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  • Reading the Classics Updated

    Reading the Classics Updated

    Reading the Classics Updated

    Reading G Keith Chesterton

    George Elliot Novels

    Stuart Woods RIP

    Reading the Classics

    Reading the Classics Updated Lists

    As some of you know I have been reading the classics.  I found a three-volume series on Kindle titled 50 books you must read before you die, and also found the Harvard classics.

    I will write a review of each book as I finish it. This will probably take me until next year but I have finished about half of the 150 books. Some are fast reads, and some are very slow because the 19th century writers wrote too damn long books for modern readers.

    Not all the classics are in the list below.  I  will add those to the list at the end of the list.

    I have written reviews on G Chesterton’s work (below)

    Reading G Keith Chesterton

    And on George Elliot as well (below)

    George Elliot Novels

    And although Stuart Woods is not a classic author, I have written a review of his work as I have read most of his writing. (below)

    Stuart Woods RIP

    Here’s the list of books read – bolded I have finished,

    Harvard Classics

    Bolded read

    (1) Franklin, Woolman, Penn

     (2) Plato, Epictetus,

     Marcus, Aurelius Meditations

    (3) Bacon, Milton’s Prose, Thomas Browne

    (4) Complete Poems in English: Milton

    (5) Essays and English Traits: Emerson (

    6) Poems and Songs: Burns (7)

    Confessions of St. Augustine. Imitation of Christ

    (8) Nine Greek Dramas (9) Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny

    (8) Nine Greek Dramas (9) Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny

    (10) Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith

    (11) Origin of Species: Darwin

    (12) Plutarch’s Lives (13)

     Aeneid Virgil (14)

    Don Quixote Part 1: Cervantes

    (15)Pilgrim’s Progress. Donne

    Herbert. Bunyan, Walton

    (16) The Thousand and One Nights

    (17) Folk-Lore and Fable. Aesop, Grimm, Andersen

    (18) Modern English Drama

    (19) Faust, Egmont Etc. Doctor Faustus, Goethe, Marlowe

    (20) The Divine Comedy: Dante

    (21) I Promessi Sposi, Manzoni

    (22) The Odyssey: Homer

    (23) Two Years Before the Mast. Dana

    (24) On the Sublime French Revolution Etc. Burke

    (25) Autobiography Etc. Essays and Addresses: J.S. Mill, T. Carlyle

    (26) Continental Drama

    (27) English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay

    (28) Essays. English and American

    (29) Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin (

    30) Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb, Geikie

    (31) Autobiography: Benvenuto, Cellini

    (32) Literary and Philosophical Essays: Montaigne, Sainte Beuve, Renan, Lessing, Schiller, Kant, Mazzini

    (33) Voyages and Travels

    (34) Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes

    (35) Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed (36)

    Machiavelli, More, Luther

    (37) Locke, Berkeley, Hume

    (38) Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur

    (39) Famous Prefaces

    (40) English Poetry 1: Chaucer to Gray

    (41) English Poetry 2: Collins to Fitzgerald

    (42) English Poetry 3: Tennyson to Whitman

    (43) American Historical Documents

    (44) Sacred Writings 1

    (45) Sacred Writings 2

    (46) Elizabethan Drama 1

    (47) Elizabethan Drama 2

    (48) Thoughts and Minor Works: Pascal

    (49) Epic and Saga (

    50) Introduction, Readers Guide,

     

    50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before you Die

    Started reading the first one of volume 3

    Bolded indicated I have read it .

    Vol 1

    Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
    Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
    Austen, Jane: Emma
    Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot
    Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno
    Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
    Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
    Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
    Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes
    Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
    Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
    Cather, Willa: My Ántonia
    Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote
    Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
    Cleland, John: Fanny Hill
    Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
    Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
    Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
    Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
    Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
    Cummings, E. E.: The Enormous Room
    Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
    Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
    Dickens, Charles: Bleak House
    Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
    Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles
    Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
    Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
    Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
    Eliot, George: Middlemarch
    Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
    Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
    Flaubert, Gustave: Sentimental Education
    Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
    Forster, E. M.: A Room With a View
    Forster, E. M.: Howards End
    Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South
    Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther
    Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
    Gorky, Maxim: The Mother
    Haggard, H. Rider: King Solomon’s Mines
    Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
    Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
    Homer: The Odyssey
    Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables
    Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow
    James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady

    Volume 2

    – Little Women [Louisa May Alcott]
    – Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen]
    – Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie]
    – Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower]
    – The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
    – A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
    – The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers]
    – The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    – The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]
    – The Most Dangerous Game [Richard Connell]
    – On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin]
    – Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
    – The Iron Woman [Margaret Deland]
    – David Copperfield [Charles Dickens]
    – Oliver Twist [Charles Dickens]
    – A Tale of Two Cities [Charles Dickens]
    – The Double [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle]
    – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
    – Dream Psychology [Sigmund Freud]
    – Tess of the d’Urbervilles [Thomas Hardy]
    – Siddhartha [Hermann Hesse]
    – Dubliners [James Joyce]
    – The Fall of the House of Usher [Edgar Allan Poe]
    – The Arabian Nights [Andrew Lang]
    – The Sea Wolf [Jack London]
    – The Call of Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
    – Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
    – Beyond Good and Evil [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
    – The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe]
    – The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe]
    – The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe]
    – Swann’s Way [Marcel Proust]
    – Romeo and Juliet [William Shakespeare]
    – Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson]
    – The Elements of Style [William Strunk Jr.

     

    Vol 3

    – What’s Bred in the Bone [Grant Allen]
    – The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius]
    – Meditations [Marcus Aurelius]
    – Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen]
    – Lady Susan [Jane Austen]
    – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum]
    – The Art of Public Speaking [Dale Breckenridge Carnegie]
    – The Blazing World [Margaret Cavendish]
    – The Wisdom of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    – Heretics [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    – The Donnington Affair [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    – The Innocence of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    – Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [John Cleland]
    – The Moonstone [Wilkie Collins]
    – Lord Jim [Joseph Conrad]
    – The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
    – The Pickwick Papers [Charles Dickens]
    – A Christmas Carol [Charles Dickens]
    – Notes From The Underground [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
    – The Gambler par Fyodor [Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
    – The Lost World [Arthur Conan Doyle]
    – The Hound of the Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle]
    – The Sign of the Four [Arthur Conan Doyle]
    – The Man in the Iron Mask [Alexandre Dumas]
    – This Side of Paradise [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
    – Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]
    – Kim [Rudyard Kipling]
    – Captains Courageous [Rudyard Kipling]
    – The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]
    – Lady Chatterley’s Lover [David Herbert Lawrence]
    – The Son of the Wolf [Jack London]
    – The Einstein Theory of Relativity [Hendrik Antoon Lorentz]
    – The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
    – At the Mountains of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
    – The Prince [Niccolò Machiavelli]
    – The Story Girl [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
    – The Antichrist [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
    – The Republic [Plato]
    – The Last Man [Mary Shelley]
    – Life On The Mississippi [Mark Twain]
    – The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana]
    – In the Year 2889 [Jules Verne]
    – Around the World in Eighty Days [Jules Verne]
    – Four Just Men [Edgar Wallace]
    – Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ [Lewis Wallace]
    Jacob’s Room [Virginia Woolf]

    For the rest of the list see https://wp.me/p7NAzO-2qH

    Reading the Classics

    1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

    These lists are somewhat duplicative so I have tried to combine into one list.

    The books on Boxall’s list, which is found in the 5 editions of the published book
    with a TOTAL NUMBER OF 1315 books.

    1001 Books Basic list  (combined lists)

     

    Book Title Author
    Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas
    Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Adams, Douglas
    The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul Adams, Douglas
    Aesop’s Fables Aesopus
    Little Women Alcott, Louisa May
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou, Maya
    The Thousand and One Nights Anonymous
    I, Robot Asimov, Isaac
    Foundation Asimov, Isaac
    The Handmaid’s Tale Atwood, Margaret
    Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane
    Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane
    Mansfield Park Austen, Jane
    Emma Austen, Jane
    Aesop’s Fables Aesopus
    Novel With Cocaine Ageyev, M.
    In The Heart of the Seas Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
    Rashomon Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
    The Regent’s Wife Alas, Leopoldo
    Little Women Alcott, Louisa May
    Broad and Alien is the World Alegria, Ciro
    The Man With the Golden Arm Algren, Nelson
    Fantômas Allain, Marcel
    The House of the Spirits Allende, Isabel
    Of Love and Shadows Allende, Isabel
    Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon Amado, Jorge
    Tent of Miracles Amado, Jorge
    Cause for Alarm Ambler, Eric
    Lucky Jim Amis, Kingsley
    The Green Man Amis, Kingsley
    The Old Devils Amis, Kingsley
    Dead Babies Amis, Martin
    Money: A Suicide Note Amis, Martin
    London Fields Amis, Martin
    Time’s Arrow Amis, Martin
    The Information Amis, Martin
    I’m Not Scared Ammaniti, Niccolo
    Untouchable Anand, Mulk Raj
    The Commandant Anderson, Jessica
    The Bridge on the Drina Andrić, Ivo
    Bosnian Chronicle Andrić, Ivo
    Ashes and Diamonds Andrzejewski, Jerzy
    The Thousand and One Nights Anonymous
    The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter Anonymous
    The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes Anonymous
    Fado Alexandrino Antunes, Antonio Lobo
    The Bells of Basel Aragon, Louis
    Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus Arbuthnot, John et al
    Before Night Falls Arenas, Reinaldo
    Deep Rivers Arguedas, José María
    The Twilight Years Ariyoshi, Sawako
    The Green Hat Arlen, Michael
    Surfacing Atwood, Margaret
    Cat’s Eye Atwood, Margaret
    The Robber Bride Atwood, Margaret
    Alias Grace Atwood, Margaret
    The Blind Assassin Atwood, Margaret
    Obabakoak Atxaga, Bernardo
    The New York Trilogy Auster, Paul
    Moon Palace Auster, Paul
    The Music of Chance Auster, Paul
    Mr. Vertigo Auster, Paul
    Timbuktu Auster, Paul
    The Book of Illusions Auster, Paul
    Invisible Auster, Paul
    The Underdogs Azuela, Mariano
    Foucault’s Pendulum Eco, Umberto
    So Long a Letter Ba, Mariama
    Go Tell It on the Mountain Baldwin, James
    Giovanni’s Room Baldwin, James
    The Drowned World Ballard, J.G.
    The Atrocity Exhibition Ballard, J.G.
    Crash Ballard, J.G.
    High Rise Ballard, J.G.
    Cocaine Nights Ballard, J.G.
    Super-Cannes Ballard, J.G.
    Eugénie Grandet Balzac, Honoré de
    Père Goriot Balzac, Honoré de
    Lost Illusions Balzac, Honoré de
    The Wasp Factory Banks, Iain
    The Crow Road Banks, Iain
    Complicity Banks, Iain
    Dead Air Banks, Iain
    The Player of Games Banks, Iain M.
    Cloudsplitter Banks, Russell
    The Newton Letter Banville, John
    The Book of Evidence Banville, John
    The Untouchable Banville, John
    Shroud Banville, John
    The Sea Banville, John
    Elegance of the Hedgehog Barbery, Muriel
    The Inferno Barbusse, Henri
    Under Fire Barbusse, Henri
    Silk Baricco, Alessandro
    H(A)PPY Barker, Nicola
    Regeneration Barker, Pat
    The Ghost Road Barker, Pat
    Another World Barker, Pat
    Nightwood Barnes, Djuna
    Flaubert’s Parrot Barnes, Julian
    The Sense of an Ending Barnes, Julian
    The Floating Opera Barth, John
    The End of the Road Barth, John
    Come Back, Dr. Caligari Barthelme, Donald
    The Dead Father Barthelme, Donald
    Amateurs Barthelme, Donald
    Alamut Bartol, Vladimir
    The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Bassani, Giorgio
    Story of the Eye Bataille, Georges
    The Abbot C Bataille, Georges
    Blue of Noon Bataille, Georges
    The Mandarins Beauvoir, Simone de
    Jacob the Liar Becker, Jurek
    Murphy Beckett, Samuel
    Molloy Beckett, Samuel
    Malone Dies Beckett, Samuel
    Watt Beckett, Samuel
    The Unnamable Beckett, Samuel
    How It Is Beckett, Samuel
    Mercier and Camier Beckett, Samuel
    Worstward Ho Beckett, Samuel
    Vathek Beckford, William Thomas
    Borstal Boy Behan, Brendan
    Oroonoko Behn, Aphra
    Dangling Man Bellow, Saul
    The Victim Bellow, Saul
    The Adventures of Augie March Bellow, Saul
    Seize the Day Bellow, Saul
    Humboldt’s Gift Bellow, Saul
    The Old Wives’ Tale Bennett, Arnold
    G Berger, John
    Under Satan’s Sun Bernanos, Georges
    Correction Bernhard, Thomas
    Yes Bernhard, Thomas
    Concrete Bernhard, Thomas
    Wittgenstein’s Nephew Bernhard, Thomas
    Old Masters Bernhard, Thomas
    Extinction Bernhard, Thomas
    Death Sentence Blanchot, Maurice
    Savage Detectives Bolaño, Roberto
    2666 Bolaño, Roberto
    Billiards at Half-Past Nine Böll, Heinrich
    Group Portrait With Lady Böll, Heinrich
    The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Böll, Heinrich
    The Safety Net Böll, Heinrich
    Ficciones Borges, Jorge Luis
    Labyrinths Borges, Jorge Luis
    This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen Borowski, Tadeusz
    The Last September Bowen, Elizabeth
    To the North Bowen, Elizabeth
    The House in Paris Bowen, Elizabeth
    The Heat of the Day Bowen, Elizabeth
    A World of Love Bowen, Elizabeth
    Eva Trout Bowen, Elizabeth
    World’s End Boyle, T. Coraghessan
    Drop City Boyle, T. Coraghessan
    In Watermelon Sugar Brautigan, Richard
    Willard and His Bowling Trophies Brautigan, Richard
    Threepenny Novel Brecht, Bertolt
    Nadja Breton, André
    Arcanum 17 Breton, André
    A Dry White Season Brink, Andre
    Testament of Youth Brittain, Vera
    The Death of Virgil Broch, Hermann
    The Guiltless Broch, Hermann
    Agnes Grey Brontë, Anne
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Anne
    Shirley Brontë, Charlotte
    Villette Brontë, Charlotte
    A World for Julius Bryce Echenique, Alfredo
    The Thirty-Nine Steps Buchan, John
    The Master and Margarita Bulgakov, Mikhail
    The Pilgrim’s Progress Bunyan, John
    A Clockwork Orange Burgess, Anthony
    Inside Mr. Enderby Burgess, Anthony
    Evelina Burney, Fanny
    Cecilia Burney, Fanny
    Camilla Burney, Fanny
    Junkie Burroughs, William
    The Wild Boys Burroughs, William
    Queer Burroughs, William
    Erewhon Butler, Samuel
    The Way of All Flesh Butler, Samuel
    The Tartar Steppe Buzzati, Dino
    The Virgin in the Garden Byatt, A.S.
    Possession Byatt, A.S.
    The Children’s Book Byatt, A.S.
    Three Trapped Tigers Cabrera Infante, Guillermo
    The Postman Always Rings Twice Cain, James M.
    House in the Uplands Caldwell, Erskine
    The Path to the Nest of Spiders Calvino, Italo
    Our Ancestors Calvino, Italo
    Invisible Cities Calvino, Italo
    The Castle of Crossed Destinies Calvino, Italo
    If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler Calvino, Italo
    The Lusiads Camões, Luís de
    The Outsider Camus, Albert
    The Plague Camus, Albert
    The Rebel Camus, Albert
    Auto-da-Fé Canetti, Elias
    A Dream of Red Mansions Cao, Xueqin
    War with the Newts Capek, Karel
    Breakfast at Tiffany’s Capote, Truman
    In Cold Blood Capote, Truman
    Oscar and Lucinda Carey, Peter
    Jack Maggs Carey, Peter
    Kingdom of This World Carpentier, Alejo
    The Lost Steps Carpentier, Alejo
    The Passion of New Eve Carter, Angela
    Nights at the Circus Carter, Angela
    Wise Children Carter, Angela
    Bebo’s Girl Cassola, Carlo
    Solitude Catala, Victor
    The Professor’s House Cather, Willa
    Journey to the Alcarria Cela, Camilo Jose
    The Hive Cela, Camilo Jose
    Journey to the End of the Night Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
    Soldiers of Salamis Cercas, Javier
    The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Chabon, Michael
    The Big Sleep Chandler, Raymond
    Farewell My Lovely Chandler, Raymond
    The Long Goodbye Chandler, Raymond
    Wild Swans Chang, Jung
    Chaireas and Kallirhoe Chariton
    On the Black Hill Chatwin, Bruce
    The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine
    The Awakening Chopin, Kate
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Christie, Agatha
    On the Heights of Despair Cioran, Emil
    2001: A Space Odyssey Clarke, Arthur C.
    The Sorrow of Belgium Claus, Hugo
    The Holy Terrors Cocteau, Jean
    What a Carve Up! Coe, Jonathan
    Veronika Decides to Die Coelho, Paulo
    The Devil and Ms. Prym Coelho, Paulo
    Dusklands Coetzee, J.M.
    In the Heart of the Country Coetzee, J.M.
    Waiting for the Barbarians Coetzee, J.M.
    The Life and Times of Michael K Coetzee, J.M.
    Foe Coetzee, J.M.
    The Master of Petersburg Coetzee, J.M.
    Disgrace Coetzee, J.M.
    Youth Coetzee, J.M.
    Elizabeth Costello Coetzee, J.M.
    Slow Man Coetzee, J.M.
    Belle du Seigneur Cohen, Albert
    Claudine’s House Colette
    The Woman in White Collins, Wilkie
    The Lion of Flanders Conscience, Hendrik
    Pricksongs and Descants Coover, Robert
    The Public Burning Coover, Robert
    Eline Vere Couperus, Louis
    Arcadia Crace, Jim
    The Enormous Room Cummings, E.E.
    A Home at the End of the World Cunningham, Michael
    The Hours Cunningham, Michael
    Disappearance Dabydeen, David
    Nervous Conditions Dangarembga, Tsitsi
    House of Leaves Danielewski, Mark Z.
    The Child of Pleasure D’Annunzio, Gabriele
    Fifth Business Davies, Robertson
    The End of the Story Davis, Lydia
    Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord De Bernières, Louis
    Captain Corelli’s Mandolin De Bernières, Louis
    On Love De Botton, Alain
    Hebdomeros De Chirico, Giorgio
    The Viceroys De Roberto, Federico
    Roxana Defoe, Daniel
    The Heretic Delibes, Miguel
    Ratner’s Star DeLillo, Don
    The Names DeLillo, Don
    White Noise DeLillo, Don
    Libra DeLillo, Don
    Mao II DeLillo, Don
    Underworld DeLillo, Don
    The Body Artist DeLillo, Don
    Falling Man DeLillo, Don
    Thomas of Reading Deloney, Thomas
    Clear Light of Day Desai, Anita
    The Inheritance of Loss Desai, Kiran
    All About H. Hatterr Desani, G.V.
    Small Remedies Deshpande, Shashi
    The Conquest of New Spain Díaz del Castillo, Bernal
    The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Díaz, Junot
    Martin Chuzzlewit Dickens, Charles
    Our Mutual Friend Dickens, Charles
    Jacques the Fatalist Diderot, Denis
    The Nun Diderot, Denis
    Rameau’s Nephew Diderot, Denis
    Play It As It Lays Didion, Joan
    Democracy Didion, Joan
    The Bitter Glass Dillon, Eilís
    Out of Africa Dinesen, Isak
    Berlin Alexanderplatz Döblin, Alfred
    The Book of Daniel Doctorow, E.L.
    Ragtime Doctorow, E.L.
    Billy Bathgate Doctorow, E.L.
    City of God Doctorow, E.L.
    Stone Junction Dodge, Jim
    Asphodel Doolittle, Hilda
    Manhattan Transfer Dos Passos, John
    U.S.A. Dos Passos, John
    Fool’s Gold Douka, Maro
    Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture Doxiadis, Apostolos
    The Radiant Way Drabble, Margaret
    The Red Queen Drabble, Margaret
    As If I Am Not There Drakulić, Slavenka
    Sister Carrie Dreiser, Theodore
    Rebecca Du Maurier, Daphne
    Queen Margot Dumas, Alexandre
    Hallucinating Foucault Duncker, Patricia
    Paradise of the Blind Duong, Thu Huong
    The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein Duras, Marguerite
    The Vice-Consul Duras, Marguerite
    The Lover Duras, Marguerite
    Justine Durrell, Lawrence
    The Judge and His Hangman Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
    The Crime of Father Amaro Eça de Queirós, José Maria
    The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto
    Foucault’s Pendulum Eco, Umberto
    Castle Rackrent Edgeworth, Maria
    The Absentee Edgeworth, Maria
    Ormond Edgeworth, Maria
    The Quest Eeden, Frederik van
    A Visit from the Goon Squad Egan, Jennifer
    The Circle Eggers, Dave
    The Life of a Good-for-Nothing Eichendorff, Joseph von
    Woman at Point Zero El Saadawi, Nawal
    Silence Endo, Shusaku
    Deep River Endo, Shusaku
    The Book about Blanche and Marie Enquist, Per Olov
    The Gathering Enright, Anne
    The Interesting Narrative Equiano, Olaudah
    Love Medicine Erdrich, Louise
    Moscow Stations Erofeyev, Venedikt
    Like Water for Chocolate Esquivel, Laura
    Celestial Harmonies Esterházy, Péter
    The Virgin Suicides Eugenides, Jeffrey
    Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffrey
    The Marriage Plot Eugenides, Jeffrey
    Under the Skin Faber, Michel
    Astradeni Fakinou, Eugenia
    Troubles Farrell, J.G.
    The Siege of Krishnapur Farrell, J.G.
    The Singapore Grip Farrell, J.G.
    The Sound and the Fury Faulkner, William
    Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner, William
    The Hamlet Faulkner, William
    Go Down, Moses Faulkner, William
    Birdsong Faulks, Sebastian
    Troubling Love Ferrante, Elena
    The Story of the Lost Child Ferrante, Elena
    Joseph Andrews Fielding, Henry
    Amelia Fielding, Henry
    The Wars Findley, Timothy
    Sentimental Education Flaubert, Gustave
    The Temptation of Saint Anthony Flaubert, Gustave
    Bouvard and Pécuchet Flaubert, Gustave
    Effi Briest Fontane, Theodor
    The Stechlin Fontane, Theodor
    The Good Soldier Ford, Ford Madox
    Parade’s End Ford, Ford Madox
    Where Angels Fear to Tread Forster, E.M.
    The Collector Fowles, John
    The Magus Fowles, John
    The French Lieutenant’s Woman Fowles, John
    A Maggot Fowles, John
    Faces in the Water Frame, Janet
    Thais France, Anatole
    The Blind Side of the Heart Franck, Julia
    The Corrections Franzen, Jonathan
    Freedom Franzen, Jonathan
    Simon and the Oaks Fredriksson, Marianne
    Hideous Kinky Freud, Esther
    I’m Not Stiller Frisch, Max
    Homo Faber Frisch, Max
    The Death of Artemio Cruz Fuentes, Carlos
    The Recognitions Gaddis, William
    Memory of Fire Galeano, Eduardo
    Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris Gallico, Paul
    The Trick is to Keep Breathing Galloway, Janice
    Eclipse of the Crescent Moon Gardonyi, Geza
    Thursbitch Garner, Alan
    The Roots of Heaven Gary, Romain
    Promise at Dawn Gary, Romain
    Mary Barton Gaskell, Elizabeth
    Cranford Gaskell, Elizabeth
    North and South Gaskell, Elizabeth
    Legend Gemmell, David
    The Triple Mirror of the Self Ghose, Zulfikar
    The Shadow Lines Ghosh, Amitav
    Sunset Song Gibbon, Lewis Grassic
    Cold Comfort Farm Gibbons, Stella
    Fruits of the Earth Gide, André
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    He Knew He Was Right Trollope, Anthony
    Summer in Baden-Baden Tsypkin, Leonid
    The Christmas Oratorio Tunstrom, Goran
    On the Eve Turgenev, Ivan
    Fathers and Sons Turgenev, Ivan
    King Lear of the Steppes Turgenev, Ivan
    Spring Torrents Turgenev, Ivan
    Virgin Soil Turgenev, Ivan
    B Twain, Mark
    The Museum of Unconditional Surrender Ugresic, Dubravka
    Kristin Lavransdatter Undset, Sigrid
    Rabbit, Run Updike, John
    Rabbit Redux Updike, John
    Rabbit is Rich Updike, John
    Pepita Jimenez Valera, Juan
    Our Lady of the Assassins Vallejo, Fernando
    Ancestral Voices van, Heerden, Etienne
    The Time of the Hero Vargas Llosa, Mario
    The Cubs and Other Stories Vargas Llosa, Mario
    The War of the End of the World Vargas Llosa, Mario
    The Feast of the Goat Vargas Llosa, Mario
    Z Vassilikos, Vassilis
    Under the Yoke Vazov, Ivan
    Southern Seas Vázquez Montalbán, Manuel
    The House by the Medlar Tree Verga, Giovanni
    Journey to the Centre of the Earth Verne, Jules
    Around the World in Eighty Days Verne, Jules
    The Birds Vesaas, Tarjei
    The Garden Where the Brass Band Played Vestdijk, Simon
    Froth on the Daydream Vian, Boris
    Myra Breckinridge Vidal, Gore
    Bartleby and Co. Vila-Matas, Enrique
    Conversations In Sicily Vittorini, Elio
    In Search of Klingsor Volpi, Jorge
    Candide Voltaire
    Cat’s Cradle Vonnegut, Kurt
    God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Vonnegut, Kurt
    Slaughterhouse Five Vonnegut, Kurt
    Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut, Kurt
    The Color Purple Walker, Alice
    The Temple of My Familiar Walker, Alice
    Possessing the Secret of Joy Walker, Alice
    Infinite Jest Wallace, David Foster
    The Castle of Otranto Walpole, Horace
    Halftime Walser, Martin
    Morvern Callar Warner, Alan
    Indigo Warner, Marina
    Summer Will Show Warner, Sylvia Townsend
    After the Death of Don Juan Warner, Sylvia Townsend
    The House with the Blind Glass Windows Wassmo, Herbjorg
    Billy Liar Waterhouse, Keith
    Tipping the Velvet Waters, Sarah
    Fingersmith Waters, Sarah
    Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Watson, Winifred
    Decline and Fall Waugh, Evelyn
    Vile Bodies Waugh, Evelyn
    A Handful of Dust Waugh, Evelyn
    Brideshead Revisited Waugh, Evelyn
    The Graduate Webb, Charles
    The Time Machine Wells, H.G.
    The Island of Dr. Moreau Wells, H.G.
    The Invisible Man Wells, H.G.
    The War of the Worlds Wells, H.G.
    Tono-Bungay Wells, H.G.
    Trainspotting Welsh, Irvine
    The Optimist’s Daughter Welty, Eudora
    Miss Lonelyhearts West, Nathanael
    The Return of the Soldier West, Rebecca
    Harriet Hume West, Rebecca
    The Thinking Reed West, Rebecca
    The Birds Fall Down West, Rebecca
    The House of Mirth Wharton, Edith
    Ethan Frome Wharton, Edith
    Bunner Sisters Wharton, Edith
    Summer Wharton, Edith
    The Age of Innocence Wharton, Edith
    The Glimpses of the Moon Wharton, Edith
    A Boy’s Own Story White, Edmund
    The Beautiful Room is Empty White, Edmund
    The Living and the Dead White, Patrick
    The Tree of Man White, Patrick
    Voss White, Patrick
    The Once and Future King White, T.H.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar
    Tarka the Otter Williamson, Henry
    No Laughing Matter Wilson, Angus
    I Thought of Daisy Wilson, Edmund
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Winterson, Jeanette
    The Passion Winterson, Jeanette
    Sexing the Cherry Winterson, Jeanette
    Written on the Body Winterson, Jeanette
    Insatiability Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy
    Thank You, Jeeves Wodehouse, P.G.
    The Quest for Christa T. Wolf, Christa
    Patterns of Childhood Wolf, Christa
    Look Homeward, Angel Wolfe, Thomas
    The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Wolfe, Tom
    The Bonfire of the Vanities Wolfe, Tom
    Back to Oegstgeest Wolkers, Jan
    The Voyage Out Woolf, Virginia
    Night and Day Woolf, Virginia
    Jacob’s Room Woolf, Virginia
    Mrs. Dalloway Woolf, Virginia
    To The Lighthouse Woolf, Virginia
    Orlando Woolf, Virginia
    The Waves Woolf, Virginia
    The Years Woolf, Virginia
    Between the Acts Woolf, Virginia
    Native Son Wright, Richard
    Monkey: Journey to the West Wu, Cheng’en
    Day of the Triffids Wyndham, John
    The Midwich Cuckoos Wyndham, John
    Chocky Wyndham, John
    Half of Man is Woman Xianliang, Zhang
    Kitchen Yoshimoto, Banana
    Memoirs of Hadrian Yourcenar, Marguerite
    We Zamyatin, Yevgeny
    Thérèse Raquin Zola, Émile
    Drunkard Zola, Émile
    Nana Zola, Émile
    Germinal Zola, Émile
    La Bête Humaine Zola, Émile
    Gimmick! Zwagerman, Joost
    The Case of Sergeant Grischa Zweig, Arnold
    Amok Zweig, Stefan
    Chess Story Zweig, Stefan

    Missing but should be on the list

     

    WD Auden Poems

    Emerson Essays

    Emerson Poems

    Edgar Allen Poe complete stories and Poems

    Tolstoy War and Peace

    Mark Twain complete stories and novels

    Shakespeare complete plays and poems

    Bible

    Koran

    Buddhist Writings

    Hindu Writings

    Tao De Ching

    Book of Mormon

    Federalist Papers

    US constitution

    Declaration of Independence

     

    As some of you know I have been reading the classics.  I found a three-volume series on Kindle titled 50 books you must read before you die, and also found the Harvard classics.

    I started with volume three and am almost finished

    Here’s the list of books read – bolded I have finished,

     

     

     

     

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    December 7, 2022
  • Reading the Classics Updated Lists

    Reading the Classics Updated Lists

    Reading the Classics Updated Lists

    As some of you know, I have been reading the classics. I started last year on my  65th birthday, and have  enjoying it.  I found a three-volume series on Kindle titled 50 books you must read before you die, and also found the Harvard classics.  Three years ago, I figured out I have  read about 100 books per year since I was ten years old, which would mean I have read about 6,000 books all told and about the same number of movies/TV shows seen.  See the following partial lists

    Cosmos Books Read 2021 Update

    Cosmos Movie List 2021 Updates

    1001 Books to Read Before You Die List

    Books read 2019

    books read during 2018

    I will write a review of each book as I finish it. This will probably take me until next year but I have finished about half of the 150 books. Some are fast reads, and some are very slow because the 19th century writers wrote too damn long books for modern readers. and most are problematic from a  racist, sexist and ablest point of view.

    Not all the classics are in the list below.  I  will add those to the list at the end of the list.

    I have written reviews on G Chesterton’s work (below)

    Reading G Keith Chesterton

    And on George Elliot as well (below)

    George Elliot Novels

    And although Stuart Woods is not a classic author, I have written a review of his work as I have read most of his writing. (below)

    Stuart Woods RIP

    I started with volume three and am almost finished.

    Here’s the list of books read – bolded I have finished,

    Harvard Classics

    Bold read

     (1) Franklin, Woolman, Penn

     (2)Plato, Epictetus,

     Marcus, Aurelius Meditations

    (3) Bacon, Milton’s Prose, Thomas Browne

    (4) Complete Poems in English: Milton

    (5) Essays and English Traits: Emerson (

    6) Poems and Songs: Burns (7)

    Confessions of St. Augustine. Imitation of Christ

    (8) Nine Greek Dramas (9) Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny

    (8) Nine Greek Dramas (9) Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny

    (10) Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith

    (11) Origin of Species: Darwin

    (12) Plutarch’s Lives (13)

     Aeneid Virgil (14)

    Don Quixote Part 1: Cervantes

    (15)Pilgrim’s Progress. Donne

    Herbert. Bunyan, Walton

    (16) The Thousand and One Nights

    (17) Folk-Lore and Fable. Aesop, Grimm, Andersen

    (18) Modern English Drama

    (19) Faust, Egmont Etc. Doctor Faustus, Goethe, Marlowe

    (20) The Divine Comedy: Dante

    (21) I Promessi Sposi, Manzoni

    (22) The Odyssey: Homer

    (23) Two Years Before the Mast. Dana

    (24) On the Sublime French Revolution Etc. Burke

    (25) Autobiography Etc. Essays and Addresses: J.S. Mill, T. Carlyle

    (26) Continental Drama

    (27) English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay

    (28) Essays. English and American

    (29) Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin (

    30) Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb, Geikie

    (31) Autobiography: Benvenuto, Cellini

    (32) Literary and Philosophical Essays: Montaigne, Sainte Beuve, Renan, Lessing, Schiller, Kant, Mazzini

    (33) Voyages and Travels

    (34) Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes

    (35) Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed (36)

    Machiavelli, More, Luther

    (37) Locke, Berkeley, Hume

    (38) Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur

    (39) Famous Prefaces

    (40) English Poetry 1: Chaucer to Gray

    (41) English Poetry 2: Collins to Fitzgerald

    (42) English Poetry 3: Tennyson to Whitman

    (43) American Historical Documents

    (44) Sacred Writings 1

    (45) Sacred Writings 2

    (46) Elizabethan Drama 1

    (47) Elizabethan Drama 2

    (48) Thoughts and Minor Works: Pascal

    (49) Epic and Saga (

    50) Introduction, Readers Guide,

    50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before you Die

    Started reading the first one of volume 3

    Bolded indicated I have read it .

