Lately, I have had the desire to review US history, because I seriously cannot remember any of it (because I hated history as a child). So I'm throwing this out there just as a suggestion, and granted I know that biographies are not 'history' per se, but close enough, LOL! I would love to read one of the biographies on Abraham Lincoln.
Secondly, I never read The Three Musketeers or The Bell Jar, and I would love to throw some classics in the mix with Pride and Prejudice.
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Steve says I am not allowed to read The Bell Jar anymore. Ha. But if you want to read it, you can do it in a day, really.
ReplyDeleteI would love to read The Three Musketeers, although I seem to remember it being *really* long, so we may want to keep that in mind if we put it on the schedule (for example, we should sandwich it between two short reads or maybe give it 2 weeks).
Biographies could be cool, too.
So technically it's a fictional biography and has absolutely nothing to do with US history (that I know of), but I have always wanted to read Woolf's Orlando. Plus, we could watch the movie afterwards--Adam says it's pretty decent.
ReplyDeleteYou guys keep sending the recommendations and I'll keep adding to the original list!
ReplyDeleteI chatted with folks about Orlando, and it sounds awesome. I'm down.
ReplyDeleteOrlando is awesome. I'm happy to mix business with pleasure. Did y'all know Woolf also wrote a "biography" of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog Flush? And that her dad and best friends were biographers? Someone could write a whole dissertation chapter on Woolf's complicated relationship with the genre of biography and life writing. Hmmm, maybe I should get back to work on that.
ReplyDeleteI also should admit that I am intrigued by Kitty Kelley's new Oprah biography. Unauthorized scandalous biographies are the best kind. If you can tell a good story, I don't care if it is true. (I saw a big stack of them for 25% off in Payless last week.)
ReplyDeleteSome people I've always wanted to read biographies on are Emma Goldman, Catherine the Great, Madame de Pompadour, Benjamin Franklin, and Nikola Tesla. A random assortment, and off the top of my head.
Another person I would really like to know more about is Sally Hemings, and David recommended this book on her by Annette Gordon-Reed.
ReplyDeleteHere is a link to a newish book about Hemings and Jefferson.
http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Jefferson-Sally-Hemings-Controversy/dp/0813918332