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Shaheen's personal challenge
Jan '17 readsThe Three Musketeers reached.50%
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson . Reading slowly
Where the Streets Had a Name.did not read.
How Reading Changed My Life.uh oh forgot about it after 40%
Do you want a reading buddy for The Mill on the Floss?
If you are interested I am too Leni
Great! I'll be reading it for my Old and New Challenge, and a reading buddy would be great. Would relatively early in the year be alright? Like February-March?
Yes.I think Feb March will be great.
A reference list only(Borrowed from Kathleen)
St.John's Western Cannon Curriculum
(To pick and choose from the whole,of course)
Freshman year
Homer: The Iliad,
Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Prometheus Bound
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Philoctetes, Ajax
Thucydides: Peloponnesian War
Euripides: Hippolytus, The Bacchae
Herodotus: Histories
Aristophanes: Clouds, Frogs
Plato: Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus
Aristotle: Poetics, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, On Generation and Corruption, Politics, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals
Euclid: Elements
Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
Plutarch: "Lycurgus" and "Solon" from the Parallel Lives
Ptolemy: Almagest
Blaise Pascal: Treatise on the Equilibrium of Liquids
Nicomachus: Arithmetic
Antoine Lavoisier: Elements of Chemistry
☆William Harvey : Motion of the Heart and Blood
Essays by: Archimedes, Gabriel Fahrenheit, Amedeo Avogadro, John Dalton, Stanislao Cannizzaro, Rudolf Virchow, Edme Mariotte, Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Hans Spemann, Guy Beckley Stearns, J. J. Thomson, Dmitri Mendeleev, Claude Louis Berthollet, Joseph Proust
Sophomore year
Aristotle: De Anima, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Categories
Apollonius: Conics
Virgil: The Aeneid
Plutarch: "Caesar", "Cato the Younger", "Antony", and "Brutus" from the Parallel Lives
Epictetus: Discourses, Manual
Tacitus: Annals
Ptolemy: Almagest
Plotinus: The Enneads
Augustine of Hippo: Confessions
Maimonides: Guide for the Perplexed
Anselm of Canterbury: Proslogium
Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica
Dante: Divine Comedy
Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince, Discourses
Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Spheres
Johannes Kepler: Epitome IV
Livy: Early History of Rome
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
Michel de Montaigne: Essays
François Viète: Introduction to the Analytical Art
Francis Bacon: Novum Organum
William Shakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2,
Poems by: Andrew Marvell, John Donne, and other 16th- and 17th-century poets
René Descartes: Geometry, Discourse on Method
Blaise Pascal: Generation of Conic Sections
Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew Passion, Inventions
Joseph Haydn: Quartets
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Operas
Ludwig van Beethoven: Third Symphony
Franz Schubert: Songs
Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Igor Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Junior year Edit
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
Galileo Galilei: Two New Sciences
Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
René Descartes: Meditations, Rules for the Direction of the Mind
John Milton: Paradise Lost � [NI]
François de La Rochefoucauld: Maximes
Jean de La Fontaine: Fables
Blaise Pascal: Pensées
Christiaan Huygens: Treatise on Light, On the Movement of Bodies by Impact
Baruch Spinoza: Theologico-Political Treatise
John Locke: Second Treatise of Government
Jean Racine: Phèdre
Isaac Newton: Principia Mathematica
Johannes Kepler: Epitome IV
Gottfried Leibniz: Monadology, Discourse on Metaphysics, Essay on Dynamics, Philosophical Essays, Principles of Nature and Grace
David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Social Contract, The Origin of Inequality
Molière: Le Misanthrope
Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations
Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni
Richard Dedekind: Essay on the Theory of Numbers
Articles of Confederation
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United States of America � [NI]
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay: The Federalist Papers
William Wordsworth: The Two-Part Prelude of 1799
Essays by: Thomas Young, Brook Taylor, Leonhard Euler, Daniel Bernoulli, Hans Christian Ørsted, André-Marie Ampère, Michael Faraday, James Clerk Maxwell
Senior year
Supreme Court opinions ■[NI]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust
Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species � [NI]
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit, "Logic" (from the Encyclopedia)
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky: Theory of Parallels
Plato: Phaedrus
Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America
Documents from American History
Abraham Lincoln's Speeches: Selected Speeches
Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches
Søren Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments, Fear and Trembling
Richard Wagner: Tristan and Isolde
Karl Marx: Capital, Political and Economic Manuscripts of 1844, The German Ideology
Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
Herman Melville: Benito Cereno
Flannery O'Connor: Selected Stories
Sigmund Freud: Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Charles Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du Mal
Booker T. Washington: Selected Writings
W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
Edmund Husserl: Crisis of the European Sciences
Martin Heidegger: Basic Writings,
Albert Einstein: Selected Papers
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
William Faulkner: Go Down Moses
Gustave Flaubert: Un Coeur Simple
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway,
Poems by: W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Paul Valéry, Arthur Rimbaud
Essays by: Michael Faraday, J. J. Thomson, Hermann Minkowski, Ernest Rutherford, Clinton Davisson, Erwin Schrödinger, Niels Bohr, James Clerk Maxwell, Louis-Victor de Broglie, Werner Heisenberg, Gregor Mendel, Theodor Boveri, Walter Sutton, Thomas Hunt Morgan, George Wells Beadle & Edward Lawrie Tatum, Gerald Jay Sussman, James D. Watson & Francis Crick, François Jacob & Jacques Monod, G. H. Hardy
Maybe this year, hopefully...Albert Camus -
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Umberto Eco - Baudolino
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages
Interpretation and Overinterpretation
Standby
Twilight in Delhi
River of Fire: Aag Ka DaryaKhasakinte Ithihasam
This all depends as I am a mood reader.But one can always hope.