    Vol 1

    Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
    Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
    Austen, Jane: Emma
    Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot
    Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno
    Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
    Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
    Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
    Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes
    Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
    Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
    Cather, Willa: My Ántonia
    Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote
    Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
    Cleland, John: Fanny Hill
    Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
    Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
    Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
    Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
    Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
    Cummings, E. E.: The Enormous Room
    Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
    Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
    Dickens, Charles: Bleak House
    Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
    Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles
    Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
    Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
    Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
    Eliot, George: Middlemarch
    Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
    Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
    Flaubert, Gustave: Sentimental Education
    Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
    Forster, E. M.: A Room With a View
    Forster, E. M.: Howards End
    Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South
    Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther
    Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
    Gorky, Maxim: The Mother
    Haggard, H. Rider: King Solomon’s Mines
    Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
    Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
    Homer: The Odyssey
    Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables
    Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow
    James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady

    Vlume 2

    Little Women [Louisa May Alcott]
    – Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen]
    – Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie]
    – Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower]
    – The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
    – A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
    – The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers]
    – The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    – The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]
    – The Most Dangerous Game [Richard Connell]
    – On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin]
    – Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
    – The Iron Woman [Margaret Deland]
    – David Copperfield [Charles Dickens]
    – Oliver Twist [Charles Dickens]
    – A Tale of Two Cities [Charles Dickens]
    – The Double [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle]
    – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
    – Dream Psychology [Sigmund Freud]
    – Tess of the d’Urbervilles [Thomas Hardy]
    – Siddhartha [Hermann Hesse]
    – Dubliners [James Joyce]
    – The Fall of the House of Usher [Edgar Allan Poe]
    – The Arabian Nights [Andrew Lang]
    – The Sea Wolf [Jack London]
    – The Call of Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
    – Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
    – Beyond Good and Evil [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
    – The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe]
    – The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe]
    – The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe]
    – Swann’s Way [Marcel Proust]
    – Romeo and Juliet [William Shakespeare]
    – Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson]
    – The Elements of Style [William Strunk Jr.

    Vol 3

    – What’s Bred in the Bone [Grant Allen]
    – The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius]
    – Meditations [Marcus Aurelius]
    – Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen]
    – Lady Susan [Jane Austen]
    – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum]
    – The Art of Public Speaking [Dale Breckenridge Carnegie]
    – The Blazing World [Margaret Cavendish]
    – The Wisdom of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    – Heretics [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    – The Donnington Affair [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    – The Innocence of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    – Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [John Cleland]
    – The Moonstone [Wilkie Collins]
    – Lord Jim [Joseph Conrad]
    – The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
    – The Pickwick Papers [Charles Dickens]
    – A Christmas Carol [Charles Dickens]
    – Notes From The Underground [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
    – The Gambler par Fyodor [Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
    – The Lost World [Arthur Conan Doyle]
    – The Hound of the Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle]
    – The Sign of the Four [Arthur Conan Doyle]
    – The Man in the Iron Mask [Alexandre Dumas]
    – This Side of Paradise [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
    – Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]
    – Kim [Rudyard Kipling]
    – Captains Courageous [Rudyard Kipling]
    – The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]
    – Lady Chatterley’s Lover [David Herbert Lawrence]
    – /The Son of the Wolf [Jack London]
    – The Einstein Theory of Relativity [Hendrik Antoon Lorentz]
    – The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
    – At the Mountains of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
    – The Prince [Niccolò Machiavelli]
    – The Story Girl [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
    – The Antichrist [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
    – The Republic [Plato]
    – The Last Man [Mary Shelley]
    – Life On The Mississippi [Mark Twain]
    – The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana]
    – In the Year 2889 [Jules Verne]
    – Around the World in Eighty Days [Jules Verne]
    – Four Just Men [Edgar Wallace]
    – Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ [Lewis Wallace]
    Jacob’s Room [Virginia Woolf]

    Reading the Classics

    1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

    These lists are duplicative so I have tried to combine into one list.  The books on Boxall’s list, which is found in the 5 editions of the published book with a TOTAL NUMBER OF 1315 books. I have read about 600 or so.   I bolded the books I have read.

    1001 Books Basic list  (combined lists)

     

    Book Title Author
    Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas
    Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Adams, Douglas
    The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul Adams, Douglas
    Aesop’s Fables Aesopus
    Little Women Alcott, Louisa May
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou, Maya
    The Thousand and One Nights Anonymous
    I, Robot Asimov, Isaac
    Foundation Asimov, Isaac
    The Handmaid’s Tale Atwood, Margaret
    Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane
    Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane
    Mansfield Park Austen, Jane
    Emma Austen, Jane
    Novel With Cocaine Ageyev, M.
    In The Heart of the Seas Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
    Rashomon Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
    The Regent’s Wife Alas, Leopoldo
    Little Women Alcott, Louisa May
    Broad and Alien is the World Alegria, Ciro
    The Man With the Golden Arm Algren, Nelson
    Fantômas Allain, Marcel
    The House of the Spirits Allende, Isabel
    Of Love and Shadows Allende, Isabel
    Time’s Arrow Amis, Martin
    The Information Amis, Martin
    I’m Not Scared Ammaniti, Niccolo
    Untouchable Anand, Mulk Raj
    The Commandant Anderson, Jessica
    The Bridge on the Drina Andrić, Ivo
    Bosnian Chronicle Andrić, Ivo
    Ashes and Diamonds Andrzejewski, Jerzy
    The Thousand and One Nights Anonymous
    The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter Anonymous
    The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes Anonymous
    Fado Alexandrino Antunes, Antonio Lobo
    The Bells of Basel Aragon, Louis
    Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus Arbuthnot, John et al
    Before Night Falls Arenas, Reinaldo
    Deep Rivers Arguedas, José María
    The Twilight Years Ariyoshi, Sawako
    The Green Hat Arlen, Michael
    Surfacing Atwood, Margaret
    Cat’s Eye Atwood, Margaret
    The Robber Bride Atwood, Margaret
    Alias Grace Atwood, Margaret
    The Blind Assassin Atwood, Margaret
    Obabakoak Atxaga, Bernardo
    The New York Trilogy Auster, Paul
    Moon Palace Auster, Paul
    The Music of Chance Auster, Paul
    Mr. Vertigo Auster, Paul
    Timbuktu Auster, Paul
    The Book of Illusions Auster, Paul
    Invisible Auster, Paul
    The Underdogs Azuela, Mariano
    Foucault’s Pendulum Eco, Umberto
    So Long a Letter Ba, Mariama
    Go Tell It on the Mountain Baldwin, James
    Giovanni’s Room Baldwin, James
    The Drowned World Ballard JG
    The Atrocity Exhibition Ballard, J.G.
    Crash Ballard, J.G.
    High Rise Ballard, J.G.
    Cocaine Nights Ballard, J.G.
    Super-Cannes Ballard, J.G.
    Eugénie Grandet Balzac, Honoré de
    Père Goriot Balzac, Honoré de
    Lost Illusions Balzac, Honoré de
    The Wasp Factory Banks, Iain
    The Crow Road Banks, Iain
    Complicity Banks, Iain
    Dead Air Banks, Iain
    The Player of Games Banks, Iain M.
    Cloudsplitter Banks, Russell
    The Newton Letter Banville, John
    The Book of Evidence Banville, John
    The Untouchable Banville, John
    Shroud Banville, John
    The Sea Banville, John
    Elegance of the Hedgehog Barbery, Muriel
    The Inferno Barbusse, Henri
    Under Fire Barbusse, Henri
    Silk Baricco, Alessandro
    H(A)PPY Barker, Nicola
    Regeneration Barker, Pat
    The Ghost Road Barker, Pat
    Another World Barker, Pat
    Nightwood Barnes, Djuna
    Flaubert’s Parrot Barnes, Julian
    The Sense of an Ending Barnes, Julian
    The Floating Opera Barth, John
    The End of the Road Barth, John
    Come Back, Dr. Caligari Coraghessan
     
    Drop City Boyle, T.
    In Watermelon Sugar Brautigan, Richard
    Willard and His Bowling Trophies Brautigan, Richard
    Threepenny Novel Brecht, Bertolt
    Nadja Breton, André
    Arcanum 17 Breton, André
    A Dry White Season Brink, Andre
    Testament of Youth Brittain, Vera
    The Death of Virgil Broch, Hermann
    The Guiltless Broch, Hermann
    Agnes Grey Brontë, Anne
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Anne
    Shirley Brontë, Charlotte
    Villette Brontë, Charlotte
    A World for Julius Bryce Echenique, Alfredo
    The Thirty-Nine Steps Buchan, John
    The Master and Margarita Bulgakov, Mikhail
    The Pilgrim’s Progress Bunyan, John
    A Clockwork Orange Burgess, Anthony
    Inside Mr. Enderby Burgess, Anthony
    Evelina Burney, Fanny
    Cecilia Burney, Fanny
    Camilla Burney, Fanny
    Junkie Burroughs, William
    The Wild Boys Burroughs, William
    Queer Burroughs, William
    Erewhon Butler, Samuel
    The Way of All Flesh Butler, Samuel
    The Tartar Steppe Buzzati, Dino
    The Virgin in the Garden Byatt, A.S.
    Possession Byatt, A.S.
    The Children’s Book Byatt, A.S.
    Three Trapped Tigers Cabrera Infante, Guillermo
    The Postman Always Rings Twice Cain, James M.
    House in the Uplands Caldwell, Erskine
    The Path to the Nest of Spiders Calvino, Italo
    Our Ancestors Calvino, Italo
    Invisible Cities Calvino, Italo
    The Castle of Crossed Destinies Calvino, Italo
    If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler Calvino, Italo
    The Lusiads Camões, Luís de
    The Outsider Camus, Albert
    The Plague Camus, Albert
    The Rebel Camus, Albert
    Auto-da-Fé Canetti, Elias
    A Dream of Red Mansions Cao, Xueqin
    War with the Newts Capek, Karel
    Breakfast at Tiffany’s Capote, Truman
    In Cold Blood Capote, Truman
    Oscar and Lucinda Carey, Peter
    Jack Maggs Carey, Peter
    Kingdom of This World Carpentier, Alejo
    The Lost Steps Carpentier, Alejo
    The Passion of New Eve Carter, Angela
    Nights at the Circus Carter, Angela
    Wise Children Carter, Angela
    Bebo’s Girl Cassola, Carlo
    Solitude Catala, Victor
    The Professor’s House Cather, Willa
    Journey to the Alcarria Cela, Camilo Jose
    The Hive Cela, Camilo Jose
    Journey to the End of the Night Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
    Soldiers of Salamis Cercas, Javier
    The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Chabon, Michael
    The Big Sleep Chandler, Raymond
    Farewell My Lovely Chandler, Raymond
    The Long Goodbye Chandler, Raymond
    Wild Swans Chang, Jung
    Chaireas and Kallirhoe Chariton
    On the Black Hill Chatwin, Bruce
    The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine
    The Awakening Chopin, Kate
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Christie, Agatha
    On the Heights of Despair Cioran, Emil
    2001: A Space Odyssey Clarke, Arthur C.
    The Sorrow of Belgium Claus, Hugo
    The Holy Terrors Cocteau, Jean
    What a Carve Up! Coe, Jonathan
    Veronika Decides to Die Coelho, Paulo
    The Devil and Ms. Prym Coelho, Paulo
    Dusklands Coetzee, J.M.
    In the Heart of the Country Coetzee, J.M.
    Waiting for the Barbarians Coetzee, J.M.
    The Life and Times of Michael K Coetzee, J.M.
    Foe Coetzee, J.M.
    The Master of Petersburg Coetzee, J.M.
    Disgrace Coetzee, J.M.
    Youth Coetzee, J.M.
    Elizabeth Costello Coetzee, J.M.
    Slow Man Coetzee, J.M.
    Belle du Seigneur Cohen, Albert
    Claudine’s House Colette
    The Woman in White Collins, Wilkie
    The Lion of Flanders Conscience, Hendrik
    Pricksongs and Descants Coover, Robert
    The Public Burning Coover, Robert
    Eline Vere Couperus, Louis
    Arcadia Crace, Jim
    The Enormous Room Cummings, E.E.
    A Home at the End of the World Cunningham, Michael
    The Hours Cunningham, Michael
    Disappearance Dabydeen, David
    Nervous Conditions Dangarembga, Tsitsi
    House of Leaves Danielewski, Mark Z.
    The Child of Pleasure D’Annunzio, Gabriele
    Fifth Business Davies, Robertson
    The End of the Story Davis, Lydia
    Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord De Bernières, Louis
    Captain Corelli’s Mandolin De Bernières, Louis
    On Love De Botton, Alain
    Hebdomeros De Chirico, Giorgio
    The Viceroys De Roberto, Federico
    Roxana Defoe, Daniel
    The Heretic Delibes, Miguel
    Ratner’s Star DeLillo, Don
    The Names DeLillo, Don
    White Noise DeLillo, Don
    Libra DeLillo, Don
    Mao II DeLillo, Don
    Underworld DeLillo, Don
    The Body Artist DeLillo, Don
    Falling Man DeLillo, Don
    Thomas of Reading Deloney, Thomas
    Clear Light of Day Desai, Anita
    The Inheritance of Loss Desai, Kiran
    All About H. Hatterr Desani, G.V.
    Small Remedies Deshpande, Shashi
    The Conquest of New Spain Díaz del Castillo, Bernal
    The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Díaz, Junot
    Martin Chuzzlewit Dickens, Charles
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    Vanity Fair Thackeray, William Makepeace
    The Great Indian Novel Tharoor, Shashi
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Thompson, Hunter S.
    The Killer Inside Me Thompson, Jim
    Walden Thoreau, Henry David
    Cutter and Bone Thornburg, Newton
    The 13 Clocks Thurber, James
    The Wonderful “O” Thurber, James
    The Invention of Curried Sausage Timm, Uwe
    Pallieter Timmermans, Felix
    The Heather Blazing Tóibín, Colm
    The Master Tóibín, Colm
    The Hobbit Tolkien, J.R.R.
    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J.R.R.
    War and Peace Tolstoy, Leo
    Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo
    The Death of Ivan Ilyich Tolstoy, Leo
    The Kreutzer Sonata Tolstoy, Leo
    The Leopard Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe
    Confederacy of Dunces Toole, John Kennedy
    Cane Toomer, Jean
    City Sister Silver Topol, Jáchym
    The Ogre Tournier, Michael
    The Colour Tremain, Rose
    The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Tressell, Robert
    Fools of Fortune Trevor, William
    Felicia’s Journey Trevor, William
    The Story of Lucy Gault Trevor, William
    Castle Richmond Trollope, Anthony
    The Last Chronicle of Barset Trollope, Anthony
    Phineas Finn Trollope, Anthony
    He Knew He Was Right Trollope, Anthony
    Summer in Baden-Baden Tsypkin, Leonid
    The Christmas Oratorio Tunstrom, Goran
    On the Eve Turgenev, Ivan
    Fathers and Sons Turgenev, Ivan
    King Lear of the Steppes Turgenev, Ivan
    Spring Torrents Turgenev, Ivan
    Virgin Soil Turgenev, Ivan
    B Twain, Mark
    The Museum of Unconditional Surrender Ugresic, Dubravka
    Kristin Lavransdatter Undset, Sigrid
    Rabbit, Run Updike, John
    Rabbit Redux Updike, John
    Rabbit is Rich Updike, John
    Pepita Jimenez Valera, Juan
    Our Lady of the Assassins Vallejo, Fernando
    Ancestral Voices van, Heerden, Etienne
    The Time of the Hero Vargas Llosa, Mario
    The Cubs and Other Stories Vargas Llosa, Mario
    The War of the End of the World Vargas Llosa, Mario
    The Feast of the Goat Vargas Llosa, Mario
    Z Vassilikos, Vassilis
    Under the Yoke Vazov, Ivan
    Southern Seas Vázquez Montalbán, Manuel
    The House by the Medlar Tree Verga, Giovanni
    Journey to the Centre of the Earth Verne, Jules
    Around the World in Eighty Days Verne, Jules
    The Birds Vesaas, Tarjei
    The Garden Where the Brass Band Played Vestdijk, Simon
    Froth on the Daydream Vian, Boris
    Myra Breckinridge Vidal, Gore
    Bartleby and Co. Vila-Matas, Enrique
    Conversations In Sicily Vittorini, Elio
    In Search of Klingsor Volpi, Jorge
    Candide Voltaire
    Cat’s Cradle Vonnegut, Kurt
    God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Vonnegut, Kurt
    Slaughterhouse Five Vonnegut, Kurt
    Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut, Kurt
    The Color Purple Walker, Alice
    The Temple of My Familiar Walker, Alice
    Possessing the Secret of Joy Walker, Alice
    Infinite Jest Wallace, David Foster
    The Castle of Otranto Walpole, Horace
    Halftime Walser, Martin
    Morvern Callar Warner, Alan
    Indigo Warner, Marina
    Summer Will Show Warner, Sylvia Townsend
    After the Death of Don Juan Warner, Sylvia Townsend
    The House with the Blind Glass Windows Wassmo, Herbjorg
    Billy Liar Waterhouse, Keith
    Tipping the Velvet Waters, Sarah
    Fingersmith Waters, Sarah
    Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Watson, Winifred
    Decline and Fall Waugh, Evelyn
    Vile Bodies Waugh, Evelyn
    A Handful of Dust Waugh, Evelyn
    Brideshead Revisited Waugh, Evelyn
    The Graduate Webb, Charles
    The Time Machine Wells, H.G.
    The Island of Dr. Moreau Wells, H.G.
    The Invisible Man Wells, H.G.
    The War of the Worlds Wells, H.G.
    Tono-Bungay Wells, H.G.
    Trainspotting Welsh, Irvine
    The Optimist’s Daughter Welty, Eudora
    Miss Lonelyhearts West, Nathanael
    The Return of the Soldier West, Rebecca
    Harriet Hume West, Rebecca
    The Thinking Reed West, Rebecca
    The Birds Fall Down West, Rebecca
    The House of Mirth Wharton, Edith
    Ethan Frome Wharton, Edith
    Bunner Sisters Wharton, Edith
    Summer Wharton, Edith
    The Age of Innocence Wharton, Edith
    The Glimpses of the Moon Wharton, Edith
    A Boy’s Own Story White, Edmund
    The Beautiful Room is Empty White, Edmund
    The Living and the Dead White, Patrick
    The Tree of Man White, Patrick
    Voss White, Patrick
    The Once and Future King White, T.H.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar
    Tarka the Otter Williamson, Henry
    No Laughing Matter Wilson, Angus
    I Thought of Daisy Wilson, Edmund
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Winterson, Jeanette
    The Passion Winterson, Jeanette
    Sexing the Cherry Winterson, Jeanette
    Written on the Body Winterson, Jeanette
    Insatiability Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy
    Thank You, Jeeves Wodehouse, P.G.
    The Quest for Christa T. Wolf, Christa
    Patterns of Childhood Wolf, Christa
    Look Homeward, Angel Wolfe, Thomas
    The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Wolfe, Tom
    The Bonfire of the Vanities Wolfe, Tom
    Back to Oegstgeest Wolkers, Jan
    The Voyage Out Woolf, Virginia
    Night and Day Woolf, Virginia
    Jacob’s Room Woolf, Virginia
    Mrs. Dalloway Woolf, Virginia
    To The Lighthouse Woolf, Virginia
    Orlando Woolf, Virginia
    The Waves Woolf, Virginia
    The Years Woolf, Virginia
    Between the Acts Woolf, Virginia
    Native Son Wright, Richard
    Monkey: Journey to the West Wu, Cheng’en
    Day of the Triffids Wyndham, John
    The Midwich Cuckoos Wyndham, John
    Chocky Wyndham, John
    Half of Man is Woman Xianliang, Zhang
    Kitchen Yoshimoto, Banana
    Memoirs of Hadrian Yourcenar, Marguerite
    We Zamyatin, Yevgeny
    Thérèse Raquin Zola, Émile
    Drunkard Zola, Émile
    Nana Zola, Émile
    Germinal Zola, Émile
    La Bête Humaine Zola, Émile
    Gimmick! Zwagerman, Joost
    The Case of Sergeant Grischa Zweig, Arnold
    Amok Zweig, Stefan
    Chess Story Zweig, Stefan

    Missing but should be on the list

    these list are mostly novels so it is light on poetry, and drama  and spiritual writing.  I would have include the following

    Ginzberg and Beat Poets and Writers

    Whitman Poems

    Dickison Poems

    TS Elliot poems

    WD Auden Poems

    Emerson Essays

    Emerson Poems

    Edgar Allen Poe complete stories and Poems

    Tom Robbins   Complete Novels

    Tolstoy War and Peace

    Mark Twain complete stories and novels

    Shakespeare complete plays and poems

    Bible

    Koran

    Buddhist Writings

    Hindu Writings

    Tao De Ching

    Book of Mormon

    Federalist Papers

    US constitution

    Declaration of Independence

    Magna Carter 

    SInclair Lewis   It Can’t Happen  Here

    CS Lewis Narnia Series

    CS Lewis Out of the Silent Planet Series

    Rowlings Harry Potter series

    Classic SF writers  are under represented on these lists as well.

    Comments  welcome  let me know which ones you’ve read and I will  add it to the list

    The End 

     

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    August 15, 2022
  • Stuart Woods RIP

    Stuart Woods RIP

    Stuart Woods RIP

    Guilty Pleasures – the Novels of Stuart Woods

    https://www.stuartwoods.com/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Woods

    One of my favorite writers is Stuart Woods. Boy, can the dude pump them out!  In the last count, he has written over 80 books almost all of the best sellers and he has been pumping out one to two a year since he first got published in the late ’70s.

    He died this week at age 83.  He wrote over 90 books in his life and I have read most of them.

    He started out writing “Chiefs” which became a movie as well.  The main character is a police chief in a small town in Georgia.  The character reappears in many later novels, eventually becoming a two-term president, and in town, Delgado also appears as a place in many of his later novels.  Most of his novels are set in NYC, Maine, Key West, Los Angeles, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

    Most of his books feature the exploits of Stone Barrington, an NYC high-society type who is a James Bond-like character.  He is a retired NYC cop, a lawyer, a real estate investor, a part-time CIA agent, and a player with many love interests.  He is also best friends with three presidents and the not-so-secret lover of the current President. He introduced me to Knob Creek bourbon which is now one of my favorite bourbons, and he is also partial to Martinis-made James Bond style.

    In this alternative universe, the President serves two terms, his wife serves two terms, and her secretary of State is elected President. Stone is friends with them all.

    Stone’s best friend is Dino Bachetti, his old NYC homicide partner who became NYC Police Commissioner and helps Stone out officially and unofficially over the years.  He has had a lot of love interests including Holly Barker who was a former secretary of state and president.

    Another recurring character is Ed Lee who is a friend of Stone who lives and works out of Santa Fe New Mexico.  Ed Lee is a 6’8 former college basketball player who becomes an attorney.

    My only criticism is that his books are very formalistic.  At some point, someone is going to be able to program a computer to write novels and his novels would be a great place to start because I am sure that a computer could generate believable Stone Barrington novels.  Having said that, his novels are still enjoyable.

    He has written a few non-Stone Barrington novels stand-alone novels. One I enjoyed recently was Palindrome which is a psychological thriller set on an island off the South Carolina coast. Written in the mid 90’s I believe.

    I often start a novel of his while waiting around in the PX for my wife to finish up, and throughout several visits, often finish the novel.

    The following is a list of his novels, I bolded the ones I have read. One of my bucket list reading goals is to finish reading all of his novels, including the last two coming out this fall..

    The list

    Stuart Woods   BOLD read

    Stuart Woods Books in Order

     Publication Order of Stone Barrington Books

    New York Dead (1991) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Dirt (1996) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Dead in the Water (1997) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Swimming to Catalina (1998) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Worst Fears Realized (1999) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    L.A. Dead (2000) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Cold Paradise (2001) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    The Short Forever (2002) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Dirty Work (2003) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Reckless Abandon (2004) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Two Dollar Bill (2004) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Dark Harbor (2006) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Fresh Disasters (2007) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Shoot Him If He Runs (2007) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Hot Mahogany (2008) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Loitering with Intent (2009) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Kisser (2009) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Lucid Intervals (2010) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Strategic Moves (2010) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Bel-Air Dead (2011) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Son of Stone (2011) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    D.C. Dead (2011) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Unnatural Acts (2012) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Severe Clear (2012) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Collateral Damage (2012) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Unintended Consequences (2013) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Doing a Hard Time (2013) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Standup Guy (2014) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Carnal Curiosity (2014) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Cut and thrust (2014) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Paris Match (2014) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Insatiable Appetites (2015) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Hot Pursuit (2015) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Naked Greed (2015) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Foreign Affairs (2015) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Scandalous Behavior (2016) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Family Jewels (2016) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Dishonorable Intentions (2016) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Sex, Lies & Serious Money (2016) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Below the Belt (2017) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Fast and Loose (2017) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Indecent Exposure (2017) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Quick & Dirty (2017) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Unbound (2018) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Shoot First (2018) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Turbulence (2018) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Desperate Measures (2018) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    A Delicate Touch (2018) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Wild Card (2019) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Contraband (2019) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Stealth (2019) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Treason (2020) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Hit List (2020) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Choppy Water (2020) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Shakeup (2020) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Hush-Hush (2020) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Double Jeopardy (2021) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Class Act (2021) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Foul Play (2021) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Criminal Mischief (2021) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

    Publication Order of Holly Barker Books

    Orchid Beach (1998) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Orchid Blues (2001) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Blood Orchid (2002) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Reckless Abandon (2004) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Iron Orchid (2005) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Hothouse Orchid (2009) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

    Publication Order of Ed Eagle Books

    Santa Fe Rules (1992) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Short Straw (2006) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Santa Fe Dead (2008) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Santa Fe Edge (2010) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

    Publication Order of Herbie Fisher Books

    Barely Legal(With Parnell Hall) (2017) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

    Publication Order of Rick Barron Books

    The Prince of Beverly Hills (2004) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Beverly Hills Dead (2008) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

    Publication Order of Teddy Fay Books

    Smooth Operator(With Parnell Hall) (2016) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    The Money Shot(With Parnell Hall) (2018) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Skin Game(With Parnell Hall) (2019) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Bombshell(With Parnell Hall) (2020) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Jackpot(With Bryon Quarterboys) (2021) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

    Publication Order of Will Lee Books

    Chiefs (1981) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Run Before the Wind (1983) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Deep Lie (1986) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Grass Roots (1989) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    The Run (1995) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Capital Crimes (2003) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Mounting Fears (2008) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

    Publication Order of Standalone Novels

    Under the Lake (1986) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    White Cargo (1988) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Palindrome (1990) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    L.A. Times (1993) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Heat (1994) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Dead Eyes (1994) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Imperfect Strangers (1995) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Choke (1995) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

    Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

    Blue Water, Green Skipper (1977) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    A romantic’s guide to the country inns of Britain and Ireland (1979) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

    AI Program Writes Stone Barrington Book

    I have often thought that someday an AI program will be able to write an effective thriller.  I write to Stuart Woods and IBM proposing a challenge.

    Big Blue and Stuart Woods would both write a Stone Barrington novel.  A jury of readers and critics would read the result and determine which one was the computer version and which was the human version.

    Stuart Woods took the challenge and IBM big blue went to work.  IBM won the contest as the jurry thought the computer version was better.

    About Stuart Woods:

    Stuarts Woods is an American novelist. He was born in Georgia in 1938, and died in August, 2022. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1959. He then enrolled in the National Guard before moving to New York to start a career.

     

    He then moved to London and spent a further 3 years working in advertising before deciding that he wanted a change and he began writing his first novel. It is at this time that he decided to move to Ireland where he lived a solitary lifestyle, only leaving his home to make money writing adverts for local television.

    SailingWoods moved to Ireland in the 70s and this was where he fell in love with sailing. He spent many years competing in sailing competitions and learning how to be a better sailor. He finally bought his boat when his grandfather died and left him some money, so he could afford it. It was then that he took sailing more seriously and spent most of 1974 learning more about sailing.WritingWoods began writing about his experiences in his yacht races and he published 1977, the book Blue Water, Green Skipper. It seemed like he had found an ideal career based on the thing he loved most, sailing.Changing PlansHis second book was supposed to be about another boat race that he was due to take part in, but the race was canceled due to inclement weather, so he decided to drive around the UK and write a book about his adventures in the county inns.ChiefsWoods then went on to write his first novel called Chiefs. He made the mistake of selling the book to publishers unfinished because he thought he would have gotten a lot more for it had he waited until the book was finished.Norton was the company to publish the hardback, but he felt like the company let him down because they didn’t do much to promote the book. He then contacted Bentham Books, who published the paperback and it was much more successful.Charlton HestonIn 1983, the book was made into a tv series starring Charlton Heston and Danny Glover. It was aired by CBS over three nights and it ended up being nominated for three Emmy Awards.The popularity of the tv show meant that more people wanted to read the books and there was renewed interest in the paperback version of the books Woods won the Edgar Award for the Best First Novel.Series Over StandalonesWoods is one of those authors who are more focused on the series of novels over the standalone. His most popular series is the Stone Barrington Novels. He has just released his 27th novel in the series and he has written 3 more novels, which are set to be released in 2014.Who is Stone Barrington?Stone Barrington is a counsel for a law firm. After he finished college, he joined the police and served 14 years on the force. He left after disagreeing with his superiors and then got a job with the law firm. The novels tell the story of his exploits so far.In the Stone Barrington novels, Woods is often congratulated for getting the law procedures correct when he has no background in law himself. It is noticed a lot and one fan asked how he gets it all right. He indicates that he is a massive fan of law procedurals such as LA Law and Law & Order, so gets all of his knowledge from there. He has made a few friends who are Lawyers, so if he gets anything wrong, they tell him.Holly BarkerHolly Barker is a character in another series of books that he writes. She is an ex-army officer and navy brat. She left the army because of a sex scandal and she has to learn how to live a civilian life. She begins her new life as the Chief of Police and she learns just how dangerous her new life is.Even though Woods has written several series, which focus on the life of a single character, the characters from each of the novels do crossover into other series. For example, Stone Barrington appears in the second Holly Barker novel and he also appears in the second novel of the Rick Barron novels.Rick BarronThe Rick Barron novels are only two books deep at the moment. Rick Barron was a police detective and he was demoted after a run-in with a higher officer. He gets the job as security for Centurion Pictures but finds himself in the middle of a double murder case in the period that is said to be the golden age of Hollywood cinema.The first Rick Barron novel, The Prince of Beverly Hills, was meant to be a standalone novel but Woods ended up writing a sequel after he was bombarded with emails from fans asking him to write another. He has no plans to write another at this moment in time.After Chiefs was made into a TV series, one of his other books was adapted for TV as well. Grass Roots was made into a TV series in 1993. Since then, no other books have been made for TV.Woods indicates that he would love it for his other books to be made into movies and if a director has read one of the books and wants to buy the rights, then he encourages the writer to get in touch with his agent.

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    August 9, 2022
  • Reading G Keith Chesterton

    Reading G Keith Chesterton

    Reading G Keith Chesterton

    GK CHesteron

    GK Chesterton

    Reading the Classics

    George Elliot Novels

    Cosmos’s Reading List 2021

    1001 Books to Read Before You Die List

    As some of you might know, I am reading the classics these days.  I picked a three-volume series called  “50 Books You Must Read Before You Die” (free Kindle classic collection item) and started with volume three, and the Harvard classic collection (also a free Kindle classic item).  I recently finished reading the Gilbert Keith Chesterton selections.  Specifically, I read the following four items.

    The Wisdom of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    – Heretics [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    – The Donnington Affair [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] another Father Brown story
    – The Innocence of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]

    He was a towering figure in British intellectual life – a social conservative who became a Catholic.  He was friends with George Bernard Shaw and HG Wells and engaged in spirited debates with both during his life.  He wrote over 80 books on a wide range of topics. He was described as a big man who was very absent-minded, leaving his wife to take care of most mundane things.  I can relate to that.

    Reading these selections, particularly the three Father Brown selections from the viewpoint of the early 21st century, presents some challenges.  Like most writers of his era -late 19th century -mid 20th century, his writing sounds very ablest, anti-Semitic, colonist, elitist, racist, and sexist.  Of course, a writer in that era would simply not recognize the ablest, anti-Semitic, colonist, elitist, racist, and sexist aspects of his work, nor would he or she particularly care.  So, I noted that and moved on.

    comments greatly appreciated.

    He is perhaps most famous for his Father Brown stories.  (i had heard of these stories a long time ago). There is a BBC mini-series based on these stories that I would love to track down and watch someday.  Father Brown is an interesting fictional detective.  He reminds me a bit of Hercules Perot of Agatha Christie fame, or perhaps a bit of Sherlock Holmes as well.  Father Brown is a Catholic priest in England who develops a reputation as an amateur detective as he solves cases through his superior analytical ability, as well as his thinking outside the box to use a more modern idiom.  He travels around England, and France often with his friend, Flambeau who is a French detective, whom Father Brown convinces to turn away from a life of crime and go straight.

    Each of the stories is both a stand-alone story and fits a larger narrative as the characters evolve through time.

    I suppose my favorites were

    “The Wrong Shape”, The Saturday Evening Post, 10 December 1910.

    “The Sins of Prince Sardine”, The Saturday Evening Post, 22 April 1911.

    The Hammer of God (as “The Bolt from the Blue”, The Saturday Evening Post, 5 November 1910.

    “The Eye of Apollo”, The Saturday Evening Post, 25 February 1911.

    “The Sign of the Broken Sword”, The Saturday Evening Post, 7 January 1911.

    “The Fairy Tale of Father Brown”

    My least favorite was

    “The God of the Gongs” – because the racism in this story is just too much to deal with. The main murderer is a half-African from somewhere in the US who is a fighter but is accused of being a member of a Voodoo cult.  They used the N-word throughout to describe him and his cult members.

    The complete list follows:

    . The Innocence of Father Brown, 1911

    “The Blue Cross”, The Story-Teller, September 1910; first published as “Valentin Follows a Curious Trail”, The Saturday Evening Post, 23 July 1910

    “The Secret Garden”, The Story-Teller, October 1910. (The Saturday Evening Post, Sep 3, 1910)

    “The Queer Feet”, The Story-Teller, November 1910. (The Saturday Evening Post, Oct 1, 1910)

    “The Flying Stars”, The Saturday Evening Post, 20 May 1911.

    “The Invisible Man”, The Saturday Evening Post, 28 January 1911. (Cassell’s Magazine, Feb 1911)

    The Honour of Israel Gow (as “The Strange Justice”, The Saturday Evening Post, 25 March 1911.

    “The Wrong Shape”, The Saturday Evening Post, 10 December 1910.

