follow up on The Picture of Dorian Gray. While Oscar Wilde continues to do the one-liner set-ups throughout, it remains wonderfully quotable, much like The Importance of Being Earnest.
Much more recently, I finished reading Persuasion by Jane Austen which I enjoyed a great deal less. In fact only during the last few pages of each volume was turning to read the next page the greatest of labors on my part. Mercifully, it was her shortest work at a little over 200 pages, but it felt like many, many more. Had it not been required for school, I'd have never gotten past page 5.
I'm now working on Great Expectations. This will be at least the third time I've read it in my life, though I've possibly read it more than that, all told. It has been a long time and since it too is required for school, I've decided to reread it.
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