Who or what are your musical influences? 10000 Maniacs 10cc 112 12 Rounds 16 Horsepower 1927 2 Pistols 2 Unlimited 24 Gone 2gether 2pac 3 Colours Red 3 Doors Down 30 Odd Foot Of Grunts 30 Seconds to Mars 311 38 Special 3gs 3lw 3rd Faze 3t 4 Non Blondes 4hero 4him 50 Cent 54 40 54 Seconds 59 Times...
Since we now have a black presidential nominee, I thought it would be a good time to recall the troubled history of race relations as they have developed in my lifetime in my family and in Nashville, Tennessee. Anybody who´s ever studied the Civil Rights movement will have noted that in Tennessee...
A couple of well-meaning readers have recently inquired into the foundations of my relationship with food, or, more succinctly, the origins of this thing I call Orangette. As the following amply demonstrates, such seemingly harmless questions can be downright dangerous when combined with an...
I was driving to work yesterday, listening to a contemporary Christian CD by the vastly popular Hillsong, because even though I do not subscribe to religious beliefs, I do love some of the contemporary music. But as I was listening to the lyrics, talking about the cross and being devoted to Jesus, I...
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...
Summer is here! Network television is running repeats until well after Labor Day! Grab your favorite book, and a few others for that matter, and let's go plot hunting! Below is a list of twenty great books, in no particular order, I think everyone should read. One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel...
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....
This month two new books came out that benefit two branches of 826 National, a non-profit organization that helps school age children develop expository and creative writing skills. My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro, edited by Jeffrey Eugenides, benefits 826...
"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 –...
The Novel 100 is one man's ranking of the 100 greatest novels ever written. I'm a sucker for a list. I love to mark progress by checking stuff off. Given my poor memory, lists are the only way I can remember to do anything. I liked this list so much, I went out and bought the book. The author,...
From this post, a list of what are considered the 100 best novels, and a question as to how many of them people have read. I don't often go for lists, and I agree that it's hard to decide what constitutes "greatest." But I thought I'd give it a try nonetheless. I actually own a lot of the ones I...
Here are my selections from the list - the bolds ones being the ones I have read and the italicised ones being the ones I've never heard of. I think I have done quite poorly so have highlighted in red the ones that I do own in the hopes of getting my score up. Rank Title Year Author 1 Don Quixote...
In response to Jonathan's message about the 100 best books, below are the ones I've read (those in italics are ones I don't know: Rank Title Year Author 1 Don Quixote 1605, 1630 Miguel de Cervantes 2 War and Peace 1869 Leo Tolstoy 3 Ulysses 1922 James Joyce 4 In Search of Lost Time 1913-27 Marcel...
Jonathan posted about The Novel 100 - the hundred best novels of all time, at least according to the book by Daniel Burt. Obviously there will be disagreements - what, Gone With the Wind but no To Kill a Mockingbird? - but there are a lot of books here that would probably be on anyone's list. I'm...
In response to Jonathan's post about The Novel 100, here's how I measure up. Bold titles are ones I've read (a somewhat-respectable 30 of 100). Some of these came from my (now defunct) resolution to read 1 classic for every 3-4 "other" novels I've chosen to read, but most of them came from required...
Full details here Looks like I have read 37 of them. Rank Title Year Author 1 Don Quixote 1605, 1630 Miguel de Cervantes 2 War and Peace 1869 Leo Tolstoy 3 Ulysses 1922 James Joyce 4 In Search of Lost Time 1913-27 Marcel Proust 5 The Brothers Karamazov 1880 Feodor Dostoevsky 6 Moby-Dick 1851 Herman...
Here is Alan Moore's piece on the Iraq war, complete, uncut, and referenced in the previous post. Here's a joke: What do you call an eight-year-old Iraqi kid with no arms, surviving family members, or unblackened skin below his waist? I don't know. I was shouting at the TV and I didn' t catch his...
Today was a good day. And thank goodness for that 'cause Lord knows the previous few have sort of sucked. The following things came into my path and just made me really happy in their own small ways. I got my free sample of the soap today. God, I cannot believe I've been reading Pamie's blog for...
Since Ben had remarks regarding the 1001 Books to read before you die, I thought I'd add my list. It is clear to me that not having read any Dickens or Austen or Joyce has really hurt my numbers. However, I make up a little bit my reading all of the Irving and Winterson and Vonnegut. The ones I...
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