    “The Sins of Prince Saradine”, The Saturday Evening Post, 22 April 1911.

    The Hammer of God (as “The Bolt from the Blue”, The Saturday Evening Post, 5 November 1910.

    “The Eye of Apollo”, The Saturday Evening Post, 25 February 1911.

    “The Sign of the Broken Sword”, The Saturday Evening Post, 7 January 1911.

    “The Three Tools of Death”, The Saturday Evening Post, 24 June 1911.

    1. The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914)

    “The Absence of Mr. Glass”, McClure’s Magazine, November 1912.

    “The Paradise of Thieves”, McClure’s Magazine, March 1913.

    “The Duel of Dr. Hirsch”

    “The Man in the Passage”, McClure’s Magazine, April 1913.

    “The Mistake of the Machine”

    “The Head of Caesar”, The Pall Mall Magazine, June 1913.

    “The Purple Wig”, The Pall Mall Magazine, May 1913.

    “The Perishing of the Pendragons”, The Pall Mall Magazine, June 1914.

    “The God of the Gongs”

    “The Salad of Colonel Cray”

    “The Strange Crime of John Boulnois”, McClure’s Magazine, February 1913.

    “The Fairy Tale of Father Brown”

    The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926)

    (I have not read these stories, but might track it down someday, mainly to see how these stories differ from his earlier stories, as they were written after World War 1 and the previous stories were written pre-war).

    “The Resurrection of Father Brown”

    “The Arrow of Heaven” (Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine, Jul 1925)

    “The Oracle of the Dog” (Nash’s [PMM], Dec 1923)

    “The Miracle of Moon Crescent” (Nash’s [PMM], May 1924)

    “The Curse of the Golden Cross” (Nash’s [PMM], May 1925)

    “The Dagger with Wings” (Nash’s [PMM], Feb 1924)

    “The Doom of the Darnaways” (Nash’s [PMM], Jun 1925)

    “The Ghost of Gideon Wise” (Cassell’s Magazine, Apr 1926)

    1. The Secret of Father Brown (1927)

    (Also not read)

    “The Secret of Father Brown” (framing story)

    “The Mirror of the Magistrate”

    “The Man with Two Beards”

    “The Song of the Flying Fish”

    “The Actor and the Alibi”

    “The Vanishing of Vaudrey” (Harper’s Magazine, Oct 1925)

    “The Worst Crime in the World”

    “The Red Moon of Meru”

    “The Chief Mourner of Marne” (Harper’s Magazine, May 1925)

    “The Secret of Flambeau” (framing story)

    1. The Scandal of Father Brown (1935)

    “The Scandal of Father Brown”, The Story-Teller, November 1933

    “The Quick One”, The Saturday Evening Post, 25 November 1933

    “The Blast of the Book/The Five Fugitives” (Liberty Aug 26, 1933)

    “The Green Man” (Ladies Home Journal, November 1930)

    “The Pursuit of Mr. Blue”

    “The Crime of the Communist” (Collier’s Weekly, Jul 14, 1934)

    “The Point of a Pin” (The Saturday Evening Post, Sep 17, 1932)

    “The Insoluble Problem” (The Story-Teller, Mar 1935)

    “The Vampire of the Village” (Strand Magazine, August 1936); included in later editions of The Scandal of Father Brown

    1. Uncollected Stories (1914, 1936)

    “The Donnington Affair” (The Premier, November 1914; written with Max Pemberton)

    (read)

    “The Mask of Midas” (1936)

    Wiki Summation

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer,[2] philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the “prince of paradox“.[3] Time magazine observed his writing style: “Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out.”[4]

    Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown,[5] and wrote on apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognized the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man.[4][6] Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an “orthodox” Christian and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism from high church Anglicanism. Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin.[7]

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    1. K. Chesterton (2nd cousin) Signature. Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, [2] philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the “prince of paradox “. [3]

    Alma mater: Slade School of Art, University College London

    Genre: Essays, fantasy, Christian apologetics, Catholic apologetics, mystery, poetry

    Education: St Paul’s School

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    Jun 10, 2022, · G.K. Chesterton, in full Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (born May 29, 1874, London, England—died June 14, 1936, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire), English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories, known also for his exuberant personality and rotund figure.

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    Gilbert Keith Chesterton, better known as G. K. Chesterton, was a prominent literary figure in 20th-century London. He was a highly versatile individual who was as respected as a writer as he was for being an orator and Christian apologist.

    www.online-literature.com › chestertonGilbert Keith Chesterton – Biography and Works. Search Texts …

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was a prolific English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories. He is probably best known for his series about the priest-detective Father Brown who appeared in 50 stories. Between 1900 and 1936 Chesterton published some one hundred books.

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    Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere ‘rollicking journalist,’ he was a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature.

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    Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the critically acclaimed English novelists, orator, poet, journalist, biographer, philosopher, art and literary critic, and dramatist. He was better known by the name G.K. Chesterton and was often regarded as the ‘paradox prince’.

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    The complete list of the classics I am reading follows – bolded means I have read them.

    “50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die”

    Started reading the first one of volume 3

    Bolded indicated I have read it.

    Vol 3

    This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names

    – What’s Bred in the Bone [Grant Allen]
    – The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius]
    – Meditations [Marcus Aurelius]
    – Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen]
    – Lady Susan [Jane Austen]
    – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum]
    – The Art of Public Speaking [Dale Breckenridge Carnegie]
    – The Blazing World [Margaret Cavendish]
    – The Wisdom of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    – Heretics [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    – The Donnington Affair [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    – The Innocence of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    – Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [John Cleland]
    – The Moonstone [Wilkie Collins]
    – Lord Jim [Joseph Conrad]
    – The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
    – The Pickwick Papers [Charles Dickens]
    – A Christmas Carol [Charles Dickens]
    – Notes From The Underground [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
    – The Gambler par Fyodor [Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
    – The Lost World [Arthur Conan Doyle]
    – The Hound of the Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle]
    – The Sign of the Four [Arthur Conan Doyle]
    – The Man in the Iron Mask [Alexandre Dumas]
    – The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas]
    – This Side of Paradise [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
    – Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]
    – King Solomon’s Mines [Henry Rider Haggard]
    – The Hunchback of Notre Dame [Victor Hugo]
    – Kim [Rudyard Kipling]
    – Captains Courageous [Rudyard Kipling]
    – The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]
    – Lady Chatterley’s Lover [David Herbert Lawrence]
    – The Son of the Wolf [Jack London]
    – The Einstein Theory of Relativity [Hendrik Antoon Lorentz]
    – The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
    – At the Mountains of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
    – The Prince [Niccolò Machiavelli]
    – The Story Girl [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
    – The Antichrist [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
    – The Republic [Plato]
    – The Last Man [Mary Shelley]
    – Life On The Mississippi [Mark Twain]
    – The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana]
    – In the Year 2889 [Jules Verne]
    – Around the World in Eighty Days [Jules Verne]
    – Four Just Men [Edgar Wallace]
    – Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ [Lewis Wallace]
    – Tales of Space and Time [H. G. Wells]
    – Jacob’s Room [Virginia Woolf]

    Vol 1

    Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
    Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
    Austen, Jane: Emma
    Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot
    Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno
    Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
    Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
    Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
    Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes
    Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
    Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
    Cather, Willa: My Ántonia
    Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote
    Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
    Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
    Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
    Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
    Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
    Cummings, E. E.: The Enormous Room
    Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
    Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
    Dickens, Charles: Bleak House
    Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
    Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles
    Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
    Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
    Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
    Eliot, George: Middlemarch
    Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
    Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
    Flaubert, Gustave: Sentimental Education
    Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
    Forster, E. M.: A Room With a View
    Forster, E. M.: Howards End
    Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South
    Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther
    Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
    Gorky, Maxim: The Mother
    Haggard, H. Rider: King Solomon’s Mines
    Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
    Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
    Homer: The Odyssey
    Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables
    Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow
    James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady

    Volume 2

    – Little Women [Louisa May Alcott]
    – Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen]
    – Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie]
    – Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower]
    – The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
    – A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
    – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll]
    – The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers]
    – The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
    – The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]
    – The Most Dangerous Game [Richard Connell]
    – On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin]
    – Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
    – The Iron Woman [Margaret Deland]
    – David Copperfield [Charles Dickens]
    – Oliver Twist [Charles Dickens]
    – A Tale of Two Cities [Charles Dickens]
    – The Double [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle]
    – The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas]
    – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
    – Dream Psychology [Sigmund Freud]
    – Tess of the d’Urbervilles [Thomas Hardy]
    – Siddhartha [Hermann Hesse]
    – The Fall of the House of Usher [Edgar Allan Poe]
    – The Arabian Nights [Andrew Lang]
    – The Sea Wolf [Jack London]
    – The Call of Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
    – Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
    – Beyond Good and Evil [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
    – The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe]
    – The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe]
    – The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe]
    – Swann’s Way [Marcel Proust]
    – Romeo and Juliet [William Shakespeare]
    – Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson]
    – The Elements of Style [William Strunk Jr.

    Harvard Classics

     (1) Franklin, Woolman, Penn

     (2) Plato, Epictetus,

     Marcus, Aurelius Meditations

     (3) Bacon, Milton’s Prose, Thomas Browne

    (4) Complete Poems in English: Milton

    (5) Essays and English Traits: Emerson (

    6) Poems and Songs: Burns (7)

    Confessions of St. Augustine. Imitation of Christ

    (8) Nine Greek Dramas (9) Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny

    (10) Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith

    (11) Origin of Species: Darwin

    (12) Plutarch’s Lives (13)

     Aeneid Virgil (14)

    Don Quixote Part 1: Cervantes

    (15)Pilgrim’s Progress. Donne

    Herbert. Bunyan, Walton

    (16) The Thousand and One Nights

    (17) Folk-Lore and Fable. Aesop, Grimm, Andersen

    (18) Modern English Drama

    (19) Faust, Egmont Etc. Doctor Faustus, Goethe, Marlowe

    (20) The Divine Comedy: Dante

    (21) I Promessi Sposi, Manzoni

    (22) The Odyssey: Homer

    (23) Two Years Before the Mast. Dana

    (24) On the Sublime French Revolution Etc. Burke

    (25) Autobiography Etc. Essays and Addresses: J.S. Mill, T. Carlyle

    (26) Continental Drama

    (27) English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay

    (28) Essays. English and American

    (29) Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin (

    30) Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb, Geikie

    (31) Autobiography: Benvenuto, Cellini

    (32) Literary and Philosophical Essays: Montaigne, Sainte Beuve, Renan, Lessing, Schiller, Kant, Mazzini

    (33) Voyages and Travels

    (34) Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes

    (35) Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed (36)

    Machiavelli, More, Luther

    (37) Locke, Berkeley, Hume

    (38) Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur

    (39) Famous Prefaces

    (40) English Poetry 1: Chaucer to Gray

    (41) English Poetry 2: Collins to Fitzgerald

    (42) English Poetry 3: Tennyson to Whitman

    (43) American Historical Documents

    (44) Sacred Writings 1

    (45) Sacred Writings 2

    (46) Elizabethan Drama 1

    (47) Elizabethan Drama 2

    (48) Thoughts and Minor Works: Pascal

    (49) Epic and Saga (

    Federalist Papers

    the End 

     

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    July 28, 2022
  • April 18 to April 20, 2022 Poems

    April 18 to April 20, 2022 Poems

    I am catching up.  I have kept my quota but slipping on posting them.   Here’s poems for April 18, 19 and 20.

    Here are links to my Previous April poems

    Ten Best April 2021 Poems

    April 25 to April 30 2021Poems

    April 16 to April 20 2021 Poems

    April 16 to April 20 2021 Poems

    April 10 to April 14 2021 Poems

    April 1 to April 5 Poems

    April 6 to April 9 Cosmos’s Poetry 

    April 6 to April 9 Cosmos’s Poetry 

    April 6 to April 9 Cosmos’s Poetry

     Cosmos’s 2020 April Poetry Part One

    Cosmos’s 2020 April Poetry Part One

    April 2019 Poems

    April 20 to April 25th 2021 Poems

    2022 April Poetry Madness April 1 to 3 poems

    April 5 2022, Poems

    April 4th 2022, Poems

    April 6th, 2022 Poems

    April 7th Poems

    April 8, 2022 Poems

    April 9-11, 2022 Poems

    April 12 to April 13, 2022 Poems

    April 14 to April 15, 2022 Poems

    April 16 and 17, 2022 Poems

    Begin Poems:

    Monday Day 18:

    NaNoPoMo Prompt

    Five Answers to What Makes Us Human

    alien
    alien

    Sam Adams one night
    Met some space aliens
    In the Cosmos Bar.

    The first inter-planetary bar
    Located in Berkeley, California
    A known hangout for UFO nuts
    And assorted true believers,

     

     

    Where the sign
    proudly proclaims
    Aliens drink for free.

    The alien asked Sam
    To explain humanity
    To them.

    Sam said,

    Sure.  Here’s what makes us human
    We are evolved from tribal apes
    From distant Africa.

    Conditioned by our God
    Created in his image
    According to his will.

    We believe in family values
    Except for when do not
    Believe in such values.

    More importantly than anything else
    Is the search for love and happiness,

    Few of us ever met our soul mates
    We are always looking for the one
    The one that will make us complete,

    The aliens smiled, Said,

    Well, that was interesting
    But there is one thing
    We can agree on,

    You earth people
    Sure are crazy
    The craziest species
    In the known universe.

    But you make the best brew
    And the best coffee
    And play the best blues
    In the universe.

    Sam said,

    Thanks, I’ll drink to that.

    Last but not least, here is today’s prompt (optional, as always). It’s based on Faisal Mohyuddin’s poem “Five Answers to the Same Question.” Today, I’d like to challenge you to write your poem that provides five answers to the same question – without ever specifically identifying the question that is being answered.

    Dew Drop inn

    Sam Adams Met His Fate

    Sam Adams
    Often thought that his life
    Truly began on September 7, 1982

    When he met his Dreamgirl
    Who walked out of his dreams
    He has been having it since 1974

    She walked out of his dreams
    Into his life
    Two months later
    She became his wife.

    Sam thought
    When she became his mate,
    That was the date
    He had met his fate.

    April 18—April 18 Prompt: “Stop! In the name of love, before you break my heart!”—write a poem where love turns everything around somehow, or stops a course of action, or stops everything!

    Based on my true love story. See “Dreamgirl” postings on my web page, Dreamgirl re-published

    The Story of How We Met

    dreams and the Unexplanable
    dreams and the Unexplanable
    https://theworldaccordingtocosmos.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/story-of-how-we-met.mp3

    Note: This is a true story. For further details see Dreams and the Unexplainable– a Chicken
    Soup for the Soul book, published in September 2017 or Joy Links Forever Just Published Dream Girl and Cheating Death Twenty Times,

    It all began in Berkeley, California
    In the springtime of 1974
    One fateful afternoon
    I was sleeping in my high school Physics class.

    I looked up and saw a tall,
    beautiful Asian woman
    standing there looking at me.

    She was the most beautiful women
    in the universe to me
    I screamed out, who are you?

    She disappeared
    as if she was beamed
    away from my dream.

    I knew that someday
    I would meet the girl
    In the dream.

    Little did I know
    I would have to wait until 1982

    Starting that month
    I began having the same dream
    Month and month and month.
    Always the same.

    She was saying something
    in a strange language.
    Then one day.

    I had the dream
    and knew that
    She was in Korea.

    So, I chose to go
    to Korea
    In the Peace Corps,

    Somehow knowing
    That I would meet her there.
    One day

    A year after the Peace Corps ended
    A month before I planned
    to leave to return
    to the U.S. for graduate school.

    That morning early in the morning
    I had the last of these dreams.
    This time I understood her.

    She said, “Don’t worry.
    We’ll meet soon.”

    That evening
    As I was getting off the bus

    To go to my class
    I saw getting off the bus
    The girl in my dream.

    It was she!
    I was speechless.

    I did not know what to do.
    Throughout the evening

    I ran into her several times.
    Finally, I was introduced to her.

    I muttered some lame excuse
    About wanting to find a Korean tutor
    and got her number.

    The next day she came to the gate
    At my base where I was teaching
    ESL to Koreans

    She said that she
    had to speak with me.
    I told to wait in the library
    for about an hour,

    and I would cancel the class
    and meet her then.

    We went out for coffee.
    She told me that she was madly
    in love with me
    And simply had to have me.

    I told her I felt the same way.
    I proposed five days later,
    And got married one month later.

    Does she believe this story?
    She claims she does not believe it
    Because it is impossible to be true.

    But I know that there
    are other worlds and other times.

    In a past life
    We must have been together somehow.

    And our love was so strong
    That it crossed over the barrier
    of time and space.

    She found me in 1974,
    But it took until 1982
    For us to meet.

    And it has been 36 years
    Since we met in the physical sphere
    Or 45 years since the dream began.

    And I still recall the dream
    And meeting her.

    I had no choice
    When I met her
    We were fated to be together,

    Until the end of this lifetime
    And the next and the next.

    April 18, 2022: Poetry Writing Prompt – jake Aller

    This poetry writing prompt submitted by jake Aller:

    Write a poem about a premonition of something that would happen in your life, that came true.  What was the premonition? How did it occur?  How did it come true?

    Example:  I dreamt of meeting my wife eight years before I met her.  I knew that the dream was a premonition of a future event. and in that case, my dreams did indeed come true.

    We the People Will Wake Up Soon

    guns
    gun

    We the people someday soon
    Will wake up and demand
    That the government and society

     

     

     

    Stop the gun carnage in our streets
    Enough, no more gun madness
    The people have had enough,

    The NRA and their stooges
    Will continue to insist
    That the solution to gun violence.

    Is more guns for everyone
    Only then can we be free
    From the fear of constant violence.

    The only solution is for everyone
    To be armed to the teeth
    With the latest weapons of war.

    Then we will all be afraid
    Of each other
    And no one will take a chance,

    That the other will pull out
    A gun to end their dispute.

    The people have had enough
    They are sick and tired
    Of the constant fear.

    And they don’t buy the NRA lies
    Anymore.

    In short,
    It is time for the people
    To stand up,

    And demand an end
    To the gun violence
    In our streets.

    Politicians are a craven lot
    If the public speaks loud enough
    They will do something
    To shut them up.

    Until that happens
    Every day
    We will watch
    Another day of massive gun incidents.

    Just ten more
    This easter weekend alone
    as I wrote this poem.

    For today’s prompt, take the phrase “We (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: “We the People,” “We Want It Now,” “We in the Royal Sense,” and/or “We vs. Wii.”

    Year of Medical Hell

    Joy Links Forever Just Published Dream Girl and Cheating Death Twenty Times

    In 1996, I had a bad week,
    That turned into a bad year.
    I almost lost my life
    That year,
    Almost lost my career.

    It started with a jog
    I fell down a ledge
    In the dark.

    Shattered my heal
    In a million pieces

    Flew off the next day
    To San Antonio
    Where my wife was stationed.

    While I was working in DC,
    They had to wait a few days
    For the swelling to go down.

    Then they did the first
    Of 14 operations.
    The staph infection
    That almost killed me

    Attacked me after
    The first operation.

    At the end of the week
    I thought it would take
    Four months to heal

    Instead, it took almost nine months
    14 operations before they
    Defeated the MDR Staph
    And saved my leg
    And my life.

    One year later
    I ended up in the ER
    Due to chronic overuse
    Of antibiotics.

    My internal flora flared up
    An acute GI infection
    If I had gotten to the hospital
    An hour later
    I would have been dead.

    A few weeks later
    I developed a frozen shoulder syndrome
    Also due to excessive antibiotic use.

    While in the hospital
    The internal medicine doctor
    Noticed that there was something
    Else going on.

    They finally figured out
    I had a rare parasite
    That was inert
    Did not do anything

    But if you ever took steroids
    It would react and blow up
    Your stomach killing you
    In an hour.

    Fortunately for me
    They found it
    And there was a cure
    That killed the parasite.

    If that doctor had not persisted
    Had not found the parasite
    I would have died
    After taking that steroid
    And become a medical mystery death.

    Thus ended my year
    of medical horror shows.
    In 1996 and 1997
    My year from hell.

    Tuesday Day 19:

    NaPoWriMo Prompt

    Don’t Fall in Love with Me

    lovers in the rain
    lovers in the rain

    “Don’t fall in love with me”
    Sam Adams told his latest flame
    Maria Lee
    Whom he met at the Cosmos Club
    In Bangkok, Thailand

     

     

     

     

    She was a drop–dead gorgeous
    Korean woman on the lam
    From her husband

    She smiled demurely

    And said

    “Don’t worry I won’t fall in love again
    Already done that thing once is enough
    But I could use a little loving
    If that is okay by you.”

    “Sure,” Sam Adams said.
    Falling in love with her
    Despite his spider–sense
    Tingling red alert.

    Today’s featured online journal is The Cortland Review, which has published nearly ninety issues over more than twenty years. In their newest issue, I’ll point you to Justin Janisse’s “Missing You, Expensively” and Grace Q. Song’s “Birthday.”

    And now for our daily (optional) prompt! Today’s challenge is to write a poem that starts with a command. It could be as uncomplicated as “Look,” as plaintive as “Come back,” or as silly as “Don’t you even think about putting that hot sauce in your hair.” Whatever command you choose, I hope you have fun ordering your readers around.

    Good Golly, Ms. Molly Rhyming Poem

    Good Golly, Ms. Molly
    Good golly
    Ms. Molly
    Let’s have some folly
    And go to Bali
    Or Raleigh
    Someplace holly
    strong>Where we can get jolly
    Eating a tamale
    Or a Canali.

    April 19—Write a silly rhyming poem!

    PSH prompt

    Three poems about our times Legal

    Three poems about our times Medical

    Three poems about our time’s Energy

    One the legal system faces challenges

    In this day and age
    Of fear of crime
    Crime and punishment
    Is everywhere
    Hanging and lynching
    No longer just historical terms

    Judge and jury form the basis
    Of our Legal systems
    Based on Lies and truth
    And justice is not free
    Those that have money
    Have justice
    Those that do not
    Face constant injustice

    Two Medical Fears Abound

    Every day I am afraid
    Afraid I might get
    The big Alzheimer’s
    That took my mother
    And my father-in-law
    The dreaded cancer
    That killed my father
    And his father
    Dementia that haunted my mother
    Fibromyalgia that fills me with constant pain

    Three Energy Blues

    wind-turbine-11
    wind-turbine-11

    The world needs energy
    Needs renewable energy
    Needs to get beyond
    carbon-based energy
    that is destroying the world

    needs to end fracking
    needs to end nuclear power
    needs to seek the energy
    of the future.

    Look up an industry completely foreign to you. This could be anything: medical, timber, steel, tech/IT, cosmetics, coatings, pharmaceuticals, office supplies, etc. Pick one and generate a list of industry-specific jargon using a minimum of twenty-five words.

    Pick three different industries, so your list is a minimum of 75 words (or phrases, phrases are okay). Write a poem that uses 1 word or phrase per line for the duration of the poem, however long you choose to make it. Mix industries! Write the poem in multiple parts!

    This is a time-consuming exercise, but it’s a wonderful one because it so frequently spawns more than one poem, and the exercise is great at pulling writers out of their respective comfort zones.

    Writers com

    Writer’s Digests What’s Out There – Secret Societies

    Atlantis – Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Atlantis

    In Frederick Tennyson’s Atlantis (1888), an ancient Greek mariner sails west and discovers an inhabited island which is all that remains of the former kingdom.
    ‎Atlantis (disambiguation) · ‎New Atlantis · ‎Atlantis in comics · ‎Lost world

    Is the world secretly controlled
    By ancient secret societies
    Dating back to the founding
    Of the world?

    Back to the fabled Atlantis
    Lemuria and other ancient
    Civilizations?

    And are these secret societies
    Still running the world
    Through the Illuminati
    The freemasons
    And other secret conspiracies?

    And are these societies
    Made up of human beings
    Or shape–shifting reptilian creatures?

    I have no answers
    Just questions
    About the secrets
    That controls our world.

    Here are the Two-for-Tuesday prompts:

    1. Write a What’s There poem, and/or…
    2. Write a What’s Not There poem.

     Local Gem

     Day 19: Distraction

    Binge Watching the End-of-the-World  Local Gem

    In these dark and dangerous times

    We all need a distraction
    From the constant grim news
    With the war all around us

    The news is constant gloom and doom.
    Gunmen on the lose
    Death everywhere
    End-of-the-world feelings abound.

    The only thing to keep us sane
    Is to sit down and binge-watch
    Our favorite shows.

    The ultimate distraction
    from the awful reality.

    The sillier the better
    The more absurd it is
    It keeps us
    From giving into despair.

    So grab some popcorn
    And a glass of wine
    And binge-watch
    your blues away.

    Wednesday Day 20:

    NaPoWriMo Prompt

    Narnia is Real

    Narnia

    Sam Adams, an old man
    Recently returning to his hometown,
    Was walking in the Berkeley Hills.

    Ended up at Tilden Park
    Where he had been hiking
    Ever since he was a child.

    He was hoping to getaway.
    From all the turmoil,
    The dismal news of the day

    The constant chattering on his TV.
    He was often lost in thought
    Thinking back on his favorite books

    Re-reading the classics
    Of his youth.
    He loved the Chronicles of Narnia
    Often thought
    That Narnia was real

    That Oz was real
    And that Middle earth
    Happened as well.

    And Harry Potter
    Existed in an alternate universe

    He imagined finding
    Portals to other worlds.

    While lost in thought
    He came upon an unusual site

    An open door in the air
    With a note
    Narnia is calling you.

    He laughed having thought
    About Narnia reality
    All week long.

    He jumped through the portal
    Sam Adams disappearance
    Remained a mystery.

    April 20—Book report—subtly (or overtly) incorporate a book report or response into a poem about something else. (If you name the book, avoid spoilers!)

    Snarling, Sassy, Snarky, Smarmy, Sarcastic Coffee Thoughts

    https://theworldaccordingtocosmos.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/snarling-cup-of-coffee.mp3

    I like to start my day with a hot cup of coffee
    I pound down the coffee
    First thing I do every day as the dawning sunlight
    Lights up my lonesome room

    Yeah, but not just a simple cup of java Joe, but God damn coffee

    I mean, – we are talking about an alcoholic, all speed ahead, always hot, always fresh, always there when I need it, angry, attitude talk to the hand Ztude, bad, bad assed, beats breaking, beatnik, bluesy, bitter, bitchy, bombs away, capitalistic, caffeinated up the ass, cinematic, communistic, Colombian grown, Costa Rican inspired, Cowabunga to the max, crazy assed, devilishly angelic, divine, divinely inspired, dyslexic, epic, extreme vetting, evil eye, expensive, erotic vision inducing, Ethiopian coffee house brewed, euphoric, freaky, freazoid, foxy, Frenched kissed, French brewed, funkified, foxy lady, graphic, GOD in my coffee, with Allah, Ganesh, Jesus, Kali, Buddha, Christians, Durga, Hindus, Mohamed, Jesus and Mo and their friend, the cosmic bar maid, Sai Babai, Shiva, Taoists, Zoroastrians, drinking my god damned coffee in Hell; growling, gnarly, happy, hard as ice, Hawaian blessed, high as a kite, hippie, hip, hipster, hip hoppy, hot as hell yet strangely sweet as heaven, jazzy, jealous, Kerouac approved, kick ass, kick my god damn ass to Tuesday, kick down the doors and take no prisoners, grown in the Vietnam highlands by ex Vietcong, Guatemalan grown, kiss ass, illegal in every state, imported from all over the god damn world, insane, lovely, loony, lonely, lonesome, malodorous mean old rotten, motherfucking, nasty, narcotic, never whatever, never meh, never cold, not approved by the CIA, not approved by DHS, not approved for human consumption by the FDA, not your daddy’s sissified corporate cup of coffee, NOT DECAFE coffee, not your Denny’s truck driver weak as brown water cup of fake coffee, not your establishment friendly cup of coffee, Not your FBI coffee, Not FAKE Herbal coffee substitute, but a real cup of coffee, not your farmer brothers dinner crap, not made in America for Americans, not safe for work, not your Starbucks average expensive overpriced crappy corporate chain cup of coffee, Not pretentious, Not White House approved, not State Department safe, nuclear, Not Patriotic, operatic, Peets’s coffee approved, paranoid, pornographic, psychotic, pontific, politically aware, rapping, rhyming, right here, right now in River city, rock and roll up the Yazoo, sad, sadistic, sarcastic, sassy, satanic, schizoid, shitting, silly, sexy, smarmy, smelly, smooth, snarky, snarling, stupid, stinking, sweet as honey, sweat inducing, symphonic, Trump can’t handle this coffee, vengeful, Wagnerian, wicked, with nutmeg and cinnamon swirls, with a hint of stevia, with a hint of vanilla, with a hint of rum, with a hint of whisky, with a hint of cherry, with a hint of fruit overtones, with a hint of drugs spicing up the coffee, spendific, speeding, splendid, superior accept no substitutes, survived the Vietnam war, the Iraq war, the Afghan war, the first and Second Korean war, World War 11, the war on poverty, the war on drugs, the war on black people, the sexual revolution, Soulful as a summer’s night in MOTOWN- James Brown approved, TOP approved, Berkeley approved, the coffee that Jimmy Hendrix drank before he died, the coffee that Elvis drank on his last breakfast, the coffee that Barry White crooned as he drank his cup of coffee – and the coffee that made the white boy play stand up and play that funky music, the coffee that made Jonny B Goode play his guitar, and made Jonny bet the devil his soul after he drank his morning cup of righteous coffee and the coffee that make the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll, the coffee your mother warned you against drinking, the coffee that Napoleon drank when he became the Emperor of all Europe, the Coffee that Beethoven drank when he wrote the Ninth symphony, the coffee that Mozart drank as he wrote his last symphony, the coffee that Lincoln drank before he was killed, the Hemingway drank before he killed himself, the coffee that started the 60’s, and ended the 20th century, the coffee that Lenin drank as he plotted revolution, the coffee that Hitler and Stalin drank with FDR as they divided up the world after World War 11, the cup that JFK drank before he was blown away, the coffee Jerry drinks while driving in cars with random celebrities and political figures, the coffee that Jon Stewart drinks before he goes on an epic take down of some foolish politico, the cup of Arabic coffee that Sadaam drank the day he was executed, the coffee that GW and Cheney drank when they bombed Baghdad, the Indian cup of coffee that Bid Laden drank before 9-11 and just before the seals blew his ass to hell, the cup of coffee that Tiger Woods drank with his mistresses while playing a 3, 000 dollar round of golf at Sandy Lane golf course in Barbados, the last legal drug that does what drugs should do, the cup of coffee that Obama drank when he became President, Vietnamese, Vienna brew, wacky, whimsical, Whisky Tango Foxtrot, wild, weird, wonderful, WOW, Yabba dabba doo! Yada Yada yada Zappa’s favorite cup of cosmic coffee, and Zorro’s last cup of coffee, Good to the last drop rolled into one simple cup of hot coffee

    As I pound down that first cup of coffee

    And fire up my synaptic nerve endings with endless supplies
    Of caffeine-induced neuron enhancing chemicals
    I face the dawning day with trepidation and mind-numbing fear

    I turn on the TV and watch the smarmy newscasters in their perfect hair
    Lying through their teeth about the great success the government is having
    Following the great leader’s latest pronouncements

    I want to scream and shoot the TV
    And run outside
    Shouting “Stop the world.
    I want to get off this fucking crazy planet”

    The earth does not care a whit about my attitude
    It merely shrugs and moves around the Sun
    In its appointed daily run

    And I sit down
    The madness dissipates a bit
    And enjoy my second cup
    Of heaven and hell
    In my morning cup of Joe/

    And now for today’s (optional) prompt. Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that anthropomorphizes a kind of food. It could be a favorite food of yours, or maybe one you feel conflicted about. I feel conflicted about Black Forest Cake, for example. It always looks so pretty in a bakery window, and I want to like the combination of cherries and chocolate . . . but I don’t. But how does the cake feel about it?

    PSH prompt

    To Friends I Have Lost Along The Way

    If you have been around
    As long as I have
    More than 66 years
    On this planet,

    You would no doubt
    Lost a few friends
    Along the way
    And family members too.

    I recall all my friends
    Who have left this mortal plane
    Spending way too little time
    in my life.

    I recall Demel Tucker
    My high school black friend
    From the debate team
    Who died of AIDS
    All alone in the end.

    I remember Jon Weber
    My Austrian born college roommate
    Who died of prostate cancer
    At age 45,

    We had lost touch
    Over the years
    Last saw him
    In the 80s.

    I recall Paul Simon
    Who shared the visa line
    With me in Korea

    Went out for a walk
    One morning
    Did not come back.

    I mourn Chris Richards
    My boss in Bangkok, Thailand
    We were due to have lunch
    When he died of an heart attack
    That morning.

    I recall Julian Bartley
    My boss in Seoul
    Died in the terrorist bombing
    In Kenya.

    I recall Judy
    From my days in Mumbai
    Died suddenly too soon.

    I recall my sister Inga
    Who died of a mysterious illness
    When she turned 45.

    I recall my mother
    Who died of Alzheimer’s
    And my father
    Who died of cancer.

    And there were many more
    And sadly, many more
    Will join them

    Before I leave this mortal plane.
    The curse of getting old
    I suppose.

    This poetry writing prompt submitted by Joan Fingon:

    Prompt word: remembrance

    In this exercise, focus on writing about a specific loss of a loved one or dear friend, recent or from your past. What is the essence of your loss and how might you express and honor their memory? What did the individual mean to you?

    To inspire your writing be guided by these words as an example…

    remember those in passing

    they are the roots of the tree

    Local Gem Mini-epic

    Epic Road Trip Summer of 2016

    ON THE ROAD PUBLISHED

    In the summer of 2016
    We drove across the country
    Just the wife and me

    10,000 miles
    31 states
    Three months on the road

    We started in DC
    Right after I retired
    From the U.S. State Department
    After 27 years of service
    Mostly overseas.

    Time to rediscover America
    I told my Korean-born wife.

    We drove down south
    Through Virginia,
    North and South Carolina
    Georgia

    Spent the night
    At Ft Lee
    And at a naval base
    In Georgia

    Ended up in Tampa Florida
    Where we stayed a week
    Looking at real estate
    And registered to vote

    Becoming Florida residents
    Visiting friends
    In Sarasota, Florida.

