If you have not read Fun Home, I highly recommend it, whatever your gender.
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Polter-Cow - Sep 26, 2008 7:12:47 am PDT #7529 of 28404
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
sumi - Sep 26, 2008 7:13:28 am PDT #7530 of 28404
Art Crawl!!!
Okay, I included the Shirley Jackson among those I have read - even though I may have only read "The Lottery."
Sophia Brooks - Sep 26, 2008 7:18:45 am PDT #7531 of 28404
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I've read 31, but there are about 20 more that I am not sure if I actually read, or just know a lot about them.
Polter-Cow - Sep 26, 2008 7:19:42 am PDT #7532 of 28404
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh, then I'm at, like, 12.1.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 26, 2008 7:22:27 am PDT #7533 of 28404
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
My mind is sort of boggling that there are that many books on a single list that I am unsure if I read. I did read MANY books in college, and as I was an English major who took classes in mainly 19th and 20th century lit and women's literature, I have at least been exposed to almost every single title.
Scrappy - Sep 26, 2008 7:26:38 am PDT #7534 of 28404
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I read 24 or so. I think Atwood's Cat's Eye should defintely be on there and it isn't so I am rounding myself up to 25.
sj - Sep 26, 2008 7:29:19 am PDT #7535 of 28404
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I've read somewhere between 15-20 of them. I'm not sure if I finished all of them. I have quite a few more unread on my shelves. Many of the ones I read were for class.
JZ - Sep 26, 2008 7:30:24 am PDT #7536 of 28404
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Fun Home was indeed awesome, in a completely gutting and heartbreaking sort of way.
Sue - Sep 26, 2008 7:32:05 am PDT #7537 of 28404
hip deep in pie
I don't know, that list is another one of those, let's take a representative selection from each woman writer, throw in a few men writing about women, and call it an essential list. It's irritating me. Also why include any men, there's lots of women authors missing from that list.
Steph L. - Sep 26, 2008 7:34:07 am PDT #7538 of 28404
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I read 16, although I've read a lot of OTHER Edith Wharton; just not House of Mirth. So I feel like my count should be 17.
And I would never in good conscience recommend to anyone to read Gone with the Wind. I read it the summer between sophomore and junior year of college, when I vowed to only read books that were 300+ pages. (What? I worked at the pool, I was pretentious, and I was bored.) It's execrably written (apparently grammar was as much a casualty of the War Between the States as slavery was), and I would never foist that on anyone.