Themed Reading
While I procrastinate a bit on getting back to Grapes of Wrath (I love the book, it's just so disheartening), I revert to a favorite procrastinating activity: list-making. So, my lists today relate to some theme-reading posts going around at the moment.
If I were to be denied book-buying, and the library, here are some theme-reads from my bookshelf in which I could occupy myself (all books I have not yet read):
Australiana:
- Australia: The New World, pub. By Granta
- Oscar and Lucinda: Peter Carey
- Living with Crazy Buttocks – Kaz Cooke
Classics by Male Authors:
- Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
- Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
- The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
- Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
- Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
- Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
- The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Politics/Current Events:
- Standing Alone – Asra Q. Nomani
- Jihad vs McWorld by Benjamin Barber
- Hidden Agendas – John Pilger
- The Algebra of Infinite Justice – Arundhati Roy
- International Human Rights in Context – Steiner
Plays:
- A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen
- Phaedra – Jean Racine
- Andromache – Jean Racine
- No Exit – Jean Paul Sartre
- The Misanthrope – Moliere
- Twenty Seven Wagons Full of Cotton - Tennessee Williams
Books By Barbara Pym:
- A Glass of Blessings
- Some Tame Gazelle
- An Unsuitable Attachment
- Sweet Dove Died
That would keep me going for a good six months, I believe!
5 comments:
Hi, NyssaNeala!
I am glad to hear about BOTH your Australiana and your Plays themed-reading lists since I am engaged in similar projects - my "Year of Down Under" challenge to read 12 Australian books in 2007, and my 52 Plays/52 Weeks project for 2007. I am afraid that "Down Under" has rather stalled, but I am seriously pondering picking up "Remembering Babylon" if I can ever resist the siren song of the NYT Notable Books Challenge. I would love to hear any recommendations you have from your Australiana reading!
By the way, did you know that George Eliot is a pseudonym for Mary Anne Evans? Sneaky. :)
Oh yeah - I did know that about George Eliot and forgot. Oops. :)
I probably won't start on many of these books until 2008. It was sort of a "stuck on a desert island" scenario, only should be more aptly named, "stuck with only the books you already own"!
Hi Nyssaneala - Loved reading your themed lists. I have one Barbara Pym novel that I've been meaning to read. Several people have told me her books are wonderful comfort reads.
Hi Nyssaneala, this Themed Reading is really fun. I love looking at other people's lists.
I was pleasantly surprised by the "Classics by Male Authors" - I believe a lot of the bloggers usually have more female authors under their classics reading.
I always wanted to pick up "The Algebra of Infinite Justice" by never did.
Cheers.
Iliana - Thanks! I have read Excellent Women and really enjoyed it. Someday I'll get around to the others!
Dark Orpheus - It is always fun to look at others' lists! I tend to read more female classic authors too, that is probably why most of the unread classics on my shelves are by men!a
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