Showing posts with label Insanity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Insanity. Show all posts

Sunday, May 03, 2009

Dangerous reading - the attack of the more obscure classics

Since actually stepping out of the house for any extended periods of time might just be too overwhelming for my what in a week seems to have become a shut-in's psyche (Maybe I've spent too much time in the bathrobe and it has put in roots?), I've decided to create a deadline that will get me to doing something, instead of just compulsively refreshing several different sites. Hurrah for stuff to do, even if it is within the confines of this house.

Because I'm all about books now (uhm, one post?), and lists, I've decided to do this 'my year of reading dangerously' challenge. I realize that it is already May, and the year is almost halfway through, but what the heck, I'll get to reading some stuff I've been putting off - my ominous dust gathers that is.

Here they are:
  • The book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow
  • Concerning Violence by Frantz Fanon
  • The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz
  • Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
  • Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  • Den Afrikanske farm by Karen Blixen
  • A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  • Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
  • The Courilof Affair by Irene Nemirovsky
  • Traveller to the East by Thomas Mofolo
  • The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing
  • The Plumed Serpent by D.H. Lawrence
  • The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
I really was going to get to them soon enough. Yup.

What do you mean vitamin-D?