dadmonson Posted January 24, 2009 Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 Okay, I'm bored right now so I want to know how often do you read and what book or books are you currently reading? I'll start off; I "usually" try to read about 30 to 45 minutes a day and I'm currently struggling to read The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Your turn... Also Barack Obama reads 95 books a year, I don't care what anyone says that is quite a load of books! Dummy he is not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott_Connery Posted January 24, 2009 Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 30-45 mins a day, with the occasional late night when I can't put a book down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaight Posted January 24, 2009 Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 Okay, I'm bored right now so I want to know how often do you read and what book or books are you currently reading? More or less daily, often working through multiple books at the same time. Right now, for example, I'm reading Paul Boghossian's Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism and Alastair Reynolds' Century Rain. I recently finished Neal Asher's Shadow of the Scorpion, a couple of novellas by Steven Erickson, and Andy Bernstein's Objectivism in One Lesson. My forward-looking reading stack includes Scientific Irrationalism by David Stove, The Killing of History by Keith Windschuttle and Blink and The Tipping Point both by Malcolm Gladwell. I kind of hope Obama keeps reading 95 books a year, because the more time he spends reading the less time he has to grind the tattered remnants of my freedom into dust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4reason Posted January 24, 2009 Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 Currently I average about one to two hours a day during the week, and a little more than than on weekends unless I am out and about in the mountains. I read for one hour every night before I sleep, at a minimum, no matter what time I turn in. Books I am currently reading: "The Invisible Constitution" - a fascinating read so far that is likely to inspire a topic on may part once I am done, "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House," and "The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment." For thinking breaks in between I am a new addict of Nintendo DS Brain Academy. I am mystified at how my brain is equally entertained by deep thought as it is by making split second decisions about which side of the screen has more value in coins or replacing erased lines in rotated images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Anthem Posted January 24, 2009 Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 I haven't been reading as much as I should have. The book I'm reading isn't very exciting, interesting, but kind of boring, The Forgotten Man by Amity Schlaes. I think a good deal of it might be going over my head a bit too, I'm not very knowledgable with economics. It'll warrant a reread though, when I feel better prepared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brikufa Posted January 24, 2009 Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 Well, I am usually incredibly busy but am currently on winter break so I've been reading probably about 3 hours per week. Usually I just read for fun at stoplights when I'm driving, which amounts to probably an hour a week. I'm currently trying to improve my spanish by reading the spanish version of Dan Browns "Deception point." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrock3215 Posted January 24, 2009 Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 (edited) Preferably two to three hours a day, but at times it can be more or less. I never go a day without reading for at least 30 minutes. Edited January 24, 2009 by adrock3215 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James I Posted January 24, 2009 Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 (edited) The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I usually read for about 20-40 minutes a few times a week if it's non-fiction, with fiction I can read for hours if it's a good book. For thinking breaks in between I am a new addict of Nintendo DS Brain Academy. I was a bit sceptical about how well that game really works but it looks fun so I think I'll get it. Also, Professor X uses it in the commercial and you can't argue with that. Edited January 24, 2009 by James I Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intellectualammo Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 (edited) Also Barack Obama read 95 books a year, I don't care what anyone says that is quite a load of books! Dummy he is not. I actually made a list of what I read from in '08. I had a major reading binge last year, most I ever read, lots of good quotes among them, but also some really horrible poetry like most of the contemporary free verse poetry I read, but here's my list, not sure how many: Kay Nolte Smith's A Tale of the Wind(still haven't finished last 1/4) Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame(audiobook) Book One: Jack Frake of the Sparrowhawk series by Edward Cline The Modern Library Writer's Workshop by Stephen Koch Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (audiobook) Janet Burroway's Writing Fiction A Guide to the Narrative Craft Creating Fiction edited by Julie Checkoway The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn John Holt How Children Fail How Children Learn John Holt Stephen King's On Writing Book 1 Alanna: The First Adventure Tamora Pierce (audiobook) Book 2 In the Hand of the Goddess Tamora Pierce (audiobook) Book 3 The Woman Who Rides Like a Man Tamora Pierce (audiobook) Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones Write Right by Jan