Middlemarch {George Eliot}
Season of Migration to the North {Tayeb Salih}
This Side of Paradise {F. Scott Fitzgerald}
A Farewell To Arms {Ernest Hemingway}
The Sun Also Rises {Ernest Hemingway}
Green Grass, Running Water {Thomas King}
The God of Small Things {Arundhati Roy}
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas {Hunter S. Thompson}
Siddartha {Herman Hesse}
Demian {Herman Hesse}
Jane Eyre {Charlotte Bronte}
Tess of the D'Urbervilles {Thomas Hardy}
Ishmael {Daniel Quinn}
The Grapes of Wrath {John Steinbeck}
Waiting For Godot {Samuel Beckett}
Les Fleurs de Mal (The Flowers of Evil) {Charles Baudelaire}
Les Miserables {Victor Hugo}
Pride and Predjudice {Jane Austen}
King Lear, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream {William Shakespeare}
A Wrinkle in Time {Madeline L'Engle}
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe {C.S. Lewis}
The Stranger {Albert Camus}
The Plague {Albert Camus}
One Hundered Years of Solitude {Gabriel Garcia Marquez}
Memories of My Melancholy Whores {Gabriel Garcia Marquez}
Heart of Darkness {Joseph Conrad}
Apology {Plato} Electra {Sophocles}
Antigone {Sophocles}
Cannery Row {John Steinbeck}
The Jazz Age {F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald}
Judge on Trial {Ivan Klima}
Consolation of Philosophy {Boethius}
The Monodology {Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz}
On What Grounds What (essay) {Jonathan Schaffer}
Out of the Silent Planet {C.S. Lewis}
The Reader {Bernhard Schlink}
Dracula {Bram Stoker}
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"And now good morrow to our waking souls,
Which watch not one another out of fear;
For love all love of other sights controls,
And makes one little room an everywhere."
{John Donne, "The Good Morrow"}

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

the importance of books

"When he saw that this slender resource was failing him, he gave up his garden and left it uncultivated. Before that, long before he had given up the two eggs and bit of beef he occasionally used to eat. He dined on bread and potatoes. He had sold his last furniture, then all his spare bedding and clothing, then his collections of plants and his prints; but he still had his most precious books..."
-Les Miserables, p.1044
Victor Hugo
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes, I remember as if it was this morning, standing at the library desk watching you carefully print your name, for that is what you had to do to earn a library card.
Next, you handed the librarian your first library book: Blueberries for Sal by Robert McClousky. the rest is history

March 6, 2010 at 12:22 AM
kyra said...

oh dear mama. I didn't realize this was from you at first, and the anonymity really creeped me out... I thought it was a stalker... but now I realize it was my lovely mother. Thanks for the comment! I remember getting my first library card too... Unfortunately, I am now banned from approximately 3 libraries due to overdue fines. Problem.

March 7, 2010 at 9:48 AM

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