Tuesday, January 18, 2011

2012

67 books read so far
19 plays
9 audio courses

The number in parenthesis is the rating given to the book. I use the GoodReads system. 
1 - didn't like it
2 - it was ok
3 - liked it
4 - really liked it
5 - it was amazing

January - see post
  1. Anne Frank: The book, the life, the afterlife by Francine Prose (3)
  2. Pamela by Samuel Richardson (5)
  3. If I Stay (#1) by Gayle Forman (5)
  4. Where She Went (#2) by Gayle Forman (5)
  5. Play: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (3)
  6. Audiocourse: The Life and Writings of C.S. Lewis by Professor Louis Markos (2)
  7. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (3)
  8. Audiocourse: The Giants of Russian Literature: Turgenev, Dostoevesky, Tolstoy and Chekov by Professor Liza Knapp (3)
February - see post
  1. A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry by Mary Oliver (4)
  2. Clarissa Vol 1 , Vol 2 , Vol 3 by Samuel Richardson (5)
  3. Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose (4) - reread
  4. Play: Macbeth by William Shakespeare (4)
  5. Audiocourse: The Giants of Irish Literature: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and Beckett by Professor George O'Brien (2)
  6. Astrid and Veronika by Linda Olsson (2)
  7. Play: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (5)
  8. Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster (4)
  9. Play: Ajax by Sophocles (4)
March - see post
  1. How to Read A Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry by Edward Hirsch (4)
  2. Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt (4)
  3. After A Funeral by Diana Athill (2)
  4. The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief & Healing edited by Kevin Young (4)
  5. Darkness Visible by William Styron (5- reread)  
  6. Audiocourse: Illiad of Homer by Professor Elizabeth Vandiver (5)
  7. Before I Say Goodbye by Ruth Picardie (4)
  8. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (4)
  9. Electra by Sophocles (4)
  10. The Iliad of Homer (5)
April - see post
  1. The Odyssey of Homer (5)
  2. Audiocourse:  Greek Drama - Tragedy and Comedy by Professor Peter Meineck (5)
  3. Mythology: TImeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton (5)
  4. The Paris Review Interviews: Women Writers at Work Edited by George Plimpton (4)
  5. The Virginia Woolf Reader Edited by Mitchell Leaska (5)
  6. Gone Tomorrow (#13 Jack Reacher series) by Lee Child (4)
May - see post
  1. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (4)
  2. Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes (4)
  3. Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl (3)
  4. The Snowman by Jo Nesbo (4)
  5. The Stonecutter by Camilla Lackberg (4)
  6. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (5)
June - see post
  1. Revelations - Diaries of Women Edited by Mary Jane Moffat and Charlotte Painter (4)
  2. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (5)
  3. Leaving A Trace: On Keeping A Journal by Alexandra Johnson (4)
  4. Writers and Their Notebooks edited by Diana Raab (4)
  5. A Brief History of Diaries: From Pepys to Blogs by Alexandra Johnson (3)
  6. The Hidden Writer: Diaries and the Creative Life by Alexandra Johnson (4)
  7. Oroonoko by Alphra Behn (5)
  8. A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries by Thomas Mallon (4)
  9. The Writer's Portable Mentor by Priscilla Long (5)
  10. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (5)
  11. Memory Slips by Linda Katherine Cutting (4)
July - see post
  1. The Los Angeles Diaries by James Brown (4)
  2. Othello by William Shakespeare (4)
  3. The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life by Ann Patchett (4)
  4. Audiocourse: The Aeneid of Virgil by Professor Elizabeth Vandiver (5)
  5. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (4)
  6. Oedipus the King by Sophocles (4)
  7. Antigone by Sophocles (4)
  8. The Aeneid by Virgil (5)
August - see post
  1. Cleopatra: A Life by Stacey Schiff (5)
  2. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (3)
  3. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (4)
  4. horoscopes for the dead: poems by Billy Collins (5) 
  5. Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (4)
  6. Introspection: American Poets on One of Their Own Poems ed by Robert Pack and Jay Parini (4)
  7. A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin (4)
  8. A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin (5)
  9. Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles (5)
  10. Trachinian Women by Sophocles (4)
  11. Philoctetes by Sophocles (5)
September - see post
  1. King Lear by Shakespeare (4)
  2. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (5)
  3. Audiocourse: Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition Part IV - The Renaissance by Professor Ronald Herzman (3)
  4. The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton (4)
  5. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (4)
  6. The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (4)
  7. Audiocourse: Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition Part V - Neoclassic and 18th Century Literature by Professor Susan Heinzelman (3)
  8. Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides by Aeschylus - translated by Richmond Lattimore (4)
  9. Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell (4)
October - see post
  1. Fall of Giants by Ken Follett - The Century Trilogy #1 (5)
  2. Winter of the World by Ken Follett - The Century Trilogy #2 (5)
  3. Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose (5)
  4. Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing by Virginia Woolf edited by  Jeanne Schulkind (4)
  5. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (5)
November - see post
  1. The Rising Tide by Jeff Shaara - WWII #1 (5)
  2. The Steel Wave by Jeff Shaara - WWII #2 (5)
  3. No Less Than Victory by Jeff Shaara - WWII #3 (5)
  4. Nothing Was the Same by Kay Redfield Jamison (4)
  5. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (Lord of the Ring series #1) (5)
December - see post
  1. The Final Storm by Jeff Shaara - WWII #4 (5)
  2. Audiocourse: World War II - A Military and Social History by Professor Thomas Childers (5)
  3. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (4)
  4. The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien (Lord of the Ring series #2)  (5)
  5. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien (Lord of the Ring series #3) (5)
  6. Play: Heracles by Euripides (5)
  7. Play: Medea by Euripides (5)
Posted by at
Labels:

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)