Reading should improve the mind. Time to put it to the test....
I was very taken with the following list of books and also the idea of a 'challenge' as outlined here. It is associated with this website. (Original discovery was here in the comments column.)
Starting January 2008 it will be interesting to see if, having decided to 'have a go', I can stay the pace!
I was very taken with the following list of books and also the idea of a 'challenge' as outlined here. It is associated with this website. (Original discovery was here in the comments column.)
Starting January 2008 it will be interesting to see if, having decided to 'have a go', I can stay the pace!
The Twelve "Official" Novels by Month
January: Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (since Estella is our namesake)February: The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison (African American)
March: Cat's Eye, by Margaret Atwood (Atwood for Atwood's sake)
April: Transformations, by Anne Sexton (Poetry)
May: Other Voices, Other Rooms, by Truman Capote (Southern)
June: Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov (Russian)
July: The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier (adolescent)
August: Maus I and II, by Art Spiegelman (Graphic Novel, Pulitzer winner)
September: The Secret Lives of People in Love, by Simon Van Booy (Independent)
October: The Human Stain, by Philip Roth (Contemporary/Jewish)
November: A Month of Classic Short Stories, Various - watch for a list
December: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck (Dusty)
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Photo taken July 2007. Gull accompanying Cal-Mac ferry from Ardrossan to Isle of Arran in the Clyde.
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