3 May 2006 - Wednesday
Summer is coming! Summer is coming!
I have an idea. Since school is ending (permanently, for some of my visitors) here's an opportunity to share ideas for summer reading. What books are you likely to borrow from the local library? What's sitting on your shelf right now, waiting to be consumed? We can even expand the concept of "reading a text" to include watching films, listening to the radio, and so on.
For example, my list includes:
+ the rest of The Satanic Verses
+ the rest of Political Thinkers
+ something at the Texas Shakespeare Festival
+ Cato's Letters
+ Why Study the Past?
+ lots and lots of NPR
Feel free to add your own picks -- whether you think you'll actually get to them or not. This is a chance to think wishfully, if need be.
| Posted by Wilson at 15:23 Central | TrackBack| Report submitted to the Humanities Desk
Three cheers for lots and lots of NPR!
I have been loving their podcasts lately since I have been away from my Dallas NPR station (I think it must be one of the best in the nation). Driveway Moments and Story of the Day are enough to keep me happy. But there are many, many more to enjoy!
Now if only someone can talk This American Life into free podcasts.... Is there any radio program that is edited and compiled so well? I love listening to Ira Glass.
I just got my subscription to McSweeney's Quarterly. Haven't heard of McSweeney's? The quarterly is excellent works of fiction. I love it. Their website is full of wonderful things too.
The thoughts of eliot on 4 May 2006 - 9:00 Central+ + + + +
"Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."
(awww, who am I kidding....)
The thoughts of maman d'Ardith on 4 May 2006 - 19:53 Central+ + + + +
Personally, I think I've got to quit going to the library for a little while so I have time to finish reading the books I've bought and haven't touched yet. Or maybe just cut down on the anthologies and 1,000+ page novels.
Of course, once I've finished the books I own again, I'll feel compelled to go buy some more. Which reminds me; I need more classics...
The thoughts of Ardith on 5 May 2006 - 13:26 Central+ + + + +
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Finally finishing "A terrible beauty" by Peter Watson, and getting around to "Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the "Beatles" - Britain in the Sixties: 1956-63"
Dominic Sandbrook.
Might re read the "Chimneys of Green Knowe" - utterly fantastic childrens book.
Backlog of "In our Time" podcasts from the BBC.
The thoughts of Ed Podest on 4 May 2006 - 2:01 Central+ + + + +