    Then back on the road
    Up through Florida
    Spent the night
    In Tallahassee

    Then went to Mobile, Alabama
    And Birmingham too,
    Checking out the sites

    Driving through rural Florida
    And Southern Alabama,

    Went to Arkansas
    Spent the night in Hot Springs
    And another night as well.
    Lost money at the Casino.
    visited the Clinton library

    Then on through Missouri
    Mississippi, and East Texas
    Checking our the rural heartland

    Seeing lots of poor
    rundown communities everywhere.

    Drove through Oklahoma
    Through the Indian country
    Spent the night outside
    Of Oklahoma City.

    Then drove through Texas
    To Amarillo
    Where we had a decent
    Texmex dinner
    in that nothing burger town.

    Drove through Texas
    And New Mexican desert
    Spend two days in Albuquerque

    Lost money at the casinos
    Ate dinner at the oldest restaurant
    In the U.S. tried New Mexican wine

    Drove through Arizona
    Took it easy at the shrine

    To the iconic traveler’s song
    Spend the night in Windsor
    Up through to Las Vegas

    Spent the night
    Saw old friends
    Lost more money.

    Drove to Reno
    I lost money there too
    Then through Area 51
    Stopping off at the famed
    Alien Brothel

    Stayed at Gold, Nevada
    I lost money there too

    Drove through northwest Nevada
    Northeast California
    Through Mt Lassen and Shasta

    On to Medford Oregon
    Where we stayed for a month
    Taking care of property issues.

    Then we hit the road again
    Drove through eastern Oregon
    Stopping off at Burns, Oregon

    Then drove through Idaho
    Stopped at the Potato museum
    Why not I said?

    We saw Grand Tetons
    And Yellowstone
    Stayed three days

    Then on through Wyoming
    Saw the Devil’s Tower
    And Mt. Rushmore

    Lost money gambling
    In Deadwood
    Drinking at the bar

    Where Wild Bill Hitchcock
    Played his final Deadman’s hand.
    Stayed a few days
    In Rapid City, South Dakota
    Touring the badlands.

    I now know
    why people don’t live
    In South Dakota

    Hot, dry dusty
    Windy as hell
    The Black Hills are nice

    But after seeing Mt. Rushmore
    There is not much left to do
    Rapid City did not impress me

    Nor did Sioux Falls
    And wall drugs
    Well the free water was nice

    But it is a nothing town
    In a nothing state
    On the edge of the badlands
    And the Sioux reservation

    There is a reason the Indians
    live there
    No one else wanted the land
    And they are warehoused there

    So I drove through Rapid City
    And thought that
    it is the heart of Trump Land
    The land of the forgotten
    The left behind

    Just another nothing-burger
    of a State
    In the middle of nowhere
    Truly flyover country

    Drove on through Iowa
    And Minnesota
    Spend the day in the twin cities
    Before driving to Milwaukee.

    And on to Wisconsin
    Spent the night in Madison
    Reminded me of my Berkeley.

    Drove to Chicago
    Spend two days
    Checking it out
    Enjoyed being there,

    Drove through rural Indiana
    And Illinois
    Then through Ohio
    Spent the night
    In Columbus.

    Drove on to Pittsburg
    Spent the day there
    Saw some great art museums

    Before driving to DC
    Where we shipped our car
    And belongings to Korea

     End 

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  • Final February Challenge Results

    Final February Challenge Results

    Final February Challenge Results

    I have completed 40 flash fiction pieces so far for this February challenge, 30 for the Writers Digest challenge, 8 for two Writers Digest challenges, and two bonus flash pieces based on dreams.  Also completed 15 haiku for the Poetry Mangum Opus but did not post them.

    More February Flash Fiction

    February Flash Fiction Updates

    February Flash Fiction Challenge

    flash fiction challenge updates

    Writers Digest

    The Prompts

    Day 1 Keys
    Day Two Prompt Circular
    Day three Prompt limitations
    Day four mystery
    Day Five: A Dream that Came true
    Day Six: a character who tries to be
    Heartful”
    Day Seven: Workplace conflict
    Day Eight: re-gifting
    Day Nine Grim reaper
    Day ten romance story
    Day 11 Hoarding  TBC
    Day 12 magic
    Day 13 grim reaper
    Day 14 animal
    Day 16 hobby
    Day 17 Book
    Day18 Time  the first Terran Emperor
    Day 19 Horror
    Day 20 Lost
    Day 21 Confronting one’s Fears
    Day 22 Open the Door
    Day 23 Ten minute Story
    Day 24 Very Short Story
    Day 25 Promises
    Day 25 Rise and Fall of the Fake Indian Casino bonus
    Day 26 Structure Story as a List
    Day 27 Idea Take Shape
    Day 28 Endless Beginnings

    The List

    Hidden Keys to The Universe.
    End of The Beginning, Beginning of The End.
    A Man Has to Know His Limitations.
    Where Did All the Blacks Go?
    Dream That Came True.
    Sam Adams Crisis of Conscious
    Sam Adams Workplace Conflict Leads to a Bad Day.
    Sam Adams reignites the War on Christmas
    Timeless Love story
    Sam Adams the Hoarder (TBC)
    World domination but at a terrible price
    Conversation with the grim reaper
    Sam Adams first Contact
    The Demon Car Attack
    Cosmic Cat from Berkeley
    Sam Adams Discovers the Cosmic Conspiracy
    Sam Adams Meets Gloria Magnolia Shah  (Bonus from dream)
    Time Police TBC
    Sam Adams Battles the Zombie Hoard
    Earthquake refugees (bonus)
    Lost in the Mountains (TBC)
    The First Terran Emperor
    Jason the Dog that Saved Sam’s Soul
    Open the Door
    Ten Minutes to Doomsday
    World 111 Goes Nuclear
    Maria Keeps Her Promise of Revenge
    Rise and Fall of the Fake Indian Casino bonus
    69 Days of 69 Sex X rated Flash
    Put a Ring on It
    The Beginning of the End/End of the Beginning

    four flash fiction for writing com micro-fiction contest -100 words drabble

    My Bag is Packed and Ready to Go.
    Bullsye.
    Open the Key to Other Worlds.
    The Shadow Knows.

    The Temple of Doom Opens a Portal to Other Worlds

    Sam Adams worked at the Cosmos Research center in Berkeley, California. They considered themselves the real “X files” and consulted with governments, corporations, and private citizens around the world. They sent a team to the field to investigate each claim submitted for verification and charged fees for their investigation.  90 percent of the time they uncovered an elaborate hoax.  They published their findings on their website,” The Cosmos Institute Investigates – The Truth Is Out There,  Out There.”

     

    Most times they published a detailed analysis of the claim and their finding which usually stated this is a hoax.   Among the claims that they left “ pending” were Bigfoot, Yeti, Loch Ness Monster, the existence of aliens.

     

    One of the pending cases that intrigued the world was what exactly happened to Sam Adams, James Jones, and Maria Shah?  Where did they disappear and was there foul play involved?

     

    Maria Lee the founder of the institute finally had to hold a press conference to announce their preliminary findings.

     

    She was a plain-spoken woman who carried a lot of respect as she used to be with both the CIA and FBI working in their “X Files” shops – which did exist but were secret agencies.  She knew a lot of things that she could not talk about.

     

    She had a team of experienced researchers.  But no one knew her true mission.

     

    One of her key researchers was Sam Adams.  He had been there since the beginning and she knew that he had some suspicions about their work but so far he seemed loyal and trustworthy.

     

    Sam Adams had received a mysterious message claiming that they had found the

     

    location of the legendary Temple of Doom located in the mountains of madness

     

    near the Himalayas.   Inside the temple were gateways to other worlds, portals left

     

    over by the ancient Lemurians who had come to earth from Sirius.

     

    Sam Adams organized an expedition to locate the Temple of Doom.  They started

     

    in the jungles of the golden triangle engaging some dodgy characters.

     

    It was a hot day and they had to constantly wipe the bugs off their hair, and hats and wipe the sweet off their sleeves.

    The bugs gave way as they climbed into cooler mountain climes.  The way got rougher as they climbed. They spent the night.

    When they got up they found that their local guides had all run off with their supplies, and there were tiger tracks all around the camp and they found the body of James Jones badly mauled but with his head missing.

    The next morning they saw the temple at the top of the mountain.

    In front of the temple were hung the heads of all their missing party and the head of the tiger who had killed them.

    When they got there about noon, giant talking apes stopped them and said

    “Wait here.”

    an old monk welcomed them.  He gave them a tour of the compound and they came to the gateways.  Each was a glass door with a title next to it.

    He said

    Sam

    You have come to the gateway to other worlds.  Be careful when you go through the gate.  Some are one-way gates.  You had best go through one at a time and wait for a half-hour, if they don’t return you know it is a one-way gate.  I don’t know where half of these gates go.  I’ve only been through a few.  Narnia is my favorite.

    Sam and his party went through the Narnia gate. A few hours later, Maria returned alone and said that Sam and the others had opted to stay.  She left with the five remaining staffers and reported back to Maria Lee.

    She said,

    “Well, we found the portals and confirmed the long rumored story that both Oz and Narnia were based on true stories – someone had been there probably CS Lewis and Frank Baum.

    We went to Narnia five people three women and two women and found ourselves in a battle for control – the white witch had returned.  In the end there can only be two kings and Queens of Narnia and I opted to return to report the success of the mission.  Sam left me his official resignation with instructions that his final pay check be sent to his ex-wife.

    Maria responded

    “That tracks with what our operatives told us , especially that Narnia and Oz existed, but we had to be sure ourselves.”

    She and the old monk went out to announce to the world the opening of the ancient gateway to other worlds. He merely said

    I have been waiting for this moment for 5,000 thousand years. I am the last of the Lemurians, and was born 5,000 years ago. I am from the planet Sirius and will be returning home through the gateway.

    The end or is it?

    The End

     

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  • writers HQ Plea

    writers HQ Plea

    writers HQ Plea

    Writers HQ is based in England and is a good writer resource site.  They offer lots of free courses and advice.  I like their snarky attitude.  They are asking for donations as a grant they had counted on dried up.  It is a worthy organization to support.
    a small plea for your kindly assistance…
    Hey hey Jake

    This email is a small change from the scheduled entertainment.

    Your normal Writers’ HQ newsletter will arrive at 11.30 am, just in time for you to have a cup of tea and a biscuit and read it at your leisure (it’s a good ‘un, about taking off your trousers and finishing things).

    Before we send that, we need to ask you something pretty important.

    So.

    Right.

    Ugh, this sucks.

    Right.

    As you know the pandemic has proper knackered arts orgs and artists all over the shop and that, unfortunately, includes us. For the last 18 months, we’ve been unable to run our live events safely, honestly? It’s left a huge hole in our beeswax. Add to the nightmare with the cowboy web developers and things at WHQ HQ are a little on the precarious side.

    Recently the Arts Council decided we weren’t allowed to apply for the Culture Recovery Fund because we asked for both too much and too little (we don’t understand either)*. We have maxed out all available credit and aren’t eligible for any of the other covid support packages and eeesh it has left us in a very bum-clenched situation.

    Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have run hundreds of free online workshops and courses for writers stuck in covid hell and worked our little butts off to make sure no one missed out on the community they needed during the weird-ass timeline we forked into in early 2020.

    Last year, we awarded over 20 bursaries to systemically excluded writers, ran 312 webinars and workshops, and saw our writers wrack up over 200 publications and 50 long listings, shortlisting, and competition wins. One longlist had TEN Writers’ HQers on it, and one anthology featured SEVEN of you writerly maniacs.

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    February 25, 2022
  • Where to Find Cosmos’s Work

    Where to Find Cosmos’s Work

    Where to Find Cosmos’s Work

    Cosmos poetry and fiction now on poetry soup

    Cosmos Books Read 2021 Update
    Poetry Soup Poems 2016-2019
    The Great Poetry E-Book Free-For-All

    Starting in 2016 when I retired, I began posting my work on various sites and began getting my poetry, fiction, and essays published all over, including of course on my flagstaff blog post, The World According To Cosmos. Here is where you can find my work. I generally try to update my postings once a week. The blog entry is copied to LinkedIn, Twitter, and Tumblr automatically, the rest I have to manually add so it may take a while before everything is in synch. Also, since last summer, I have been podcasting weekly, using the Anchor podcast platform.  I am now also writing on Medium and Wattpad. Starting next year, I hope to add regular vblogging on YouTube, advice on what software to use for that would be greatly appreciated. Please follow me on all these sites

    All Poetry  https://allpoetry.com/Jake_Aller

    Ariel chart ariel chart

    Blog Lovin  https://www.bloglovin.com/@jakecosmosaller3

    Comma Full  https://commaful.com/play/jakecaller/

    Cosmos funnel https://cosmofunnel.com/user/67910/followed/content

    Creativity webzine creativity webzine

    Fan Story https://fanstory.com/mypage.jsp

    Good Reads for reviews https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/9329357-jake

    Instagram https://www.instagram.com/authorjakecosmosaller/

    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakealler/Medium

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    Poetry circle https://poetrycircle.com/forum/members/jakecosmos.6777/

    Poetry nook  https://www.poetrynook.com/user/jake-aller

    Poetry magnum opus https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/?_fromLogin=1

    Poetry Soup poetry soup

    Swenk https://sweek.com/profile/1222095/74088

    Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/blog/jakecosmosaller

    Twitter https://twitter.com/aller_jake

    Two Drops of Ink two drops of ink

    Wattpad https://www.wattpad.com/user/jakecaller

    Writing com r https://jcosmos.Writing.Com/

    PodCasts

    Anchor; https://anchor.fm/jake-cosmos-aller

    Breaker https://www.breaker.audio/the-world-according-to-cosmos

    Radio Public  https://radiopublic.com/the-world-according-to-cosmos-6va7D1

    https://open.spotify.com/show/6IdqYlys0fX4igW1EJD9D3otify

    You Tube -Not active will start in New Years

    Publication Listing

    A partial listing, work in progress.

    Imaging The End Of The World Ariel Chart: International Literary Journal
    No More Coffee Blues Ariel Chart: International Literary Journal
    What Am I DNA Results Ariel Chart: International Literary Journal
    End Times Ariel Chart: International Literary Journal
    Imagining End Of The World Ariel Chart
    Just Another Night In The City Of Angels Ariel Chart

    The Revolution Is Coming Beatnik Cowboy, The
    I’d Rather Not Mess With Sam Between Hangovers

    A Million Ways To Say I Love You Blessed With Love Poems
    I Still Want You Blessed With Love Poems
    Ode To Valentine Day Blessed With Love Poems
    Love Explained To A Space Alien Blessed With Love Poems

    Slime Patrol To The Rescue Blue Nib Literary Magazine, The
    The Fog Blue Nib Literary Magazine, The

    Dream Girl Cherry-House Press Dreams Anthology

    Dream Girl Chicken Soup For The Soul Series

    Chains That Bind Me City Limits Publication
    Dream Girl City Limits Publication

    Various Creative Talents Unleashed

    How I Married the Girl Of My Dreams Creativity Webzine
    Meeting God in The Lake Creativity Webzine
    Cosmic Cat from Berkeley Creativity Webzine
    Meeting God in Bombay Creativity Webzine
    Cosmic Dog from Goa Creativity Webzine
    Buddha Cat Creativity Webzine
    The Story of How We Met Creativity Webzine
    Fate Intertwined Creativity Webzine
    Wild Things Happen Creativity Webzine
    God Drinks Coffee Creativity Webzine
    Requiem for an Era Creativity Webzine
    Howling at the Moon Creativity Webzine

    Creativity Webzine
    The Truth Shall Set You Free Creativity Webzine

    My Name Is Nobody Down In The Dirt
    Strangeness In The Air Down In The Dirt
    Snarling Cup Of Coffee Down In The Dirt
    Charles Bukowski Road Not Taken Down In The Dirt
    Fallen Dreams Litter The Ground Down In The Dirt
    Hitchhiking Tales Down In The Dirt
    Howling at the Moon Down In The Dirt
    3-5-7 Love Poem Down In The Dirt
    If You Have Been Around Down In The Dirt
    Foreigner Walking The Seoul Wall Down In The Dirt
    Old Man Visiting His Wife’s Grave Down In The Dirt

    Awaiting The Judgement Every Writer Horror Contest
    Mad Bag Piper Of Berkeley Every Writer Horror Contest
    Coffee Poem
    Bad Craziness *

    Kimchi Blues Eskimo Pie
    Kimchi Blues Friends of Korea website

    A New Year’S Visit To The Oregon Coast Excavation
    Casino Thoughts Excavation

    Winter Haiflu Failed Haiku

    Indian Casino Thoughts Fiends Of Korea

    Lone Foreigner Walking The Wall Of Seoul Former People, a Journal of Bangs and Whimpers
    A New Year’s Visit To The Oregon Coast Former People: A Journal Of Bangs And Whimpers
    Indian Casino Thoughts Former People: A Journal Of Bangs And Whimpers
    Casino Thoughts Former People: A Journal Of Bangs And Whimpers
    Former People: A Journal Of Bangs And Whimpers
    Four Coffee Poems Former People: A Journal Of Bangs And Whimpers
    Four Coffee Poems Former People: A Journal Of Bangs And Whimpers
    Four Coffee Poems Former People: A Journal Of Bangs And Whimpers
    Four Coffee Poems
    Fiction Dream
    Fiction Dream
    Corona Virus Haiku Fiction Dream
    Fiction Dream
    Just Enough For Coffee

    One Moment, One Day Fourxfour Poetry Journal

    Met My Fate In Bar Room Face From Addict To Advocate

    Various Haiku Journal

    Hill Rag Hello Bonzai

    One Night In Bombay Hello Poetry

    Cosmic Cat Ode To Coffee
    Cosmic Dogs
    Meeting God In A Lake Horror Sleaze Trash
    Meeting God In Bombay
    Signs Of The Apocalypse Hypertexts, The
    Hypertexts, The
    Getting Lucky Hypertexts, The
    Waiting For The Day Hypertexts, The
    Rising Storm Hypertexts, The
    All Tired And Burned Out 2020 Go Away
    Toilet Gate Fitting Metaphor For Trump Era Ink Pantry (Website)
    A Dream Journey Ink Pantry (Website)
    Insanity Lives Ink Pantry (Website)
    Interview Ink Pantry (Website)
    Morning Bright, Evening Delight Ink Pantry (Website)
    Reality Hits Ink Pantry (Website)
    Cheating Death 22 Times Ink Pantry (Website)
    Cheating Death 22 Times Ink Pantry Acadamy of Hearts and Minds ‘

    Cthulhu’s Revenge Ink Pantry (Website)
    Escape From Hell Ink Pantry (Website)
    Ghoul Haunted Woodlands Of Weir Ink Pantry (Website)
    The Bench Ink Pantry (Website)
    2019 The Year That Was Ink Pantry (Website)
    Dreams Ink Pantry (Website)
    Fate Ink Pantry (Website)
    The Oyster Speaks Up Ink Pantry (Website)
    The Terrifying Teens Ink Pantry (Website)
    Ink Pantry (Website)
    Just An Unhinged Lunatic Ink Pantry (Website)
    Ink Pantry (Website)
    Total Successor Or Total Failure Ink Pantry (Website)
    2021 Haiku
    General Corona Appears In A Vision Inner Circle Writers’ Group Anthology Series
    Cancel Culture Run Amuck
    Journal Of Expressive Writing
    Journal Of Expressive Writing
    Ghosts Of Old Saigon Journal Of Expressive Writing
    Ghosts Of The Chu Chi Tunnels Journal Of Expressive Writing
    Seeing Ghosts
    The Cosmic Cat From Berkeley
    The Cosmic Dog From Goa Kelp Journal
    Cosmic Cat Kelp Journal
    Kelp Journal
    Agnostic Dyslectic Wonders If There Is A Dog Kelp Journal
    Cosmos’s Cosmic Calendar Kelp Journal
    It’s A Dog’s Life For Me Kelp Journal
    The Cosmic Dog From Goa
    2021 Dawns 21 Haiku Literary Yard
    Dear Republicans, What Is Wrong With You? Literary Yard
    The Revolution Next Time Literary Yard
    Zombie Ideas Do Not Die Literary Yard
    There Is A Great Sense Of Unrest Literary Yard
    Lone Foreigner Hiking The Seoul City Walls Literary Yard
    Literary Yard
    Literary Yard
    Dream Love Questions Sekoku Local Gem
    15 Day Challenge Local gem
    Halloween poetry collection Local Gem
    Dear Microsoft Why I Left You Lotus Eater
    Local Gems Poetry Press
    A Million Ways To Say I Love You Blessed with Love
    Ode To Love On Valentine’s Day Blessed with Love

    One Night in Bangkok Man in the Street

    Market Rules Us All Minnie’s Diary: A Southern Literary Review

    The Virus King Cried Muse

    Fake Jake Nthanda Review
    Fake Smiles Nthanda Review

    White Lady
    The Opiate
    God’s Confession Scarlet Leaf

    Opiate
    Bad Craziness
    Otherwise Engaged
    Cats
    In Seach Of America Outlaw Poetry
    It Is A Gun Situation, Mr. President Outlaw Poetry
    Prayer Works Outlaw Poetry
    I Don’t Get It Outlaw Poetry
    Dear Governor Abbot Outlaw Poetry
    When Will This Madness End – Short Version Outlaw Poetry
    Lost And Found Outlaw Poetry
    My Mother’s History Outlaw Poetry
    Conversation With Teddy Roosevelt Outlaw Poetry
    Watching Cats Hunt Outlaw Poetry

    End Of America Outlaw Poetry

    Watching The News As 110,000 Americans Die Plethora Blogazine
    Wearing A Mask Is Not A Political Statement Plethora Blogazine
    Wearing Masks Saves Life Plethora Blogazine
    Who Are You Going To Believe, Me Or Your Lying Eye Plethora Blogazine

    Back Of The Bus The Poet on the Road
    Bus Ride The Poet on the Road Poet The Poet on the Road
    Cross Country Trip Part One The Poet on the Road
    Hitchhiking Tales The Poet on the Road
    Buddha Cat Poet, The
    Meeting God In A Lake Poet, The
    Best Friend For 60 Years Poet, The
    My Memory Bank Poet, The
    Best Friend In The Universe Poet, The

    Cats Poetryezine
    Buddha Cat Poetryezine
    Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay Poetryezine
    Walking By A Winter’s Frozen Lake Poetryezine
    Playing The Piano At The End Of Time Poetryezine

    Mad Mask Fear Poetryezine
    News Is Grim Poetryezine

    Poetry And Covid
    Various Poetry And Covid

    Snarling Cup Of Coffee Chapbook Poetry Nook Weekly Contest

    Merry Christmas From ATT Poetry 24
    Mr. President, It Is A Gun Situation Poetry 24
    Poetry 24
    The Best Is Yet To Come Found Poem Poetry 24

    Evergreen Trees Pure Haiku

    Falling Rain Qutub Minar Review
    Qutub Minar Review
    Gathering Storm Clouds Random Poetree
    Nebulous Night Of Darkness Random Poetree
    Dejavu All Over Again Random Poetree
    Failure Is Not An Option Random Poetree
    General Failure Reading Disk Drive Raven Cage Zine
    On Failure Raven Cage Zine
    Raven Cage Zine
    270,000 Corona Ghosts Crash The President’s Party Raven Cage Zine
    Corona Ghosts Crash The Party Raven Cage Zine
    Partying While People Die Raven Cage Zine

    Fake Calls Rejected Manuscripts
    Hell Is Here To Stay Rejected Manuscripts
    Rejected Manuscripts
    Fake Mosquitos
    Lost River Sandha Review
    Old Cars Are King Of The Road Again River Sandha Review

    Reflections Rosette Maleficarum
    Dragon Flies In My Mind Rosette Maleficarum
    One Crazy Day Rosette Maleficarum
    2019 The Year That Was Rosette Maleficarum

    Dreams Scarlet Leaf Review
    Fate Scarlet Leaf Review
    The Oyster Speaks Up Scarlet Leaf Review
    The Terrifying Teens Scarlet Leaf Review
    Scarlet Leaf Review
    Green Trees Don’t Make It Scarlet Leaf Review
    Slowly Unperceived Reality Scarlet Leaf Review
    Slowly Unperceived Reality Scarlet Leaf Review

    Brain Fever Scryptic defunct
    Evil Within Scryptic defunct
    Mocking Laughter Scryptic defunct
    Black Vultures Scryptic defunct

    Dream Lover Scryptic
    Dream Tanaga Scryptic
    Rafting To Hell Scryptic
    Satanic Torture Scryptic

    Worlds Within Worlds Sick Lit Magazine

    Green Trees Don’t Make It Sick Lit Magazine
    Siren Song Of Doom Sick Lit Magazine

    Various Sixfold
    Corona Poems Soft Cartel
    Dora The Galactic Explorer Soft Cartel
    Every Day I Turn On The News
    Chaos Spillwords Press
    Mocking Faces Spillwords Press

    Just Enough For Coffee Spillwords Press
    Waiting For The Grim Reaper’S Decision Spillwords Press

    The Virus King Cried Subterranean Blue Poetry

    Cosmic Cat From Berkeley Swenk
    Cats Swenk
    The Buddha Cat Of Edsall Road Swenk
    Demon Cat Swenk
    Cat Fight In Incheon Swenk

    Love Haiku The Universe Journal
    Night Terrors The Universe Journal

    Jack Daniels Failed Intervention Unlikely Story

    The Trial Of The Poet Tiger Shark
    Life In-Between Tiger Shark
    Love Haiku Tigershark
    I Like My Coffee Tigershark
    Love Haku 1 Tigershark
    Lost And Found Tigershark

    The Virus King Cried Tigershark

    1984 Is Here To Stay Tuck
    The Dogs Of War Are Howling Tuck

    Just Enough For Coffee Tuck
    Donald Trump And The Vulgarians Rise To Power Tuck

    Lost And found Two Drops Of Ink
    Strong Wine Two Drops Of Ink
    Voices Of My Doom Two Drops Of Ink
    Dora The Galactic Explorer Two Drops Of Ink
    Last Year Of American Greatness Two Drops Of Ink
    Mocking Faces Two Drops Of Ink
    Morning Light Two Drops Of Ink
    Wild Man Sits In Gilded Cage Two Drops Of Ink
    Climate Change Two Drops Of Ink
    The Lion King Speaks Up Two Drops Of Ink
    Wild Things Run Amuk Two Drops Of Ink
    Wild Things Run Amuk Two Drops Of Ink
    Yesterday Morning Two Drops Of Ink

    Howling At The Moon Two Drops Of Ink
    No More Coffee Blues Two Drops Of Ink
    Ode To Coffee Two Drops Of Ink
    Slease 2 Two Drops Of Ink

    Snarling Cup Of Coffee Ugly Writers, The
    When Will This Darkness End Ugly Writers, The
    Ugly Writers, The
    Buddha Cat Universe Journal, The
    Cats Universe Journal, The
    Cats Fighting In Incheon Universe Journal, The
    Cosmic Cats Universe Journal, The Universe Journal, The
    Demon Cat Universe Journal, The

    Best Friend In The Universe Whispers Defunct
    Life’s Journey Whispers Defunct
    Life In Between Whispers Defunct

    News Is Grim Writer’s Egg Magazine
    Wearing A Mask Is Not A Political Statement Writer’s Egg Magazine
    Corona Ghosts Crash The Party Writer’s Egg Magazine
    Politicians Lying As People Lay Dying Writer’s Egg Magazine
    Thanksgiving Thoughts Writer’s Egg Magazine
    Writer’s Egg Magazine
    American Dream Writer’s Egg Magazine
    Miscellaneous Publication Sites Writer’s Egg Magazine
    Writer’s Egg Magazine
    3 Am Nightmares
    Your One Phone Call
    Coffee Desires Miscellaneous Publication Sites

    God Does Not Talk To Idiots Triferta Poem A Thon
    Huricanes From Hell Triferta Poem A Thon
    It Can’t Happen Here Triferta Poem A Thon
    Kim Vs. Trump Twitter War -In Memorial Of Kim Il Sung’s The Great Leader’s Birthday Triferta Poem A Thon
    Masters Of The Universe Triferta Poem A Thon
    Microsoft How I Hate You Triferta Poem A Thon
    More Coffee Blues Triferta Poem A Thon
    No More Coffee Blues Triferta Poem A Thon
    Triferta Poem A Thon
    Rambling Man Triferta Poem A Thon
    Rambling Man -Where Do I Belong? Triferta Poem A Thon
    Rapid City Nowhere Triferta Poem A Thon
    Suburban Laundromat Blues Triferta Poem A Thon
    The Storm Is Coming Triferta Poem A Thon

    Facing Life’s Challenges Together Triferta Poem A Thon
    Fires Buring Bright Triferta Poem A Thon
    God Drinks Coffee Triferta Poem A Thon
    Imagining End Of The World Triferta Poem A Thon
    Incheon 2016 Triferta Poem A Thon Triferta Poem A Thon
    Looking Out My Window Triferta Poem A Thon
    Lost And Found Triferta Poem A Thon
    My Soul Wants To Fly Triferta Poem A Thon
    Rapid City Nowhere Triferta Poem A Thon
    The Revolution Is Coming Triferta Poem A Thon
    Wagontire, Oregon Triferta Poem A Thon
    Walking Through The Woods Of Time Triferta Poem A Thon
    Zombie Apocalypse Triferta Poem A Thon
    Heading To Memphis Triferta Poem A Thon
    One Mystic Shrouded Night Triferta Poem A Thon
    Idiots In High Places Triferta Poem A Thon
    Cosmos’s Cosmic Calendar Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Landlord Blues Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Berkeley California Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Chains That Bind Us Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Changes Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Coffee Revolution Triferta Poem A Thon
    . COSTCO Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Dental Torture Blues Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Emperor Donald The Ist Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Everything Will Be All Right Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Ghosts From World War 11 Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Life Is Wonderful Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Lithia Springs Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Love Jones Triferta Poem A Thon
    . My Daily Hot Coffee Fix Triferta Poem A Thon
    . No More Coffee Blues Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Pane E Circus 2017 Redux Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Sandwich Choices Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Secret Agency Man Triferta Poem A Thon
    . The Decline Of America Triferta Poem A Thon
    . The Dogs Of War Are Howling Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Voices Of My Doom Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Walls Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Watching Cats Hunt Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Where Do You And I Begin? Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Why I Am Not A Christian Easter Thoughts Triferta Poem A Thon
    . August Moods Triferta Poem A Thon

    . Capitol Hill In The Spring Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Spring Love Thoughts Triferta Poem A Thon
    . Spring Time In Oregon Triferta Poem A Thon
    . The Falling Rain Triferta Poem A Thon
    “Dental Blues” Triferta Poem A Thon
    “Meeting God In The Lake” Triferta Poem A Thon
    “The Cosmic Cat In Berkeley” Triferta Poem A Thon
    “The God Dog In Goa” Triferta Poem A Thon

    Lost And Found Triferta Poem A Thon
    1984 Lives On Triferta Poem A Thon

    Decline Of America Scarlet Leaf Review
    Dogs Of War Howling Scarlet Leaf Review
    My Mother’s History Scarlet Leaf Review

    Donald Trump And The Vulgarians Rise To Power Tuck
    Imagining The End Of The World Tuck
    No More Coffee Blues * Hill Rag

     

    A Million Ways To Say I Love You Blessed Love Poems
    American Dream  Your One Phone Call
    Best Friend In The Universe Whisphers
    Black Vultures Scryptic

    Additional Publication Vendue Need to be Confirmed

    Conversation With Teddy Roosevelt
    Strong Wine
    Watching Cats Hunt
    Dragon Flies In My Mind
    The Shape Of History
    Voices Of My Doom
    Cats
    Rapid City Nowhere
    Reflections
    . Yesterday Morning
    Suburban Laundromat Blues

    Blue Blues

    Brain Fever
    Capital Hill In The Spring
    Cats Hunting
    Chains That Bind

    Charles Bukowski Road Not Chosen

    Coffee My Secret Lover
    Coffee Revolution
    Coffee The Drink Of Revolutionaries

    Confucian Thought For The Modern Era
    Decline Of America
    Dogs Of War Howling
    Donald Trump Our Compassionate Dear Leader
    Dream Girl
    Enemy Of The People
    Fallen Dreams Litter The Ground
    God Drinks Coffee

    How I Married Girl Of My Dreams
    Howling At The Moon
    I Like My Coffee

    Jesus Must Die Again

    Lost And Found
    Donald Trump And The Vulgarians Rise To Power
    Strong Wine
    The Shape Of History
    Yesterday Morning
    Corona Ghosts Stalk The President
    Corona Virus Stalks Me
    General Corona Leads His Troops
    A New Year’S Visit To The Oregon Coast
    Love Conquers Hate

    Bus Fantasy

    Snarling Cup of Coffee Chapbook Poetry Superhighway

     

    April 2021 chapbook Poetry Superhighway

    Writers Digest April 2021 contest

    April 2020 contest

    All poetry
    Duane’s poetry
    Fan story
    Poetry Circle
    Hello Poetry
    Poetry Nook
    Poetry Mangum Opus
    Sweek
    Writing com

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    January 6, 2022
  • Cosmos Reading List 2021 Final Update

    Cosmos Reading List 2021 Final Update

    Cosmos Books Read 2021Final Update

    books read
    books read

     

     

     

     

     

    1001 Books to Read Before You Die List
    Cosmos Books Read 2020 RevisedBooks Read 2020
    Books read 2019

    Books read 2019
    Cosmos’s Reading List 2021

    Goals:  100 Books

    Read Classics

    One Thriller Per Month

    One history/politics book per month

    Read A Lot More Poetry

    Read At Least One Book A Year in Spanish

    Read At Least One Book A Year in Korean

     

    I will year try to finish reading classic books.  I have a collection from Kindle of 50 books to read before you die, in three volumes – 15O books in total see list below.  I have read many of them already which I have noted.  As I read them, I will add them to the chronological listing below.

