Reading on the Horizon
Between the crazy last few months full of doctor’s appointments and testing and life being turned upside down along with the normal chaos of life and topped with trying to keep up with graduate school last semester, writing has gone on the back burner. Still, it is a new year, a full month with no trip to Cincinnati, a working plan to stay on top of reading for school, life is full of potential. One thing I know for certain is that my reading for this semester is quite intriguing and I look forward to each book (other than possibly being a bit leery of Middlemarch) even though I’ve read many of them. I have a blog set up for my Independent Study class called A World Without Amputations (taken from a quote by Marge Piercy: All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations).
19th Century Literature:
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- East Lynne by Ellen Wood
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Speculative Fiction independent study class:
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf
- The Female Man by Joanna Russ
- Kindred by Octavia Butler
- Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
- He, She, or It by Marge Piercy (one of my favorite books)
- Deerskin by Robin McKinley
So far I’ve finished Orlando and Frankenstein and am in the middle of reading Jane Eyre and The Female Man (VERY different style and an odd juxtaposition of two different styles and different times dealing with some similar issues).
