in no specific order:
Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You by Dorothy Bryant
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Jelly Beans For Breakfast by Miriam Young
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
It's Here Now (Are You?) by Bhagavan Das
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and Alan R. Clarke
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird
food for thought and talk
Wanted: Dead or Alive?
Roland Barthes
Ann Page's Image of the Canon
Palimpsest
Canon Maker of Note
Harold Bloom: "Why Does He Look So Unhappy?"
Taylor Mali
~delightful~
Another Layer
More Invention
...thinking about modernism....
Marcel Duchamp
"Make it new!"
Ezra Pound (T.S. Eliot's cohort and a modernist just like V. Woolf)
from "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
....value of the humanities?....
The Bricoleur
...our leader...
Virginia Woolf
Happy 127th Birthday
T. S. Eliot
Poet
Shakespeare
...invented the human being....
...the source?...
A Room of One's Own
...a metaphoric image perhaps?...
crossing over and under
Ash,
ReplyDeleteLooks like I'm going to need to read "Orlando." You are not the only person that I have heard speak highly of it. I'm not sure I'm convinced that I need to put "The Things They Carried" on my canon yet, but your argument in class was very convincing. Ann Page has suggested "The Divine Comedy," and I know that Jessy is pretty supportive of "Catcher int he Rye." It's so hard to make a choice!
So, I am questioning "The Alchemist." It is a fabulous book, and I enjoy Paulo Coelho's writing style immensely. However, I don't know if this book has something that really makes you go "wow." It seems like a pretty typical physical adventure story and has a nice element of inner-travels and exploration as well, of course. But what do you think makes it stand out from the rest of the books about finding your inner-self/inner-spirit?
-Meg