6.20.2008
The Odyssey: Review Haiku
If I hear "the child
of morning, rosy-fingered
dawn" one more time, I'll . . .
The Odyssey
by Homer (maybe). 8th century BC (ish). Listened to on a
Playaway
device.
#35 on The LIST.
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Midwestern girl goes East Coast, finds niche in children's publishing. Married. Two kids. No beagles (sniff).
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The LIST
I've set a goal for Year Two (uh, make that Years Two and Three) to read or re-read some Important Books. As I finish a book, I'll add a link in this list. Wish me luck.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
A View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. I: The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson
The Federalist Papers
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The Iliad by Homer
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The real Winnie-the-Pooh stories by A. A. Milne
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Forever . . . by Judy Blume
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Odyssey by Homer
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban
Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (some of them, at least)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Democracy in America by Alexis d'Tocqueville
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
A Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Personal History by Katharine Graham
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
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