Progress for July

Well, I didn't read quite as much this month, but I made a little headway on my list:

Fairies in Tradition and Literature Review
Golden Bough Review
If Not, Winter Review
VilletteReview

Then, I finished a few more that are partials - some Shakespeare plays, and the first half of Anne of Green Gables:

Twelfth Night Review
Anne of Green Gables, Avonlea, Island Review
Macbeth Review

It was SO much fun to read Anne of Green Gables again, but the highlight of the month on this list was definitely If Not, Winter, which I highly recommend.

Progress for July

July was a moderately productive month, I guess. Read a bunch of good ones. EVERYBODY! READ EMILY BRONTE AND WILLIAM BLAKE'S POETRY! IT'S THE BEST!
Songs of Innocence and Experience (Review)
Beowulf (Review)
Eugene Onegin (Review)
Cranford (Review)
The Comedians (Review)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Review)
Complete Poems of Emily Bronte (Review)
The Jungle (Review)
Agnes Grey (Review)

and another of Shakespeare's plays: As You Like It (Review)

Moving along, Moving along

I didn't finish very many books, lately, but one of them was Ulysses, and so I'm posting my list up.

Ten Days in a Madhouse
Building Jerusalem
Hard Times
Ulysses

Additionally, I've started working on the plays of William Shakespeare. I read King Lear this month.

Jason's List

Hi all! You guys are way cooler than me, I haven't even heard of half of these authors. I feel like I'm sitting in a punk party in a cardigan and horn-rims. It'll be fun to see who some of those authors are - contemp lit, particularly, I'm horrible in.

Well, I'm not good at making time, so hopefully I won't be the fail-whale of the blog... but I'm hoping that having a goal will make me more likely to do what I intend. My list is kind of kludgy - some of the books are reference, I guess, and on some it's a bit vague, but I just felt funny, for instance, putting a specific play by somebody... but here goes:


Guevara, Che - Motorcycle Diaries
Goldman, Emma - Living My Life
Farr, Judith - Gardens of Emily Dickinson
Toole, Betty - Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers
Jacobs, Harriet - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Shakespeare, William - Plays
Goethe, J - Faust
Aeschylus - Plays
Sophocoles - Plays
Euripides - Plays
Schiller - Plays
Shelley, Percy Bryce - Prometheus Unbound (Review)
Virgil - Aeneid, The (Review)
Anonymous - Beowulf (Review)
Anonymous - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Review)
Chaucer - Canterbury Tales
Eliot, T.S. - The Waste Land (Review)
Milton, John - Paradise Lost
Spenser, Edmund - The Faerie Queene
Pushkin, Aleksandr - Eugene Onegin (Review)
Anonymous - Poetic Edda
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Blok, Aleksandr - The Twelve(Review)
Homer - The Odyssey (Review)
Marx, Karl - Capital (Review)
Gaskell, Elizabeth - Biography of Charlotte Bronte (Review)
Spengler, Oswald - The Decline of the West
Mill, John Stuart - On Liberty
Nightingale, Florence - Cassandra
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Works
Fuller, Margaret - Papers on Literature and Art
Riis, Jacob - How the Other Half Lives
Bly, Nellie - Ten Days in a Mad-HouseReview
De Pizan, Christina - Book of the City of Ladys
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Plath, Sylvia - Collected Poems
Rossetti, Christina - Collected Poems
Hughes, Langston - Selected Poems
Blake, William - Songs of Innocence and Experience (Review)
Shakespeare, William - Poetry
Bronte, Emily - Poems (Review)
Akhmatova, Anna - Selected Poems
Tsvetaeva, Marina - Selected Poems (Review)
Coleridge, Samuel - Poetry
Yeats, WB - Collected Poems and Prose
Sappho - If Not, Winter Review
Hunt, Tristram - Building Jerusalem Review
Williams, Rosalind - Notes on the Underground (Review)
Gelbart, Nina - The King’s Midwife
Campbell, Joseph - Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake (Review)
Joyce, James - Ulysses Review
Joyce, James - Finnegan’s Wake(Review)
Steinbeck, John - East of Eden
Hugo, Victor - Toilers of the Sea
Eliot, George - Daniel Deronda
Gaskell, Elizabeth - Cranford (Review)
Bronte, Anne - Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Review)
Zimmer Bradley, Marion - Mists of Avalon
Cather, Willa - My Antonia (Review)
Dostoevsky, Fyodor - The Brothers Karamozov
Lewis, Sinclair - Babbit
Zola, Emile - Germinal
Renault, Mary - The Alexander Trilogy
Montgomery, L.M. - Anne of Green Gables Series
Bronte, Anne - Agnes Grey (Review)
Scott, Walter - Rob Roy
Gogol, Nikolai - Dead Souls
Bronte, Charlotte - VilletteReview
Barrie, J. M. - The Little White Bird
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Behn, Aphra - Oroonoko(REview)
Woolf, Virginia - Orlando
Gaskell, Elizabeth - Wives and Daughters (Review)
Stendahl - The Red and the Black
Doctorow, EL - Ragtime (Review)
Dickens, Charles - Hard Times review
Greene, Graham - The Comedians (Review)
Burney, Frances - Evelina (Review)
Stephenson, Neal - Snow Crash
Gibson, William - The Difference Engine
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Review)
Davis, Rebecca Harding - Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories
Atwood, Margaret - Handmaid’s Tale
Colette - Cheri, The End of Cheri
Colette - The Cat
Gorky, Maxim - Mother
Kerouac, Jack - Dharma Bums
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Salinger, JD - Frankie and Zooey
Salinger, JD - Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
Le Fanu, Sheridan - Uncle Silas
Sinclair,Upton - King Coal
Sinclair,Upton - The Jungle (Review)
Anonymous - Buddhist Scriptures
Teresa of Avila - Autobiography
Graves, Robert - The White Goddess
D’Aulnoy, Madame - Fairy Tales
Frazier, James - The Golden Bough Review
Briggs, Katherine - The Fairies in Tradition and Folklore Review
Campbell, Joseph - The Masks of God


Number-wise, I think that's 5 biographies, 7 drama, 12 epic poetry, 9 Literary Nonfiction, 12 Lyric Poetry, 4 general nonfiction, 42 novels, and 8 religion/folklore books (though some could have been in more than one category, like Teresa of Avila). I have 37 books by women, and 4 anonymous (a dissapointingly low number, but, for instance, I don't know any epic poems by women except Aurora Leigh, which I'm already friends with :D), 29 by non-English diaspora writers (thoguh James Joyce is BARELY English, I'm told...), and 5 books by people named William.