Stray Thoughts (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is ostensibly about a white man defending a black man accused of raping a white girl in the Alabama of the 1930s. But it has so many more layers. It is about irrational and ludicrous attitudes of the pre-civil rights south. It is also about one decent man [...]
A Work in Progress (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
There's nothing like a 'how many of these have you read' list to make me feel like I'll never really be very well read. But I keep trying. I nabbed this from Sherry at Semicolon. 1) Look at the list...
BookClubClassics.com (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Inspired by the quotes I highlighted last week, I couldn’t help but think of Mark Twain — my choice for the state of Missouri. photo credit: The Confluence I recently re-read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and was re-amazed. Although controversial and frequently banned today, Huck Finn was so ahead of its time… sadly. But beyond [...]
Idle Musings (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
I had some friends over last weekend and a few had never seen my library, where I have around 750 books. Most were stunned that (1) I had so many books that take up an entire room and (2) That I even read anything at all that isn’t online. As we started to talk about [...]
Semicolon (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
I can’t remember where I copied this list. I really like book lists, don’t you? 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you love. 4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and [...]
townx - Comments (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
I read must of them. A good collection
SOCIALIST UNITY (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Thanks to Louise for asking me to pursue this blog “meme” - there seem to be one or perhaps two semi arbitrary lists of books floating around the blogs, the idea is to say how many you have read. But the real point is to provide an opportunity to chat about what you think are good books [...]
Planet of the Blind (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote that: "many a man, who has contrived to hide his ruling passion or predominant defect from himself, will betray the same to dispassionate observers, bu his proneness on all occasions to suspect or accuse others of...
BookClubClassics.com (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
photo credit: jelene Although Pat Conroy was not born in South Carolina, after moving 23 times before the age of 18, he decided to make Beaufort, South Carolina his home and his writing has reflected this sense of connection many times over… I discovered Conroy while in high school and devoured The Great Santini (which was [...]
Times Online (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
Bookshop stands may be groaning with a spread of enticing books designed to catch the summer market but as Michael Gove put it recently in The Times, why go for new at all? Much better, he exhorted, to spend the holidays with old friends or filling gaps — those classics such as Bleak House or Crime and Punishment that you never quite managed.
scan man's notes (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Ramona posted this after seeing it on Purplesque’s blog. I feel compelled to do this now. So here goes…. “The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.” 1) Bold: I have read. 2) Underline: Books I love. 3) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try [...]
Hiraeth (Free subscription) | 26/07/2008
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles...
Politics Wales (Free subscription) | 26/07/2008
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.I must not be average then,Ive boldened the ones Ive read, Those that are left , theres none I intend to read. I cannot seem to get underline to work , but there are many there I love and have re read and read to my children. 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.2) Italicize those you intend...
Uncool (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
via Seeking Solace . Books I've read are in bold , books I started but never quite finished are in italics . 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible (read all of New Testament and a few books of the OT) 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty...
Tangled Up in Blue Guy (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
So which books have you read from this list? Cut and paste, and then bold the books you’ve read while unboldng the ones you’ve not. Italicize the ones you want to and parenthesize the ones you have started and intend to finish: 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper...
