Pile o’ Books
What? A challenge from another blogger to take a photo of all the books I’m in the middle of reading? That sounds like a lot more fun than all the other things I planned to do this morning. And it comes after a recent purge, where I put back on the shelves all those books (and there were several) that I was in the middle of reading but hadn’t touched in over six months. That’s the rule: I can’t really claim to be reading something if in fact I never actively read it.
Also not appearing on this list: the Harry Potter books #1-6, which my daughter has locked up in her book pile. With the last one in the series coming out in July, I figure it’s only right that I should re-read the earlier ones before treating myself to the last. Don’t want to let a clue go by, dontcha know! And now if you’ll excuse me, I have to finish watching the 2nd Pirates of the Caribbean movie, in preparation for watching the new one at the theater this afternoon. Ah, the life of a thinking blogger!
May 28th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
NO you can’t watch POTC3 today! I told Jojo I would wait until I got back to see it with her, and if I do indeed have any useful extremeties on either of your pulses then you two are going together and I have to call traitor.
May 28th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
My dear, that is very poetic writing but almost impossible to make sense of. Anyway, you can hold off calling your sister a traitor for a little while longer because we didn’t go to the movie after all. Yet.
May 29th, 2007 at 8:30 am
Ha!
There’s a link in my last post to my summer reading — one of the tags on my shelf over at shelfari.com — your picture is actually much more esthetically pleasing.
May 29th, 2007 at 8:50 am
Wow, that is an ambitious list Pandora. You must be a much faster reader than I. Good luck getting any of it done at witchcamp, though. As I recall, the last time I was there I was only able to get through a couple of the articles in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. Though it was great fun reading it when my bunkmates would come into the cabin. What’s this? A senior teacher reading a trash magazine? I figured it was all part of the example I was trying to set.
June 6th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Ooh - is Greek Ritual Poetics as good as it sounds? (Yes, I’m a hopeless HelleniGeek… :) )
June 7th, 2007 at 11:31 am
Well, there’s a lot of interesting stuff in it. I bought it for a specific article, by Charles Stewart, titled “Ritual Dreams and Historical Orders: Incubation between Paganism and Christianity.” I am really interested the history of dream incubation, so this is a very useful piece for me. If I get adventurous, I may tackle some of the articles later.
But I am hampered in my appreciation of the book since I don’t read Homeric, Attic, or Modern Greek. It is also a very hard slog for me through some of the academic jargon, to wit: “Our attempt to explore ‘emic’ Greek terms and concepts has been inevitably, but also deliberately, selective and heuristic: if ‘reading’ cultures entails ‘writing’ cultures, that is, constructing textual discourses about other discourses, one should be aware of the discursivity of one’s own interpretive enterprise and try to eschew essentializing and definite verdicts, especially when exploring such extensive and notoriously ‘dangerous’ fields as the Greek grounds—grounds full of gaps, continuities, discontinuities, transformations, and ambiguities.”
Oh, and there was even a footnote in the middle of that. Incredible.