    The List

    Elliot Novels

    Adam Bede (1859) read,

    The Lifted Veil   read

    The Mill on The Floss (1860), read

    Silas Mariner (1861), read

    Frederick Forsyth Icon

    From Camp Humphreys August 2021

    Claudia Gray Defy the Stars

    Daniel Silva The Defector

    Daniel Silva The Messenger

    Stuart Woods Choppy Water

    Stuart Woods Palindrome

    Steven Parnell All Out Wall

    Stuart Woods Bombshell

    Jeffrey Archer False Impression 9-11 Art Heist Thriller

    From Fairfax library

    October 19

    Stuart Woods Shake-up

    Stuart Woods Jack Pot

    Eric Flint/Walter H Hunt 1636 The Atlantic Encounter

    Preston and Child  the Scorpion’s Tail

    Jim Davidson Perry Mason Book

    Relic

    Stuart Woods  Books 

    1. Palindrome 2020 Read
    2. Blue Water, Green Skipper – 1977
    3. A Romantic’s Guide to The Country Inns of Britain and Ireland – 1979
    4. Chiefs – 1981  read
    5. Run Before the Wind – 1983 read
    6. Deep Lie – 1986
    7. Under The Lake – 1987
    8. White Cargo – 1988 read
    9. Grass Roots – 1989
    10. New York Dead – 1991 read
    11. Santa Fe Rules – 1992 read
    12. L.A. Times – 1993 read
    13. Dead Eyes – 1994 read
    14. Heat – 1994 read
    15. Imperfect Strangers – 1995
    16. Choke – 1995
    17. Dirt – 1996 read
    18. Dead In the Water – 1997
    19. Swimming To Catalina – 1998
    20. Orchid Beach – 1998 read
    21. Worst Fears Realized – 1999 read
    22. The Run – 2000
    23. L.A. Dead – 2000 read
    24. Cold Paradise – 2001 read
    25. Orchid Blues – 2001 read
    26. The Short Forever – 2002
    27. Blood Orchid – 2002 read
    28. Dirty Work – 2003
    29. Capital Crimes – 2003 read
    30. Reckless Abandon -2004 read
    31. The Prince of Beverly Hills – 2004 read
    32. Two Dollar Bill – 2005 read
    33. Iron Orchid – 2005 read
    34. Dark Harbor – 2006 read
    35. Short Straw – 2006 read
    36. Fresh Disasters – 2007 read
    37. Shoot Him If He Runs – 2007 read
    38. Beverly Hills Dead – 2008 read
    39. Santa Fe Dead – 2008 read
    40. Hot Mahogany – 2008 read
    41. Mounting Fears – 2009 read
    42. Loitering With Intent – 2009 read
    43. Hothouse Orchid – 2009 read
    44. Kisser – 2010
    45. Lucid Intervals – 2010 read
    46. Santa Fe Edge – 2010 read
    47. Strategic Moves – 2011
    48. Bel-Air Dead – 2011 read
    49. Son Of Stone – 2011 read
    50. D.C. Dead – 2011 read
    51. Unnatural Acts – 2012 read
    52. Severe Clear – 2012 read
    53. Collateral Damage – 2013 read
    54. Unintended Consequences – 2013 read
    55. Doing Hard Time – 2013
    56. Standup Guy – 2014 read
    57. Carnal Curiosity – 2014 read
    58. Cut And thrust – 2014 read
    59. Paris Match – 2014 read
    60. Insatiable Appetites – 2015 read
    61. Hot Pursuit – 2015 read
    62. Naked Greed – 2015 read
    63. Foreign Affairs – 2015 read
    64. Scandalous Behavior – 2016 read
    65. Family Jewels – 2016 read
    66. Dishonorable Intentions – 2016 read
    67. Smooth Operator – 2016 read
    68. Sex, Lies & Serious Money – 2016
    69. Below The Belt – 2017
    70. Fast And Loose – 2017
    71. Indecent Exposure – 2017 read
    72. Barely Legal – 2017 read
    73. Quick & Dirty – 2017
    74. Unbound – 2018
    75. Shoot First – 2018 read
    76. Turbulence – 2018 read
    77. The Money Shot – 2018 read
    78. Desperate Measures – 2018 read
    79. A Delicate Touch – 2018 read
    80. Wild Card – 2019 read
    81. Skin Game – 2019 read
    82. Shake up 2021  read
    83. Jackpot 2021    read

    Ransom Riggs   Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2011), read

    Ransom Riggs    Hollow City (2014), read

    Ransom Riggs Library of Souls (2015). Read

    Ransom Riggs A Map of Days to read

    Ransom Riggs   the conference of The Birds – to read

    Ransom Riggs    the Desolations of Devils Acre read

    From Camp Humphreys September 2021

    Dan Brown Digital Fortress

    Michael Cordy the Messiah Code

    10-13-2021

    Brad Thor Backlash

    Philip Rucker, Carol Leoning A Very Stable Genius

    Nick Thacker Relic -Kindle

    AC Fuller the Crime Beat  NYC

    AC Fuller the Crime Beat Washington DC

    AC Fuller the Crime Beat MIami

     

    Poems Read

     

    Best American Poetry 2018

    Allison Adair Miscarriage

    Kaveh Akbar Against Dying

    Julia Alvarez American Dream

    David Barber Sherpa Song

    AR Amnov Finishing Up

    Andrew Bertaina A Translator’s Note

    Frank Bidart Mourning What We Thought We Were

    Bruce Bond Anthem

    George Bradley Those Were the Days

    Joyce Clement Birds Punctuate the Days

    Brennan Constantine The Opposite Games

    Marianne Cobbett Prayer Concerning the New More Accurate Translation of Certain Prayers

    Robert Cording Toast to My Dead Parents

    Cynthia Cruz Artaud

    Dick Davis A Personal Sonnet

    Warren Decker Today’s Special

    Susan De Sola the Wives of The Poets

    Dante De Stefano Reading Dostoyevsky At 17

    Nausheen Eusuf Pied Beauty

    Jonathan Galasso Oriental Epithalamion

    Jessica Goodfellow Test

    Sonia Greenfield Ghost Ship

    Joy Harjo an American Sunrise

    Terrance Hayes American Sonnet from My Past and Future Assassins

    Ernest Hilbert Mars Ultor

    Nemo Hill The View from The Bar

    Tony Hoagland Into the Mystery

    Anna Maria Hong Yonder a Rental

    Paul Hoover, I Am the Size of What I see

    Maria Howe Walking Home

    Mandy Kahn Ives

    Ilya Kaminski, We Lived Happily During the War

    Stephan Kampa The Quiet Boy

    Denika Kelly Love Poem Chimera

    Mary Jo Salter We Will Always Have Parents

    Jason Schneiderman Voxel

    Nicole Sealy Violence

    Michael Schumacher Advent

    Carmen Gimenez Smith Dispatch from Midlife

    Tracy K Smith an Old Story

    Gary Snyder Why California Will Never Be Like Tuscany

    An E Stallings Pencil

    Anne Stevenson How Poems Arrive

    Adriene Su Substitutions

    Natasha Trethewey Shooting Wild

    Agniezeku Tworek Grief Runs Untamed

    Waldrep Dear Office in Which I Must Account for Tears

    Wang Ping Lao Jia

    James Matthew Wilson on A Palm

    Ryan Wilson Face It

    Best American Poetry 2017

    Christian Wiman Assembly

    Dan Allerbotti Weapons Exchange Report

    David Barber on A Shaker Admonition

    Dan Beachy-Quick Apophatic

    Bruce Bond Homage to a Painter of Small Things

    John Brennan Intrigue in The Trees

    John Ashbery Commotion of Birds

    Jericho Brown Bullet Points

    Nicole Brown The Dead

    Cyrus Cassells Elegy with A Gold Cradle

    Isaac Cates Fidelity and The Dead Singer

    Allison Cobb, I Forgive You

    Leonard Cohen Steer Your Way

    Michael Collier a Wild Tom Turkey

    Billy Collins Presence

    Carl Dennis Two Lives

    Katia Claudia Emerson Spontaneous Emission

    David Feinstein Kaddish

    Carolyn Fouche The Boatman

    Viva Francis Given to Those proclivities By God

    Amy Gerstler Dead Butterfly

    Reginald Gibbons Canasta

    Margaret Given Passage

    Aracelis Girmay From the Black Maria

    Jeffrey Harrison Higher Education

    Terrace Hayes Ars Poetica with Bacon

    RJ Herbert Mounting the Dove Box

    Tony Hoagland Cause of Death Fox News

    John Hogan Hamlet Texts Guildenstern About Paying Upon the Pipe

    David Brendan Hopes Certain Things

    Major Jackson Trends a Well Light Summer Cocktail

    John James History

    Rodney Jones Homecoming

    Fatty Judah Progress Notes

    Meg Kearney Crackle

    John Kothi The Age of Anxiety

    Yusef Komunyakaa from the last bohemian of Avenue A

    Danusha Lammers The Watch

    Jordan Laux Lapse

    Phillip Le Van Rain in Winter

    Amit Majumdar Kill List

    Jamal May Things That Break

    Judson Mitchem White

    John Murillo Upon reading that Eric Dolphy transcribed Even The calls of certain species of birds

    Joyce Carol Oates to Marlon Brando in Hell

    Sharon Olds Ode to The Glands

    Matthew Bozeman Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czeslaw Milosz

    Gregory Orr Three Dark Proverb Sonnets

    Carl Phillips Rockabye

    Rowan Picado Phillips Halo

    Robin Robert Pinksy Names

    Stanley Plumly Poliomyelitis

    Paisley Rekdal Assemblage of ruined Plane Parts Vietnam Military Museum

    Michael Ryan The Mercy Home

    David St John Emanations

    Cheryl Santos, I Went for A Walk in Winter

    Taiji Silverman Where to Put It

    Charles Simic Seeing Things

    Danny Smith Last Summer of Innocence

    Maggie Smith Good Bones

    RT Smith Maricon

    RE Stallings Shattered

    Pamela Sutton Afraid to Pray

    Chase Twitchell Sad Song

    James Valvis Something

    Emily Van Kley Dear Skull

    Wendy Videlock Deconstruction

    Lucy Waigner Scheherazade

    Crystal Williams Double Helix

    Christian Wiman Prelude

    Monica Yoan Green acre

    C Dale Young Precatico Simplex

    Dean Young Infinitives

    Kevin Young Money Road

    Matthew Zapruder Poem for Vows

     

    Best American Poetry 2019

     

    Dilruba Ahmed Phase One

    Rosa Alclad You and The Raw Bullets

    Margaret Atwood Updates on Werewolves

    Catherine Barnett Center Park

    Joshua Bennett America Will Be

    Fleda Brown Afternoons on The Lake

    Sumitra Chakraborty Essay on Joy

    Victoria Chung Six Orbits

    Glen Chan, I Invite My Parents to A Dinner Party

    Leonard Cohen, I Drank a Lot

    Laura Cronk Like a Cat

    Kate Daniels Metaphor Less

    Carol Dennis Armed Neighbor

    Tori Derricotte Apology to The Reader

    Thomas Devaney Brilliant Corners

    Natalie Diaz Skin- Light

    Jean Dominique Duryer Declined in The Adoration of Jack in The Pulpits

    Martin Espada, I Now Pronounce You Dead

    Nausheen Eusurf The Analytic Hour

    Vivere Francis Cazonian Blue Than Bluer

    Gabriela García Guantanamera

    Amy Gerstler Update

    Camila Guthrie Virgil

    Yona Harvey Dark and Lonely After Takeoff A Future

    Robert Hass Dancing

    Terrance Hayes American Silent My Past and Future Assassin

    Juan Felipe Herrera Roll Under the Waves

    Edward Hirsch Stranger by Night

    Jane Hershfield Ledger

    James Hock Sunflowers

    Bob Homan All Praise Cecil Taylor

    Garrett Hongo The Brothers Cassia

    Ishion Hutchison Sympathy of a Clear Day

    Major Jackson in Memory of Derek Alton Walcott

    Ilya Kaminski from testament

    Ruth Ellen Kocher We May No Longer Considered the End

    Deborah Landau Soft Targets

    Quraysh Ali Lansana Higher Calling

    Li-Young Lee the Undressing

    David Lehman, It Could Happen to You

    Ada Limon Cannibal Women

    Rebecca Lynn Berry a Brief History of The Future Apocalypse

    Nubile Lovelace the S in I Love You Porgy

    Clarence Major Hair

    () Gail Mazur At a Lands End

    () Shane Mcrae The President Visits the Storm

    () Jeffrey Mcdonald Fired from A Parallel World

    () Campbell Mcgrath Gray Miles Davis Birth of The Cool at The Founding in Brasilia

    Ange Milinko Sleepwalking in Venice

    Kamela Aisha Moon

    The Last of England

    Paul Moulton Aubade

    John Murio on Confessionalism

    Naomi Shihab Nye My Own State Department

    Sharon Olds Rasputin Aria

    Michael Palmer Nord-Sur

    Morgan Parker The Black Saint, And the Sinner Lady, The Dead, and The Truth

    William Perdomo Head Crack Head Crack

    Carl Philip Star Map with Action Figures

    Ishmael Reed Just Rolling Along

    Paisley Rekdal Four Marys

    Sonia Sanchez Belly, Buttons and Straight Spines

    Nicole Santalucia #Me Too

    Philip Schultz Encore

    Jane Shore Who Knows One

    The Greatest Personal Privation

    Ae Stallings Harms Way

    Arthur Sze The White Orchard

    Natasha Trethewey Through Her a Duty

    Ocean Voong Partly True Phone Reflecting in A Mirror

    David Wojahn Still Life Stevens Wallet and Key West Hotel Dresser

    Kevin Young High

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    Blazing in Gold and Quenching in Purple
    by Emily Dickinson
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    Auditory imagery …
    The Sound of The Sea
    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Olfactory imagery …
    Smells
    by Kathryn Worth

    Gustatory imagery …
    This is Just to Say
    by William Carlos Williams

    Tactile imagery …
    The Kiss
    by Sara Teasdale

    Edgar Allen Poe Tell-Tale Heart from DYI MFA

    Five Poems from DYI MFA

    Five Senses

    Walt Whitman When I Heard the Learned Astronomer Sight DYI MFA

    Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth Sound DYI MFA

    Barry Cornwall A Petition to Time Touch DYI MFA

    Emily Dickinson, I Like to See It Lap the Miles Taste DYI MFA

    Walter Prichard Eaton the Lilac Smell DYI MFA

    Space

    T.E. Hume the Embankment

    E.E. Cummings in Just

    The Mouse’s Tale, By Lewis Carroll

    Three poems from writing com 3/30/2021

    John Gillespie Magee, Jr. High Flight
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    Jeffrey Harrison, Nest
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    Ted Kooser, Abandoned Farmhouse
    (Source: Https://Www.Poetryfoundation.Org/Poems/52935/Abandoned-Farmhouse)

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    Abdul Ala armada Rafi I poem Friend, this world is like an unburied corpse

    Ali Ahmad Saeed poem

    Alton David translation of a man and a woman white

    Andre Breton Man and Woman Absolutely White

    Mary Bernard, translation of Sofia he is more than a hero

    Ingeborg Bachman poem

    Anne Bradstreet letter to her husband 1650 first Published woman poet in The US

    Willis Barnstone translation of Mother’s song if snow

    Charles Bernstein writing exercises

    William Blake Sick Rose

    Elizabeth Browning Sonnets from The Portuguese #43 how Do I love Thee

    Elizabeth Bishop one art Britain

    Andre Carter Stephen D translation lady is shichimi if someone would come

    William Barnstone she is at island me turn off

    Maxine Chernoff writing exercises

    Chilam Balam poem

    Chiyo various lines

    William Corbett Vermont Apollinaire

    Robert Creely The business

    EE Cummings In Jest

    Bel Dao Listen, I Don’t Believe Chinese poet mid-20th century

    David Wagner lines and since a call since Elam since summer

    Thomas Campion When to her lute Corinna sings

    Jon Donne Holly Sonnet 14

    Lucile Clifton, I don’t know how to do

    Emily Dickinson lines and poems 214

    Emily Dickinson poem 262

    Emily Dickinson poem 640

    Emily Dickinson poem 986

    Emily Dickinson poem 1732

    Enhenduanna The Exaltation of Inanna, antiphonal Hymns Praise of Inanna

    Egyptian Poem, untitled

    Fanny Howe About Face

    Imr El Quais The Great Ode

    Elaine Feinstein excerpt from translation Marina TSvetayeva poems of The end Lawrence Ferlinghetti excerpt from constantly risking absurdity Coney Island of The mind

    Donald Finkel excerpt from a translation of Bel Dao

    Roberts Elizabeth silent poems

    Frances Kathleen vanishing point third black quartet from Wayne

    Robert Frost Nothing Gold can stay

    Robert Clark translation departure by Pierre Reverdy

    Jorie Graham In what matter is The body united with The soul

    Barbara Guest Lines from red lilies

    HD Dread

    HD Sea Rose

    HD Oread

    Allen Hibbert translation of Adonis desire moving through The Maps of The material

    Ronald Hoffman excerpt from deceptively like a solid

    Kelly Holt writing exercises

    Bible, Ecclesiastes for everything There is a season

    Homer Odyssey

    Homer Iliad

    Edward Arlington Robinson Richard Corey

    Fanny Howe About Face

    George Herbert Death

    Linda jarkesy The bed

    John K

    Randall Jarred The death of The Bell turret gunner

    John Keats The Eve of St Agnes

    Lao Tzu Rule a Large Nation

    DH Lawrence Bavarian Gentians

    LiPo Moonlight Pools

    Liu Tsung-yuan From One thousand mountains

    Audre Lorde lines from coal

    Hugh MacDiarmid Another epitaph on The army of mercenaries

    Jackson Mac Lou excerpt from antic quartans

    Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat excerpt

    Alexander Pope Essay on Criticism

    Bernadette Mayer writing exercises

    WS Merwin excerpts from leviathan

    Pablo Neruda leaning into afterworlds

    Pablo Neruda and walking around

    John Milton excerpts from Allegro

    John Milton excerpts from paradise lost

    Mariana Moore experts from the monkeys

    Laura Moriarty The mouth

    Bridge Mullins writing exercises

    Ellen Myles honey bear

    Lorraine Niedecker now in one year

    Charles North excerpt from shooting for line

    George Oppen excerpt from psalm

    Dorothy Parker resume

    Bob Pearlman speaker vibrates through the entire house after from AK

    Ezra Pound in a station in The Metro

    David Ray translation lines from Chiyo

    Kenneth Rexroth translation of Midnight songs

    Pierre Reverdy Departure

    Christopher Sawyer Le is More Than an Hericenone translation Flight of The Itza

    Dominion Searls translation of a kind of loss

    Shelly Love Philosophy 19th Century

    Sappho He is more than a Hero

    Jack Spicer lines for imaginary elegies part 1-111

    John Tipane translation Abu Hamza al online from this world

    Dante in the middle of the road

    Anonymous Egyptian poem only one matchless sister

    manioc If snow falls on the left field

    Issa Morning

    Beowulf soon saw

    Homer Then wide ruling Agamemnon

    Homer infinite terror

    Homer wars spears

    In El Qis here was the place I watched her

    Arthur Rimbaud Bateau Ivre if I desire

    Arthur Rimbaud memory

    Arthur Rimbaud longing for young arms

    Rig Veda There were no such things

    Sappho The moon has set

    Charles Thomasson lines from Mr. Birdy

    David Trinidad monster mash

    TS Elliot Excerpt from The Wasteland

    Mariana Tsvetanyana Poem of The End

    Alfred Tennyson Now Sleep the Crimson Petal

    Anne Waldman excerpt for Iovis 19

    William Carlos Williams except for The descent

    Walt Whitman excerpts from Leaves of Grass

    William Butler Yeats the second coming

    William Wordsworth The Solitary Reaper

    Louis Zukofsky in Arizona from 729 songs

    Richard Lovelace 17th Century British Poet, “To Lucasta, Going to War”

    Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 Call complaint to His Purs (Purse)

    Parody Poems from NaPoWrMo April 27 Prompt

    Lewis Carroll Crocodile

    Isaac Watts How Doth the Little

    Lewis Carroll This the Voice of The Lobster

    Isaac Watts The Sluggard
    Lewis Carroll Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bat

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    Denise Levertov Celebration

    Edgar Allan Poe A Dream Within a Dream

    Poetic blooming

    Heal The World with Marigolds  poetic blossoming entry

    Midnight encounters a poetic blossoming entry

     

    David S The All-Mighty Thresher

    Sally Ann Roberts example #1:it All Started with A Packet of Seeds

    Marie Summers

    Example #2:celestial Dreams

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    Dendrobium

    Example #4:

    Osprey o, Sleek and Beauteous hunter.

    Marie Summers example #5:

     

    Iambi Poetry

     

    Robert Frost Dust of Snow

    Emily Dickinson The Only News I Know

    William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

    Robert Frost the Road not Taken

    William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet

    William Shakespeare Macbeth

    From writing com poetry newsletter October 12, 2021

     Emily Dickinson, I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain
    A. E. Housman Her Strong Enchantments Failing
    Hughes Mearns Antigonish

    Judi Van Gorder

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    David Harsham Fae Folk Travel

    Weldon Kees A Musician’s Wife
    Weldon Kees Late Evening Song
    Weldon Kees Year’s End

     

    50 Books to Read Before You Die – three volumes 150 books total. I have read the following

     

    Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy

    Jane Austen Emma

    Jane Austen Persuasion

    //////////Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre

    Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights

    Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote

    Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness

    Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders

    Charles Dickens Bleak House

    Charles Dickens Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers –

    Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Gambler –

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from The Underground –

    Marcus Aurelius Meditations –

    1. Frank Baum the Wonderful Wizard of Oz –

    Dale Carnegie The Art of Public Speaking –

    Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Sign of Four

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Hound of The Baskervilles

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Lost World –

    Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers

    -F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise

    Henry Rider Haggard King Solomon’s Mines

    Victor Hugo the Hunchback of Notre-Dame

    D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover

    Jack London The Son of The Wolf

    HP Lovecraft The Dun ich Horror

    HP Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness

    Plato The Republic –

    Mary Shelley The Last Man –

     

     

    To Read

     

    The Complete List, Volume One

     

    Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy  Read

    Jane Austen Emma Read

    Jane Austen Persuasion Read

    Honoré de Balzac Father Gorgio

    Anne Brontë the Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre  Read

    Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights Read

    Samuel Butler the Way of All Flesh

    Miguel de Cervantes Don Quiote Red

    Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness Read

    Joseph Conrad Nostromo

    Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders Read

    Charles Dickens Bleak House Read

    Charles Dickens Great Expectation Read s

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov Read

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment Read

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot Read

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Read

    Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo  Read

    George Eliot Middlemarch Read

    George Eliot Daniel Deronda Read

    Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman the Yellow Wallpaper Read

    Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls

    The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales Read

    Homer The Odyssey Read

    Homer The Iliad Read

    Victor Hugo Les Misérables Read

    Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow  Read

    Henry James The Portrait of a Lady

    James Joyce A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man Read

    D.H Lawrence Sons and Lovers Read

    Gaston Leroux The Phantom of The Opera

    Jack London The Call of The Wild  Read

    Herman Melville The Great God Pan Moby Dick-Read

    Marcel Proust Swann’s Way

    Mary Shelley Frankenstein Read

    Stendhal The Red and The Black

    Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Read

    Bram Stoker Dracula Read

    Sun Tzu The Art of War Read

    Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels Read

    William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair Read

    Leo Tolstoy War and Peace Read

    Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina Read

    Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilych

    Mark Twain the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  Read

    Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray  Read

    Grant Allen What’s Bred in The Bone –

    Lucius Apuleius The Golden Ass –

    Marcus Aurelius Meditations – Read

    Jane Austen Lady Susan

    Jane Austen Northanger Abbey –

    1. Frank Baum the Wonderful Wizard of Oz – Read

    Dale Carnegie The Art of Public Speaking – Read

    Margaret Cavendish The Blazing World –

    The Innocence of Father Brown – G.K Chesterton

    G.K Chesterton Heretics –

    G.K Chesterton -The Dennington Affair

    G.K Chesterton the Wisdom of Father Brown –

    John Cleland Fanny Hill –

    Wilkie Collins The Moonstone –

    Joseph Conrad Lord Jim –

    Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Read

    The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens Read

    A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens Read

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Gambler –

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from The Underground – Read

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Sign of Four Read

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Hound of The Baskerville Read

     

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Lost World  read

    Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers read

    Alexandre Dumas The Man in The Iron Mask read

    1. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise read

    Elizabeth Gaskell Curious, if True, Strange Tales

    Henry Rider Haggard King Solomon’s Mines  read

    Victor Hugo the Hunchback of Notre-Dame

    Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book

    Rudyard Kipling Captains Courageous

    Rudyard Kipling -Kim –

    D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover read

    Jack London The Son of The Wolf

    Hendrik Anton Lorentz the Einstein Theory of Relativity

    HP Lovecraft The Dun ich Horror read

    HP Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness read

    Niccolò Machiavelli the Prince –

    Lucy Maud Montgomery the Story Girl

    The Antichrist – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

    Plato The Republic – read

    Mary Shelley The Last Man – read

    Mark Twain Life on The Mississippi – read

    Vats Ayana the Kama Sutra read

    Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days  read

     

     

    Volume Three

     

    Louisa May Alcott Little Women

    Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility  Read

    1. M. Barrie Peter Pan read
    2. M. Bower Cabin Fever

    Frances Hodgson Burnett the Secret Garden

    Frances Hodgson Burnett a Little Princess

    Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland  read

    Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables

    Jules Verne A Journey into The Center of The Earth  Read

    Jules Verne The Mysterious Island  Read

    Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Read

    1. G. Wells the War of The Worlds read
    2. G. Wells the Time Machine (H.G Wells) read

    Oscar Wilde The Centerville Ghost

    Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out

    William Chamber the King in Yellow

    William Chesterton The Man Who Knew Too Much Read

    Wilkie Collins The Woman in White

    HG Wells the Star

    Dorothy Leigh Sayers Whose Body?

    Margaret Deland The Iron Woman

    Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities read

    Fyodor Dostoevsky The Double

    Arthur Conon Doyle Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

    F Scott Fitzgerald the Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    EM Foster a Room with a View  read

    Sigmund Freud Dream Psychology  Read

    Thomas Hardy Tess of the d’Urbervilles Read

    Hermann Hesse Siddhartha  read

    James Joyce Dubliners read

    Edgar Allen Poe the Fall of The House of Usher  read

    Andrew Land the Arabian Nights

    Jack London The Sea Wolf read

    HP Lovecraft The Call of Cthulu read

    Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables

    William Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil read

    Edgar Allen Poe the Murders in The Rue Morgue read

    Edgar Allen Poe the Black Cat read

    Edgar Allen Poe the Raven read

    Michael Proust Swan’s Way

    Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island read

    William Strunk The Elements of Style  read

    Mark Twain the Adventures of Tom Sawyer read

    Mark Twain the Prince and The Pauper read

    Remaining Elliot Novels

     

    Romola (1862–63), read

    Felix Holt, The Radical (1866),

    Middlemarch (1871–72) read

    and Daniel Deronda (1876).

     

     

    Famous Poems to Read and Study

     

    Index

     

    Five Senses

     

    Walt Whitman When I Heard the Learned Astronomer Sight DYI MFA

    Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth Sound DYI MFA

    Barry Cornwall A Petition to Time Touch DYI MFA

    Emily Dickinson, I Like to See It Lap the Miles Taste DYI MFA

    Walter Prichard Eaton the Lilac Smell DYI MFA

     

    Space

     

    T.E. Hume the Embankment

    E.E. Cummings in Just

    The Mouse’s Tale, By Lewis Carroll

     

    Explanation

    John Gillespie Magee, Jr. HIGH FLIGHT
    Jeffrey Harrison Nest
    Ted Kooser Abandoned Farmhouse

    Randall Jarrell The Olive Garden
    Randall Jarrell the Breath of Night
    Randal Jarrell The Orient Express

    Peter Gizzi -This World Is Not Conclusion

    Jean Valentine – La Chalupa, The Boat

    Carl Phillips  Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm

    Parody Poems from NaPoWrMo April 27 Prompt

    Lewis Carroll Crocodile

    Isaac Watts How Doth the Little

    Lewis Carroll This the Voice of The Lobster

    Isaac Watts The Sluggard
    Lewis Carroll Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bat

    Abandoned Farmhouse
       by Ted Kooser
    Wooden Boats 
    Judy Serum Brown
    Denise Levertov Celebration

    Edgar Allan Poe A Dream Within a Dream

    Writing com Stormy Lady 5/20

    Dorothea Mackellar The Open Sea
    Dorothea Mac Keller in a Southern Garden

    Dorothea Mackellar The Open Sea

    Leonard Nimoy after endless night

     

    I’d Heal the World with Marigolds  poetic blossoming entry

    Midnight encounters a poetic blossoming entry

    Langston Hughes 

     

    Our land 

    Dreams

    The Weary Blues

    Life is Fine

     

    4/10/2021 from DYI MFA

    Space Be Still, My Soul, Be Still
    by A. E. Housman

    A. E. Housman
    The Immortal Part

    A. E. Housman
    White in The Moon The Long Road Lies

    Another Home  (E)
    a pantoum on The pleasures of fiction
    #2250974 by Tiera (148)

     

    David S The All-Mighty Thresher
    Sally Ann Roberts example #1:it All Started with A Packet Of Seeds

    Marie Summers

    Example #2:celestial Dreams

    Example #3

    Dance In The Rain come,

    Dendrobium

    Example #4:

    Osprey o, Sleek And Beauteous hunter.

    Marie Summers example #5:

     

    Marie Elena Good, 2021 Her Wittiness Stings Poetic Blossoms

    Walter Wozniak He Prince of Passions

    David Schreiber  Footprints in time Writing Com

    David Schreiber The Soldiers  Writing Com

     

     

    Together Forever  (E)
    A haunting memory in The Samisen form.

    Judi Van Gorder  Cold Forever –

    Endecha Poetic Magnum Opus

    Cross Country, by Robert Lee Brewer  Endecha.   Writer’s Digest

    Linda  Varsel Smith “Syllables in Velvet” Endecha

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    1. William Seaman Higgledy-piggledy Double Dactyl

    Paul Pascal Patty-Cake Double Dactyl

    Anthony Hecht Higgledy-piggledy Double Dactyl

    John Hollander Jaggedly-Piggledy Double Dactyl

    Alfred Lord Tennyson the Charge of The Light Brigade (By Alfred Lord Tennyson)

     Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  Evangeline

    Robert Browning the Lost Leader (By Robert Browning)

    Walt Whitman (Out of The Cradle Endlessly Rocking

    Ian Lancashire  Higgledy Piggledy

    Sidney Lanier
    The Song Of The Chattahoochee
    Sidney Lanier Ireland
    Sidney Lanier A Sunrise Song
    “Where Grandpa Died”

    Dodoitsu

    Pat Anthony Aftermath

    Nurit Israeli Untitled

    Amy Breakfast in Bed

    Yassy Somehow

    Brad Osborne Your Eyes

    Linda Visman Stormwatch
    Susan Sonnen Starlit Dreams

    Poetic Bloomings Weather Poem

      Poetic Bloomings Weather Poem the Blues

    Walter J Wojtanik – 2021 THE PRINCE OF PASSIONS

    Dave (Schneider at Writing.Com)  Measure Our Mortality

    David Schneider at writing com Footprints in Time

    David Schneider Soldiers

    David Schneider Together Again

    Judi Van Gorder Cold Forever – Encheda

    Robert Lee Brewer Cross Country, Enschede.

    Linda  Varsel Smith “Syllables in Velvet”

    Double Dactyls

    1. William Seaman Higgledy-piggledy
      Arthur W. Monks Higgledy-piggledy
      Paul Pascal

    Higgledy-piggledy
    stink in God’s nose.”                                      by Anthony Hecht

    Higgledy-piggledy
    scraped off The tracks.                                   by John Hollander

    “Higgledy-piggledy
    Andrea Doria
    GLUB”. . . (end of quote).                              by John Hollander

    The dactyl meter is a three-syllable foot with a stress pattern of DUM-da-da, as explained and demonstrated in The following link: https://literarydevices.net/dactyl/

    Example #1: The Charge of The Light Brigade (By Alfred Lord Tennyson)

    Example #2: Evangeline (By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

    Example #3: The Lost Leader (By Robert Browning)

    Example #4: (Out of The Cradle Endlessly Rocking (By Walt Whitman)

    Example #5: Higgledy Piggledy (By Ian Lancashire)

    Sidney Lanier The Song Of The Chattahoochee
    Sidney Lanier (Written for The Art Autograph during The Irish Famine, 1880.)
    Sidney Lanier A Sunrise Song
    “Where Grandpa Died”

    Robert Hayden ~” A Plague of Starlings”
    Robert Frost ~” The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost{/pre}
    Jack Kerouac Daydreams for Ginsberg

    Mini-Monoverse and Double Mini-Monoverse
    How Many Times? Emily

    Emily Romano The KillMargaret R. Smith Example #3:Airborne

    Margaret R. Smith Example #4: The Escape

    Dan Tharp My Heart Residing in Thy ChestDendrobium  In Mourning BlackMarie Summers Mourning TwilightMarie Summers The Stars Will Shine

    David Schneider Writing com She sheds her Clothes and tons of stress,

     

     

     

    Etherege Poems writing com

     

    Dietrich Example #1: Andrea Dietrich Example #2: Andrea Dietrich Example #3: The LairMarie Summers  Example #4:  Red PoppyMarie Summers Example #5:Blurred Vision (Double Reversed Etherege)Marie Summers Ashen Despair (Double Reversed Etherege)

     

     

     

    Sir Henry Newbolt the Toy Band
    Sir Henry Newbolt Sir Henry Newbolt

    A Song of The Great Retreat the Nightjar
    Edmund Spencer~”Like As a Ship”

    Epulaepry Form

    Joseph Spence, Sr.Example #1:Eggs of Easter  Joseph Spence, Sr.Example #2:Scrumptious Scallops Joseph Spence, Sr.Example #3:Tasty Dessert Joseph Spence, Sr.Example #4:Barbequed Prime Steak

     

     

     

    Louisa May Alcott
    The Short Story A Christmas Dream, And How It Came True
    Louisa May Alcott
    The Rock and The Bubble
    Louisa May Alcott
    The Short Story Shadow-Children
    Marcus Manilius Sagittarius

    Rudyard Kipling’s Centaurs
    Mary Swenson The Centaur

     

    ODES

     

    • Genethliacum Ode, is a poem written in honor of the birth of a child. Usually, these lofty odes were reserved for the birth of nobility. However, technically any poem written in honor of the birth of a child would qualify as a Genethliacum.

