Thursday, July 29, 2010

It's not fair, I want a book challenge too

So after reading Musings' blog I decided I too needed a book challenge. I've been meaning to read everything on my shelf (I, like Daly, buy more than I can keep up with book-wise). I've got until the 2nd of October... and I don't have Fringe, or a whirlwind trip through Asia but I do have a job with really messed up hours (did 5am-2pm today and 8am-2pm tomorrow), will have a brief jaunt in Montreal and have the possibility of being deported looming over my head (and will probably have a deportation in the middle of the challenge)... sigh). So here are my list of books, including books that I have previously started and not finished.

The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
The Art of War Sun Tzu (I started this and thought it would be a thought provoking interesting read turned out it's a ye olde self-help book)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys Andrew Birkin (School book I never managed to finish, by school I mean (I've been in Canada too long) University).
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
Beside Myself Antonyn Sher (Going to Canada gift from Clodagh, really should have read this already).
Sweet Francais (Book 2 Dolce) Irene Nemirovsky (In fairness I read the first book, don't know why I didn't continue but I look forward to it).
Hotel Rwanda edited by Terry George (I haven't seen the film)
Mark Twain on Travel edited by Terry Mort (what's with the Terry's and their editing?)
The Playwright's Workbook Jean-Claude van Itallie (This should be a text book... it isn't).
Miss Julie August Strindberg
Impro Keith Johnstone (also of my own volition)
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte (I have started this three times but lost the book twice while travelling then this year managed just not to continue)
The Quaran translated by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan (Ah shite why did I take the free Quaran...)
*Ladies of Liberty Cokie Roberts (I know what you're thinking, a trashy book... I wish! It's a historical book on the wives of the early presidents of the U.S., it was a horrible read, it presumes you already know the history (I haven't a clue) and it's not chronological so it's really hard to keep up, ahhhh crud).

I shall also read Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte because it is my favourite book and it is time to read it again.

I also have 2 anthologies on my shelf (feck feck feck)
Postcolonial Plays edited by Terry... ok I lie Helen Gilbert (I'm happy to report that all the plays from this have been fantastic and I asked my parents to send me this since I had studied many of them and I wanted to read the rest, so this a two-bird one stone moment).
Once upon Four Robbers Femi Osofisan
Anowa Ama Ata Aidoo
QPH Sistren Theatre Collective
1984 Here and Now Kee Thuan Chye
Details Cannot Body Want Chin Woon Ping
Nga Pou Wahine Briar Grace-Smith
The Conversation of Ka'ahumanu Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl
Tomson Highway The Rez Sisters
Fronteras Americanas (American Borders) Guillermo Verdecchia
Somewhere Over the Rainbow Charabanc Theatre Company

and

Selected Plays by W.B. Yeats (great poet, not so hot playwright... sigh).
The Shadowy Waters
The Hour-Glass

On Baile's Strand
The Green Helmet
Deirdre
At Hawk's Well
The Dreaming of the Bones
The Cat and the Moon
The Only Jealousy of Emer
Calvary
Sophocles' King Oedipus
The Resurrection
The Words upon the Window-Pane
The King of the Great Clock Tower
The Herne's Egg
Purgatory
The Death of Cuchulain


Before I start any of these I must finish the book I am currently reading. Ok while searching for current book for the author (The Way of Herodotus being the title) I found another book. Also have lost The Way of Herodotus so that shall be finished when I find it. *I've added other book to end of list (begrudgingly, I considered leaving it).

Oh yeah Daly did a review of The A-Team... she's a complete girl and loves Bradley Cooper and feels the end wasn't realisitic, which implies she thinks flying a tank is realistic.

1 comment:

  1. Holy crud, that's a lot of books! Go for it Babsy! And what do you mean you can't fly a tank? It's possible...ish.

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