to read list

I've review a few movies on here, with plans for more.

But in my soul I am a literature person. So in 2010, I'm going to read/write a review for a book twice a month. 24 books! goals! I love goals, no matter how unattainable they may be.

I've come up with a preliminary list, welcome to suggestions. These are all books that I've never read, or want a second look at for a different perspective.

1. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close-Jonathan Safran Coer
2. Women in Love-D.H. Lawrence
3. A Good Man in Hard to Find-Flannery O'Connor
4. Selected Poems 1965-1975-Seamus Heaney
   
5. Middlemarch-George Eliot
6. Brooklyn-Colm Toibin
7. On the Road-Jack Kerouac
8. Atonement-Ian McEwan
9. Madame Bovary-Gustave Flaubert
10. Age of Anxiety-W.H. Auden
11. The Age of Innocence-Edith Wharton
12. The Golden Notebook-Doris Lessing
13. Brideshead Revisited-Evelyn Waugh
14. The Adventures of Augie March-Saul Bellow
15. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay-Michel Chabon
16. Mrs. Dalloway-Virginia Woolf (a reread)
17. The Hours-Michael Cunningham
18. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror-John Ashbery
19. Shade of Grey-Jasper Fforde
20. The House of the Spirits-Isabel Allende
21. Don Quixote-Miguel de Cervantes
22. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland-Lewis Carroll
23. The Way We Live Now-Anthony Trollope
24. A Movable Feast-Ernest Hemingway

GOALS. any suggestions/substitutions?

A Tale of Two Majors—English and Classical Languages

When asked what he looks for in a woman by the Proust Questionnaire at the back of Vanity Fair, Garrison Keillor said

High-spiritedness, wit, a love of repartee and wordplay and allusion and jokes—in other words,

an English major.

Well put, Mr. Keillor, who I actually had the oppurtunity to meet and chat with about golfcarts* at the Decatur Writing Festival this fall. And English Major [plus Classics] I will be. But here goes the rest of my academic plans that all point towards...becoming an academic.

Next semester I am planning on taking the following schedule (I'm registering in a week or so I believe)

Monday-Wednesday-Friday

Eng 322, The Woman Question in Victorian literature with [babuhdabum] Professor Cozzens! I've been waiting so long to have a class with her! My mom had her when she was at Agnes Scott for the M.A.T. program and I work with a lot of her current students in the Writing Center.

Lat 202, Intermediate Second Semester with Professor Jim Abbot!‡ I had Abbot this semester for History of Greek Civilization and I love him. This is the guy who makes me want to double major. I've never seen anyone get so excited by a 1/30th of a pediment.

Ant 101, I'm taking this in preparation for MOROCCO. [see next blog post] Plus it fulfills two graduation requirements. whoa. This class only meets on MW

Rel 232, Tibet in Film and Literature with Professor Zablocki. So everyone knows I love China. But the only country I love more than China, culturally, is Tibet! We just had a group of Tibetan monks on campus doing a sand painting. And it was very moving. Plus I love disenfranchised people. Could the Dalai Lama get cuter? And this class only meets twice a week from 5:30 to 8:30 on Mondays and 5:30-6:30 on Wednesday.

Tuesday-Thursday

CLL 212, Greek and Roman Heroes with Professor MacEwan, and I will have gotten the flush of Classics Professors! This is my only class on Tuesday-Thursday.

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*Why is this my default topic of conversation? I love golfcarts and I love Peachtree City. I suppose it was appropriate to mention to Mr. Keillor the quirk of my small-town life. But golfcarts? C'mon Emma, this guy is one of your favorite Apples to Apples† cards

†A favorite game among Kearneys. I hope to meet someday my other favorite living Apples to Apples card—Sean Connery. Our other automatic win card is Carl Sagan. But unfortunately the Great One has passed on.

‡ I like to exclaim a lot. Especially about English and Latin!