    Morning Song by Sylvia Plath

    Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
    The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry
    Took its place among the elements.

    Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.
    In a drafty museum, your nakedness
    Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.

    I’m no more your mother
    Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow
    Effacement at the wind’s hand.

    All night your moth-breath
    Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:
    A far sea moves in my ear.

    One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral
    In my Victorian nightgown.
    Your mouth opens clean as a cat’s. The window square

    Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try
    Your handful of notes;
    The clear vowels rise like balloons.

    • Encomium or Coronation Ode is a Greek choral lyric celebrating a person’s achievements. This can be expanded to the length and formality of an ode as in honor of the coronation of a king, but most often is a simple poem as would be spoken at a banquet in an introduction in the category of occasional poetry. It specifically celebrates a man rather than a god. This genre of verse usually has 5 elements, prologue, birth and development, accomplishments, comparisons with which to praise, and an epilogue.Just a Man
    • Wedding Odes:
      • Epithalamion or Epithalamium
      • Protholathiumis
    • Palinode Ode is an apologetic ode, that retracts or recants something said in a previous poem by the same poet. It is usually written as a retraction of an invective statement or offensive remark made in satire.

    Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a palinode at the end of the Canterbury Tales, recanting and apologizing for any bawdy or offensive statements previously made. It is really unclear if this palinode was part of the original Tales or if it was tacked on later as either an advertisement of his works or as a death bed confessional.

    Wherfore I biseke yow mekely,
    for the mercy Of God, that ye preye
    for me that crist have Mercy on me
    and foryeve me my giltes; and Namely
    of my translacions and enditynges
    of Worldly vanitees, the whiche I revoke
    in My retracciouns:as is the book of Troilus;
    the book also of Fame; the book of
    The xxv. Ladies; the ;
    The book of seint valentynes day
    of the parlement of briddes; the tales of counterbury,
    Thilke that sownen into synne; the book
    of the Leoun; and many another book.
    This was found at Wikipedia.

    • Panegyric or Paean is an ode that celebrates something from its inception or the life of a person, not just the accomplishments. It is usually written about someone still alive and celebrates the who rather than the what of the person. “Paean” should not be confused with the metric foot “paeon”.

    Cassini Spacecraft by David Parsley
    Standing Tall by Jamie McKenzie In Honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

    • Triumphal Ode, is an ode to celebrate a victory.  Also called an Epinicia when specifically celebrating a sports victory. The Epinician Ode said to be created by Simonides of Ceos, Greek lyrical poet, 556BC to 468BC though the most prolific user of the theme was Pindar of Pindaric Ode fame. Originally written to honor a victor the Hellenic games and sung in a procession for the winner and connecting him with a great hero of the past. The frame at the discretion of the poet.
      Victory by S.J. Duncan-Clark

    The Chicago Evening Post, November 11, 1918
                    Great Poems about the World War

    OUT of the night it leaped the seas–
    —The four long years of night!
    “The foe is beaten to his knees,
    —And triumph crowns the fight!”
    It sweeps the world from shore to shore,
    —By wave and wind ’tis flung,
    It grows into a mighty roar
    —Of siren, bell and tongue.
    Where little peoples knelt in fear,
    —They stand in joy today;
    The hour of their redemption here,
    —Their feet on Freedom’s way.
    The kings and kaisers flee their doom,
    —Fall bloody crown and throne!
    Room for the people! Room! Make room!
    —They march to claim their own!
    Now God be praised we lived to see
    —His Sun of Justice rise,
    His Sun of Righteous Liberty,
    —To gladden all our skies!
    And God be praised for those who died,
    —Whate’er their clime or breed,
    Who, fighting bravely side by side,
    —A world from thraldom freed!
    And God be praised for those who, spite
    —Of woundings sore and deep,
    Survive to see the Cause of Right
    —O’er all its barriers sweep!

    God and the people–This our cry!
    —O, God, thy peace we sing!
    The peace that comes through victory,
    —And dwells where Thou art King.

    • “Ode for a Phi Beta Kappa Occasion” by Rolfe Humphries
    • “Georgiana Augusta Keats” by John Keats
    • “Missing Glossary” by Claire Wahmanholm
    • “Acrostic” by Lewis Carroll
    • “Acrostic from Aegina” by David Mason
    • “La Priere De Nostre Dame” by Geoffrey Chaucer
    • “London” by William Blake (the third stanza)
    • Hymns of Astræaby Sir John Davies
    • Darklingby Anna Rabinowitz
    • “Canicular Acrostic” by Anthony Kerrigan
    • Sleeping with the Dictionaryby Harryette Mullen

    Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Death and the Lady
    Canon Dixon’s Last Poems in 1905.
    Mary Elizabeth Coleridge The Other Side of a Mirror
    Mary Elizabeth Coleridge After St. Augustine

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    Four Coffee Poems Former People: A Journal Of Bangs And Whimpers
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    I have reached three milestones.  the World According to Cosmos now has over 4,000 followers from around the world.  Thanks to all of you for visiting my site and caring about my musings about Life, the Universe and everything.

    Second, I have not posted 264 posts over the last few years since I started this blog late in 2019.

    Third, I have posted 250 blog postings on Tumblr, and about 150 on instragram and countless tweets.

    thanks everyone for making this journey worthwhile.  Drop me a line let me know what you thing and keep in touch, safe safe and healthy.

     

     

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  • Cosmos Faith Journey

    Cosmos Faith Journey

    Cosmos’s Faith Journey

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    Encounters with God

    Cosmic Cat from Berkeley

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    Meeting God In a  Lake

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    Meeting God in Bombay

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    Voice Message From God

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    Conversation with God About Corona Virus

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    God Does Not Talk to Idiots

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    Agnostic Dog Wonders if there is a God

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    God’s Message to Reverend Baaker

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    In my 66 years on this earth, I have learned a few things, because I have seen a few things.  I grew up n a very secular town, in a very secular era.  The late 60s in Berkeley was a time when everything was being challenged, questioned, debated and the issue of God came up frequently.  Was God still relevant in this modern era?

    Most of my friends were agnostic at best, don’t recall having any Christian friends, Most were Jewish though and one was a Mormon.  Most were white, but I had a few black friends as well, a few of them were Christian.

    My mother was born a southern baptist, she was kicked out of church for asking the forbidden question, “If God created the universe, who created God?” the preacher was not amused and kicked her out for being a “free thinker” which to a Baptist was a very bad thing indeed, especially in Arkansas in the late 30s.

    My father was a devote athiest, grew up in Yakima in a Methodist family, but just did not see God anywhere. An economist believing in economic laws, he was materialistic and deterministic, God simply did not compute for him.

    They told us it was up to us to determine what to believe because they disagreed. But in the end, it came down to this, “Do the right thing”  but it was up to us to determine what that might be.

    I went to a few church services. but it just did not stick, did not get the whole shebang, did not believe in the Virgin Mary, the crucifixion, and other Christian dogma felt it was all just ancient irrelevant fairy tales.  I shared my father’s materialistic worldview and my mother’s skepticism regarding Church teachings. She was pleased though when I told her I had started reading the bible.

    For a while, I became a militant athiest, hung out at a, debating with Holly Hubert and the street preachers who were there. I shocked the Christian fanatics with my athiest stand-up comedy routines.

    One day Jehovah’s witness came to my house.  I told them I would love to talk with them but I was late for a Satanist meeting and invited them to join me. They fled in terror.

    Later in college, I had a roommate, who took too much acid and became convinced he was God.  We spend many nights smoking weed and debating the existence or non-existence of God.  He had grown up as a Jehovah witness.  His parents blamed us for their son’s descent into madness and promised to pray for us but said we would go to hell for the sin of questioning God’s will.

    In college, I took a course on modern religions. As a sociology student, I studied the Unification church’s recruitment practices and went to their recruitment dinner, but wisely did not go their weekend retreat, otherwise, perhaps I might have been converted and become a Moonie.

    I even went to a Scientology center took their free personality test and concluded it was all a scam.  Liked to hang out with Hari Krishna dudes joining them for public chanting.

    Started reading the bible in my world religion class, but took me almost 30 years before I finished reading the bible, and all the other spiritual texts, on the eve of my 50th year. Started with the Book of Mormon and ended with the Koran after reading the Buddhist writings, the Hindu scriptures, the Confucian classics, and the Tao De Ching.

    Had to finally skip over the entire genesis begat stories, saying to myself

    “What’s the point?”

    Concluding the bible was badly edited. Just a  collection of fairy tales, not fit for the modern world, but revelations fascinated me.

    When I went to Korea in the Peace Corps, I became fascinated by the subtle interplay between traditional Buddhism, shamanism, neo-Confucianism principles

    And the resurgence of aggressive Christianity, and the new religious fervor of Reverend Moon, the unification church, and other new religions.

    Spend some time at Buddhist temples, even spend a few nights hanging out with the monks decades before the formal temple stay programs became popular among foreign tourists.

    I had an encounter with shamanism when my uncle-in-law died, they did a shaman “kut” ritual. the shaman a female channeled his spirit. He came to the room berated us all, cursed us all from his perch in hell, That was such a freaky experience we had to flee the demented scene.

    I had a few mystical experiences, once in college I saw God in a lake,  But that was probably just the magic of the magic mushrooms, doing its mushroom thing.

    Once while I was hanging out in Berkeley, I encountered a cosmic cat, I saw the divine spark In his eyes, as he followed me everywhere. I told my mother who was suffering from Alzheimer’s about the cosmic cat, she concurred he was indeed a cosmic cat.

    Later in Goa, I encountered a cosmic dog who followed me everywhere.  I asked the cosmic dog once,

    “Say, Cosmic dog, are you god? Bark once if yes, two if no.”

    He barked once.

    “Are you Allah?  Bark once if yes, two if no.”

    He barked once.

    “Are you Buddha?  Bark once if yes, two if no”

    He barked once.

    “Are you the great spirit of the American indians? Bark once if yes, two if no”

    He barked once.

    “Are you Satan?  Bark once if yes, two if no.”

    He growled at me and I knew I had gone too far.

    When I was in Thailand, I continued my exploration of Buddhism visiting most of the famous Buddhist sites there, later in Taiwan, Vietnam, and India as well.

    When I lived in India, I became immersed in the spiritual energy all around me
    I became a fan of the big Ganesh, he removed spiritual obstacles, allowing me to connect to the divine spirit all around me.  I felt that cosmic vibe, just flowing through the world.

    While in India, I attended a few Catholic services, other Christian services, went to Hindu temples, Jain temples, Sikh temples and even a few Muslim pilgrim sites.  I also fasted during Rammadam and went totally vegan to observe lent.

    Now that I am an old man, I think back on what I have learned from my spiritual journeys. I think I can sum it up as follows:

    I believe that the universe is alive, and I am part of the divine mind, the universe God if you would, flows through us all. If only we have the eyes, to see the divine all around us.

    The Christian faith, like all other faiths, is just an attempt to discover the God of the universe. It is all the same path we are on, trying to connect to the cosmic overmind of the universe.

    Whether you are an atheist, a Buddhist, a Christian, a Jain,  a Jew, a Harri Krishna, a humanist, a Hindu, a Moonie, a Mormon, a Muslim, a Pagan or a Wiccan devote, we are all cosmic fools, seekers of the truth.  The truth is out there for us to discover it for ourselves.

    But in the end, it comes down to this simple principle, we have to decide
    to always do the right thing, but that is a decision, only we can make deep in our soul.

    Whether heaven or hell is awaiting us I do not know. Whether Jesus is the son of God I do not know. Whether Mohammed was the last prophet of God I do not know. Whether Allah is waiting for me, I do not know. Whether the grim reaper will be coming for me I do not know.

    But I am ready for the final stage of my life. In the end, I also know this: I knew my wife in a prior life, and I will see her in my next life. That is the operation of fate, of karma, and reincarnation, which I do believe in. The adage, what goes around comes around is a simple basic fact of the universe.

    That is all that I know for sure.  That is what I believe.  In the end, always

    “Do the right thing,”

    and the rest will follow.

     

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    Jim Davidson

    I know there’s more to that Scientology personality test story because I was there. Those tests were top secret, and they never published them or allowed anyone to carry them outside of the Scientology Center. You and (I think) Robert and I went into the Center and started taking the test. Then you told the people administering the test that you wanted to go outside for a minute for a smoke. You surreptitiously slipped the test into your pocket and we walked out, not intending to return. About a block away, one of the Scientology people came running after us, demanding the test back, and you gave it to him. So we (you) were foiled in the attempt to steal the test.

     

    You’ve been on a fascinating journey, Jake! It all makes perfectly good sense.

     

     

    I  was raised a Catholic, but I respect all religions and non-believers. Reconciling science and the history of men with the biblical Adam and Eve, as well as noting that there are so many people with different beliefs, have made me question my beliefs. I agree that we need to do the right thing (as our conscience dictates). I’m not sure of reincarnation, but I watch Korean dramas and am fascinated by reincarnation stories. May I share your story with my friends?

     

     

    Thank you for sharing that, Cosmo! I have also sought to deconstruct what was given me and see what’s under the hood, so to speak. And that’s not just a Berkeley thing.  It might have to do with having parents of different beliefs. My father too was a fairly strict atheist, a scientist, and a researcher who had studied history and concluded religion was mainly a tool for control. Whereas my mother was always a seeker who came from a non-religious family and churched herself as a teenager, then turned to the church when her child died. She became something of a pantheist, utilizing Christianity, Scientology, and various forms of unity consciousness and Native American beliefs in her journey. Years later I concluded my impulse to bridge the scientific and faithful outlooks was an expression of the child wanting to bring his divorced parents back together, but now it’s just important to me to remain open to possibilities and alternative explanations. Via some of the people I’ve known, I’ve witnessed a few things my skeptical impulse can never entirely explain. Your conclusions and mine are the same.

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    John H Seabury

    Me too, pretty much. But I didn’t do all that studying. Witchy Tai To, everything is everything.

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    Robert Sicular Ah yes, Bearism, a simple religion but encompassing great wisdom.

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    Hello uncle- I have always loved listening/reading about your travels and experiences. My Mom loved you and looked up to you as well. I relate as someone who’s Dad was excommunicated Catholic and whose mom said “choose for yourself”. I visited many churches/religious events, still do, and have read a lot. There are many things I do not know, but the things I feel I do know- are relatable. I remember being with Grandma when dementia set in and I was losing “my person” I remember reading your early college work and thinking “if he can do it, so can I” as I was struggling with adult ADHD & dyslexia recently discovered but had been there the entire time. I struggled in some areas but I persevered. Part of my love for other cultures came from you, and despite “and because of” living in a small racist county

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  • Guilty Pleasures – the Novels of Stuart Woods

    Guilty Pleasures – the Novels of Stuart Woods

    Guilty Pleasures – the Novels of Stuart Woods 

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    One of my “guilty pleasures” is reading my favorite writer, Stuart Woods. Boy, can the dude pump them out!  In the last count, he has written over 80 books almost all of the best sellers and he has been pumping out one to two a year since he first got published in the late ’70s.

    He started out writing “Chiefs” which became a movie as well.  The main character is a police chief in a small town in Georgia.  The character reappears in many later novels, eventually becoming a two-term president, and in town, Delgado also appears as a place in many of his later novels.  Most of his novels are set in NYC, Maine, Key West, Los Angeles, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

    Most of his books feature the exploits of Stone Barrington, an NYC high-society type who is a James Bond-like character.  He is a retired NYC cop, a lawyer, a real estate investor, a part-time CIA agent, and a player with many love interests.  He is also best friends with three presidents and the not-so-secret lover of the current President. He introduced me to Knob Creek bourbon which is now one of my favorite bourbons, and he is also partial to Martinis-made James Bond style.

    In this alternative universe, the President serves two terms, his wife serves two terms, and her secretary of State is elected President. Stone is friends with them all.

    Stone’s best friend is Dino Bachetti, his old NYC homicide partner who became NYC Police Commissioner and helps Stone out officially and unofficially over the years.  He has had a lot of love interests including Holly Barker who was a former secretary of state and president.

    Another recurring character is Ed Lee who is a friend of Stone who lives and works out of Santa Fe New Mexico.  Ed Lee is a 6’8 former college basketball player who becomes an attorney.

    My only criticism is that his books are very formalistic.  At some point, someone is going to be able to program a computer to write novels and his novels would be a great place to start because I am sure that a computer could generate believable Stone Barrington novels.  Having said that, his novels are still enjoyable.

    He has written a few non-Stone Barrington novels stand-alone novels. One I enjoyed recently was Palindrome which is a psychological thriller set on an island off the South Carolina coast. Written in the mid 90’s I believe.

    I often start a novel of his while waiting around in the PX for my wife to finish up, and throughout several visits, often finish the novel.

    The following is a list of his novels, I bolded the ones I have read. One of my bucket list reading goals is to finish reading all of his novels.

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    Stuart Woods Books in Order (Bold indicates I have read it)

     Publication Order of Stone Barrington Books

    New York Dead (1991) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Dirt (1996) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Dead in the Water (1997) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Swimming to Catalina (1998) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Worst Fears Realized (1999) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    L.A. Dead (2000) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Cold Paradise (2001) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    The Short Forever (2002) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Dirty Work (2003) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Reckless Abandon (2004) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Two Dollar Bill (2004) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Dark Harbor (2006) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Fresh Disasters (2007) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Shoot Him If He Runs (2007) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Hot Mahogany (2008) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Loitering with Intent (2009) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Kisser (2009) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Lucid Intervals (2010) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Strategic Moves (2010) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Bel-Air Dead (2011) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Son of Stone (2011) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    D.C. Dead (2011) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Unnatural Acts (2012) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Severe Clear (2012) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Collateral Damage (2012) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Unintended Consequences (2013) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Doing Hard Time (2013) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Standup Guy (2014) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Carnal Curiosity (2014) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Cut and thrust (2014) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Paris Match (2014) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Insatiable Appetites (2015) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Hot Pursuit (2015) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Naked Greed (2015) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Foreign Affairs (2015) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Scandalous Behavior (2016) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Family Jewels (2016) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Dishonorable Intentions (2016) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Sex, Lies & Serious Money (2016) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Below the Belt (2017) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Fast and Loose (2017) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Indecent Exposure (2017) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Quick & Dirty (2017) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Unbound (2018) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Shoot First (2018) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Turbulence (2018) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Desperate Measures (2018) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    A Delicate Touch (2018) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Wild Card (2019) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Contraband (2019) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Stealth (2019) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Treason (2020) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Hit List (2020) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Choppy Water (2020) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Shakeup (2020) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Hush-Hush (2020) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Double Jeopardy (2021) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Class Act (2021) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Foul Play (2021) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Criminal Mischief (2021) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

    Publication Order of Holly Barker Books

    Orchid Beach (1998) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Orchid Blues (2001) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Blood Orchid (2002) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Reckless Abandon (2004) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Iron Orchid (2005) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Hothouse Orchid (2009) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

    Publication Order of Ed Eagle Books

    Santa Fe Rules (1992) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Short Straw (2006) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Santa Fe Dead (2008) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Santa Fe Edge (2010) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

    Publication Order of Herbie Fisher Books

    Barely Legal(With Parnell Hall) (2017) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

    Publication Order of Rick Barron Books

    The Prince of Beverly Hills (2004) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Beverly Hills Dead (2008) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

    Publication Order of Teddy Fay Books

    Smooth Operator(With Parnell Hall) (2016) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    The Money Shot(With Parnell Hall) (2018) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Skin Game(With Parnell Hall) (2019) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Bombshell(With Parnell Hall) (2020) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Jackpot(With Bryon Quarterboys) (2021) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

    Publication Order of Will Lee Books

    Chiefs (1981) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Run Before the Wind (1983) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Deep Lie (1986) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Grass Roots (1989) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    The Run (1995) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Capital Crimes (2003) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Mounting Fears (2008) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

    Publication Order of Standalone Novels

    Under the Lake (1986) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    White Cargo (1988) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Palindrome (1990) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    L.A. Times (1993) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Heat (1994) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Dead Eyes (1994) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Imperfect Strangers (1995) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    Choke (1995) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

    Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

    Blue Water, Green Skipper (1977) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
    A romantic’s guide to the country inns of Britain and Ireland (1979) Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

    About Stuart Woods: (from web site)

    Stuarts Woods is an American novelist. He was born in Georgia in 1938 and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1959. He then enrolled in the National Guard before moving to New York to start a career in Advertising.
    He then moved to London and spent a further 3 years working in advertising before deciding that he wanted a change and he began writing his first novel. It is at this time that he decided to move to Ireland where he lived a solitary lifestyle, only leaving his home to make money writing adverts for local television.

    Sailing

    Woods moved to Ireland in the 70s and this was where he fell in love with sailing. He spent many years competing in sailing competitions and learning how to be a better sailor. He finally bought his boat when his grandfather died and left him some money, so he could afford it. It was then that he took sailing more seriously and spent most of 1974 learning more about sailing.

    Writing

    Woods began writing about his experiences in his yacht races and he was published in 1977, with the book Blue Water, Green Skipper. It seemed like he had found an ideal career based on the thing he loved most, sailing.
    Changing Plans
    His second book was supposed to be about another boat race that he was due to take part in, but the race was canceled due to inclement weather, so he decided to drive around the UK and write a book about his adventures in the county inns.
    Chiefs
    Woods then went on to write his first novel called Chiefs. He made the mistake of selling the book to publishers unfinished because he thought he would have gotten a lot more for it had he waited until the book was finished.
    Norton was the company to publish the hardback, but he felt like the company let him down because they didn’t do much to promote the book. He then contacted Bentham Books, who published the paperback and it was much more successful.

    Note: the main character resurfaces in the Stone Barrington novels as a politician and eventually two-term president.  his wife then serves as president after he retires. 

    Charlton Heston
    In 1983, the book was made into a tv series starring Charlton Heston and Danny Glover. It was aired by CBS over three nights and it ended up being nominated for three Emmy Awards.
    The popularity of the tv show meant that more people wanted to read the books and there was renewed interest in the paperback version of the books and Woods won the Edgar Award for the Best First Novel.

    Series Over Standalones

    Woods is one of those authors who are more focused on the series of novels over the standalone. His most popular series is the Stone Barrington Novels. He has just released his 27th novel in the series and he has written 3 more novels, which are set to be released in 2014.

    Who is Stone Barrington?

    Stone Barrington is a counsel for a law firm. After he finished college, he joined the police and served 14 years on the force. He left after disagreeing with his superiors and then got a job with the law firm. The novels tell the story of his exploits so far.
    In the Stone Barrington novels, Woods is often congratulated for getting the law procedures correct when he has no background in law himself. It is noticed a lot and one fan asked how he gets it all right. He indicates that he is a massive fan of law procedurals such as LA Law and Law & Order, so gets all of his knowledge from there. He has made a few friends who are Lawyers, so if he gets anything wrong, they tell him.

    Holly Barker

    Holly Barker is a character in another series of books that he writes. She is an ex-army officer and navy brat. She left the army because of a sex scandal and she has to learn how to live a civilian life. She begins her new life as the Chief of Police and she learns just how dangerous her new life is.

    Update: she eventually becomes Stone Barington’s main love interest, joines the CIA and becomes Secretary of State and later the second Female President. These are all chronicalled in the Stone Barington Novels, the Holly Barker novel focus on her earlier life as the chief of police. end updated note

    Even though Woods has written several series, which focus on the life of a single character, the characters from each of the novels do crossover into other series. For example, Stone Barrington appears in the second Holly Barker novel and he also appears in the second novel of the Rick Barron novels.

    Rick Barron

    The Rick Barron novels are only two books deep at the moment. Rick Barron was a police detective and he was demoted after a run-in with a higher officer. He gets the job as security for Centurion Pictures but finds himself in the middle of a double murder case in the period that is said to be the golden age of Hollywood cinema.
    The first Rick Barron novel, The Prince of Beverly Hills, was meant to be a standalone novel but Woods ended up writing a sequel after he was bombarded with emails from fans asking him to write another. He has no plans to write another at this moment in time.
    After Chiefs was made into a TV series, one of his other books was adapted for TV as well. Grass Roots was made into a TV series in 1993. Since then, no other books have been made for TV.
    Woods indicates that he would love it for his other books to be made into movies and if a director has read one of the books and wants to buy the rights, then he encourages the writer to get in touch with his agent.
    In his personal life, Woods loves to fly, having his planes and he still sails regularly on his private yacht. He had married before but it ended in divorce and little is known about this marriage. He has stated that he preferred to live the life of a bachelor, but in 2013 he fell in love and married Jeanmarie Cooper. They have three homes, which they travel between, with their dog Fred.

    End Stuart Wood com excerpt.

    Note: Teddy Fey

    Teddy Fay first appears as a domestic terrorist taking out corrupt political leaders.  He is a disgruntled ex CIA agent and the master of covert action.  He is eventually pardoned by President Lee and moves to LA where he works as a actor/producer for Stone Barington’s son who is a movie producer.  He continues to occasionally engage in assasinations as a free lancer taking out those who need to be killed.

    Note: Herbie Fisher

    Herbie Fisher appears as Stone’s newphew who is sort of like a smary, “Wally Cleaver” kind of young man. He eventually passes the bar on the 5th try, and becomes a lawyer, but a bit on the shady side of the street.

    The End

     

     

     

     

     

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    September 15, 2021
  • Cosmos Books Read 2021 Update

    Cosmos Books Read 2021 Update

    Cosmos Books Read 2021 Update

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    1001 Books to Read Before You Die List
    Cosmos Books Read 2020 RevisedBooks Read 2020
    Books read 2019

    Books read 2019
    Cosmos’s Reading List 2021

    Goals:  100 Books

    Read Classics

    One Thriller Per Month

    One history/politics book per month

    Read A Lot More Poetry

    Read At Least One Book A Year in Spanish

    Read At Least One Book A Year in Korean

     

    I will year try to finish reading classic books.  I have a collection from Kindle of 50 books to read before you die, in three volumes – 15O books in total see list below.  I have read many of them already which I have noted.  As I read them, I will add them to the chronological listing below.

    The List

    The List

    Best American Poetry 2018

     

    Allison Adair Miscarriage

    Kaveh Akbar Against Dying

    Julia Alvarez American Dream

    David Barber Sherpa Song

    AR Amnov Finishing Up

    Andrew Bertaina A Translator’s Note

    Frank Bidart Mourning What We Thought We Were

    Bruce Bond Anthem

    George Bradley Those Were the Days

    Joyce Clement Birds Punctuate the Days

    Brennan Constantine The Opposite Games

    Marianne Cobbett Prayer Concerning the New More Accurate Translation of Certain Prayers

    Robert Cording Toast to My Dead Parents

    Cynthia Cruz Artaud

    Dick Davis A Personal Sonnet

    Warren Decker Today’s Special

    Susan De Sola the Wives of The Poets

    Dante De Stefano Reading Dostoyevsky At 17

    Nausheen Eusuf Pied Beauty

    Jonathan Galasso Oriental Epithalamion

    Jessica Goodfellow Test

    Sonia Greenfield Ghost Ship

    Joy Harjo an American Sunrise

    Terrance Hayes American Sonnet from My Past and Future Assassins

    Ernest Hilbert Mars Ultor

    Nemo Hill the View from The Bar

    Tony Hoagland Into the Mystery

    Anna Maria Hong Yonder a Rental

    Paul Hoover, I Am the Size of What I see

    Maria Howe Walking Home

    Mandy Kahn Ives

    Ilya Kaminski, We Lived Happily During the War

    Stephan Kampa The Quiet Boy

    Denika Kelly Love Poem Chimera

    Mary Jo Salter We Will Always Have Parents

    Jason Schneiderman Voxel

    Nicole Sealy Violence

    Michael Schumacher Advent

    Carmen Gimenez Smith Dispatch from Midlife

    Tracy K Smith an Old Story

    Gary Snyder Why California Will Never Be Like Tuscany

    An E Stallings Pencil

    Anne Stevenson How Poems Arrive

    Adriene Su Substitutions

    Natasha Trethewey Shooting Wild

    Agniezeku Tworek Grief Runs Untamed

    Waldrep Dear Office in Which I Must Account for Tears

    Wang Ping Lao Jia

    James Matthew Wilson on A Palm

    Ryan Wilson Face It

     

    Best American Poetry 2017

     

    Christian Wiman Assembly

    Dan Allerbotti Weapons Exchange Report

    David Barber on A Shaker Admonition

    Dan Beachy-Quick Apophatic

    Bruce Bond Homage to a Painter of Small Things

    John Brennan Intrigue in The Trees

    John Ashbery Commotion of Birds

    Jericho Brown Bullet Points

    Nicole Brown The Dead

    Cyrus Cassells Elegy with A Gold Cradle

    Isaac Cates Fidelity and The Dead Singer

    Allison Cobb, I Forgive You

    Leonard Cohen Steer Your Way

    Michael Collier a Wild Tom Turkey

    Billy Collins Presence

    Carl Dennis Two Lives

    Katia Claudia Emerson Spontaneous Emission

    David Feinstein Kaddish

    Carolyn Fouche The Boatman

    Viva Francis Given to Those proclivities By God

    Amy Gerstler Dead Butterfly

    Reginald Gibbons Canasta

    Margaret Given Passage

    Aracelis Girmay From the Black Maria

    Jeffrey Harrison Higher Education

    Terrace Hayes Ars Poetica with Bacon

    RJ Herbert Mounting the Dove Box

    Tony Hoagland Cause of Death Fox News

    John Hogan Hamlet Texts Guildenstern About Paying Upon the Pipe

    David Brendan Hopes Certain Things

    Major Jackson Trends a Well Light Summer Cocktail

    John James History

    Rodney Jones Homecoming

    Fatty Judah Progress Notes

    Meg Kearney Crackle

    John Koethe the Age of Anxiety

    Yusef Komunyakaa from the last bohemian of Avenue A

    Danusha Lammers The Watch

    Jordan Laux Lapse

    Phillip Le Van Rain in Winter

    Amit Majumdar Kill List

    Jamal May Things That Break

    Judson Mitchem White

    John Murillo Upon reading that Eric Dolphy transcribed Even the calls of certain species of birds

    Joyce Carol Oates to Marlon Brando in Hell

    Sharon Olds Ode to The Glands

    Matthew Bozeman Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czeslaw Milosz

    Gregory Orr Three Dark Proverb Sonnets

    Carl Phillips Rockabye

    Rowan Picado Phillips Halo

    Robin Robert Pinksy Names

    Stanley Plumly Poliomyelitis

    Paisley Rekdal Assemblage of ruined Plane Parts Vietnam Military Museum

    Michael Ryan the Mercy Home

    David St John Emanations

    Cheryl Santos, I Went for A Walk in Winter

    Taiji Silverman Where to Put It

    Charles Simic Seeing Things

    Danny Smith Last Summer of Innocence

    Maggie Smith Good Bones

    RT Smith Maricon

    RE Stallings Shattered

    Pamela Sutton Afraid to Pray

    Chase Twitchell Sad Song

    James Valvis Something

    Emily Van Kley Dear Skull

    Wendy Videlock Deconstruction

    Lucy Waigner Scheherazade

    Crystal Williams Double Helix

    Christian Wiman Prelude

    Monica Yoan Green acre

    C Dale Young Precatico Simplex

    Dean Young Infinitives

    Kevin Young Money Road

    Matthew Zapruder Poem for Vows

     

    Best American Poetry 2019

     

    Dilruba Ahmed Phase One

    Rosa Alclad You and The Raw Bullets

    Margaret Atwood Updates on Werewolves

    Catherine Barnett Center Park

    Joshua Bennett America Will Be

    Fleda Brown Afternoons on The Lake

    Sumitra Chakraborty Essay on Joy

    Victoria Chung Six Orbits

    Glen Chan, I Invite My Parents to A Dinner Party

    Leonard Cohen, I Drank a Lot

    Laura Cronk Like a Cat

    Kate Daniels Metaphor Less

    Carol Dennis Armed Neighbor

    Tori Derricotte Apology to The Reader

    Thomas Devaney Brilliant Corners

    Natalie Diaz Skin- Light

    Jean Dominique Duryer Declined in The Adoration of Jack in The Pulpits

    Martin Espada, I Now Pronounce You Dead

    Nausheen Eusurf The Analytic Hour

    Vievere Francis Cazonian Blue Than Bluer

    Gabriela García Guantanamera

    Amy Gerstler Update

    Camila Guthrie Virgil

    Yona Harvey Dark and Lonely After Takeoff A Future

    Robert Hass Dancing

    Terrance Hayes American Silent My Past and Future Assassin

    Juan Felipe Herrera Roll Under the Waves

    Edward Hirsch Stranger by Night

    Jane Hershfield Ledger

    James Hock Sunflowers

    Bob Homan All Praise Cecil Taylor

    Garrett Hongo The Brothers Cassia

    Ishion Hutchison Sympathy of a Clear Day

    Major Jackson in Memory of Derek Alton Walcott

    Ilya Kaminski from testament

    Ruth Ellen Kocher We May No Longer Considered the End

    Deborah Landau Soft Targets

    Quraysh Ali Lansana Higher Calling

    Li-Young Lee the Undressing

    David Lehman, It Could Happen to You

    Ada Limon Cannibal Women

    Rebecca Lynn Berry a Brief History of The Future Apocalypse

    Nubile Lovelace the S in I Love You Porgy

    Clarence Major Hair

    () Gail Mazur At a Lands End

    () Shane Mcrae The President Visits the Storm

    () Jeffrey Mcdonald Fired from A Parallel World

    () Campbell Mcgrath Gray Miles Davis Birth of The Cool at The Founding in Brasilia

    Ange Milinko Sleepwalking in Venice

    Kamela Aisha Moon

    The Last of England

    Paul Moulton Aubade

    John Murio on Confessionalism

    Naomi Shihab Nye My Own State Department

    Sharon Olds Rasputin Aria

    Michael Palmer Nord-Sur

    Morgan Parker The Black Saint, And the Sinner Lady, The Dead, and The Truth

    William Perdomo Head Crack Head Crack

    Carl Philip Star Map with Action Figures

    Ishmael Reed Just Rolling Along

    Paisley Rekdal Four Marys

    Sonia Sanchez Belly, Buttons and Straight Spines

    Nicole Santalucia #Me Too

    Philip Schultz Encore

    Jane Shore Who Knows One

    The Greatest Personal Privation

    Ae Stallings Harms Way

    Arthur Sze The White Orchard

    Natasha Trethewey Through Her a Duty

    Ocean Voong Partly True Phone Reflecting in A Mirror

    David Wojahn Still Life Stevens Wallet and Key West Hotel Dresser

    Kevin Young High

     

    In the following poems, poets use different types of imagery to express their concepts.