Venolia Good Advice on Writing by William Safire and Leonard Safir The Thirsty Muse - Alcohol and the American Writer by Tom Dardis The Midnight Disease - The Drive to Write, Writer's Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty Nathaniel Branden's The Art of Living Consciously [at this time in April and May '08 I had a major writing purge that interrupted my reading binge and caused me to actually use up around 128 hours of PTO time off at the hospital. I would also say that it was pretty hypergraphic time for me and it was interfering with work and frustrated me so much to leave my writing] Final Salute By Jim Sheeler Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Walter Kaufmann translation) (again) Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson Cosette: The Sequel to Les Miserables by Laura Kalpakian Emily Dickinson: An Interpretive Biography by Thomas H. Johnson My Wars Are Laid Away In Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson by Alfred Harbegger The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson editor PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson The Passion by Jeanette Winterson Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson The Belle of Amherst: A Play Based on the Life of Emily Dickinson by William Luce Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson edited by Ellen Louise Hart and Martha Nell Smith The Emily Dickinson Handbook edited by Gudrun Grabher, Roland Hagenbuchle, Cristanne Miller Visiting Emily : Poems Inspired by the Life & Work of Emily Dickinson, edited by Sheila Coghill & Thom Tammaro Reveries Of A Bachelor by Ik Marvel Emily Dickinson's Gardens: A celebration of a poet and gardner, by Marta McDowell Letters of Emily Dickinson edited by Mabel Loomis Todd Rose by V.C. Andrews Selected Poems of Swinburne, edited by Edward Shanks Slaughterhouse Five or The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr Afternoons With Emily by Rose MacMurray Book Two: Hugh Kenrick of the Sparrowhawk Series by Edward Cline Book Three: Caxton of the Sparrowhawk series written by Edward Cline Shakespeare's The Sonnets The Garden by Elsie V. Aidinoff Foolproof Guide to Growing Roses by Field Roebuck The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Bronte edited by C. W. Hatfield Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Four Great Plays by Henrik Ibsen (translated by R. Farquharson Sharp, with an Introduction and a Preface to each play by John Gassner) Ibsen: The Complete Major Prose Plays translated and introduction by Rolf Fjelde Ibsen: A Biography by Michael Meyer Book Four: Empire of the Sparrowhawk series written by Edward Cline Book Five: Revolution of the Sparrowhawk series by Edward Cline Book Six: War of the Sparrowhawk series written by Edward Cline Emily Bronte's only novel Wuthering Heights Victor Hugo's Les Miserables the unabridged version, translated by Charles E. Wilbour Emma by Jane Austen Carol Shields on Jane Austen Victor Hugo: A Tumultuous Life written by Samuel Edwards Victor Hugo And His World written by Andre Maurois Jane Austen her life written by Park Honan Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Mary Stuart / The Maid of Orleans : Two Plays in One Volume, both plays are by Friedrich von Schiller, translated by Charles E. Passage Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, translated by George Madison Priest, 2 ed. The Novelwritten by Richard Freedman Literary Women by Ellen Moers The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1: Paradise Lost Milton: Paradise Lost A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Louis L. Martz Infernowritten by Dante Alighieri and translated by Michael Palma Imaginary Gardens A Study of Five American Poets by Rosemary Sprague Marianne by George Sand The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945 written by Emily Stipes Watts George Sand A Woman's Life Writ Large by Belinda Jack The Poetical Works Of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Cambridge Edition, with a new introduction by Ruth M. Adams The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw The Norton Anthology of Poetry (the shorter fourth edition) The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm Sara Teasdale A Biography written by Margaret Haley Carpenter Sara Teasdale Woman & Poet written by William Drake Duse: A Biography written by William Weaver Circumference and Circumstance Stages in the Mind and Art of Emily Dickinson written by William R. Sherwood Eugene O'Neill Poems 1912-1944 edited by Donald Gallup Early Poems Edna St. Vincent Millay edited with an introduction and notes by Holly Peppe The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell with an introduction by Louis Untermeyer, The Cambridge Edition of the Poets The Poems of John Keats selected and edited by Henry Newbolt A Little Treasury of Great Poetry The Best Poems of Seven Centuries edited by Oscar Williams Shelley Poetical Works edited by Thomas Hutchinson The Complete Poetical Works of Byron, Cambridge Edition The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald A New Collection edited and with a preface by Matthew J. Bruccoli The Complete Novels & Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne published by The Modern Library Tartuffe and Other Plays by Moliere translated and with an introduction by Donald M. ***** Zadig and Other Romances By Voltaire translated by H.I. Woolf and Winfrid Jackson, with an introduction and notes by H.I. Woolf The Modern Library's Six Great Plays for Today, selected, and with biographical notes, by Bennet Cerf The Poetry Anthology, 1912 - 2002 Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine, edited by Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction (Fourth Edition) R.V.Cassili Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo, with