Fun Home was indeed awesome, in a completely gutting and heartbreaking sort of way.
Wow, you've really mastered the power of positive giving-up.
Cordelia ,'End of Days'
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."
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.
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.
sj - Sep 26, 2008 7:36:38 am PDT #7539 of 28404
"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 28404
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.
megan walker - Sep 26, 2008 7:41:16 am PDT #7541 of 28404
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I'm sort of surprised I've read 18 on that list, 19, if you count the bits and pieces of The Second Sex that I've read. (Because, good god, who would want to read the whole thing?)
Steph L. - Sep 26, 2008 7:44:15 am PDT #7542 of 28404
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
connie! I had a dream last night that I was standing at your desk talking to you (you were wearing a pink cardigan sweater) and you told me that you'd love to chat, but your new tech writer job was very time-consuming.
I'm going call that a prophetic dream, okay?
Kathy A - Sep 26, 2008 7:44:24 am PDT #7543 of 28404
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I'm a terrible English major/bookstore employee, because I've only read (or tried to read) nine of those books.
Connie Neil - Sep 26, 2008 7:50:20 am PDT #7544 of 28404
brillig
I'm going call that a prophetic dream, okay?
Works for me! I turn in my writing samples today after I get my current supervisor to sign the internal app for transfer. After the past two weeks of post-Ike insurance company insanity, I'm very ready to be out of this department.
If I get this, I just may get a pink cardigan in your honor, Teppy.
Hayden - Sep 26, 2008 7:51:42 am PDT #7545 of 28404
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I've read 27, but boy howdy was there some crap among the gems on that list.
I've read 34 of the Esquire list that Jezebel linked to (which was also a mix of the sublime and the stupid). So I still have guy credentials, I guess.