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.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
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."
Sophia Brooks - Sep 26, 2008 7:18:45 am PDT #7531 of 28769
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Polter-Cow - Sep 26, 2008 7:19:42 am PDT #7532 of 28769
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 28769
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 28769
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 28769
"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 28769
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 28769
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 28769
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.
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.
sj - Sep 26, 2008 7:36:38 am PDT #7539 of 28769
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I think I would have put The Mill on the Floss on the list rather than Middlemarch, and I am surprised that The Awakening by Kate Chopin is not on the list.
Connie Neil - Sep 26, 2008 7:38:20 am PDT #7540 of 28769
brillig
I'm more than twice the woman you are!
And you'd probably look better in my clothes--though I've seen you, and you could make a house of my clothes.