an introduction written by Ayn Rand Hernani, The Twin Brothers, Angelo, Amy Robsart, Mary Tudor, Ruy Blas, Torquemada, Esmeralda by Victor Hugo - all in one big book! Victor Hugo's Conversations With The spirit World: A Literary Genius's Hidden Life authored by John Chambers Collected Lyrics of Edna St. Vincent Millay Select Poems and Tragedies of/by Victor Hugo The Collected Plays of Terence Rattigan Volume One It includes: French Without Tears, Flare Path, While The Sun Shines, Love in Idleness The Winslow Boy The Blue Bedroom and Other Stories by Rosamunde Pilcher Mother: A Cradle To Hold Me, by Maya Angelou The Father by Sharon Olds No Heaven by Alicia Suskin Ostriker The Glass Age by Cole Swensen Red Sugar by Jan Beatty Elegy by Mary Jo Bang a night without armor Poems by Jewel (Kilcher) Summons poems by Deborah Tall Delights & Shadows by Ted Koose The Wellspring poems by Sharon Olds Ruin by Cynthia Cruz Sleeping in the Woods by David Wagoner The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry editors Ed Ochester and Peter Oresick The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck The Complete Book of Les Miserables by Edward Behr The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales, introduction by Padraic Colum, commentary by Joseph Campbell German Demystified: A self-Teaching Guide by Ed Swick (only1/4) Death by Maurice Maeterlinck, translated by Alexander Teixeira De Mattos The Double Garden by Maurice Maeterlinck, translated by Alexander Teixeira De Mattos The Cloud That Lifted and The Power of The Dead, two plays in one volume by Maurice Maeterlinck, translated by F.M.Atkinson Joyzelle (translated by A. Teixeira De Mattos) and Monna Vanna (translated by Alfred Sutro) two plays in one volume, by Maurice Maeterlinck (note: Monna Vanna translation by Alexis Irenee Du Pont Coleman is superior) Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich The Annotated Alice ( which includes Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass) by Lewis Carroll, with an introduction and notes by Martin Gardner (the complete text and original illustrations) The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (the Oxford Illustrated Dickens edition with the original illustrations) Emile, or On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau translated by Barbara Faxley with an introduction by P.D. Jimack The Moral Judgment of the Child by Jean Piaget (with the assistance of seven collaborators) translated by Majorie Gabain The Essential Piaget: An Interpretive Reference and Guide 100th Anniversary Edition, Howard E. Gruber and J. Jacques Voneche as editors Virtues in Verse: The Best Poetry of Berton Braley edited and arranged by Linda Tania Abrams Stand Fast For Freedom by Lowell Thomas and Berton Braley Inside by Kenneth J. Harvey [Note: besides that time off, I rarely take off a day of work; I worked the last eight months at the hopital with only 2 days off during it, and that was one weekvnd last summer, because I had to take off to get paid for 2 holidays that I workvd.] Edited January 25, 2009 by intellectualammo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Caya Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 I try to keep a book for leisure and a book that applies to my career/constructive interests. Currently I am rereading The Count of Monte Cristo and the second largest book in my collection: Security Analysis. It's a beast. I currently try to read about an hour and a half to two hours a day not including school work. The time I read on the weekend depends largely on how busy I am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrock3215 Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 I actually made a list of what I read from in '08. There are some great works in there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrock3215 Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 (edited) I kind of hope Obama keeps reading 95 books a year, because the more time he spends reading the less time he has to grind the tattered remnants of my freedom into dust. I searched around a bit and found this site: http://www.makeliterature.com/blog/barack-...as-reading-list Mr. Obama has several decent books on his list. I also found this laughable photo, where he's carrying Zakaria’s “The Post-American World" and looks more rockstar than politician. Edited January 26, 2009 by adrock3215 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'kian Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 It varies because sometimes I can't find books I'm interested in, or lack enough money. But I estimate I read between 10 and 15 new books per year. Mostly I read science fiction, alternate histories and science books. I read every day. If I don't have new books, I re-read older ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intellectualammo Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 There are some great works in there! Yes, fortunately there are many that I did like. Among the worst, besides most of the contemporary poetry, I think all of those Norton Anthology's were tremendously disappointing for what little I liked in them, and of their selections of those writers and poets that I am familiar with, weren't some of their best to me and I think I can say it was actually a disservice to at least one of them. So far I read this month: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett introduced by Sophie Dahl Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse Inside the Secret Garden A Treasury of Crafts, Recipes, and Activities by Carolyn Strom Collins and Christina Wyss Eriksson The Practical Cogitator The Thinkers Anthology selected and edited by Charlvs P. Curtis, Jr. and Ferris Greenlet Becoming a Writer by Dorthea Brande, foreward by John Gardner Pegasus Pulls a Hack