Tuesday, October 16, 2007

We're So Far Away

I started making some lists today and I thought I would share them:
{these lists are still subject to change}

Books to Read:
1. The Grapes of Wrath
2. The Canterbury Tales
3. Mere Christianity
4. The Scarlet Letter
5. Anne of Green Gables
6. Wuthering Heights
7. The Curious Savage
8. Catch-22
9. The Great Gatsby
10. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
11. all things Shakespeare
12. Sense & Sensibility
13. The Great Divorce
14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
15. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
16. The Catcher in the Rye
17. Gone With the Wind
18. Jane Eyre
19. Mansfield Park
20. The Pilgrim's Progress
21. all things Poe
22. The Princess Bride
23. Something Wicked This Way Comes
24. Waiting for Godot
25. Watership Down

This list excludes books that I know I'll definitely be reading in AP Lit.

People I Want to Learn More About:
1. George Gershwin
2. Joseph Stalin
3. Geoffrey Chaucer
4. Queen Elizabeth
5. Charles Manson
6. Andy Warhol
7. Emma Goldman
8. G.F. Handel
9. Anna Netrebko
10. Lawrence Olivier
11. Helen Mirren
12. Baz Luhrman
13. Ewan McGregor
14. Steve Jobs
15. Jane Austen

Things I Want to Learn More About:
1. Salem Witch Trials
2. The 70's in general (Vietnam, hippies, etc.)
3. Blacklists
4. Polygraph machines
5. The Watergate Scandal
6. Auburn Avenue/NPP theology
7. Genetics
8. MPAA film rating system
9. Theories on truth {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth}
10. Scientology
11. Schizophrenia
12. Socialism

Well it's a start. I'm up for comments and suggestions. :)


2 comments:

The Happy Nomads said...

Good lists Jme! Very exciting. You list of books to read is especially ambitious. Your list of things to learn is fun,too. I can teach you about the Salem Witch Trials... I happen to know a lot about them. I'll be very impressed if you accomplish all the things on these lists. You are very ambitious. :)

The Happy Nomads said...

You're going to LOVE Gone with the Wind. It's the longest book I've ever read, and also one of my all time favorites. It is amazing.