Responding to Cara Hopkinss 10-books challenge, which goes: list 10 books that have stuck with me in some way (and not overthink it): so here goes: 1. Philip K. Dicks The Man in the High Castle 2. J. G. Ballards Empire of the Sun 3. MIchael Bonds Paddington books 4. L. M. Montgomerys Anne of Green Gables (the first 3 books; then she grew up and got boring) 5. Hilaire Bellocs Cautionary Tales for Children (now free! here :gutenberg.org/ebooks/27424 ) 6. Vladimir Nabokovs Lolita and the bits of Speak, Memory and Pale Fire that I got through (didnt finish because didnt like; didnt finish because life intervened) 7. Lewis Thomass essays, especially the one on punctuation: Notes on Punctuation, from The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher (1979), available here: www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/punctuation.html and on the end of everything: Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahlers Ninth Symphony, from the collection of the same name (1983) https://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Thomas/mahlers-ninth.html (first published when I was not much older than the young people he references in this essay) 8. James Herriots animal stories, all of them 9. Reading Shakespeare plays again after having spent a semester immersed in medieval drama (David Bevingtons edition, Medieval Drama, which I loaned to someone in graduate school and Never Saw Again, and getting it, at a visceral level, what Shakespeare had ... incarnated. 10. Paul Fussells Poetic Meter and Poetic Form, also read in graduate school, also loaned never to be seen again, but replaced, huzzah!, as a gift from Georgia Jenkins a few years ago. Not just about prosody. About that makes art _art_. Challenging UK cousins and cousins-in-law: 1. Claudia Vale 2. Bob Farrell 3. Tessa Vale 4. Deborah Vale 5. Kate Vale Colleagues I havent seen already tagged in this endeavor: 6. Jodie Flint 7. Carolyn Landel 8. Ingrid Ristroph 9. Lisa Brown 10. Tracey Ramirez Facebookers I follow a lot: 11. Nathan Wilcox 12. Bradley C. Roberson 13. Ken McGlothlen 14. Michael Saunders 15. Daniel Villarreal 16. Diane Van Houten Villarreal If I didnt tag you, it wasnt on purpose -- just jump in anyway. And I already challenged a bunch of graduate school and states-side family in the challenge from Ed Madden, earlier on my timeline (8/27/14). Mostly different list of books, because I am just that cool. :)
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 20:41:53 +0000
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