Memoirs of a Modern Minstrel by Berton Braley Gone With The Wind authored by Margaret Mitchell and preface by Pat Conroy Sara Teasdale's poetry collection titled Love Songs Flame and Sword a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale Rivers to the Sea a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale I recently purchased online access to The Emily Dickinson Journal, a scholarly journal from Johns Hopkins University Press and so I will be making my way through all of them now. I starting with: Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 1992. (108pages) I finished it and now I'm currently reading: Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 1992 (124pages) I love this journal! Adds more depth to her poetic height! There are approximately 35 issues (or numbers) and so I have a lot to read! And of what I have read in it so far, this has to be one of the very best decisions that I've ever made with my money. She is absolutely fascinating to me. I want to read everything she wrote, said, and everything written about her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Mac Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 I'm lucky to find 10 minutes per day to read. I would love to read for at least an hour or so per day, but where do some of you find the time? I get up, go to work, come home, workout, shower, cook dinner, clean up after dinner, then go to bed and do it over again. I tend to catch up a bit on the weekends, but between laundry, running errands and other household type crap, even then I only find a few minutes to an hour on Saturdays and Sundays. And now I'm having to cram in American Idol too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intellectualammo Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 I'm lucky to find 10 minutes per day to read. The only time I don't really read is when I'm on a writing purge. It is excruciating for me to not to have the time to write when I want to write, or when I want to read, it's always interrupted by having to do things, like work, or make food, or whatnot. I hare having to work my writing/reading schedule around my work schedule. So I just bring it along with me, and found creative ways to enjoy reading while working or writing, though they take on a different form: audiobooks/lectures and using my digi voice recorder when a thought comes along. It helps, but it's still a poor substitute, which I can't always do there. I also disappear on my any of my breaks at work, and read or write frantically. I would love to read for at least an hour or so per day My fantasy is to be able to read or write nonstop for as long as I want to without having any interruptions. I just enjoyed a bit of that fantasy yesterday. I finally took a paid day off and read for at least 12 hours or so. Spent quality time with Sara and Emily's words and words about Emily. but where do some of you find the time? I get up, go to work, come home, workout, shower, cook dinner, clean up after dinner, then go to bed and do it over again. I don't workout or regularly shower, so that frees time for me. I use very little dishes, I own/use only one spoon and one glass and one glass bakedish, and use paper towels for everything, I don't talk on the phone, nor go out, and if I do go out it's only to work, get food, get books. Last year I almost ended up in the hospital from exhaustion, and had elevated blood pressure, and have trained myself to be able to endure even more since then. I don't drink coffee, takes too long to wash and prepare the coffe maker, saving time too. Tea is fine. Hot water from the tap, its almost hot enough for the tea, just microwave it for a bit, and done. I do not drive far at all like before, that saves time, don't have to get gas much (every other month), that saves time. Basically I shaved off all the excess, including some people, to make more room for characters, books, and my writing. I work on average about 114 hours a pay (bi-weekly), so I must be very careful with the precious time I have and it's hard won. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrock3215 Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 (edited) Yes, fortunately there are many that I did like. Since you are dropping lists, I may as well post mine. I began this list in July of last year, after OCON. Here is what I read since then: Fiction -------- Quo Vadis by Sienkiewicz The Toilers of the Sea by Hugo The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway The Road by McCarthy Pride & Prejudice by Austen Northanger Abbey by Austen Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo The Miser by Moliere The Would-be Gentleman by Moliere Don Juan by Moliere That Scoundrel Scapin by Moliere Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Winterson Sparrowhawk Book One: Jack Frake by Cline Hard Times by Dickens Mrs. Dalloway by Woolf Remains of the Day by Ishiguro Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Melville Candide by Voltaire The Sea Gull by Chekov Non-Fiction -------- Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Poetics by Aristotle The Truth About Muhammad by Spencer The Virtuosi: Classical Music's Great Performers by Schonberg The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro; The Apology; Crito; and Phaedo by Plato The Worldly Philosophers: The Great Economic Thinkers by Heilbroner Becoming Mona Lisa by Sassoon Existentialism: From Dostoevsky to Sarte by Kaufmann Existentialism is a Humanism by Sartre The Romantic Manifesto by Rand The Age of Turbulence by Greenspan For the New Intellectual by Rand The Art of Non-Fiction by Rand The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon Moneyball by Lewis Fatherhood by Cosby Michelangelo's David: A Search for Identity by Seymour, Jr. The Montessori Method by