While my to read list is growing, I figure I’d start keeping a list of books I have read. Once I finish school, maybe I can start on my “to read” list. Feel free to comment on the “have read list” and leave me suggestions of books to read.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. –Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in The Tatler (English essay series) 18 March 1710
May 2012 (finished school!):
Ernest Hemingway: Farewell to Arms
Sheldon Vanauken: A Severe Mercy
William Washabaugh: Flamenco Music and National Identity in Spain (2012)
Spring 2012:
Flannery O’Connor: short stories
Elisabeth Elliot: Passion and Purity
Shakespeare: Hamlet
Robin Hemley and Michael Martone: Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists, various short story writers
December 2011/January 2012:
G.W. Bernard: Ann Boleyn, Fatal Attractions
Rick Joyner: The Final Quest
John and Stacey Eldridge: Wild at Heart
Fall 2011:
Janet Lynn Roseman: Dance Masters, Interviews with Legends of Dance
Changing Venezuela by Taking Power, the Policies of the Chavez Government by Gregory Wilpert
Born in Blood and Fire Latin American Voices and Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise history of Latin America by John Charles Chasteen
Malcolm McCormick: No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century
August 2011:
Jane Dolinger: The Adventurous Life of an American Travel Writer
Joshua Harris: When Boy Meets Girl
July 2011:
Sheldon Vanauken: A Severe Mercy
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
June 2011:
Ernest Hemingway: short stories
James Joyce: Dubliners
Anton Chekhov: short stories
Katherine Mansfield: short stories
Luis Jorge Borges: short stories
May 2011:
Mary Shelly: Frankenstein, or a Modern Prometheus
Charlotte Dacre: Zofloy
Spring 2011:
William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV, As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night
Other books I’ve read and can recommend:
William Washabaugh: Flamenco: Passion, Politics, and Popular Culture(1996); The Passion of Music and Dance:The Body, Gender, and Sexuality(1998)
Andree Grau and Stephanie Jordan : Europe Dancing: perspectives on theatre dance and cultural identity (2000)
John and Stacey Eldridge: Captivating, Wild at Heart
Michael Pollan: In Defense of Food, The Carnivore’s Dilemma
Marion Roach: The Roots of Desire: the myth, meaning, and sexual power of red hair
C.S. Lewis: Mere Christianity, The Great Divorce
John Milton: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained
Maria de los Santos: Love Walked In, Belong to Me
Elizabeth Prentiss: More Love to Thee
Elisabeth Elliot: Stepping Heavenward
Gelsey Kirkland with Greg Lawrence: Dancing on My Grave
Melody Green: No Compromise: The Life Story of Keith Green
Leif Enger: Peace Like a River
All of Jane Austin’s novels! ha!
