'Why We Fight'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
For art: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein. Which is mostly about the art scene in Paris between 1910 and 1930. Kind of a ridiculous amount of name-dropping in this.
For frontiers: Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner. Simply fantastic, and about as important as Turner's essay.
I like lust for life.
I read it before I ever saw a Van Gogh -- so I loved his paintings before i saw them ( I read it in high school )
I admit to only having seen the movie, but "The Girl With the Pearl Earring"?
That is exactly the type of thing I'm looking for.
Movie tie-ins are actually great because we have a film critic among us.
Wow, ask and you shall receive!
The Ebony Tower - John Fowles
Hah! I'm reading TFLW this month for our 19th-century England salon ("What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew").
My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
We read this for the short-lived Buffista book club, didn't we? I remember thinking I would never have picked it up otherwise, but I really liked it.
Are we looking at fiction or non-fiction. For NF my vote would be "Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees" by Lawrence Weschler.
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
Isn't this a book? I think I have it on my history bookshelves.
On the art theme, Song of the Lark. Willa Cather is the answer to many things.
Like insomnia! Ooh, burn.
Are we looking at fiction or non-fiction
Usually people read fiction, but some themes lend themselves to non-fiction. Lots of people read non-fiction for "Water, Water Everywhere" and the "Around the World in 30 Books" list was half and half.
Isn't this a book? I think I have it on my history bookshelves.
Yes. We have a Dickens fan in our group but I didn't want to limit it to one author. The list is all classics but I'm reading more contemporary stuff that takes place in the 19th century like Angels and Insects and The French Lieutenant's Woman.