    Visual imagery …

    Blazing in Gold and Quenching in Purple
    by Emily Dickinson

    (source: http://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=1996)

    Auditory imagery …

    The Sound of the Sea
    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Olfactory imagery …

    Smells
    by Kathryn Worth

    Gustatory imagery …

    This is Just to Say
    by William Carlos Williams

    Tactile imagery …

    The Kiss
    by Sara Teasdale

    Adam Bede (1859) read,

    The Lifted Veil   read

    The Mill on the Floss (1860),

    Silas Mariner (1861),

    Edgar Allen Poe Tell-Tale Heart from DYI MFA

    Five Poems from DYI MFA

     

    Five Senses

     

    Walt Whitman When I Heard the Learned Astronomer Sight DYI MFA

    Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth Sound DYI MFA

    Barry Cornwall A Petition to Time Touch DYI MFA

    Emily Dickinson, I Like to See It Lap the Miles Taste DYI MFA

    Walter Prichard Eaton the Lilac Smell DYI MFA

     

    Space

     

    T.E. Hume the Embankment

    E.E. Cummings in Just

    The Mouse’s Tale, By Lewis Carroll

     

    Three poems from writing com 3/30/2021

    John Gillespie Magee, Jr. High Flight
    (Source: Https://Nationalpoetryday.Co.Uk/Poem/High-Flight/)
    Jeffrey Harrison, Nest
    (Source: Https://Www.Poetryfoundation.Org/Poems/55885/Nest-56d237e2d619c)
    Ted Kooser, Abandoned Farmhouse
    (Source: Https://Www.Poetryfoundation.Org/Poems/52935/Abandoned-Farmhouse)

    Famous poems

    Glass by Robert Francis  Writing com
    Blue Winter by Robert Francis  Writing com
    encounter  writing com

    Where I Belong – Contest winner Feb 24, 2021,  writing com

    Edna St. Vincent Millay -Pastoral  writing com
    Lorraine Marguerite Gasrel Black -Pastoral Rhapsody writing com
    Daniel Miltz -Pastoral Day  writing com
    Henry Kirke White -A Pastoral Songwriting com

    Carl Sandberg Passers-By
    Poetry Corner, writing com Poetry corner

    Randall Jarrell The Olive Garden  Writing com poetry
    Randall Jarrell the Breath of Night Writing com poetry
    Randal Jarrell the Orient Express Writing com poetry

    Peter Gizzi -This World Is Not Conclusion

    Jean Valentine – La Chalupa, The Boat

    Carl Phillips  Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm

     

     

    Poetry for Dummies

     

    Abdul Ala armada Rafi I poem Friend, this world is like an unburied corpse

    Ali Ahmad Saeed poem

    Alton David translation of a man and a woman white

    Andre Breton Man and Woman Absolutely White

    Mary Bernard, translation of Sofia he is more than a hero

    Ingeborg Bachman poem

    Anne Bradstreet letter to her husband 1650 first Published woman poet in the US

    Willis Barnstone translation of mother’s song if snow

    Charles Bernstein writing exercises

    William Blake Sick Rose

    Elizabeth Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese #43 how Do I love Thee

    Elizabeth Bishop one art Britain

    Andre Carter Stephen D translation lady is shichimi if someone would come

    William Barnstone she is at island me turn off

    Maxine Chernoff writing exercises

    Chilam Balam poem

    Chiyo various lines

    William Corbett Vermont Apollinaire

    Robert Creely the business

    EE Cummings In Jest

    Bel Dao Listen, I Don’t Believe Chinese poet mid-20th century

    David Wagner lines and since a call since Elam since summer

    Thomas Campion When to her lute Corinna sings

    Jon Donne Holly Sonnet 14

    Lucile Clifton, I don’t know how to do

    Emily Dickinson lines and poems 214

    Emily Dickinson poem 262

    Emily Dickinson poem 640

    Emily Dickinson poem 986

    Emily Dickinson poem 1732

    Enhenduanna The Exaltation of Inanna, antiphonal Hymns Praise of Inanna

    Egyptian Poem, untitled

    Fanny Howe About Face

    Imr El Quais The Great Ode

    Elaine Feinstein excerpt from translation Marina TSvetayeva poems of the end Lawrence Ferlinghetti excerpt from constantly risking absurdity Coney Island of the mind

    Donald Finkel excerpt from a translation of Bel Dao

    Roberts Elizabeth silent poems

    Frances Kathleen vanishing point third black quartet from Wayne

    Robert Frost Nothing Gold can stay

    Robert Clark translation departure by Pierre Reverdy

    Jorie Graham In what matter is the body united with the soul

    Barbara Guest Lines from red lilies

    HD Dread

    HD Sea Rose

    HD Oread

    Allen Hibbert translation of Adonis desire moving through the Maps of the material

    Ronald Hoffman excerpt from deceptively like a solid

    Kelly Holt writing exercises

    Bible, Ecclesiastes for everything there is a season

    Homer Odyssey

    Homer Iliad

    Edward Arlington Robinson Richard Corey

    Fanny Howe About Face

    George Herbert Death

    Linda jarkesy the bed

    John K

    Randall Jarred the death of the Bell turret gunner

    John Keats The Eve of St Agnes

    Lao Tzu Rule a Large Nation

    DH Lawrence Bavarian Gentians

    LiPo Moonlight Pools

    Liu Tsung-yuan From One thousand mountains

    Audre Lorde lines from coal

    Hugh MacDiarmid Another epitaph on the army of mercenaries

    Jackson Mac Lou excerpt from antic quartans

    Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat excerpt

    Alexander Pope Essay on Criticism

    Bernadette Mayer writing exercises

    WS Merwin excerpts from leviathan

    Pablo Neruda leaning into afterworlds

    Pablo Neruda and walking around

    John Milton excerpts from Allegro

    John Milton excerpts from paradise lost

    Mariana Moore experts from the monkeys

    Laura Moriarty the mouth

    Bridge Mullins writing exercises

    Ellen Myles honey bear

    Lorraine Niedecker now in one year

    Charles North excerpt from shooting for line

    George Oppen excerpt from psalm

    Dorothy Parker resume

    Bob Pearlman speaker vibrates through the entire house after from AK

    Ezra Pound in a station in the Metro

    David Ray translation lines from Chiyo

    Kenneth Rexroth translation of Midnight songs

    Pierre Reverdy Departure

    Christopher Sawyer Le is More Than an Hericenone translation Flight of the Itza

    Dominion Searls translation of a kind of loss

    Shelly Love Philosophy 19th Century

    Sappho He is more than a Hero

    Jack Spicer lines for imaginary elegies part 1-111

    John Tipane translation Abu Hamza al online from this world

    Dante in the middle of the road

    Anonymous Egyptian poem only one matchless sister

    manioc If snow falls on the left field

    Issa Morning

    Beowulf soon saw

    Homer then wide ruling Agamemnon

    Homer infinite terror

    Homer wars spears

    Imr El Qis here was the place I watched her

    Arthur Rimbaud Bateau Ivre if I desire

    Arthur Rimbaud memory

    Arthur Rimbaud longing for young arms

    Rig Veda there was no such things

    Sappho the moon has set

    Charles Thomasson lines from Mr. Birdy

    David Trinidad monster mash

    TS Elliot Excerpt from the Wasteland

    Mariana Tsvetanyana Poem of the End

    Alfred Tennyson Now Sleep the Crimson Petal

    Anne Waldman excerpt for Iovis 19

    William Carlos Williams except for the descent

    Walt Whitman excerpts from Leaves of Grass

    William Butler Yeats the second coming

    William Wordsworth the Solitary Reaper

    Louis Zukofsky in Arizona from 729 songs

    Richard Lovelace 17th Century British Poet, “To Lucasta, Going to War”

    Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 Call complaint to His Purs (Purse)

     

    Parody Poems from NaPoWrMo April 27 Prompt

     

    Lewis Carroll Crocodile

    Isaac Watts How Doth the Little

    Lewis Carroll This the Voice of The Lobster

    Isaac Watts The Sluggard
    Lewis Carroll Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bat

     

    Other poems from Writing com and Elsewhere

    Abandoned Farmhouse
    by Ted Kooser
    Wooden Boats 
    Judy Serum Brown
    Denise Levertov Celebration

    Edgar Allan Poe A Dream Within a Dream

    Heal the World with Marigolds  poetic blossoming entry

    Midnight encounters a poetic blossoming entry

     

    David S the All-Mighty Thresher
    Sally Ann Roberts example #1:it All Started with A Packet of Seeds

    Marie Summers  Example #2:celestial Dreams

    Marie Summers  Dance In the Rain come,

    Marie Summers  Dendrobium Osprey o, Sleek and Beauteous hunter.

     

    Other Books

     

    Frederick Forsythe Icon

    David Baldacci One Good Deed

    David Baldacci the Last Mile

    Claudia Gray Defy the Stars

    Daniel Silva The Defector

    Daniel Silva the English Assassin

    Daniel Silva The Messenger

    Stuart Woods A delicate Touch

    Stuart Woods Choppy Water

    Stuart Woods Palindrome

    Steven Parnell All Out Wall

    Stuart Woods Bombshell

    Ransom Riggs   Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2011), read

    Ransom Riggs    Hollow City (2014), read

    Ransom Riggs Library of Souls (2015). Read

    Ransom Riggs A Map of Days to read

    Ransom Riggs   the conference of the Birds – to read

    Ransom Riggs    the Desolations of Devils Acre read

     

     

    Elliot Novels

     

    Adam Bede (1859) read,

    The Lifted Veil   read

    The Mill on the Floss (1860), read

    Silas Mariner (1861), read

    Middlemarch

     

     

    50 Books to Read Before You Die – three volumes 150 books total. I have read the following

    The Complete List, Volume One

     

    Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy  Read

    Jane Austen Emma Read

    Jane Austen Persuasion Read

    Honoré de Balzac Father Gorgio

    Anne Brontë the Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre  Read

    Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights Read

    Samuel Butler the Way of All Flesh

    Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote Read

    Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness Read

    Joseph Conrad Nostromo

    Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders Read

    Charles Dickens Bleak House Read

    Charles Dickens Great Expectation Read s

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov Read

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment Read

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot Read

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Read

    Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo  Read

    George Eliot Middlemarch Read

    George Eliot Daniel Deronda Read

    Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman the Yellow Wallpaper Read

    Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls

    The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales Read

    Homer the Odyssey Read

    Homer the Iliad Read

    Victor Hugo Les Misérables Read

    Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow  Read

    Henry James The Portrait of a Lady

    James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Read

    D.H Lawrence Sons and Lovers Read

    Gaston Leroux The Phantom of the Opera

    Jack London The Call of The Wild  Read

    Herman Melville The Great God Pan Moby Dick Read

    Marcel Proust Swann’s Way to read

    Mary Shelley Frankenstein Read

    Stendhal The Red and the Black

    Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Read

    Bram Stoker Dracula Read

    Sun Tzu the Art of War Read

    Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels Read

    William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair Read

    Leo Tolstoy War and Peace Read

    Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina Read

    Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilych

    Mark Twain the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  Read

    Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray  Read

    Grant Allen What’s Bred in the Bone  to read–

    Lucius Apuleius The Golden Ass -to read

    Marcus Aurelius Meditations – Read

    Jane Austen Lady Susan  to read

    Jane Austen Northanger Abbey -to read

    1. Frank Baum the Wonderful Wizard of Oz – Read

    Dale Carnegie the Art of Public Speaking – Read

    Margaret Cavendish The Blazing World to read –

    The Innocence of Father Brown – G.K Chesterton to read

    G.K Chesterton Heretics – to read

    G.K Chesterton -The Dennington Affair to read

    G.K Chesterton the Wisdom of Father Brown – to read

    John Cleland Fanny Hill – to read

    Wilkie Collins The Moonstone – to read

    Joseph Conrad Lord Jim – to read

    Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Read

    The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens Read

    A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens Read

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Gambler – to read

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from The Underground – Read

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Sign of Four Read

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Hound of the Baskerville Read

     

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Lost World  read

    Alexandre Dumas the Three Musketeers read

    Alexandre Dumas the Man in the Iron Mask read

    1. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise read

    Elizabeth Gaskell Curious, if True, Strange Tales

    Henry Rider Haggard King Solomon’s Mines  read

    Victor Hugo the Hunchback of Notre-Dame

    Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book to read

    Rudyard Kipling Captains Courageous to read

    Rudyard Kipling -Kim – to read

    D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover read

    Jack London the Son of the Wolf to read

    Hendrik Anton Lorentz the Einstein Theory of Relativity to read

    HP Lovecraft The Dun ich Horror read

    HP Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness read

    Niccolò Machiavelli the Prince – to read

    Lucy Maud Montgomery the Story Girl to read

    The Antichrist – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche to read

    Plato The Republic – read

    Mary Shelley The Last Man – read

    Mark Twain Life on The Mississippi – read

    Vats Ayana the Kama Sutra read

    Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days  read

    Louisa May Alcott Little Women  to read

    Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility  Read

    1. M. Barrie Peter Pan read
    2. M. Bower Cabin Fever to read

    Frances Hodgson Burnett the Secret Garden to read

    Frances Hodgson Burnett a Little Princess to read

    Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland  read

    Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables to read

    Jules Verne A Journey into the Center of the Earth  Read

    Jules Verne The Mysterious Island  Read

    Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Read

    1. G. Wells the War of the Worlds read
    2. G. Wells the Time Machine (H.G Wells) read

    Oscar Wilde The Centerville Ghost to read

    Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out to read

    William Chamber the King in Yellow to read

    William Chesterton the Man Who Knew Too Much Read

    Wilkie Collins The Woman in White to read

    HG Wells the Star to read

    Dorothy Leigh Sayers Whose Body? to read

    Margaret Deland the Iron Woman to read

    Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities read

    Fyodor Dostoevsky The Double

    Arthur Conon Doyle Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes to read

    F Scott Fitzgerald the Curious Case of Benjamin Button to read

    EM Foster a Room with a View  read

    Sigmund Freud Dream Psychology  Read

    Thomas Hardy Tess of the d’Urbervilles Read

    Hermann Hesse Siddhartha  read

    James Joyce Dubliners read

    Edgar Allen Poe the Fall of the House of Usher  read

    Andrew Land the Arabian Nights to read

    Jack London The Sea Wolf read

    HP Lovecraft The Call of Cthulu read

    Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables to read

    William Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil read

    Edgar Allen Poe the Murders in the Rue Morgue read

    Edgar Allen Poe the Black Cat read

    Edgar Allen Poe the Raven read

    Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island read

    William Strunk the Elements of Style  read

    Mark Twain the Adventures of Tom Sawyer read

    Mark Twain the Prince and the Pauper read

     Stuart Woods 

    1.    Run Before the Wind – 1983  to read

    1. Wild Card – 2019 read
    2. Skin Game – 2019 read
    3. Contraband – 2019 read
    4. Choppy waters 2020  Read
    5. A delicate Touch 2020 Read
    6. Palindrome 2020 Read
    7. Blue Water, Green Skipper – 1977  to read
    8. A Romantic’s Guide to The Country Inns of Britain and Ireland – 1979 to read
    9. Chiefs – 1981  read
    10. Run Before the Wind – 1983 read
    11. Deep Lie – 1986
    12. Under The Lake – 1987 to read
    13. White Cargo – 1988 read
    14. Grass Roots – 1989 to read
    15. New York Dead – 1991 read
    16. Santa Fe Rules – 1992 read
    17. L.A. Times – 1993 read
    18. Dead Eyes – 1994 read
    19. Heat – 1994 read
    20. Imperfect Strangers – 1995 to read
    21. Choke – 1995 read
    22. Dirt – 1996 to read
    23. Dead In the Water – 1997 to read
    24. Swimming To Catalina – 1998 to read
    25. Orchid Beach – 1998 read
    26. Worst Fears Realized – 1999 read
    27. The Run – 2000 to read
    28. L.A. Dead – 2000 read
    29. Cold Paradise – 2001 read
    30. Orchid Blues – 2001 read
    31. The Short Forever – 2002 read
    32. Blood Orchid – 2002 read
    33. Dirty Work – 2003 read
    34. Capital Crimes – 2003 read
    35. Reckless Abandon -2004 read
    36. The Prince of Beverly Hills – 2004 read
    37. Two Dollar Bill – 2005 read
    38. Iron Orchid – 2005 read
    39. Dark Harbor – 2006 read
    40. Short Straw – 2006 read
    41. Fresh Disasters – 2007 read
    42. Shoot Him If He Runs – 2007 read
    43. Beverly Hills Dead – 2008 read
    44. Santa Fe Dead – 2008 read
    45. Hot Mahogany – 2008 read
    46. Mounting Fears – 2009 read
    47. Loitering With Intent – 2009 read
    48. Hothouse Orchid – 2009 read
    49. Kisser – 2010 read
    50. Lucid Intervals – 2010 read
    51. Santa Fe Edge – 2010 read
    52. Strategic Moves – 2011 read
    53. Bel-Air Dead – 2011 read
    54. Son Of Stone – 2011 read
    55. D.C. Dead – 2011 read
    56. Unnatural Acts – 2012 read
    57. Severe Clear – 2012 read
    58. Collateral Damage – 2013 read
    59. Unintended Consequences – 2013 read
    60. Doing Hard Time – 2013 read
    61. Standup Guy – 2014 read
    62. Carnal Curiosity – 2014 read
    63. Cut And thrust – 2014 read
    64. Paris Match – 2014 read
    65. Insatiable Appetites – 2015 read
    66. Hot Pursuit – 2015 read
    67. Naked Greed – 2015 read
    68. Foreign Affairs – 2015 read
    69. Scandalous Behavior – 2016 read
    70. Family Jewels – 2016 read
    71. Dishonorable Intentions – 2016 read
    72. Smooth Operator – 2016 read
    73. Sex, Lies & Serious Money – 2016 to read
    74. Below The Belt – 2017 read
    75. Fast And Loose – 2017 read
    76. Indecent Exposure – 2017 read
    77. Barely Legal – 2017 read
    78. Quick & Dirty – 2017 read
    79. Unbound – 2018 read
    80. Shoot First – 2018 read
    81. Turbulence – 2018 read
    82. The Money Shot – 2018 read
    83. Desperate Measures – 2018 read
    84. A Delicate Touch – 2018 read
    85. Wild Card – 2019 read
    86. Skin Game – 2019 read

    Remaining Elliot Novels

    Romola (1862–63),read

    Felix Holt, the Radical (1866),

    Middlemarch (1871–72) read

    and Daniel Deronda (1876).

     

    Famous Poems to Read and Study

    Five Senses

    Walt Whitman When I Heard the Learned Astronomer Sight DYI MFA

    Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth Sound DYI MFA

    Barry Cornwall A Petition to Time Touch DYI MFA

    Emily Dickinson, I Like to See It Lap the Miles Taste DYI MFA

    Walter Prichard Eaton the Lilac Smell DYI MFA

    Space

    T.E. Hume the Embankment

    E.E. Cummings in Just

    The Mouse’s Tale, By Lewis Carroll

    Explanation

    John Gillespie Magee, Jr. HIGH FLIGHT
    Jeffrey Harrison Nest
    Ted Kooser Abandoned Farmhouse
    Randall Jarrell The Olive Garden
    Randall Jarrell the Breath of Night
    Randal Jarrell the Orient Express

    Peter Gizzi -This World Is Not Conclusion

    Jean Valentine – La Chalupa, The Boat

    Carl Phillips  Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm

    Parody Poems from NaPoWrMo April 27 Prompt

    Lewis Carroll Crocodile

    Isaac Watts How Doth the Little

    Lewis Carroll This the Voice of The Lobster

    Isaac Watts The Sluggard
    Lewis Carroll Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bat

    Abandoned Farmhouse
       by Ted Kooser
    Wooden Boats 
    Judy Serum Brown
    Denise Levertov Celebration

    Edgar Allan Poe A Dream Within a Dream

    Writing com Stormy Lady 5/20

    Dorothea Mackellar The Open Sea
    Dorothea Mac Keller in a Southern Garden

    Dorothea Mackellar The Open Sea
    Leonard Nimoy after endless night

    I’d Heal the World with Marigolds  poetic blossoming entry

    Midnight encounters a poetic blossoming entry

    Langston Hughes 

    Our land 

    Dreams

    The Weary Blues

    Life is Fine

    4/10/2021 from DYI MFA

     

    Space Be Still, My Soul, Be Still
    by A. E. Housman

    A. E. Housman
    The Immortal Part

    A. E. Housman
    White in the Moon the Long Road Lies

    Another Home  (E)
    a pantoum on the pleasures of fiction
    #2250974 by Tileira (148)

     

    David S The All Mighty Threasher
    Sally Ann Roberts example #1:it All Started With A Packet Of Seeds

    Marie Summers

    Example #2:celestial Dreams

    Example #3

    Dance In The Rain come,

    Dendrobium

    Example #4:

    Osprey o, Sleek And Beauteous hunter.

    Marie Summers example #5:

     

    Marie Elena Good, 2021 Her Wittiness Stings Poetic Blossoms

    Walter Wojinak He Prince Of Passions

    David Schiebner  Footprints in time Writing Com

    David Schiebner the Soldiers  Writing Com

     

     

    Together Forever  (E)
    A haunting memory in the Samisen form.

    Judi Van Gorder  Cold Forever –

    Endecha Poetic Magnum Opus

    Cross Country, by Robert Lee Brewer  Endecha.   Writers Digest

    Linda  Varsel Smith “Syllables in Velvet” Endecha

    www.Rainbow.Communications.com

    1. William Seaman Higgledy-piggledy Double Dactyl

    Paul Pascal Patty-Cake Double Dactyl

    Anthony Hecht Higgledy-piggledy Double Dactyl

    John Hollander Higgedly-Piggledy Double Dactyl

    Alfred Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade (By Alfred Lord Tennyson)

     Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  Evangeline

    Robert Browning The Lost Leader (By Robert Browning)

    Walt Whitman (Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

    Ian Lancashire  Higgledy Piggledy

    Doditsu

    Pat Anthony Aftermath

    Nurit Israeli Untitled

    Amy Breakfest In Bed

    Yassy Somehow

    Brad Osborne Your Eyes

    Linda Visman Stormwatch
    Susan Sonnen Starlit Dreams

    other poems

    Poetic Bloomings Weather Poem

      Poetic Bloomings Weather Poem the Blues

    Walter J Wojtanik – 2021 THE PRINCE OF PASSIONS

    Dave (Schneider at Writing.Com)  Measure Our Mortality

    David Schnieder at writing com Footprints in Time

    David Schnieder Soldiers

    David SchniderTogether Again

    Judi Van Gorder Cold Forever – Encheda

    Robert Lee Brewer Cross Country, Encheda.

    Linda  Varsel Smith “Syllables in Velvet”

    Double Dactyls

    1. William Seaman Higgledy-piggledy
      Arthur W. Monks Higgledy-piggledy
      Paul Pascal Higgledy-piggledy

    Juliet Capulet Higgledy-piggledy
    John Hollander Higgledy-piggledy

    Alfred Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade (By Alfred Lord Tennyson)

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline

    Robert Browning The Lost Leader

    Walt Whitman Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

    Ian Lancashire Higgledy Piggledy

     

    Sidney Lanier Poems

    Sidney Lanier The Song Of The Chattahoochee
    Sidney Lanier, Ireland
    (Written for the Art Autograph during the Irish Famine, 1880.)
    Sidney Lanier A Sunrise Song

    Steve Smith Poems

    Stevie Smith My Heart Goes Out
    Stevie Smith My Heart Was Full
    Stevie Smith Alone In The Woods

    To read

    Harvard Classics

    50 books to read before you DIe

    1000 books to read before you die

    Elliot Novels

    Poets Companion Finish

    Art and Craft of Poetry Finish

    Whitman Leaves of Grass

    Dickenson Collected Poems

    Robert Service Poems (From Alaskan Gold Rush Period)

    Milton Collected Poems

    Mina Nair Beyond and Back Indian short stories

    Robert Buswell The Zen Monastic Tradition

    Mod Poe poetry

     

    the end

     

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    August 14, 2021
  • Cosmos Books Read 2021 Update

    Cosmos Books Read 2021 Update

    Cosmos Books Read 2021 Update

    1001 Books to Read Before You Die List
    Cosmos Books Read 2020 RevisedBooks Read 2020
    Books read 2019

    Books read 2019
    Cosmos’s Reading List 2021

    Goals:  100 Books

    Read Classics

    One Thriller Per Month

    One history/politics book per month

    Read A Lot More Poetry

    Read At Least One Book A Year in Spanish

    Read At Least One Book A Year in Korean

     

    I will year try to finish reading classic books.  I have a collection from Kindle of 50 books to read before you die, in three volumes – 15O books in total see list below.  I have read many of them already which I have noted.  As I read them, I will add them to the chronological listing below.

    The List

    Thrillers

     

    Steven Parnell All Out Wall

    Stuart Woods Bombshell

    Elliot Novels

     

    Adam Bede (1859) read,

    The Lifted Veil   read

    The Mill on the Floss (1860), read

    Silas Mariner (1861), read

    Middlemarch 1870 (read)

    Ransom Riggs   Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2011), read

    Ransom Riggs    Hollow City (2014), read

    Ransom Riggs Library of Souls (2015). Read

    Ransom Riggs A Map of Days to read

    Ransom Riggs   the conference of the Birds – to read

    Ransom Riggs    the Desolations of Devils Acre read

    Harvard Classic

    Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy  Read

    Jane Austen Emma Read

    Jane Austen Persuasion Read

    Honoré de Balzac Father Gorgio

    Anne Brontë the Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre  Read

    Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights Read

    Samuel Butler the Way of All Flesh  to read

    Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote Read

    Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness Read

    Joseph Conrad Nostromo to read

    Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders Read

    Charles Dickens Bleak House Read

    Charles Dickens Great Expectation Read s

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov Read

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment Read

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot Read

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Read

    Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo  Read

    George Eliot Middlemarch Read

    George Eliot Daniel Deronda Read

    Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary  to read

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman the Yellow Wallpaper Read

    Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls  to read

    The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales Read

    Homer the Odyssey Read

    Homer the Iliad Read

    Victor Hugo Les Misérables Read

    Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow  Read

    Henry James The Portrait of a Lady  to read

    James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Read

    D.H Lawrence Sons and Lovers Read

    Gaston Leroux The Phantom of the Opera

    Jack London The Call of The Wild  Read

    Herman Melville The Great God Pan Moby Dick Read

    Marcel Proust Swann’s Way  to read

    Mary Shelley Frankenstein Read

    Stendhal The Red and the Black

    Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Read

    Bram Stoker Dracula Read

    Sun Tzu the Art of War Read

    Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels Read

    William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair Read

    Leo Tolstoy War and Peace Read

    Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina Read

    Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilych

    Mark Twain the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  Read

    Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray  Read

    Grant Allen What’s Bred in the Bone –

    Lucius Apuleius The Golden Ass – to read

    Marcus Aurelius Meditations – Read

    Jane Austen Lady Susan  to read

    Jane Austen Northanger Abbey -to read

    1. Frank Baum the Wonderful Wizard of Oz – Read

    Dale Carnegie the Art of Public Speaking – Read

    Margaret Cavendish The Blazing World  to read–

    The Innocence of Father Brown – G.K Chesterton to read

    G.K Chesterton Heretics -to read

    G.K Chesterton -The Dennington Affair to read

    G.K Chesterton the Wisdom of Father Brown -to read

    John Cleland Fanny Hill -to read

    Wilkie Collins The Moonstone -to read

    Joseph Conrad Lord Jim –to read

    Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Read

    The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens Read

    A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens Read

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Gambler to read –

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from The Underground – Read

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Sign of Four Read

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Hound of the Baserville Read

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Lost World  read

    Alexandre Dumas the Three Musketeers read

    Alexandre Dumas the Man in the Iron Mask read

    1. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise read

    Elizabeth Gaskell Curious, if True, Strange Tales

    Henry Rider Haggard King Solomon’s Mines  read

    Victor Hugo the Hunchback of Notre-Dame

    Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book  to read

    Rudyard Kipling Captains Courageous  to read

    Rudyard Kipling -Kim –to read

    D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover read

    Jack London the Son of the Wolf  to read

    Hendrik Anton Lorentz the Einstein Theory of Relativity  to read

    HP Lovecraft The Dun ich Horror read

    HP Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness read

    Niccolò Machiavelli the Prince – to read

    Lucy Maud Montgomery the Story Girl to read

    The Antichrist – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche to read

    Plato The Republic – read

    Mary Shelley The Last Man – read

    Mark Twain Life on The Mississippi – read

    Vats Ayana the Kama Sutra read

    Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days  read

    Louisa May Alcott Little Women  to read

    Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility  Read

    1. M. Barrie Peter Pan read
    2. M. Bower Cabin Fever to read

    Frances Hodgson Burnett the Secret Garden to read

    Frances Hodgson Burnett a Little Princess to read

    Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland  read

    Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables to read

    Jules Verne A Journey into the Center of the Earth  Read

    Jules Verne The Mysterious Island  Read

    Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Read

    1. G. Wells the War of the Worlds read
    2. G. Wells the Time Machine (H.G Wells) read

    Oscar Wilde The Centerville Ghost to read

    Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out to read

    William Chamber the King in Yellow to read

    William Chesterton the Man Who Knew Too Much Read

    Wilkie Collins The Woman in White to read

    HG Wells the Star to read

    Dorothy Leigh Sayers Whose Body? to read

    Margaret Deland the Iron Woman to read

    Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities read

    Fyodor Dostoevsky The Double to read

    Arthur Conon Doyle Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes to read

    F Scott Fitzgerald the Curious Case of Benjamin Button to read

    EM Foster a Room with a View  read

    Sigmund Freud Dream Psychology  Read

    Thomas Hardy Tess of the d’Urbervilles Read

    Hermann Hesse Siddhartha  read

    James Joyce Dubliners read

    Edgar Allen Poe the Fall of the House of Usher  read

    Andrew Land the Arabian Nights

    Jack London The Sea Wolf read

    HP Lovecraft The Call of Cthulu read

    Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables to read

    William Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil read

    Edgar Allen Poe the Murders in the Rue Morgue read

    Edgar Allen Poe the Black Cat read

    Edgar Allen Poe the Raven read

    Michael Proust Swan’s Way to read

    Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island read

    William Strunk the Elements of Style  read

    Mark Twain the Adventures of Tom Sawyer read

     

    Best American Poetry 2018

    Allison Adair Miscarriage

    Kaveh Akbar Against Dying

    Julia Alvarez American Dream

    David Barber Sherpa Song

    AR Amnov Finishing Up

    Andrew Bertaina A Translator’s Note

    Frank Bidart Mourning What We Thought We Were

    Bruce Bond Anthem

    George Bradley Those Were the Days

    Joyce Clement Birds Punctuate the Days

    Brennan Constantine The Opposite Games

    Marianne Cobbett Prayer Concerning the New More Accurate Translation of Certain Prayers

    Robert Cording Toast to My Dead Parents

    Cynthia Cruz Artaud

    Dick Davis A Personal Sonnet

    Warren Decker Today’s Special

    Susan De Sola the Wives of The Poets

    Dante De Stefano Reading Dostoyevsky At 17

    Nausheen Eusuf Pied Beauty

    Jonathan Galasso Oriental Epithalamion

    Jessica Goodfellow Test

    Sonia Greenfield Ghost Ship

    Joy Harjo an American Sunrise

    Terrance Hayes American Sonnet from My Past and Future Assassins

    Ernest Hilbert Mars Ultor

    Nemo Hill the View from The Bar

    Tony Hoagland Into the Mystery

    Anna Maria Hong Yonder a Rental

    Paul Hoover, I Am the Size of What I see

    Maria Howe Walking Home

    Mandy Kahn Ives

    Ilya Kaminski, We Lived Happily During the War

    Stephan Kampa The Quiet Boy

    Denika Kelly Love Poem Chimera

    Mary Jo Salter We Will Always Have Parents

    Jason Schneiderman Voxel

    Nicole Sealy Violence

    Michael Schumacher Advent

    Carmen Gimenez Smith Dispatch from Midlife

    Tracy K Smith an Old Story

    Gary Snyder Why California Will Never Be Like Tuscany

    An E Stallings Pencil

    Anne Stevenson How Poems Arrive

    Adriene Su Substitutions

    Natasha Trethewey Shooting Wild

    Agniezeku Tworek Grief Runs Untamed

    Waldrep Dear Office in Which I Must Account for Tears

    Wang Ping Lao Jia

    James Matthew Wilson on A Palm

    Ryan Wilson Face It

    Best American Poetry 2017

    Christian Wiman Assembly

    Dan Allerbotti Weapons Exchange Report

    David Barber on A Shaker Admonition

    Dan Beachy-Quick Apophatic

    Bruce Bond Homage to a Painter of Small Things

    John Brennan Intrigue in The Trees

    John Ashbery Commotion of Birds

    Jericho Brown Bullet Points

    Nicole Brown The Dead

    Cyrus Cassells Elegy with A Gold Cradle

    Isaac Cates Fidelity and The Dead Singer

    Allison Cobb, I Forgive You

    Leonard Cohen Steer Your Way

    Michael Collier a Wild Tom Turkey

    Billy Collins Presence

    Carl Dennis Two Lives

    Katia Claudia Emerson Spontaneous Emission

    David Feinstein Kaddish

    Carolyn Fouche The Boatman

    Viva Francis Given to Those proclivities By God

    Amy Gerstler Dead Butterfly

    Reginald Gibbons Canasta

    Margaret Given Passage

    Aracelis Girmay From the Black Maria

    Jeffrey Harrison Higher Education

    Terrace Hayes Ars Poetica with Bacon

    RJ Herbert Mounting the Dove Box

    Tony Hoagland Cause of Death Fox News

    John Hogan Hamlet Texts Guildenstern About Paying Upon the Pipe

    David Brendan Hopes Certain Things

    Major Jackson Trends a Well Light Summer Cocktail

    John James History

    Rodney Jones Homecoming

    Fatty Judah Progress Notes

    Meg Kearney Crackle

    John Koethe the Age of Anxiety

    Yusef Komunyakaa from the last bohemian of Avenue A

    Danusha Lammers The Watch

    Jordan Laux Lapse

    Phillip Le Van Rain in Winter

    Amit Majumdar Kill List

    Jamal May Things That Break

    Judson Mitchem White

    John Murillo Upon reading that Eric Dolphy transcribed Even the calls of certain species of birds