Montessori Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance by Panofsky How to Read and Why by Bloom Poetry -------- The Love Poems of Lord Byron by Byron Selected Poems by Whitman + several unimportant singular passages from compiled volumes. Edited January 27, 2009 by adrock3215 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aequalsa Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 I actually made a list of what I read from in '08. I had a major reading binge last year, most I ever read, lots of good quotes among them, but also some really horrible poetry like most of the contemporary free verse poetry I read, but here's my list, not sure how many: Kay Nolte Smith's A Tale of the Wind(still haven't finished last 1/4) ... Inside by Kenneth J. Harvey [Note: besides that time off, I rarely take off a day of work; I worked the last eight months at the hopital with only 2 days off during it, and that was one weekvnd last summer, because I had to take off to get paid for 2 holidays that I workvd.] That is a lot of intellectual ammo! I am so sorry about the pun. If I keep feeling bad maybe I'll edit it out later. Seriously, that's impressive. You're a machine. Even at my most hungry, I don't think I could read at that rate. I'm curious how long you've kept that pace and whether or not, in that time, you have noticed a change in your retention, good or bad. For my part, I read 2-4 hours a day. About half are articles related to businesses or news. The other half is currently being split between Brothers Karamozov, The Creature from Jekyll Island, and The Selfish Gene. I have always had to have 3-6 books going to keep my interest up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intellectualammo Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Seriously, that's impressive. You're a machine. Even at my most hungry, I don't think I could read at that rate. My literary passions have taught me how to read fast and my hunger only grows! I can't seem to put enough on my plate! I'm curious how long you've kept that pace and whether or not, in that time, you have noticed a change in your retention, good or bad. Well, usually I don't keep a record of what read, but I did directly by posting what I am currently reading on a literature forum and I thought one night that I wanted to go through that thread and see what I read for a year, since I knew I had read a lot more than ever, and then I compiled the list. I really have only read and written like this, in the last (almost) three years now, incrementally increasing through my passion and desire not only how much I read and write, but also the quality of my writing, during those years. I have matured literarily very rapidly. That is why my birthday in my profile is so young - it's my rebirthday. That's the very day it all started, my new literary life. I owe my entire literary life to what took place on that day forward. I raised myself though. But as far as retention goes, what was of any literary worth during my reading, or of some personal significance to me, was not lost. I wrote it all down, or highlighted/marked it up, if it's my copy. But I can make comparisons, all kinds of connections, personal ones especially and broadening my literary horizons, has opened up so much to me as a writer, and I can also see where I stand in it. And now I'm having to cram in American Idol too! And to expand further, I don't watch TV, so that frees up time, too and it's gotten to be so [crossout]bad[/crossout] good that I can't even watch DVD's anymore. I checked one out on on Verdi's ernani, with Pavarotti in it, after reading Hugo's Hernani, and barely watched 30 minutes of it, and even renewed it like six times from the library during that time, and also recently The Secret Garden and I renewed that 2-3 times and have yet to even open it! I end up just turning them in, and this last one proves that I shouldn't even try anymore. I can't watch, I must read, I must write! Oh, and I do all of my food shopping late at night after my shift ends at the hospital, so it's quicker to get there, not many people, and the wonderful self-checkout line allows me the freedom of not having to wait for a cashier to come to a register, talking about stupid shit like the weather, or having to wait for them to bag my food, and hear the obligatory phrases that are fucking annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intellectualammo Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 (edited) Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo Ah, the proper title, if I remember right. When I said that to a person they didn't know what I was talking about, then I said it's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" then they say "Oh, OK." The Miser by Moliere The Would-be Gentleman by Moliere Don Juan by Moliere That Scoundrel Scapin by Moliere Who's the translator? I read Don Juan, and liked it, esp. for the language. But it has to be a Donald M. Frame's translation. Some of Moliere's plays are verse ones like The School for Husband's (which is my favorite of his that I have read so far), but another translation I was looking at, wasn't in such a verse form and did not at all appeal to me after having read Frame's first. The School for Wives ranks as second favorite of mine that I've read. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Winterson Her Gut Symmetries book was the first time I encountered female homosexuality in literature. I have my own take on just why it occured in the novel, which I think is the real reason why. I liked this one of hers some, ever read it? Sparrowhawk Book One: Jack Frake by Cline Edited January 27, 2009 by intellectualammo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intellectualammo Posted December 7, 2009 Report Share Posted December 7, 2009 Tonight I made a list of what I read so far this year. My list for 2009, not sure if it is as long as my list in this thread for 2008 or not: but here it is: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett introduced by Sophie Dahl Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse Inside the Secret Garden A Treasury of Crafts, Recipes, and Activities by Carolyn Strom Collins and Christina Wyss Eriksson The Practical Cogitator The Thinkers Anthology selected and edited by Charlvs P. Curtis, Jr. and Ferris Greenlet Becoming a Writer by Dorthea Brande, foreward by John Gardner Pegasus Pulls a Hack Memoirs of a Modern Minstrel by Berton Braley Gone With The Wind authored by Margaret Mitchell and preface by Pat Conroy Sara Teasdale's poetry collection titled Love Songs Flame and Sword a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale Rivers to the Sea a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale The Letters of Emily Dickinson edited by Thomas H. Johnson (Volume 1) Sara Teasdale's Dark of the Moon Sara Teasdale's Stars To-night Sara Teasdale's Strange Victory Rainbow Gold Poems Old and New Selected For Boys And Girls (selected by) by Sara Teasdale With Illustrations by Dugald Walker The Letters of Emily Dickinson Volume #2 edited by Thomas H. Johnson Treasury of Love Poems by Adam Mickiewicz, compiled and edited by Krystyna S. Olszer Pan Tadeusz or The Last Foray in Lithuania by Adam Mickiewicz, translated by Watson Kirkconnell with an introductory essay by Dr. William J. Rose and notes by Professor Harold B. Segel Selected Poetry and Prose of Adam Mickiewicz Centenary Commemorative edition, edited, with an introduction by Stanislaw Helsztynski Polish Greats by Arnold Madison Polish Romantic Drama Three Plays in English Translation, selected and edited by Harold B. Segel Adam Mickiewicz by David Welsh Laments by Jan Kochanowski translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Seamus Heaney Jan Kochanowski by David Welsh Stephen King's UR Edward Cline's Sparrowhawk Companion book (to his Sparrowhawk Series) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (the magnum opus) of Adam Smith's Edith Wharton's The Hermit and the Wild Woman And Other Stories Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery Truancy Origins by Isamu Fukui Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery The Daughter of a Magnate by Frank H. Spearman The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 by Lucy Maud Montgomery, published in 1901 Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist by Tara Smith What Narcissism Means To Me poems by Tony Hoagland When The Perfect Partner Goes Perfectly Wrong: Loving or Leaving the Narcissist in your Life by Mary Jo Fay Help! I'm in love with a Narcissist written by both Steven Carter & Julia Sokol Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903, by Lucy Maud Montgomery , published in 1903 The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 by Lucy Maud Montgomery Your Own True Love: The new positive view of narcissism; The person you love the most should be...you, by Richard C. Robertiello, M.D. Identifying and Understanding the Narcissistic Personality Disorder by Elsa F. Ronningstam The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald Prisoners of Childhood by Alice Miller When You Love a Man Who Loves Himself by W. Keith Campbell Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Trapped in the Mirror adult children of narcissists and their struggle for self, by Elan Golomb, Ph.D Man's Aggression the defense of the self by Gregory Rochlin, M.D. Echo and Narcissus One Act Play by Gerald P. Murphy The Portable Nietzsche by Walter Kaufmann Aria Da Capo by Edna St. Vincent Millay (a play in one act) The Lamp and the Bell by Edna St. Vincent Millay (a drama in five acts) General William Booth Enters into Heaven - and other poems, by Vachel Lindsay The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems by Vachel Lindsay The Book-Bills of Narcissus by Richard Le Gallienne Hawthorn and Lavender with other verses by William Ernest Henley The Song of the Sword and Other Verses by W.E. Henley The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Vachel Lindsay his The Congo and Other Poems Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus w/translations by Sir Richard Burton Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy the translators, Louise and Aylmer Maude Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse Love's Comedy by Henrik Ibsen translated by H.C.Herford The Rebellion of Margaret by Geraldine Mockler Early Plays by Henrik Ibsen (included Cataline, The Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans) translated from the Norwegian by Anders Orbeck, A.M. Arnold Bennett's book titled Hugo: A Fantasia on Modern Themes Lyrics of Earth by Archibald Lampman Alcylone by Archibald Lampman Among the Millet and Other Poems by Archibald Lampman Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs Malignant Self Love by Sam Vaknin Pygmalion's Spectacles by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Bliss Carmen Liber Amoris, or The New Pygmalion written by William Hazlitt Imaginary Friends by Yolanda Jackson Th1rteen R3asons Why by Jay Asher Kate Chopin's The Awakening & Selected Short Stories The Doll and Her Friends, or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina published in 1853, but the author of it is unknown... The Collected Poems [of] Sylvia Plath, edited by Ted Hughes The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, edited by Karen V. Kukil Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life, written by Linda Wagner-Martin Sylvia Plath: A Biography written by Linda W. Wagner-Martin Her Husband: Hughes and Plath - A Marriage, written by Diane Middlebrook Wintering: A novel of [about] Sylvia Plath written by Kate Moses