[sylvanSpider]

Oh, oh! Can I join this? I'm a grad student studying literature and am on this site all the time anyway...so it would be kind of silly for me to not at least try to join in the fun!

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Ooh ooh! Which literature?


And I'm sure you can. It's open to anyone here.

[sylvanSpider]

Presently, as I'm not in the focus part of my degree yet, just about everything depending on which classes I'm taking. However, I have a particular portion of my heart reserved for the "long" nineteenth century, as it was a period of a lot of growth and change! As such, my reading goals would consist of more George Eliot, more Charles Dickens, and because he's my favorite author (though not necessarily part of this era by any means...at all) more Franz Kafka. I do need to reread some of his stuff as it's been a very long while...but that's goal!

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I focused my efforts around the Romantics to start, but I've found a recent delight in Modernist lit now. Metamorphosis is on my "to read" list. I'll get there, eventually.

[trystan830]

QuietMan and sylvanSpider, i'll add you to our participant list, and link to your first post in the thread... which you can edit for your challenge and/or booklist.

and hi there sylvanSpider!!! welcome!

[sylvanSpider]

Oh that's perfect!!! Thank You! The Metamorphosis is actually a pretty quick read, it only being about 80 pages. You can read it for free too in pdf form!

Also, thank you for the warm welcome!

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I'm something of a print snob, and take ages to get around to a lot of things.


Thanks Trystan!

[trystan830]

i think i read The Metamorphosis in high school. i don't remember much beyond the opening sentence now, but i do remember it kinda bugged me a bit.....

and y'all are welcome!! =D

[Claire Bear]

I was hoping to see this thread! <3

-_- Can my challenge be small? Because I never ever read as much as I would like to. I have a pile of books on my night stand that I haven't started and I just want to be sure to read all of them this semester. I don't plan in years, I plan in semesters hahaha. I get so swept up in school reading (and let's be honest, the internet is distracting) that I only read one or two leisure books each semester.

My pile of books, in the order I think I'm going to read them:

Heartbreak- Andrea Dworkin's memoir
The Princess Diarist- Carrie Fisher
Turtles All The Way Down- John Green
Asshole: A Theory- Aaron James
Flatland- Edwin A Abbot

If I manage to finish those, I want to read
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Neuromancer by William Gibson

-_- and maybe I can come up with a new list for the summer.

[trystan830]

your challenge can be whatever you'd like, Claire!! i've added you to the list of participants!

oooh, Oryx & Crake! i read that. it's the first book in the MaddAddam trilogy. Book 2 is The Year of the Flood and book 3 is MaddAddam. good stuff!

[Claire Bear]

I read The Handmaid's Tale last semester, I devoured it. Read it in one night. A couple people recommended that trilogy is what I should read next if I want more Atwood, and I do, I do want more Atwood. Very very much so.

[trystan830]

i forget when i first read the Handmaid's Tale, but that year i watched the movie with Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, and Robert Duvall. then i reread it this year, and watched s1 of the miniseries (it's on Hulu, but that's not where i watched it... XD )

Handmaid's Tale is awesome!

[Claire Bear]

Yea I read the book because I wanted to watch the new show, but now I just like... can't imagine the show being as good as the book lol.

[Claire Bear]

ugh i'm cleaning and found a book i need to add to my bedside stack. pray for me that i don't find more books hidden in the pile of mess in this apartment -_-

[trystan830]

oh the show is so good! there's more than just Offred's POV, too.

[Claire Bear]

-_- we had hulu for a couple weeks and then boyfriend cancelled it because we werent using it lol. i do want to see it.