Taking this parameter of the top 100 books from Hapa Love. She suggests using the Modern Library list. So, here goes: 1) Bold: I have read. 2) Italics: Those I intend to read. 3) Underline: Books I love. 4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school...
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. This is going around my neighborhood, and I really like the idea of encouraging people (including myself) to read the classics. However, I'm changing the game, because I prefer the Modern Library's...
I saw this on Hapalove's blog and decided to play along just to see how many I'd read. I'm also going to add another category: "Never heard of it" By my count I've read 26 of them. 1. 1922 Ulysses James Joyce (got about 20 pages in, did not have the endurance for more) 2. 1925 The Great Gatsby F....
Many evenings when I come home, after having shut the door behind me, I open one glass door from a set of doors in a set of bookshelves along one wall. I take down a book, and I close the glass door behind me. I open the book to some page. I begin reading. A knob turns in my mind and I enter one of...
I made this list a while ago, but have gotten around to posting/editing it. I'm giving myself until May 2010(when I graduate college) to finish it. Please leave a comment telling me any books you recommend. Thanks =) Start: January 5th, 2007 Books: Alphabetical by Author ( [R] are the books I'm...
That's a suggestive hook of a line, a yoke of a line, uttered by Sydney Pollack in the documentary I posted of a few days back, namely "Sketches of Frank Gehry". It's brought up within the context of that portion of the dialog between himself and Frank that revolves round the oft uttered question...
i've been thinking about intelligence the last few weeks. about how complex it is. when we say someone is smart, what does that mean? though it CAN mean many things, saying "so and so is really smart" means what exactly? that they know a lot? that they are successful? that they talk a lot? that they...
"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" by ukaunz 2000s Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Saturday – Ian McEwan On Beauty – Zadie Smith Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson The Sea – John Banville The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble The Plot Against America –...
"Odd that a demonic suffering should lie supine, while a glorified suffering lies prone" (Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince, 351).
Someone emailed me asking where the Iris Murdoch quote I posted came from. I leafed through a number of the books I have of hers and found it referenced in an index I created for things of personal significance I found in this one. It appears on page 179: "To attend is to care, to learn to desire to...
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