Oh your 2017 lists look great! I have a few of the same choices too :)
Once again I'm in awe of your reading list!(I am also afraid to list all of my 2017 reading in one list like that, because I will then realise I can never get through it. Lol)
Thanks Pink..The list gives me the push to read, Leni.And these are the books tbr in the challenges.
* keeping my fingers crossed and hoping to read it all.
Though completing the challenges aren't a must.It helps give a direction , esp since I am a mood reader and gets easily distracted.
Yes, absolutely. The challenges are good for direction. You appear to have something for most or even every mood there, so I'd say it's looking promising. :)
Feb '17 readsContinued from Jan
New
�The Mill on the Floss
An Ideal Husband
Maybe
Unplanned
Wow. This looks SO ambitious. Your progress is impressive though!Are you still enjoying Emily Dickinson? I need to start reading those soon.
I am enjoying those Poems Kathleen..I dont read it daily... but I read it frequently....It does look ambitious.. I am not sure if I will like Handmaid's Tale as it is dysropian..
Earnest I can read in the serial reader ....
Your list of books is great, Elena!
I'm considering starting Les Mis soon as well ... I've got a nice hardcover edition awaiting me. Possibly after I finish Moby Dick, or before.
The Importance of Being Earnest can be read in no time! :) it's so funny
I'm considering starting Les Mis soon as well ... I've got a nice hardcover edition awaiting me. Possibly after I finish Moby Dick, or before.
The Importance of Being Earnest can be read in no time! :) it's so funny
I enjoyed The Importance of Being Earnest Nargus.. very light and sarcastic...and Les Mis I borrowed from my cousin...I think I will start it tomorrow
Hope you like Les Mis. It's one of my favorites.
Reading in March... '17Continued from the last month
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
An Ideal Husband
The Mill on the Floss
New
Les Misérables
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Canterbury Tales
You are reading two of my favorite books. I loved Les Mis when I read it long ago and AQotWF is awesome but sad. Hope you enjoy them too.
I am enjoying it but finding it hard to just stay put with the listed books...The first three chapters of AQotWF was heartbreaking but it is an easy read..
Les Mis on the other hand though I find the writing beautiful (Wilbour translation ) I am finding it hard to read more that 2/ 3 pages at a time..
As for the M on the F ,it has gotten better..Eliot magic...
on translating Iliad
May "17to continue
and The Canterbury Tales
Also, started
and Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter
Unexpected Reads
June '17Continuing
The Canterbury Tales
Thaddeus of Warsaw
And
The Last Kingdom
Started
A Wrinkle in Time
The Little Mermaid
The Secret Garden
Maybe
The Things They Carried
The Count of Monte Cristo
Unexpected
Looks like an interesting selection. I'm slowly listening to The Count of Monte Cristo and really enjoying it....only 38 hours left now!!
I started The Count yesterday Pink..and like everyone said it seems to be a fast read...5 chapters in..love Dantes and Mercedes till now..
I'm only on chapter 22 out of 117, but it's still fast paced, so much has happened already!
Mod
Yes Katy , I am liking it so far.Dantes is so trustworthy.. :)So frank and openhearted...
:'(
Hmm... Many books to be carried over.
Still more to be read out of the blue.
Time to have fun gophering and planning more reads.
