I didn't come on to rave about Woka Woka, but I do want to say that now is the time to start compiling my summer reading list.
It will reach my 50 book goal.
It will include at least 5 plays (for a burgeoning theatre major I'm very lacking in this area).
It will include at least skimming over Les Mis again.
It will include my favorite poet of the moment: Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Saying all this, any suggestions?
I also just realized I haven't actually shared my 100 book list for your perusal and purveyance. I should do that.
Another side note: next semester I will be taking Advanced Composition and Renaissance and 17th Century Literature (minus Shakespeare), and I am very excited for both classes.
Her hips don't lie, so you should always take Shakira very seriously.
ReplyDeleteI've read one book this semester. Just one. And I'm not even done with it yet. I'm just so busy. Anyway, it was a great choice: Cancer Ward, which I believe I've already told you about. It's yet another pseudo-autobiography by Solzhenitsyn and it's really meant a lot to me. The way he peers inside the patients' lives is just excellent. There's some interesting metaphors that can be made about the tumors and such, and it's just been delightful so far to read it. It does get pretty depressing near the end, but I don't regret for a moment picking it up.
That's all I got. I could be a douche and say READ THE BOOK OF MORMON, but I won't. I just haven't read anything literary recently.
I've always meant to actually. Don't take this the wrong way, but it'd be fun to sit on the front lawn and try to freak people out by ardently reading the book of Mormon. Hahahaha. I can see a couple of the looks already. But the first statement is still true. And Alexander Solzhenitsyn didn't exactly wow me, but One Day was pretty good...
ReplyDeleteIt's a harder read than One Day simply because it's like five times as long. It reads about as smoothly, and it approaches a similar problem. In One Day, the problem is external forces crushing a man, whereas in Cancer Ward the problem is internal forces (tumors, probably metaphorically sin) crushing men. The differences in what happens are very interesting to see. If you can spare the time I very strongly recommend that you at least pick it up and give it a try.
ReplyDeleteIf you want, I can get you a Book of Mormon. Not a nice monogrammed one with tabs and stuff, but I can get one.
I feel like you are my book of mormon dealer. No, trust me, I'm sure I can find one even in the Bible belt. And my dad has a copy.
ReplyDeleteAh, no problem then. Yeah, you can definitely find them most anywhere in the US. Penguin and some other publisher I can't remember both have versions out that should be available at most any Barnes and Noble or whatever. It's far more expensive, but also way more convenient.
ReplyDeleteI'll just break into my dad's office.... ;)
ReplyDeleteLast time I nicked one of my dad's books, I dropped it in the bathtub and had to buy a replacement. At least it was the trade paperback edition and not some leather-bound hardback (the book was Atlas Shrugged.
ReplyDeleteCripes, I left off the final ). I hate hate hate when people do that.
ReplyDeleteWell, you fixed it! Congratulations. And to some, Atlas Shrugged deserves to be dropped in the bath.
ReplyDeleteYou are right, Mel!
ReplyDeleteAnd I recommend Into the Wild. I enjoyed it and the conversations that it spawned between several of my friends and me.
Gosh darn it, what drugs have I been on? It wasn't Atlas Shrugged, it was The Fountainhead. I found it a thoroughly entertaining (if long) book. My econ professor made fun of it this morning, but I still liked it.
ReplyDeleteThough I never read Into the Wild, I did try to read Into Thin Air by the same author. Too long, but interesting anyhow.
You dropped the fountainhead...in the bath...I've heard Into the Wild is good. I've seen the movie...well, most of it.
ReplyDeleteMy roommate watched it earlier this semester. He liked it.
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