read the classics

Alright well I have tried to get into C n P but it is just not taking hold of me. So I have moved on to Don Quioxte Which is hilarious I have totally been enjoying this book. Funny you learn what you teach I tell students to connect to what you read and I find that I can totally connect with Don Quioxte and so I am much more into that then C n P. Maybe if I were to experience some more punishment I would enjoy C n P more but I am happy without committing any crimes.

Or rather, listened to it on cd, all 20 of them! It was worth it…such a good book. I have recently gotten into reading again but mainly just new fiction. I need to find some sort of listing of books that are considered “classics.”

This summer I read…

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Inferno by Dante
All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque
Also various teenage girl books that definitely are not classics

right now I’m reading The Last Tycoon by Fitzgerald
(I like it so far!)

Pride And Prejudice – Jane Austen
Little Women – L. M. Alcott
Alice In Wonderland/Through The Looking-Glass – Lewis Carroll
The Wizard Of Oz – L. F. Baum
The Narnia series – C. S. Lewis
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
and
(gave up on, so confusing) Wuthering Heights -Emily Bronte

I am going to attempt to read more Jane Austen, C. S. Lewis, and others. (Count of Monte Cristo, The Scarlet Letter, etc.)

This will take, and I write this without a hint of hyperbole, FOREVER.

So far I can check off:
Odyseen (parts of it)
Illiaden (parts of it – want to read both entirely, though)
Holberg
Aftenstjernen
1984
The Metamorphosis
Tilværelsens Ulidelige Lethed
Alice in Wonderland
Peter Pan and Wendy (they count)

The Bell Jar and The Great Gatsby are next. And possibly Dante’s divine comedy.

but just what are the classics anyway???

I just have too much else to do.

I’m bringing The Best Of with me on our trip. Not sure if I’ll bring it down to the pool or ocean because it is a old-old-old hard back, but I’ll have plenty of reading time on the plane.

Came in the post today. Bloody hell, it’s a big book. Looks like i’m gonna have to be quite ambitious to read that. When i finally get to it.

...came in the post today. It won’t get read for a while though. I promised myself I would finish the books I already own. So It’s going in a box under my bed until I’m ready.