Plan to reduce TBR on the one hand.
Seeing more books ,being tempted and adding still more to TBR.
Challenges not all complete.But, a really good year of reading with lots of good books.so its all good.
And new concepts and new styles still to explore.
Borges discussionTalk with Borges ?
Possibilities for next year1.
2.Forsythe
3 .Hemingway moveable feast/for whom the bell tolls -----
4.Moonstone
5.Buccaneers--- not this but
6.Yeats
7.Lord dunsany
8.Princess bride
9.Rob roy--- not this but
10.Nellie bly
1.Twilight in delhi
2.
3.Curse of the chalions
4.Whale rider
5.Belinda
6.
7.
8.Sunrise in the west
9.Put yourself in his place Charles Read
20.Comedy of errors not this but
1.F.scott fitz short story
2.The Brothers Karamazov Next year
3.Lila Next year
4.
5.The road back Next year
6.
7
8.Saga of icelanders Next year
9.Ourika
1.
2.Baudolino
3.Joy in the morning
4
5.Salt to the sea
6.Captive mind
7.
8.Where streets had a name
9.Ulysses PAUSED
40.Little house on the big woods
1.
2.Murder at the vicarage
3
4.Everyday use
5.Color of magic
6.Invisible library
7.One for sorrow
8
9.Casino royale
50.John pickett mysteries
1
2.Leila Sebbar - Silence on the shores/ sherazade
3
4.Elizabeth and her German garden
5
6.Next Brother Cadfael
7.
8
9
60.Jerusalem -Selma Lagerlof
1
2
3.1984
4.
5.War and Peace Ongoing
I like your plans! I think we should nominate Light in August for a group read next year. I'm still slowly making my way through Leaves of Grass. And I look forward to what you think if A Moveable Feast.I'm coming back to read your Borges links soon--I have Ficciones coming up ...
I like my plans too Kathleen.Hope I get to read all thosd books.There are impulse reads to tempt me from it and some carry over books too.I like the idea of light in August as a group read.
Aee you liking Leaves of grass?
Hope you like Ficciones ..expect absurd and mind twisting things but its nice to think in terms of what he wrote..he made me think..
You liked Moveable feast did you not,Kathleen.. Hope I do too.
I would be interested in joining you in a group read of Light in August. I picked it up at a garage sale and would like to read it sometime in the next year. However....I recently read The Sound and the Fury and I found that Faulkner is a little difficult for me. It would be better if I had someone to discuss with as I'm reading to explain a few things! Let me know what you think :)
Thats a great idea Terris.I had like that.I found To the lighthouse very slow read..tiny bites at a time
siriusedward wrote: "Thats a great idea Terris.I had like that.I found To the lighthouse very slow read..tiny bites at a time"I finally had to do that one on audio, but did get through it :)
Possibilities for Jan'18Start
Ulysses
And
War and peace.
If possible...
Princess Bride/Curse of Chalions
Walt Whitman
Emily Eden/Blue Castle by L M Montgomery
1984
Gilead/Remains of the day/Exit West
The above is of course my wish list...it may vary widely from the actual books read as I am a mood reader . But a general outline/a guide ? helps a lot.
Jan '18 ReadsLong reads -
Ulysses - 30%
War and Peace - 5%
Leaves of Grass - 30%
Also,
The Remains of the Day
Cranford
Whose Body?
A Room of One's Own
Exit West
~50%
Threading My Prayer Rug: One Woman's Journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim
Feb '18Long reads(continued...)
Leaves of Grass
Ulysses
War and Peace
short story
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Oof! Those are some challenging February reads! All three are books I'm a bit intimidated by! :o
Those are not Feb reads Fransisca. ..if they were I don't think I would ever read again..after the trauma of all those three together ,in a short time...they are for 4-7 month long reads....eases the pressure and makes the books more enjoyable,for me...
Haha, that's slightly less intimidating - I'd still probably take one at a time! ;P And I agree, some books require a longer time frame to enjoy properly!
But they are so different ..so I find it ok to read them whenever I can..And there is a course on American poets in EdX.. which is divided in to 3-5 different courses ..from the settlement period to civil war period/one for Whitman/one for Emily Dickinson/one for modern poets/one more I don't remember what it was..
and I read some Whitman with the course ..it was interesting..and short..like 3-4 week long course each..
😂Happy problem of having tough choice to read this month...
The Chronicles of Narnia
Poems of Anne Bradstreet
The Red Pony / A Good Man Is Hard To Find
🙏
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