[Post in progress.] I want to write a little something--synopsis, review, whatever--about the books I read this summer. First, I'll compile a list of anything that I started and finished or else read significant sections of during the course of the summer, then sort them in very roughly the order I read them.
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Charles Simic: Essays on the Poetry, ed. Bruce Weigl
A Generous Orthodoxy (reread)
Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices
Wonderful Words, Silent Truth: Essays on Poetry and a Memoir
In Constant Prayer
My Name Is Asher Lev
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Secret Message of Jesus
The Challenge of Jesus
The Last Word
A Poet's Guide to Poetry
William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)
The Unemployed Fortune-Teller
The Complete Peanuts 1963-1966 Box Set
Linear Algebra: A Modern Approach
No One Belongs Here More Than You (read twice, second time aloud)
Jesus and the Victory of God
You Must Change Your Life: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Birth of Sense
Modal and Tonal Counterpoint
Hearing and Writing Music
Dismantling the Silence; Charon's Cosmology; Unending Blues; etc. (poetry by Charles Simic)
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2 comments:
you read a lot! congratulations on your reading accomplishments.
i award you five gold stars (stickers).
thanks, Pizza Hut(R) Book It!(TM). i didn't finish all of those, but i did cover some ground. still a lot left to learn, fortunately or un-.
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