I finished my last exam yesterday, which couldn't have gone better, so I'm free for the next four months. The nicest thing about the end of exams is that I no longer have that feeling of guilt whenever I pick up a non-course-related book - it's nice to feel I can read anything I want. Went straight to the library after my exam and got out lots of books that weren't about German philosophy or French literature of the Enlightenment.
At the moment I'm reading Imelda Whelehan's Overloaded: popular culture and the future of feminism, for my women's group, and this weekend I'm going to try and finish Life and fate, finally. I'm now making lists of all the things I want to read over the summer, including some of the reading for next year's course on Realism and the 19th century novel. I've already read Madame Bovary but have never read any Stendhal or Balzac, so that should be interesting.
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swords and dreams
All books are either dreams or swords/You can cut, or you can drug, with words - Amy Lowell
Me and mine on the internet
Currently reading
- A century of women: the history of women in Britain and the United States in the twentieth century - Sheila Rowbotham
- A history of 20th century fashion - Elizabeth Ewing
- Au bonheur des dames - Émile Zola
- La Princesse de Clèves - Madame de la Fayette
- The aesthetics of resistance - Peter Weiss
- The secret agent - Joseph Conrad
- The women's room - Marilyn French
Already read this year - 2009
- 1 - The foundling - Georgette Heyer
- 2 - Philby: the spy who betrayed a generation - Knightley, Page and Leitch
- 3 - Fathers and sons - Ivan Turgenev
- 4 - Tarabas - Joseph Roth
- 5 - The virgin in the garden - A.S. Byatt
- 6 - Streetfighting years - Tariq Ali
- 7 - Shadows of the pomegranate tree - Tariq Ali
- 8 - Women and children first - Cadogan and Craig
- 9 - The tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
- 10 - Jo Shapcott: her book - Jo Shapcott
- 11 - The book of blood - Vicki Feaver
- 12 - The Thursday kidnapping - Antonia Forest
- 13 - The thuggery affair - Antonia Forest
- 14 - We are now beginning our descent - James Meek
- 15 - The myth of Mars and Venus - Deborah Cameron
- 16 - Still Life - A.S. Byatt
- 17 - L'argent - Émile Zola
- 18 - Russia's path from Gorbachev to Putin - David Kotz
- 19 - Hardcore from the heart - Annie Sprinkle
- 20 - See we have coming to Dover! - Daljit Nagra
The rest of the internet
- Abebooks
- Ben Goldacre's Bad science
- Bibliophil
- Cabbages and Pumpkins
- Camberwell online - blog
- Daniel Barenboim
- Derelict London
- Doonesbury
- Doris Lessing
- Edward Said archive
- Found magazine
- Girl in the green dress
- Good reads
- Guernica magazine
- Gutenberg project
- Jewish Music Institute
- Last.fm
- Leonard Cohen
- Library thing
- London's Royal parks
- Marxists internet archive
- Mslexia magazine
- New Left Review
- Poetry Archive
- Poetry at plagiarist.com
- Poetry Foundation
- Poets.org
- Post Secret - blog
- Poésie française
- So many books
- Stephen Jay Gould archive
- Susan Sontag
- Tariq Ali
- The Camelot project
- Things magazine
- Think denk blog
- Tools are refundable
- Waylaid poetry blog
- Women writers - a zine
- Workspaces - blog
- Znet
6 comments:
ooh, you'll like Le rouge et le noir. The best Balzac I've read so far is Cousine Bette. Have you read Sentimental Education? I think it's better than Madame Bovary.
Oh, I'll read Sentimental Education, good idea. Then I can be the suck-up student who's read more than the reading list. Can't remember whether the Stendhal is Le rouge et le noir or La Chartreuse de Parme. The course is on only four novels for the whole year, so I guess it'll be pretty intense.
Oh and congratulations on your cycling triumph! I meant to post an encouraging message on your blog but never got round to it.
Only 4 novels for the year? I got stuck in the Charterhouse of Parma, but liked Le Rouge et le Noir. I think Woody Allen namechecks Sentimental Education in Manhattan as one of the supreme achievements of Western art. Not a perfect recommendation, but it is very good. Madame Bovary's just too cruel. Thanks for the congrats. Planning my next challenge now...
I know! I suppose C19th novels are all long, but four novels isn't much for a whole year. I think it's quite an in-depth course, though.
I've started a blog, much like this one, for my book stuff. Under my profile. Also will have one on films and stuff.
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