The Four Seasons Reading Club, our household’s two-person adventure in reading, has finished its seventh year. The club began after I retired from teaching, so the year runs from May to May. In our seventh year we read novels, novellas, short-story collections, graphic novels, non-fiction, a Socratic dialogue, a children’s story, and a poem. In alphabetical order:
Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Queen, trans. unknown
W.H. Auden, “Musée des Beaux Arts”
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Go Tell It on the Mountain
Honoré de Balzac, The Memoirs of Two Young Wives, trans. Jordan Stump
Ronald Blythe, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
Emmanuel Bove, My Friends, trans. Janet Louth
Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Charlotte Brontë, Villette
Jerry Craft, Class Act, New Kid
Robertson Davies, The Salterton Trilogy: Tempest-Tost, Leaven of Malice, A Mixture of Frailties
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
Tove Jansson, The Summer Book, trans. Thomas Teal
Robert Musil, Intimate Ties: Two Novellas, trans. Peter Wortsman; Young Törless, trans. Mike Mitchell
Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Gary Paulsen, Hatchet
Jed Perl, Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts
Plato, Gorgias, trans. Walter Hamilton and Chris Emlyn-Jones
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Anna Seghers, The Dead Girls’ Class Trip, trans. Margot Bettauer Dembo
Gilbert Sorrentino, Aberration of Starlight
Art Spiegelman, Maus
Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Treasure Island
Adalbert Stifter, The Bachelors, trans. David Bryer; Motley Stones, trans. Isabel Fargo Cole
Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown
Eudora Welty, Thirteen Stories
Now it’s on to Nella Larsen, Passing.
Here are the reports for 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
comments: 2
That's a healthy list! Your brain-muscles must be stoked.
They’re swole, believe me. : )
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