Cynda has a Big Book Bucket List

[Cynda]

Hi Friends 🖐
Many of us give that bug or that knowingness that now is the time to do that thing. I got that knowingness 🍵 . . . . mostly because I don't want that bug 🕷

The Bucket List includes

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Song of the Cid (Penguin Classics) A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text by Anonymous
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
💙A Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read Oct 18, 2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Women's Indian Captivity Narratives by Various edited by Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki
Dust tracks on the road by Zora Neale Hurston
Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe Nov 25, 2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Black Boy by Richard Wright
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace by Le Ly Hayslip
Baker's Bible Atlas by Charles F. Pfeiffer
Daybreak by Joan Baez
The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth [Black Boy|228630] The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar HijuelosAngela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales by Angela CarterReclaiming Rhetorica: Women In The Rhetorical Tradition by Andrea A. Lunsford
God's Secretaries : The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan





Rereads Include

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Women, Men, and Language: A Sociolinguistic Account of Gender Differences in Language by Jennifer CoatesAmerican Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence by Pauline Maier

[Cynda]

I had a duplicate list 😌 Now I have one 😉

Let me know if any of these interest you for buddy reads.

[Loretta]

Cynda wrote: "Hi Friends 🖐
Many of us give that bug or that knowingness that now is the time to do that thing. I got that knowingness 🍵 . . . . mostly because I don't want that bug 🕷

The Bucket List includes

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What a great list of books Cynda! 😊

[Cynda]

Thanks Loretta 😊 I have some work to do!

[Kathleen]

A great bucket list, Cynda! The ones I've read are worthy of being on such a list. The Hurston biography is fantastic, and so is Mules and Men, though I found it a little hard to get into.

I'm tempted by lots of these, but I'm way over-booked and over-planned for this year. I will say, let me know when you plan to read Shelley's A Defence of Poetry because I would love to read that with you if I can fit it in.

[Cynda]

Thanks Kathleen! And me too. I am overbooked for this year. These books I will start at end of year 2023 or begin early in 2024 and take several years to read. Let's say next year we read A Defense of Poetry? Let's try for 2nd quarter?

[Cynda]

Links to Interesting Stuff about Classics found in 2023

🤖 About The Divine Comedy. I am begininning to understand the humor and the proto-science fiction aspects.
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[Lori]

A great list of books, Cynda! I’ve only read 2 of them- The Screwtape Letters which was wonderful and had me adding more Lewis to my TBR. And I just finished When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace. I can’t recommend it enough especially a memoir so well written and from a female perspective.

[Cynda]

hehe. I took the idea from you Lori. I like social history aspects of wartime. This year I am reading about black civil rights, so mid-July I will start a buddy read of Race in the Crucible of War: African American Servicemen and the War in Vietnam by Gerald F. Goodwin. Looking forward tk talkkng about at a nonfkction group :-)

[Cynda]

In October, Sam and I will be reading A Defense of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley. I hope others will join in the buddy read and discussion.

I have looking forward to reading this selection since forever and since I am now working slowly through The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2: The Romantic Period edited by M.H. Abrams and others.

Also I have just finished reading Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley. Revealing.