Books to Read
I have created a list of books that I am going to read. As I read them, I am going to comment on them (somewhat intellectually) and document that, check, they have been read.
Now, keep in mind, I am writing about the content. I have not done this type of activity for about 5 years now. When you attend a technical school you lose the ability to articulate, and you just learn to grunt work. So, hopefully there will be some improvement.
The Pink titles indicate I am currently reading those books. Once I've completed the books, I will give an indication that it has been read, the title will be highlighted Green.
Here's the list:
- The War of Worlds by H. G. Wells
- The Dante Club
- The World According to Garp
- Sir Gawain & the green knight
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Ivanhoe
- Journey to the center of the earth
- The three muskateers
- The astonishing hypothesis
- Odyssey
- Who's afraid of Virginia Wolff
- Beyond Einstein
- Hyperspace
- Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal golden Braid
- The western Canon
- Lost Horizon
- The Giver By Lois Lowry
- Hold my Gold
- Paradise By Judith McNaught
- A Fine Balance
- Mountain Beyond Mountains "The life of Paul Farmer" by Tracy Kidder
- The Razors Edge
- Kartography = kamila shamsie
- Moth Smoke
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
5 comments:
Here's a few more:
James and the Giant Peach
The Princess Bride
The Black Book
Those are some I want to read.. I've read JATGP, but I want to re-read it. :)
Yeah, I just read it recently (uh about 2 years ago) I saw it in my room, and I thought, yay! It took me about 3 months to read those 30 pages. hahah. I think when I was younger the book seemed more imaginative. Or at least, maybe I threw in more imaginary details when I read it, now it seemed pretty boring. Nothing spectacular. I think, as we grow, if we don't keep the mind creatively active, we lose the ability to "fill in the blanks." At least that's what I experienced.
Here's an exercise, try telling a 2 year old a bed time story. That's the absolute hardest thing for me to do! I need the book to help me along. Isn't that sad!
It's not "Alice in the wonderland!" FOB!
It's "Alice's adventures in wonderland"
What are we going to do with you?
:p
Editing, done! Thanks.
Definitely get to Moth Smoke ASAP!
Also, I think you'd like:
Holder of the World -
Bharati Mukherjee
Pillars of Salt - Fadia Faqir
The Joys of Motherhood - Buchi Emecheta
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
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