Roof Beam Reader
Adam Burgess
Bout of Books 10: Master Post
(Scroll down for daily updates.)
Reading list:
Below is the list of books that I’ll be choosing from this week. I doubt that I’ll get through all of them, especially as some (Frye, Woolf) are pretty dense. I hope to complete at least three books this week, including the first two listed and also The Demon-Haunted World which I started a month or so ago but had to sideline while finishing up the semester. If I get more than that accomplished, then great!
• For the Pleasure of His Company, Charles Warren Stoddard
• Imre: A Memorandum, Edward Prime-Stevenson
• Anatomy of Criticism, Northrop Frye
• The Long Walk, Stephen King
• To a God Unknown, John Steinbeck
• Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism, Steven J. Venturino
Goals:
• Read at least two books for my summer course (titles 1 & 2 above)
• Join some of the Twitter chats
• Visit other participants, including host blogs (competitions & such)
Updates:
Monday:
Pages read: 90
Books finished: None
Titles experienced: 2- For the Pleasure of His Company and The Demon-Haunted World
Tuesday:
Pages read: 276
Books finished: 1 – For the Pleasure of His Company
Titles experienced: 3- For the Pleasure of His Company, The Demon-Haunted World, and The Book Thief
Wednesday:
Pages read: 280
Books finished: None
Titles experienced: The Book Thief
Thursday:
Pages read: 149
Books finished: 1 – The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Titles experienced: 2- The Book Thief and Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Friday:
Pages read: 60
Books finished: None
Titles experienced: Rebecca
Saturday:
Pages read: 0
Books finished: None
Titles experienced: None…. bad, Adam. 😦
Sunday:
Pages read: 291
Books finished: None
Titles experienced: Rebecca by Daphne du Maruier and Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
Total pages read: 997
Total books finished: 2 – The Book Thief and For the Pleasure of His Company
All titles experienced: 5 – The Book Thief, For the Pleasure of His Company, Rebecca, Salem’s Lot, and The Demon-Haunted World.
*Note: I borrowed the general format for this post from Heather at Between the Covers.
Roof Beam Reader 
All the best with completing your goals, Adam! 🙂
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Good luck 🙂 I was going to join, but the past two times I’ve tried to do it I’ve read a great deal less than I would normally :S
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism looks interesting. Am checking it out on Amazon as I type this….
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This is an awesome layout! I know though that I won’t be able to read enough to make it worth using. Maybe next time!
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Good luck Adam! I didn’t see you today during the twitter chat, but it wss so insane, maybe I missed you. be sure to visit my post, I host a giveaway!
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I’ve been reading a lot of books about literary criticism; Critical Theory: An Introduction by Jennifer Rich, Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory by Peter Barry, Critical Theory Today by Lois Tyson, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler so I’m curious to see what you think of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism and Anatomy of Criticism.
Good luck
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Cool! Highly recommend Terry Eagleton’s Lieterary Theory (and other works) as well as Jonathan Culler’s Literary Theory. There are two good anthologies, too: Tracing Literary Theory by Natoli and Everyday Theory by McLuaghlin & Coleman.
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Welcome to Bout of Books, Adam! I hope you enjoy your experience and get a lot of reading and chatting done! Hope to see you on Twitter this week!
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Good luck with this. Woolf May be dense but at least it is short
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Hee! I thought your post looked familiar. 🙂
I really liked The Long Walk…it’s pretty disturbing, but not in King’s typical horror-way. Good stuff.
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Your doing great! The week is young 🙂
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Good luck!
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