Divine Madness: Ten Stories of Creative Struggles by Jefferey A. Kottler To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength, by Laurie Helgoe Ph.D. The Waves by Virginia Woolf Ted Hughes Collected Poems, edited by Paul Keegan Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life by Julia Briggs Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness, Edward Butscher Anne Sexton written by Diane Wood Middlebrook Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, Sylvia Plath Anne Sexton: The Complete Poems, edited by her friend Maxine Kumin The Art of Sylvia Plath, A Symposium, edited by Charles Newman Letters Home by Sylvia Plath Correspondence 1950-1963, selected and edited with commentary by Aurelia Schober Plath also throughout I have read these Emily Dickinson Journals: Volume 6, Number 2, Fall 1997 (currently reading this one) Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 1997 Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 1996 Volume 5, Number 1, Spring 1996 Volume 4, Number 2, Fall 1995 Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 1995 Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 1994 Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 1994 Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 1993 Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 1993 Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 1992 Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 1992 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikee Posted December 7, 2009 Report Share Posted December 7, 2009 Tonight I made a list of what I read so far this year. My list for 2009, not sure if it is as long as my list in this thread for 2008 or not: but here it is: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett introduced by Sophie Dahl Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse Inside the Secret Garden A Treasury of Crafts, Recipes, and Activities by Carolyn Strom Collins and Christina Wyss Eriksson The Practical Cogitator The Thinkers Anthology selected and edited by Charlvs P. Curtis, Jr. and Ferris Greenlet Becoming a Writer by Dorthea Brande, foreward by John Gardner Pegasus Pulls a Hack Memoirs of a Modern Minstrel by Berton Braley Gone With The Wind authored by Margaret Mitchell and preface by Pat Conroy Sara Teasdale's poetry collection titled Love Songs Flame and Sword a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale Rivers to the Sea a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale The Letters of Emily Dickinson edited by Thomas H. Johnson (Volume 1) Sara Teasdale's Dark of the Moon Sara Teasdale's Stars To-night Sara Teasdale's Strange Victory Rainbow Gold Poems Old and New Selected For Boys And Girls (selected by) by Sara Teasdale With Illustrations by Dugald Walker The Letters of Emily Dickinson Volume #2 edited by Thomas H. Johnson Treasury of Love Poems by Adam Mickiewicz, compiled and edited by Krystyna S. Olszer Pan Tadeusz or The Last Foray in Lithuania by Adam Mickiewicz, translated by Watson Kirkconnell with an introductory essay by Dr. William J. Rose and notes by Professor Harold B. Segel Selected Poetry and Prose of Adam Mickiewicz Centenary Commemorative edition, edited, with an introduction by Stanislaw Helsztynski Polish Greats by Arnold Madison Polish Romantic Drama Three Plays in English Translation, selected and edited by Harold B. Segel Adam Mickiewicz by David Welsh Laments by Jan Kochanowski translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Seamus Heaney Jan Kochanowski by David Welsh Stephen King's UR Edward Cline's Sparrowhawk Companion book (to his Sparrowhawk Series) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (the magnum opus) of Adam Smith's Edith Wharton's The Hermit and the Wild Woman And Other Stories Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery Truancy Origins by Isamu Fukui Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery The Daughter of a Magnate by Frank H. Spearman The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 by Lucy Maud Montgomery, published in 1901 Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist by Tara Smith What Narcissism Means To Me poems by Tony Hoagland When The Perfect Partner Goes Perfectly Wrong: Loving or Leaving the Narcissist in your Life by Mary Jo Fay Help! I'm in love with a Narcissist written by both Steven Carter & Julia Sokol Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903, by Lucy Maud Montgomery , published in 1903 The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 by Lucy Maud Montgomery Your Own True Love: The new positive view of narcissism; The person you love the most should be...you, by Richard C. Robertiello, M.D. Identifying and Understanding the Narcissistic Personality Disorder by Elsa F. Ronningstam The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald Prisoners of Childhood by Alice Miller When You Love a Man Who Loves Himself by W. Keith Campbell Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Trapped in the Mirror adult children of narcissists and their struggle for self, by Elan Golomb, Ph.D Man's Aggression the defense of the self by Gregory Rochlin, M.D. Echo and Narcissus One Act Play by Gerald P. Murphy The Portable Nietzsche by Walter Kaufmann Aria Da Capo by Edna St. Vincent Millay (a play in one act) The Lamp and the Bell by Edna St. Vincent Millay (a drama in five acts) General William Booth Enters into Heaven - and other poems, by Vachel Lindsay The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems by Vachel Lindsay The Book-Bills of Narcissus by Richard Le Gallienne Hawthorn and Lavender with other verses by William Ernest Henley The Song of the Sword and Other Verses by W.E. Henley The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Vachel Lindsay his The Congo and Other Poems Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus w/translations by Sir Richard Burton Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy the translators, Louise and Aylmer Maude Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse Love's Comedy by Henrik Ibsen translated by H.C.Herford The Rebellion of Margaret by Geraldine Mockler Early Plays by Henrik Ibsen (included Cataline, The Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans) translated from the Norwegian by Anders Orbeck, A.M. Arnold Bennett's book titled Hugo: A Fantasia on Modern Themes Lyrics of Earth by Archibald Lampman Alcylone by Archibald Lampman Among the Millet and Other Poems by Archibald Lampman Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs Malignant Self Love by Sam Vaknin Pygmalion's Spectacles by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Bliss Carmen Liber Amoris, or The New Pygmalion written by William Hazlitt Imaginary Friends by Yolanda Jackson Th1rteen R3asons Why by Jay Asher Kate Chopin's The Awakening & Selected Short Stories The Doll and Her Friends, or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina published in 1853, but the author of it is unknown... The Collected Poems [of] Sylvia Plath, edited by Ted Hughes The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, edited by Karen V. Kukil Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life, written by Linda Wagner-Martin Sylvia Plath: A Biography written by Linda W. Wagner-Martin Her Husband: Hughes and Plath - A Marriage, written by Diane Middlebrook Wintering: A novel of [about] Sylvia Plath written by Kate Moses Divine Madness: Ten Stories of Creative Struggles by Jefferey A. Kottler To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength, by Laurie Helgoe Ph.D. The Waves by Virginia Woolf Ted Hughes Collected Poems, edited by Paul Keegan Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life by Julia Briggs Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness, Edward Butscher Anne Sexton written by Diane Wood Middlebrook Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, Sylvia Plath Anne Sexton: The Complete Poems, edited by her friend Maxine Kumin The Art of Sylvia Plath, A Symposium, edited by Charles Newman Letters Home by Sylvia Plath Correspondence 1950-1963, selected and edited with commentary by Aurelia Schober Plath also throughout I have read these Emily Dickinson Journals: Volume 6, Number 2, Fall 1997 (currently reading this one) Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 1997 Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 1996 Volume 5, Number 1, Spring 1996 Volume 4, Number 2, Fall 1995 Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 1995 Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 1994 Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 1994 Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 1993 Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 1993 Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 1992 Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 1992 thats a mountain of books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intellectualammo Posted December 7, 2009 Report Share Posted December 7, 2009 thats a mountain of books It sure is! I was on another reading binge this year. My Kindle 2 helped me out this year, by reading some of those to me while I was working, but I haven't had it read to me in a while. Many of the books I had to read and handwrite many many pages of passages, quotes, and notes on. I probably could have read even more if I had Kindle edition copies of them! The Dickinson Journals, there are about 30 some more that I am working my way through. Scholarly written and worth every price I pay when renewing my online account with Project Muse, published through Johns Hopkins University Press. Since I think we can print them out on our own, I copy and paste them, make a notepad file of each volume and transfer it onto my Kindle. This really was the reason why I had bought it, to read the EDJ. Easier on my eyes than on my laptop screen! Reading binges are nearly all the time with me, and about once a year, sometime, don't know when, a writing purge hits me hard! Had one hit April May in 2008 and then recently a few months ago. But I have still been writing fairly reguarly sinc ethe last one. A nice balance right now, where I always wanted to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Individual Posted December 7, 2009 Report Share Posted December 7, 2009 I try to keep a book for leisure and a book that applies to my career/constructive interests. Currently I am rereading The Count of Monte Cristo and the second largest book in my collection: Security Analysis. It's a beast. I currently try to read about an hour and a half to two hours a day not including school work. The time I read on the weekend depends largely on how busy I am. Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham I hope? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWEarl Posted December 7, 2009 Report Share Posted December 7, 2009 Your turn... I get about 2 hours worth of reading done in a day. In the morning, I read for school (most recently Principles of Microeconomics, Mankiw et al.) and I read The Economist while taking public transit. For fun, I'm currently reading What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell. Also Barack Obama reads 95 books a year, I don't care what anyone says that is quite a load of books! Dummy he is not. I disagree with your assumption. It all depends on what books are read. There are many books (anything by Naomi Klein, for instance) that keep dummies dumb. Obama's reading comprehension may be through the roof but that doesn't mean there's any wisdom to his ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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