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The first Sunday in August now, and we're still slowly wending our way through Willa Cather's My Antonia. Maybe we can finish it in about a week, at the pace we're now reading at. We're enjoying it, and I don't want to rush, and yet I am also excited to begin reading Walking with the Comrades by Arundhati Roy to them. Maybe we will go ahead and begin that, too, and have them both going at once. Today in My Antonia, we read about the housewives blaming the young, pretty Lena Lingard because a much older married man whom she wasn't at all interested in romantically had become so infatuated with her that he followed her around out in the prairie when she watched her cows out there, and he helped her up into her wagon after church, causing another scandal. His wife, "Crazy Mary," began regularly chasing Lena with a corn knife, trying to kill her, and Antonia's mother thought it served Lena right. Lena meanwhile says she has no interest in marrying anyone. I love that Cather includes this and doesn't "punish" Lena for any of this.
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Mid-August now. To be clear, this list isn't (of course) what we read in this one month. It's what we can remember of what we've read together so far.... period. Sort of. (We know we've read a lot more than this together, but it's what stands out and what we, again... remember.) As for the movies, we're just listing those which we want to list. (We've seen a massive amount of movies, and are leaving most out for now.)
One of the many things not included in this list are the readings we do on how to grow or take care of or harvest a particular plant in our garden. It also doesn't include the articles that we forward to each other on political happenings or building things or anything related to recent readings or situations...
Books
Adams, Richard Watership Down (me and Ryan)
Blanding, Michael The Coke Machine
Bradbury, Ray Farenheit 451
Card, Orson Scott Ender's Game (one only in the series)
Carson, Rachel Silent Spring
Dawson, George Life Is So Good
Dickens, Charles Hard Times
DiCamillo, Kate The Tale of Despereaux
Dodson, Lisa The Moral Underground
Douglass, Frederick Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Eagleton, Terry. How to Read a Poem. Chapter One.
Fleischman, Paul Seedfolks
Funke, Cornelia Inkheart books (three)
Habila, Helon Oil on Water
Hochschild, Adam Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery
Jimenez, Francisco: (trilogy) The Circuit; Breaking Through; Reaching Out
Jacques. Brian Redwall (books)
Jaffee, Daniel Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival
Kingsolver, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible
Klein, Naomi The Shock Doctrine
Lapierre, Dominique and Javier Moro Five Past Midnight in Bhopal
L’Engle, Madeleine Wrinkle in Time series
Lewis, C.S. Chronicles of Narnia series (all, me and Ryan; Sean up to book 2)
Lowry, Lois The Giver
Lowry, Lois Gathering Blue
Lowry, Lois Messenger
Lowry, Lois Number the Stars
More, Thomas Utopia
Nix, Garth Keys to the Kingdom (me and Ryan)
Peck, Dale Dritfhouse books (two)
Peck, Robert Newton A Day No Pigs Would Die (me and Ryan)
Philbrick, Rodman Freak the Mighty and Max the Mighty
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter
Sinclair, Upton The Jungle
Sinha, Indra Animal's People
Skye, Obert Levin Thumps (five)
Stowe, Harriet Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit
Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Short Stories and Essays
Bulosan, Carlos. "Be American"
Chesnutt, Charles “Po’ Sandy”
Chopin, Kate “The Story of an Hour”
Edmundson, Mark. "The Ideal English Major."
Hawthorne, Nathaniel “The Birth-Mark”
Hawthorne, Nathaniel “The May Pole of Merry Mount”
Hawthorne, Nathaniel “The Minister’s Black Veil”
Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain."
Hurston, Zora Neale. "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"
Irving, Washington “The Adventure of the German Student”
Irving, Washington “The Legend of the Moor’s Legacy”
Irving, Washington “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
Irving, Washington “Rip Van Winkle”
Poe, Edgar Allen “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
Travens, B. "Assembly Line."
Zitkala-Sa "Impressions of an Indian Childhood"
Zitkala-Sa "School Days of an Indian Girl"
Zitkala-Sa "An Indian Teacher Among Indians"
Poetry
Ashbery, John. "The Painter."
Auden, W.H. "Musee des Beaux Arts."
Cullen, Countee. "Incident"
Dickinson, Emily."Because I could not stop for Death" (479)
Dickinson, Emily. "Hope is the thing with feather" (314)
Dickinson, Emily. "I felt a funeral in my Brain" (340)
Dickinson, Emily. "I like a look of Agony" (339)
Dickinson, Emily. "I'm nobody! Who are you?" (260)
Dickinson, Emily. "Much Madness is divinest Sense" (620)
Dickinson, Emily. "Tell all the truth but tell it slant" (1263)
Dickinson, Emily. "The bustle in a House" (1108)
Dickinson, Emily. "There's a Certain Slant of Light" (320)
Frost, Robert: “Home Burial”
Frost, Robert: “Mending Wall”
Frost, Robert: “The Road Not Taken”
Frost, Robert “The Wood Pile”
H. D. excerpt from “The Walls Do Not Fall”
Hayden, Robert. "Those Winter Sundays"
Heaney, Seamus. “Digging”
Hughes, Langston. “I, Too”
Hughes, Langston "Theme for English B"
Komunyakaa, Yusef. "Banking Potatoes"
Komunyakaa, Yusef. "Facing It"
Komunyakaa, Yusef: “Sunday Afternoons”
Lorde, Audre. "Coal"
Lorde, Audre. "From the House of Yemanjá"
Merwin, W.S. "Losing a Language"
Owen, Wilfred. “Dulce Et Decorum Est”
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "England in 1819"
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Ozymandias"
Thomas, Dylan “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”
Whitman, Walt. "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry."
Whitman, Walt. "I Hear America Singing"
Williams, William Carlos “This Is Just to Say That”
Williams, William Carlos “The Red Wheelbarrow”
Movies
"A Better Life"
"Children of Heaven"
"The Cove"
"Darwin's Nightmare"
"Flow"
"The Garden"
"The Grapes of Wrath"
"In a Better World"
"Joyeux Noel"
"La Cosecha" (The Harvest)
"Life in Debt"
"Planet Earth" series
"Under the Same Moon"
"Winter's Bone"
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