Literature
March: Enlightenment - Poetic works by Dryden, Pope, Marvell, Katherine Phillips...
April: Romanticism - Various works by the big six: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Blake. Plus over-looked female writers: Charlotte Smith, Hannah More.
May: Transcendentalism - Walden by Henry David Thoreau
June: Victorian - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte,
July: Realism - Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
August: Naturalism - The Call of the Wild, White Fang and other stories by Jack London
September: Existentialism - The Stranger by Albert Camus
October: Modernism - Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence; various short stories
November: The Beat Generation - Howl by Alan Ginsberg, Naked Lunch by William Burroughs, On the Road by Jack Kerouac
December: Post-Modernism - Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, The Man in the High Castle by PKD, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon...
- March In Review (or How I Read A Ton Of Short-stories And Got Murked By Kant)
Is it safe to come out now?April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. Well...
- February In Review: Or How I Froze My Ass, Returned To Blogging And Read A Ton Of Poetry...
A frozen Lake Ontario.February was bloody cold. Canadian winters are not for the faint of heart and if you don't take the necessary precautions, frostbite is the least of your worries. One of the biggest news stories in Toronto this month involved...
- Reading England 2015
I'm signing up for another reading challenge. That's right, you heard me. But why Jason? You already have so much to read already and can barely get through the pile of books stacked precariously on your floor that is bound to fall over at any...
- The Classics Spin #5
I missed the last four Spin events hosted by the Classics Club so its time to finally participate in one of them. The challenge this time around is to list 20 books left to read from the Classics Club Challenge, which will then become my Classics Spin...
- The Classics Club
I stumbled upon this site by accident and it seems like the perfect way to get back into reading! In conjunction with my literature frenzy challenge, here is a condensed list of 50 "classics" (subject to change) that I hope to finish by 2017: ...
Literature
Literary Movement Reading Challenge
Once again, I'm late to the party but I hope to make up for it within the next few months. This will be an intense year-long event hosted by Fanda over at Fanda Classiclit so a shout out to her for organizing it all. Participants will be required to read works from particular literary movements designated for each month, starting with the middle ages all the way to post-modernism. Yikes. It's like English 101 all over again. I already missed January but I plan to go back and finish it up at some point in time. Here is my tentative list so far:
January: Medieval - The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
February: Renaissance - Astrophil and Stella by Philip Sydney
February: Renaissance - Astrophil and Stella by Philip Sydney
March: Enlightenment - Poetic works by Dryden, Pope, Marvell, Katherine Phillips...
April: Romanticism - Various works by the big six: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Blake. Plus over-looked female writers: Charlotte Smith, Hannah More.
May: Transcendentalism - Walden by Henry David Thoreau
June: Victorian - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte,
July: Realism - Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
August: Naturalism - The Call of the Wild, White Fang and other stories by Jack London
September: Existentialism - The Stranger by Albert Camus
October: Modernism - Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence; various short stories
November: The Beat Generation - Howl by Alan Ginsberg, Naked Lunch by William Burroughs, On the Road by Jack Kerouac
December: Post-Modernism - Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, The Man in the High Castle by PKD, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon...
Well, I really got my work cut out for me now.
- March In Review (or How I Read A Ton Of Short-stories And Got Murked By Kant)
Is it safe to come out now?April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. Well...
- February In Review: Or How I Froze My Ass, Returned To Blogging And Read A Ton Of Poetry...
A frozen Lake Ontario.February was bloody cold. Canadian winters are not for the faint of heart and if you don't take the necessary precautions, frostbite is the least of your worries. One of the biggest news stories in Toronto this month involved...
- Reading England 2015
I'm signing up for another reading challenge. That's right, you heard me. But why Jason? You already have so much to read already and can barely get through the pile of books stacked precariously on your floor that is bound to fall over at any...
- The Classics Spin #5
I missed the last four Spin events hosted by the Classics Club so its time to finally participate in one of them. The challenge this time around is to list 20 books left to read from the Classics Club Challenge, which will then become my Classics Spin...
- The Classics Club
I stumbled upon this site by accident and it seems like the perfect way to get back into reading! In conjunction with my literature frenzy challenge, here is a condensed list of 50 "classics" (subject to change) that I hope to finish by 2017: ...