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Amy E's List
Saturday, February 9, 2008

As of Feb: 3/59

Emboldened works are my duplicates.

1. Queer Fiction

Fiction with LGBTTQQIAAP themes

1. Jack, A.M. Homes
2. Maurice, E.M. Forester
3. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
4. A Son Called Gabriel, Damian McNicholl
5. Choir Boy, Charlie Anders
6. Best Lesbian Erotica 2007, Tristan Taormino (I swear it’s not cheating.)
7. Rose of No Man’s Land, Michelle Tea
8. Orlando, Virginia Woolf

2. Authored by a female-identified person

1. Everything You Need, A.L. Kennedy
2. My Sister’s Continent, Gina Frangello
3. Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
4. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
5. Everyone’s Pretty, Lydia Millet
6. In the Country of the Young, Lisa Carey
7. The End of Mr Y, Scarlett Thomas
8. The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, Michelle Tea

3. French (aka Books by Colette and Anaïs Nin)

I intended to make this category more diverse, but I’ve had these books on my to-read list for so long the Colette/Nin thing just sort of happened.

1. Cities of the Interior: Book 1, Anaïs Nin
   
2. Cities of the Interior: Book 2, Anaïs Nin
3. Cities of the Interior: Book 3, Anaïs Nin
4. Cities of the Interior: Book 4, Anaïs Nin 
5. Cities of the Interior: Book 5, Anaïs Nin (Okay, this was probably cheating.)
6. The Complete Claudine, Colette
7. Little Birds, Anaïs Nin
8. Delta of Venus, Anaïs Nin

4. Poetry

My goal here is not to read the entirety of these poets’ works but to find at least one poem from each that I really really like.

1. Ariel, Sylvia Plath
2. Complete Poems of Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton
3. The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson
4. Selected Poems, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
5. Poems of W.B. Yeats, W.B. Yeats
6. Poems of John Keats, John Keats
7. Rossetti: Poems, Christina Rossetti
8. Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman (because he looks like Gandalf)

5. Feminism and Queer Theory

A nonfiction counterpart to the queer fiction category

1. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Judith Butler
2. The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminism Abortion Service, Laura Kaplan
3. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women, Naomi Wolf
4. Myths of Gender, Anne Fausto-Sterling
5. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade, Ann Fessler
6. The Riddle of Gender, Deborah Rudacille
7. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, Anne Fausto-Sterling
8. Gender, Race, and Class, Lynn S. Chancer et al.

6. Books that are older than me

Things published before 1984.

1. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
2. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
3. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
4. Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
5. The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek
6. The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
7. An Introduction to Mathematics, Alfred North Whitehead
8. The Aims of Education, Alfred North Whitehead

7. Philosophy and/or Activism

1. An Introduction to Mathematics, Alfred North Whitehead
2. The Aims of Education, Alfred North Whitehead
3. Philosophical Writings, Simone de Beauvoir
4. The Ethics of Ambiguity, Simone de Beauvoir
5. Scientific Inquiry: Readings in the Philosophy of Science, Robert Klee
6. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, William McDonough et al.
7. Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
8. No Contest: The Case Against Competition, Alfie Kohn

8. Light Reading – A respite from my own list

1. A Practical Guide to Racism, C.H. Dalton
2. The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, Natile Angier
3. The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasure of Obituaries, Marilyn Johnson
4. The Farewell Chronicles: How We Really Respond to Death, Anneli S. Rufus
5. How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read, Pierre Bayard
6. The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
7. The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice, Catherynne Valente
8. Dahlia Season, Myriam Gurba

Posted by Amy E. at 2/09/2008 12:26:00 PM 1 comments  

Labels: Amy E, feminism and queer theory, french, light reading, philosophy and activism, poetry, pre-1984, queer fiction, Women Writers

Embejo's List
Friday, February 8, 2008

Categories:

1. Children’s Favourites
2. Classics
3. Non-Fiction
4. Historical Fiction
5. Books I’ve wanted to read
6. Light Fiction/Easy to read
7. Homeschooling/Education
8. Books made into Movies
9. About or Set in Africa

Progress: 38/64



Children’s Favourites:
1. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
2. The Willoughbys - Lois Lowry
3. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol
4. The Borrowers - Mary Norton
5. The Complete Tales - Beatrix Potter
6. Pollyanna - Elanor Porter
7. Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
8. Pipi Longstocking - AstridLindgren


Classics:
1. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
3. Lord of the Flies - Golding
4. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
5. 1984 - George Orwell
6. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque
7. The Catcher in the Rye - J D Sallinger
8. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
9. The Sea - John Banville


Non-Fiction:
1. Adventures of Pioneer Women in NZ
2. Five Days in London - John Lukacs
3. Boy: Tales of Childhood - Roald Dahl
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
5. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing
6. Absolute Power - Ian Wishart
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Historical Fiction:
1. The Handmaid and the Carpenter - Elizabeth Berg
2. Sarah - Orson Scott Card
3. A Voice in the Wind - Francine Rivers
4. The Boleyn Inheritance - Philippa Gregory
5. The Constant Princess - Philippa Gregory
6. Resistance - Owen Sheers
7. Morgan's Run - Colleen McCullough
8. Jessica - Bryce Courtenay

Books I’ve wanted to read:
1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
2. The Colour Purple - Walker
3. My Left Foot - Christy Brown
4. I am David - Anne Holm
5. Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
6. The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
7. The Widow and Her Hero - Thomas Keneally
8. Lies That Go Unchallenged - Charles Colson

Light/Easy Fiction:
1. The Pilot’s Wife - Anita Shreve
2. A River Runs Through it - Norman Maclean
3. Lucy Sullivan Got Married - Marian Keyes
4. Mrs Kimble - Jennifer Haigh
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Homeschooling/Education:
1. Honey for a Child’s Heart - Gladys Hunt
2. The Well Trained Mind - Jessie Wise, Susan Wise Bauer
3. For the Children’s Sake - Susan Schaeffer Macauley
4. Dumbing us Down - John Gatto
5. Romancing Your Child's Heart - Monte Swan
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Books Into Movies:
1. Master and Commander - Patrick O’Brian
2. The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
3. The Perfect Storm - Sebastion Junger
4. Forest Gump - Winston Groom
5. Schindler’s List - Thomas Keneally
6. Corelli’s Mandolin - Loius DeBernieres (didn't finish)
7. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
8. The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks

About/ Set in Africa
1. Tandia - Bryce Courtenay
2. Left to Tell - Immaculee Ilibagiza
3. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier - Ishmael Beah
4. Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
5 There is no me without You - Melissa Fay Greene
6. Cry the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
7. I Dreamed of Africa - Kuki Gallman
8. The Sound of Thunder - Wilbur Smith

Yes, I know I have 9 categories....I'm changing it as I go along. It will be settled by the end.

Posted by embejo at 2/08/2008 10:52:00 PM 0 comments  

Labels: Africa, Childhood favorites, Classics, Education, Embejo, Historical fiction, Homeschooling, light reading, Movies, Non-fiction