'Selfless'
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."
Plei, I own the book. It's worth the $12 paperback! Love.
My seniors this year have read as required reading:
King Lear
Picture of Dorian Gray
The Handmaid's Tale
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Hamlet
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Knight's Tale
Importance of Being Earnest
Doll's House
That's a good list
Oh, we read Sir Gawain! And some Chaucer.
I meant to add, Kat, I sent e with book recs to your profile address on Sunday. Wasn't sure if that was the right one, but I did!
I like your required reading, Kat! Wow. I've read the whole list. I think I own everything but Handmaid's Tale (mostly because it's my least-favorite Atwood so I never bothered to buy it--I find Surfacing a more powerful version of the same kind of feminist rage).
Senior year was Honors English. We read novels in the first semester: I can only remember Kate Chopin's "The Awakening", Hesse's "Siddhartha", and Garcia Marquez's "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" at the moment. I know there was more.
The second semester was plays: "A Midsummer's Night's Dream" "The Father", "A Dollhouse", "Hedda Gabbler", "A Streetcar Named Desire", and once again I forget what else.
I read Handmaid's Tale in one day, while on jury duty (better known as sitting in a nasty waiting room and never being called). I still need to catch up on Atwood -- I have a couple I've never read, but I loved her early stuff.
Jilli, you own the book, or you borrowed it? Because if you own it, I MUST READ.
OF COURSE I own it. Hello, do you know me? Don't worry, I'll hand it to you when I'm done with it.
Jilli, If you bring it to the F2F, I might want to take a glance at it.
Picture of Dorian Gray
Kat, you'll love this-- Nate, at the bookstore the other day, comes up to me and says, "Mom, what's the deal with The Picture of Dorian Gray?"
"Why, Nate?"
"Well, because in the graphic novel section I saw a copy of it and then in the tower section, they have a novel."
"It's pretty well known."
Gives me the patented twelve-year-old boy look. "Well, yeah, I figured that, but is it good?"
"I think so."
"Can I get it?"
"Which one--the graphic novel or the regular novel."
"Can I have both?"
Hee!
Sure, sj.