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neadodsI'm ears-deep in Bouchercon books, the TBRs have overflowed their bookshelves (I wonder if I'm going to have to go back to counting 'em every month), and what do I do? Walk through Borders yesterday on the way to lunch.
No, I didn't buy any books. But that didn't stop me from checking out Great Gatsby (which I've never read and was heavily referenced in the book I just reviewed, of all things.) And what's right next to it? The Beautiful and Damned. Ooooo, shiney. And Rita Mae Brown has a new book out that I could pick up for reviewing purposes...
In the meantime, the Teaching Company, well aware that they've got a live one on the line, keep sending me flyers. Lookie - Classics of American Literature! On sale! That would make a nice bookend with Understanding Literature and Life, not that that alone won't take me a year to do.
The saner part of my mind keeps asking "Honey, you have GOT to decide if you actually want to read/reread some of this stuff." Because I can just go out and buy Gatsby if I keep obsessing on it... but I have *never* wanted to read Moby Dick or The Small House of Uncle Thomas. As far as I'm concerned, that knockoff of the Essex story cut out all the really interesting bits.
There's also the truth that I've already read a few of the required readings already: Complete Poe (8th grade); The Scarlet Letter (9th grade); Tom Sawyer (summer reading program); Invisible Man (11th grade); and that lit prof favorite, Huck Finn (5th grade, 8th grade, *and* college - a pattern matched only by Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which was also required for 3 classes.)
No, I didn't buy any books. But that didn't stop me from checking out Great Gatsby (which I've never read and was heavily referenced in the book I just reviewed, of all things.) And what's right next to it? The Beautiful and Damned. Ooooo, shiney. And Rita Mae Brown has a new book out that I could pick up for reviewing purposes...
In the meantime, the Teaching Company, well aware that they've got a live one on the line, keep sending me flyers. Lookie - Classics of American Literature! On sale! That would make a nice bookend with Understanding Literature and Life, not that that alone won't take me a year to do.
The saner part of my mind keeps asking "Honey, you have GOT to decide if you actually want to read/reread some of this stuff." Because I can just go out and buy Gatsby if I keep obsessing on it... but I have *never* wanted to read Moby Dick or The Small House of Uncle Thomas. As far as I'm concerned, that knockoff of the Essex story cut out all the really interesting bits.
There's also the truth that I've already read a few of the required readings already: Complete Poe (8th grade); The Scarlet Letter (9th grade); Tom Sawyer (summer reading program); Invisible Man (11th grade); and that lit prof favorite, Huck Finn (5th grade, 8th grade, *and* college - a pattern matched only by Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which was also required for 3 classes.)
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Date: 2005-09-13 06:56 pm (UTC)I grew up with the "Dead White Guys" collection, in leather. Didn't read most of it, but while in middle school I broke the spine on the Poe book. That says a lot, since I was already taking care of my books.
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Date: 2005-09-13 08:07 pm (UTC)