    Joyce Carol Oates to Marlon Brando in Hell

    Sharon Olds Ode to The Glands

    Matthew Bozeman Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czeslaw Milosz

    Gregory Orr Three Dark Proverb Sonnets

    Carl Phillips Rockabye

    Rowan Picado Phillips Halo

    Robin Robert Pinksy Names

    Stanley Plumly Poliomyelitis

    Paisley Rekdal Assemblage of ruined Plane Parts Vietnam Military Museum

    Michael Ryan the Mercy Home

    David St John Emanations

    Cheryl Santos, I Went for A Walk in Winter

    Taiji Silverman Where to Put It

    Charles Simic Seeing Things

    Danny Smith Last Summer of Innocence

    Maggie Smith Good Bones

    RT Smith Maricon

    RE Stallings Shattered

    Pamela Sutton Afraid to Pray

    Chase Twitchell Sad Song

    James Valvis Something

    Emily Van Kley Dear Skull

    Wendy Videlock Deconstruction

    Lucy Waigner Scheherazade

    Crystal Williams Double Helix

    Christian Wiman Prelude

    Monica Yoan Green acre

    C Dale Young Precatico Simplex

    Dean Young Infinitives

    Kevin Young Money Road

    Matthew Zapruder Poem for Vows

    Best American Poetry 2019

    Dilruba Ahmed Phase One

    Rosa Alclad You and The Raw Bullets

    Margaret Atwood Updates on Werewolves

    Catherine Barnett Center Park

    Joshua Bennett America Will Be

    Fleda Brown Afternoons on The Lake

    Sumitra Chakraborty Essay on Joy

    Victoria Chung Six Orbits

    Glen Chan, I Invite My Parents to A Dinner Party

    Leonard Cohen, I Drank a Lot

    Laura Cronk Like a Cat

    Kate Daniels Metaphor Less

    Carol Dennis Armed Neighbor

    Tori Derricotte Apology to The Reader

    Thomas Devaney Brilliant Corners

    Natalie Diaz Skin- Light

    Jean Dominique Duryer Declined in The Adoration of Jack in The Pulpits

    Martin Espada, I Now Pronounce You Dead

    Nausheen Eusurf The Analytic Hour

    Vievere Francis Cazonian Blue Than Bluer

    Gabriela García Guantanamera

    Amy Gerstler Update

    Camila Guthrie Virgil

    Yona Harvey Dark and Lonely After Takeoff A Future

    Robert Hass Dancing

    Terrance Hayes American Silent My Past and Future Assassin

    Juan Felipe Herrera Roll Under the Waves

    Edward Hirsch Stranger by Night

    Jane Hershfield Ledger

    James Hock Sunflowers

    Bob Homan All Praise Cecil Taylor

    Garrett Hongo The Brothers Cassia

    Ishion Hutchison Sympathy of a Clear Day

    Major Jackson in Memory of Derek Alton Walcott

    Ilya Kaminski from testament

    Ruth Ellen Kocher We May No Longer Considered the End

    Deborah Landau Soft Targets

    Quraysh Ali Lansana Higher Calling

    Li-Young Lee the Undressing

    David Lehman, It Could Happen to You

    Ada Limon Cannibal Women

    Rebecca Lynn Berry a Brief History of The Future Apocalypse

    Nubile Lovelace the S in I Love You Porgy

    Clarence Major Hair

    () Gail Mazur At a Lands End

    () Shane Mcrae The President Visits the Storm

    () Jeffrey Mcdonald Fired from A Parallel World

    () Campbell Mcgrath Gray Miles Davis Birth of The Cool at The Founding in Brasilia

    Ange Milinko Sleepwalking in Venice

    Kamela Aisha Moon

    The Last of England

    Paul Moulton Aubade

    John Murio on Confessionalism

    Naomi Shihab Nye My Own State Department

    Sharon Olds Rasputin Aria

    Michael Palmer Nord-Sur

    Morgan Parker The Black Saint, And the Sinner Lady, The Dead, and The Truth

    William Perdomo Head Crack Head Crack

    Carl Philip Star Map with Action Figures

    Ishmael Reed Just Rolling Along

    Paisley Rekdal Four Marys

    Sonia Sanchez Belly, Buttons and Straight Spines

    Nicole Santalucia #Me Too

    Philip Schultz Encore

    Jane Shore Who Knows One

    The Greatest Personal Privation

    Ae Stallings Harms Way

    Arthur Sze The White Orchard

    Natasha Trethewey Through Her a Duty

    Ocean Voong Partly True Phone Reflecting in A Mirror

    David Wojahn Still Life Stevens Wallet and Key West Hotel Dresser

    Kevin Young High

    Other Books

    Frederick Forsythe Icon

    David Baldacci One Good Deed

    David Baldacci the Last Mile

    Claudia Gray Defy the Stars

    Daniel Silva The Defector

    Daniel Silva the English Assassin

    Daniel Silva The Messenger

    Stuart Woods A delicate Touch

    Stuart Woods Choppy Water

    Stuart Woods Palindrome

    Edgar Allen Poe Tell-Tale Heart from DYI MFA

    Miscleaneous Poetry

    In the following poems, poets use different types of imagery to express their concepts.

    Visual imagery …

    Blazing in Gold and Quenching in Purple
    by Emily Dickinson

    (source: http://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=1996)

    Auditory imagery …

    The Sound of the Sea
    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Olfactory imagery …

    Smells
    by Kathryn Worth

    Gustatory imagery …

    This is Just to Say
    by William Carlos Williams

    Tactile imagery …

    The Kiss
    by Sara TeasdaleFive Poems from DYI MFA

    Five Senses

    Walt Whitman When I Heard the Learned Astronomer Sight DYI MFA

    Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth Sound DYI MFA

    Barry Cornwall A Petition to Time Touch DYI MFA

    Emily Dickinson, I Like to See It Lap the Miles Taste DYI MFA

    Walter Prichard Eaton the Lilac Smell DYI MFA

    Space

    T.E. Hume the Embankment

    E.E. Cummings in Just

    The Mouse’s Tale, By Lewis Carroll

    Three poems from writing com 3/30/2021

    John Gillespie Magee, Jr. High Flight
    (Source: Https://Nationalpoetryday.Co.Uk/Poem/High-Flight/)
    Jeffrey Harrison, Nest
    (Source: Https://Www.Poetryfoundation.Org/Poems/55885/Nest-56d237e2d619c)
    Ted Kooser, Abandoned Farmhouse
    (Source: Https://Www.Poetryfoundation.Org/Poems/52935/Abandoned-Farmhouse)

    Famous poems

    Glass by Robert Francis  Writing com
    Blue Winter by Robert Francis  Writing com
    encounter  writing com

    Where I Belong – Contest winner Feb 24, 2021,  writing com

    Edna St. Vincent Millay -Pastoral  writing com
    Lorraine Marguerite Gasrel Black -Pastoral Rhapsody writing com
    Daniel Miltz -Pastoral Day  writing com
    Henry Kirke White -A Pastoral Songwriting com

    Carl Sandberg Passers-By
    Poetry Corner, writing com Poetry corner

    Randall Jarrell The Olive Garden  Writing com poetry
    Randall Jarrell the Breath of Night Writing com poetry
    Randal Jarrell the Orient Express Writing com poetry

    Peter Gizzi -This World Is Not Conclusion

    Jean Valentine – La Chalupa, The Boat

    Carl Phillips  Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm

    Poetry for Dummies

    Abdul Ala armada Rafi I poem Friend, this world is like an unburied corpse

    Ali Ahmad Saeed poem

    Alton David translation of a man and a woman white

    Andre Breton Man and Woman Absolutely White

    Mary Bernard, translation of Sofia he is more than a hero

    Ingeborg Bachman poem

    Anne Bradstreet letter to her husband 1650 first Published woman poet in the US

    Willis Barnstone translation of mother’s song if snow

    Charles Bernstein writing exercises

    William Blake Sick Rose

    Elizabeth Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese #43 how Do I love Thee

    Elizabeth Bishop one art Britain

    Andre Carter Stephen D translation lady is shichimi if someone would come

    William Barnstone she is at island me turn off

    Maxine Chernoff writing exercises

    Chilam Balam poem

    Chiyo various lines

    William Corbett Vermont Apollinaire

    Robert Creely the business

    EE Cummings In Jest

    Bel Dao Listen, I Don’t Believe Chinese poet mid-20th century

    David Wagner lines and since a call since Elam since summer

    Thomas Campion When to her lute Corinna sings

    Jon Donne Holly Sonnet 14

    Lucile Clifton, I don’t know how to do

    Emily Dickinson lines and poems 214

    Emily Dickinson poem 262

    Emily Dickinson poem 640

    Emily Dickinson poem 986

    Emily Dickinson poem 1732

    Enhenduanna The Exaltation of Inanna, antiphonal Hymns Praise of Inanna

    Egyptian Poem, untitled

    Fanny Howe About Face

    Imr El Quais The Great Ode

    Elaine Feinstein excerpt from translation Marina TSvetayeva poems of the end Lawrence Ferlinghetti excerpt from constantly risking absurdity Coney Island of the mind

    Donald Finkel excerpt from a translation of Bel Dao

    Roberts Elizabeth silent poems

    Frances Kathleen vanishing point third black quartet from Wayne

    Robert Frost Nothing Gold can stay

    Robert Clark translation departure by Pierre Reverdy

    Jorie Graham In what matter is the body united with the soul

    Barbara Guest Lines from red lilies

    HD Dread

    HD Sea Rose

    HD Oread

    Allen Hibbert translation of Adonis desire moving through the Maps of the material

    Ronald Hoffman excerpt from deceptively like a solid

    Kelly Holt writing exercises

    Bible, Ecclesiastes for everything there is a season

    Homer Odyssey

    Homer Iliad

    Edward Arlington Robinson Richard Corey

    Fanny Howe About Face

    George Herbert Death

    Linda jarkesy the bed

    John K

    Randall Jarred the death of the Bell turret gunner

    John Keats The Eve of St Agnes

    Lao Tzu Rule a Large Nation

    DH Lawrence Bavarian Gentians

    LiPo Moonlight Pools

    Liu Tsung-yuan From One thousand mountains

    Audre Lorde lines from coal

    Hugh MacDiarmid Another epitaph on the army of mercenaries

    Jackson Mac Lou excerpt from antic quartans

    Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat excerpt

    Alexander Pope Essay on Criticism

    Bernadette Mayer writing exercises

    WS Merwin excerpts from leviathan

    Pablo Neruda leaning into afterworlds

    Pablo Neruda and walking around

    John Milton excerpts from Allegro

    John Milton excerpts from paradise lost

    Mariana Moore experts from the monkeys

    Laura Moriarty the mouth

    Bridge Mullins writing exercises

    Ellen Myles honey bear

    Lorraine Niedecker now in one year

    Charles North excerpt from shooting for line

    George Oppen excerpt from psalm

    Dorothy Parker resume

    Bob Pearlman speaker vibrates through the entire house after from AK

    Ezra Pound in a station in the Metro

    David Ray translation lines from Chiyo

    Kenneth Rexroth translation of Midnight songs

    Pierre Reverdy Departure

    Christopher Sawyer Le is More Than an Hericenone translation Flight of the Itza

    Dominion Searls translation of a kind of loss

    Shelly Love Philosophy 19th Century

    Sappho He is more than a Hero

    Jack Spicer lines for imaginary elegies part 1-111

    John Tipane translation Abu Hamza al online from this world

    Dante in the middle of the road

    Anonymous Egyptian poem only one matchless sister

    manioc If snow falls on the left field

    Issa Morning

    Beowulf soon saw

    Homer then wide ruling Agamemnon

    Homer infinite terror

    Homer wars spears

    Imr El Qis here was the place I watched her

    Arthur Rimbaud Bateau Ivre if I desire

    Arthur Rimbaud memory

    Arthur Rimbaud longing for young arms

    Rig Veda there was no such things

    Sappho the moon has set

    Charles Thomasson lines from Mr. Birdy

    David Trinidad monster mash

    TS Elliot Excerpt from the Wasteland

    Mariana Tsvetanyana Poem of the End

    Alfred Tennyson Now Sleep the Crimson Petal

    Anne Waldman excerpt for Iovis 19

    William Carlos Williams except for the descent

    Walt Whitman excerpts from Leaves of Grass

    William Butler Yeats the second coming

    William Wordsworth the Solitary Reaper

    Louis Zukofsky in Arizona from 729 songs

    Richard Lovelace 17th Century British Poet, “To Lucasta, Going to War”

    Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 Call complaint to His Purs (Purse)

    Parody Poems from NaPoWrMo April 27 Prompt

     Lewis Carroll Crocodile

    Isaac Watts How Doth the Little

    Lewis Carroll This the Voice of The Lobster

    Isaac Watts The Sluggard
    Lewis Carroll Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bat

    Other poems from Writing com and Elsewhere

    Abandoned Farmhouse
    by Ted Kooser
    Wooden Boats 
    Judy Serum Brown
    Denise Levertov Celebration

    Edgar Allan Poe A Dream Within a Dream

    Heal the World with Marigolds  poetic blossoming entry

    Midnight encounters a poetic blossoming entry

    David S the All-Mighty Thresher
    Sally Ann Roberts example #1:it All Started with A Packet of Seeds

    Marie Summers

    Example #2:celestial Dreams

    Example #3

    Dance In the Rain come,

    Dendrobium

    Example #4:

    Osprey o, Sleek and Beauteous hunter.

    Marie Summers example #5:

    50 Books to Read Before You Die – three volumes 150 books total. I have read the following

    Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy

    Jane Austen Emma

    Jane Austen Persuasion

    Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre

    Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights

    Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote

    Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness

    Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders

    Charles Dickens Bleak House

    Charles Dickens Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers –

    Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Gambler –

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from The Underground –

    Marcus Aurelius Meditations –

    1. Frank Baum the Wonderful Wizard of Oz –

    Dale Carnegie the Art of Public Speaking –

    Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Sign of Four

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Hound of the Baskervilles

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Lost World –

    Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers

    -F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise

    Henry Rider Haggard King Solomon’s Mines

    Victor Hugo the Hunchback of Notre-Dame

    D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover

    Jack London the Son of the Wolf

    HP Lovecraft The Dun ich Horror

    HP Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness

    Plato The Republic –

    Mary Shelley The Last Man –

    Stuart Woods  Books in Order

    1. Choppy waters 2020  Read
    2. A delicate Touch 2020 Read
    3. Palindrome 2020 Read
    4. Blue Water, Green Skipper – 1977
    5. A Romantic’s Guide to The Country Inns of Britain and Ireland – 1979
    6. Chiefs – 1981  read
    7. Run Before the Wind – 1983 read
    8. Deep Lie – 1986
    9. Under The Lake – 1987
    10. White Cargo – 1988 read
    11. Grass Roots – 1989
    12. New York Dead – 1991 read
    13. Santa Fe Rules – 1992 read
    14. L.A. Times – 1993 read
    15. Dead Eyes – 1994 read
    16. Heat – 1994 read
    17. Imperfect Strangers – 1995
    18. Choke – 1995
    19. Dirt – 1996
    20. Dead In the Water – 1997
    21. Swimming To Catalina – 1998
    22. Orchid Beach – 1998 read
    23. Worst Fears Realized – 1999 read
    24. The Run – 2000
    25. L.A. Dead – 2000 read
    26. Cold Paradise – 2001 read
    27. Orchid Blues – 2001 read
    28. The Short Forever – 2002
    29. Blood Orchid – 2002 read
    30. Dirty Work – 2003
    31. Capital Crimes – 2003 read
    32. Reckless Abandon -2004 read
    33. The Prince of Beverly Hills – 2004 read
    34. Two Dollar Bill – 2005 read
    35. Iron Orchid – 2005 read
    36. Dark Harbor – 2006 read
    37. Short Straw – 2006 read
    38. Fresh Disasters – 2007 read
    39. Shoot Him If He Runs – 2007 read
    40. Beverly Hills Dead – 2008 read
    41. Santa Fe Dead – 2008 read
    42. Hot Mahogany – 2008 read
    43. Mounting Fears – 2009 read
    44. Loitering With Intent – 2009 read
    45. Hothouse Orchid – 2009 read
    46. Kisser – 2010
    47. Lucid Intervals – 2010 read
    48. Santa Fe Edge – 2010 read
    49. Strategic Moves – 2011
    50. Bel-Air Dead – 2011 read
    51. Son Of Stone – 2011 read
    52. D.C. Dead – 2011 read
    53. Unnatural Acts – 2012 read
    54. Severe Clear – 2012 read
    55. Collateral Damage – 2013 read
    56. Unintended Consequences – 2013 read
    57. Doing Hard Time – 2013
    58. Standup Guy – 2014 read
    59. Carnal Curiosity – 2014 read
    60. Cut And thrust – 2014 read
    61. Paris Match – 2014 read
    62. Insatiable Appetites – 2015 read
    63. Hot Pursuit – 2015 read
    64. Naked Greed – 2015 read
    65. Foreign Affairs – 2015 read
    66. Scandalous Behavior – 2016 read
    67. Family Jewels – 2016 read
    68. Dishonorable Intentions – 2016 read
    69. Smooth Operator – 2016 read
    70. Sex, Lies & Serious Money – 2016
    71. Below The Belt – 2017
    72. Fast And Loose – 2017
    73. Indecent Exposure – 2017 read
    74. Barely Legal – 2017 read
    75. Quick & Dirty – 2017
    76. Unbound – 2018
    77. Shoot First – 2018 read
    78. Turbulence – 2018 read
    79. The Money Shot – 2018 read
    80. Desperate Measures – 2018 read
    81. A Delicate Touch – 2018 read
    82. Wild Card – 2019 read
    83. Skin Game – 2019 read

     

    Mark Twain the Prince and the Pauper read

    Remaining Elliot Novels

     

    Romola (1862–63),read

    Felix Holt, the Radical (1866),

    Middlemarch (1871–72) read

    and Daniel Deronda (1876).

     

     

    Famous Poems to Read and Study

     

    Index

     

    Five Senses

     

    Walt Whitman When I Heard the Learned Astronomer Sight DYI MFA

    Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth Sound DYI MFA

    Barry Cornwall A Petition to Time Touch DYI MFA

    Emily Dickinson, I Like to See It Lap the Miles Taste DYI MFA

    Walter Prichard Eaton the Lilac Smell DYI MFA

     

    Space

     

    T.E. Hume the Embankment

    E.E. Cummings in Just

    The Mouse’s Tale, By Lewis Carroll

     

    Explanation

    John Gillespie Magee, Jr. HIGH FLIGHT
    Jeffrey Harrison Nest
    Ted Kooser Abandoned Farmhouse

    Randall Jarrell The Olive Garden
    Randall Jarrell the Breath of Night
    Randal Jarrell the Orient Express

    Peter Gizzi -This World Is Not Conclusion

    Jean Valentine – La Chalupa, The Boat

    Carl Phillips  Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm

    Parody Poems from NaPoWrMo April 27 Prompt

    Lewis Carroll Crocodile

    Isaac Watts How Doth the Little

    Lewis Carroll This the Voice of The Lobster

    Isaac Watts The Sluggard
    Lewis Carroll Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bat

    Abandoned Farmhouse
       by Ted Kooser
    Wooden Boats 
    Judy Serum Brown
    Denise Levertov Celebration

    Edgar Allan Poe A Dream Within a Dream

    Writing com Stormy Lady 5/20

    Dorothea Mackellar The Open Sea
    Dorothea Mac Keller in a Southern Garden

    Dorothea Mackellar The Open Sea

    Leonard Nimoy after endless night

    I’d Heal the World with Marigolds  poetic blossoming entry

    Midnight encounters a poetic blossoming entry

    Langston Hughes 

    Our land 

    Dreams

    The Weary Blues

    Life is Fine

    4/10/2021 from DYI MFA

    Space Be Still, My Soul, Be Still
    by A. E. Housman

    A. E. Housman
    The Immortal Part

    A. E. Housman
    White in the Moon the Long Road Lies

    Another Home  (E)
    a pantoum on the pleasures of fiction
    #2250974 by Tileira (148)

    David S The All Mighty Threasher
    Sally Ann Roberts example #1:it All Started With A Packet Of Seeds

    Marie Summers

    Example #2:celestial Dreams

    Example #3

    Dance In The Rain come,

    Dendrobium

    Example #4:

    Osprey o, Sleek And Beauteous hunter.

    Marie Summers example #5:

    Marie Elena Good, 2021 Her Wittiness Stings Poetic Blossoms

    Walter Wojinak He Prince Of Passions

    David Schiebner  Footprints in time Writing Com

    David Schiebner the Soldiers  Writing Com

     

     

      Together Forever  (E)
    A haunting memory in the Samisen form.

    Judi Van Gorder  Cold Forever –

    Endecha Poetic Magnum Opus

    Cross Country, by Robert Lee Brewer  Endecha.   Writers Digest

    Linda  Varsel Smith “Syllables in Velvet” Endecha

    www.Rainbow.Communications.com

    1. William Seaman Higgledy-piggledy Double Dactyl

    Paul Pascal Patty-Cake Double Dactyl

    Anthony Hecht Higgledy-piggledy Double Dactyl

    John Hollander Higgedly-Piggledy Double Dactyl

    Alfred Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade (By Alfred Lord Tennyson)

     Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  Evangeline

    Robert Browning The Lost Leader (By Robert Browning)

    Walt Whitman (Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

    Ian Lancashire  Higgledy Piggledy

    Sidney Lanier
    The Song Of The Chattahoochee
    Sidney Lanier Ireland
    Sidney Lanier A Sunrise Song
    “Where Grandpa Died”

    “Syllables in Velvet”  www.Rainbow.Communications.com

    Examples of Dactyl in Literature

    Example #1: The Charge of the Light Brigade (By Alfred Lord Tennyson)

    Example #2: Evangeline (By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

    Example #3: The Lost Leader (By Robert Browning)

    Example #4: (Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (By Walt Whitman)

    Example #5: Higgledy Piggledy (By Ian Lancas

    The Song Of The Chattahoochee

    by Sidney Lanier

    Ireland
    by Sidney Lanier
    (Written for the Art Autograph during the Irish Famine, 1880.)

    A Sunrise Song
    by Sidney Lanier

    To read

     

    Poets Companion Finish

    Art and Craft of Poetry Finish

    Whitman Leaves of Grass  read

    Dickenson Collected Poems

    Robert Service Poems (From Alaskan Gold Rush Period)

    Milton Collected Poems

    Mina Nair Beyond and Back Indian short stories

    Robert Buswell The Zen Monastic Tradition  read

    the end

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    August 11, 2021
  • George Elliot Novels

    George Elliot Novels

     Reading George Elliot’s Novels

    Personal Commentary:

    Starting a few years ago, I decided I would over the next few years read as many of the classics as I could, before I get too old to be able to do so.  Last year I started conquering the George Elliot novels.  I wanted to read them a long time ago, but never got around to it.  I am glad I am finally getting to it. Reading George Elliot novels is a bit of a chore, well worth it in the end, but they are too long for modern readers. She is a master of getting into the psychology and innermost thoughts of complex characters, and describing the reality of life in rural England at the turn of the 19th century. Some of her themes are universal regarding male-female relations, male-dominated society, and rigid class rules are still relevant.  She was a proto-feminist novelist and quite controversial in her time due to her living happily with her married lover.  She died in 1880, and was way ahead of her time in many respects.  She has been re-discovered in recent years.  Her novels are being re-published under her real name, Mary Evans.

    I have enjoyed reading these novels so far.  My favorite is “Silas Marner”, the  second favor is the Mill on the Floss, and her SF horror novella, “The Lifted Veil”.  “Adam Bede” her first novel was good, but a bit too long and tedious, as are all her novels.  Just too long for modern reader’s tastes.

    My commentary follows along with additional information on George Elliot.  This is a work in progress, I will update it as I get through these novels.

    Silas Marner

    (Amazon preview)

    George Eliot’s tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, Silas Marner is edited with an introduction and notes by David Carroll in Penguin Classics.

    Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life. His fate, and that of Eppie, the little girl he adopts, is entwined with Godfrey Cass, son of the village Squire, who, like Silas, is trapped by his past. Silas Marner, George Eliot’s favorite of her novels, combines humor, rich symbolism, and pointed social criticism to create an unsentimental but affectionate portrait of rural life.

    ‘I think Silas Marner holds a higher place than any of the author’s works. It is more nearly a masterpiece; it has more of that simple, rounded, consummate aspect … which marks a classical work’

    Personal Comments:

    In Silas Marner, she delves into the life of a lonely man who withdraws from society while working as a weaver in a small English town upcountry.  Over time, the villagers eventually accept him, and he becomes part of the community. then something happens that changes his life for good. I won’t go into details, but the ending of the novel is a happy ending unlike in some of her other novels.  She was the first feminist novelist, and her female characters are well developed.

    Adam Bede

    Adam Bede – Kindle edition by Eliot, George. Literature …

    http://www.amazon.com › Adam-Bede-George-Eliot-eBook › dip

    Adam Bede is about a carpenter and his neighbors in an area in England during the early eighteenth century. The story is slow-going at times because the author writes in the local dialect, so it is a bit difficult to understand, but relevant to the tale. Descriptions of the characters, the countryside, and the town are well-drawn and colorful.

    Adam Bede Quotes

    So many great lines in this book.  Here are some of them:

    “What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heartstrings to the beings that jar us at every movement.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult…Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings — much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “Because, dear, trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn’t God’s will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing; the people we love are taken from us, and we can joy in nothing because they are not with us; sickness comes, and we faint under the burden of our feeble bodies; we go astray and do wrong and bring ourselves into trouble with our fellow men. There is no man or woman born into this world to whom some of these trials do not fall, and so I feel that some of them must happen to you; and I desire for you, that while you are young you should seek for the strength from your Heavenly Father, that you may have support which will not fail you in the evil day.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    More Quotes

    “She hates everything that is not what she longs for.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “Her misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people’s sorrow.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—the only saw the brightness of the Lord.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence and act as if we were not suffering.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy’s flute-like voice has its spring charm; but the man should yield richer, deeper music.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it tomorrow.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “In bed, our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it is but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “These fellow-mortals, everyone, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people — amongst whom your life is passed — that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people, whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire — for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “It’s easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future,”

    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you because you’d think I should like to share those good things; but I should like better to share in your trouble and your labor.”

    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our little hurts will be made much of – to be content with little nurture and caressing and help each other the more.”

    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “Yes! Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty—it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it… There are few prophets in the world; few sublimely beautiful women; few heroes. I can’t afford to give all my love and reverence to such rarities: I want a great deal of those feelings for my everyday fellow-men, especially for the few in the foreground of the great multitude, whose faces I know, whose hands I touch, for whom I have to make way with kindly courtesy.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “How can a man’s candor be seen in all its luster unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    “We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.”
    ― George Eliot, Adam Bede

    Personal Comments:

    Her first book, Adam Bede, sets out the themes that most of her other novels explore, Male-Female relations in a male-dominated rural English society. She explores the double standards that prevailed back then, and sadly persists to this day. She was the first feminist novelist. She explores life in a small English town at the turn of the industrial era.  She also explores the corruption and injustice of life for tenant farmers who were at the mercy of the local landlords.  Also, like a lot of her novels, it features a love triangle that ends badly for the lower class, but the upper-class man gets away with it.

    After reading other reviews of Adam Bede, I revisited my initial thoughts about it and realize that it was quite good, but like most of her novels, too long.

    The Mill on the Floss

    (Amazon Preview)

    ‘If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?’

    Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family. As she reaches adulthood, the clash between their expectations and her desires is painfully played out as she finds herself torn between her relationships with three very different men: her proud and stubborn brother, a close friend who is also the son of her family’s worst enemy, and a charismatic but dangerous suitor. With its poignant portrayal of sibling relationships, The Mill on the Floss is considered George Eliot’s most autobiographical novel; it is also one of her most powerful and moving.

    Personal Comment:

    The Mill on the Floss, like most of George Elliot’s novels, is way too long for modern readers. It is a slow burn, but worth it if you keep at it as she delves into the inner thoughts of her characters living in a small English town at the dawn of the industrial age. They reflect the double standard of the time in the character’s lives. And like most of her novels -the ones I have read- there are love triangles that end badly. Her female characters are complex and reflect the complexities of life in England at the time she wrote her novels.  There is also an undercurrent of unintended racism in the novel, as the main female heroine is constantly being described as “brown skin” and therefore not attractive a marriage prospect.  She is also a free thinker and questions orthodox views. I think this is perhaps my favorite of the novels I have read so far.   The novel does not end well for the main characters!

    The Lifted Veil

    (Amazon preview)

    Published the same year as her first novel, Adam Bede, this overlooked work displays the gifts for which George Eliot would become famous—gritty realism, psychological insight, and idealistic moralizing. It is unique from all her other writing, however, in that it represents the only time she ever used a first-person narrator, and it is the only time she wrote about the supernatural.

    The tale of a man who is incapacitated by visions of the future and the cacophony of overheard thoughts, and yet who can’t help trying to subvert his vividly glimpsed destiny, it is easy to read The Lifted Veil as being autobiographically revealing—of Eliot’s sensitivity to public opinion and her awareness that her days concealed behind a pseudonym were doomed to a tragic unveiling (as indeed came to pass soon after this novella’s publication). But it is easier still to read the story as the exciting and genuine precursor of a moody new form, as well as an absorbing early masterpiece of suspense.

    Personal Comment:

    I liked this one the best, as I am a fan of the early SF explorations, and it is vaguely like an Edgar Allen Poe story, or a gothic nightmare story.  Very different from her other novels, both in setting and in her characters. I liked the exploration into ESP and mental telephony,  The heroine is an anti-hero and is truly an evil person.  Very unlike her other female characters.

     ReadIng

    Middlemarch

    (amazon preview)

    Taking place in the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, Middlemarch explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincey and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel’s rich comic vein.

    Romola

    (Amazon Preview)

    One of George Eliot’s most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance Florence during the turbulent years following the expulsion of the powerful Medici family, during which the zealous religious reformer Savonarola rose to control the city. At its heart is Romola, the devoted daughter of a blind scholar, married to the clever but ultimately treacherous Tito, whose duplicity in both love and politics threatens to destroy everything she values, and she must break away to find her path in life. Described by Eliot as ‘written with my best blood’, the story of Romola’s intellectual and spiritual awakening is a compelling portrayal of a Utopian heroine, played out against a turbulent historical backdrop.

    Daniel Deronda

    (Amazon Preview)

    A beautiful young woman stands poised over the gambling tables in an expensive hotel. She is aware of, and resents, the gaze of an unusual young man, a stranger, who seems to judge her and find her wanting. The encounter will change her life.

    The strange young man is Daniel Deronda, brought up with his origins shrouded in mystery, searching for a compelling outlet for his singular talents and remarkable capacity for empathy. Deronda’s destiny will change the lives of many.

    Félix Holt the Radical

    (Amazon Preview)

    When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But after the idealistic Felix Holt also returns to the town, the difference between Harold’s opportunistic values and Holt’s profound beliefs becomes apparent. Forthright, brusque, and driven by a firm desire to educate the working-class, Felix is at first viewed with suspicion by many, including the elegant but vain Esther Lyon, the daughter of the local clergyman. As she discovers, however, his blunt words conceal both passion and deep integrity. Soon the romantic and over-refined Esther finds herself overwhelmed by a heart-wrenching decision: whether to choose the wealthy Transome as a husband or the impoverished but honest Felix Holt.

    More on  George Eliot

    From Wikipedia:

    Born in South Farm, Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, The United Kingdom

    November 22, 1819

    Died December 22, 1880

    Website

    https://ffrf.org/news/day/famous-freethinkers-s…

    Genre

    Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Journalism

    Influences

    Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Charlotte Brontë, Honoré de Balzac, Auguste

    Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She was born in 1819 at a farmstead in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, where her father was estate manager. Mary Ann, the youngest child, and a favorite of her father’s received a good education for a young woman of her day. Influenced by a favorite governess, she became a religious evangelical as an adolescent.

    Her first published work was a religious poem. Through a family friend, she was exposed to Charles Hennell’s “An Inquiry into the Origins of Christianity”. Unable to believe, she conscientiously gave up religion and stopped attending church. Her father shunned her, sending the broken-hearted young dependent to live with a sister until she promised to reexamine her feelings. Her intellectual views did not, however, change. She translated “Das Leben Jesu”, a monumental task, without signing her name to the 1846 work.

    After her father died in 1849, Mary Ann traveled, then accepted an unpaid position with The Westminster Review. Despite a heavy workload, she translated “The Essence of Christianity”, the only book ever published under her real name. That year, the shy, respectable writer scandalized British society by sending notices to friends announcing she had entered a free “union” with George Henry Lewes, editor of The Leader, who was unable to divorce his first wife. They lived harmoniously together for the next 24 years, but suffered social ostracism and financial hardship. She became salaried and began writing essays and reviews for The Westminster Review.

    Renaming herself “Marian” in private life and adopting the pen name “George Eliot,” she began her impressive fiction career, including: “Adam Bede” (1859), “The Mill on the Floss” (1860), “Silas Marner” (1861), “Romola” (1863), and “Middlemarch” (1871). Themes included her humanist vision and strong heroines. Her poem, “O May I Join the Choir Invisible” expressed her views about nonsupernatural immortality: “O may I join the choir invisible/ Of that immortal dead who live again/ In minds made better by their presence. . .” D. 1880.

    Her 1872 work Middlemarch has been described by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.

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    May 25, 2021
  • Cosmos’s Reading List 2021

    Cosmos’s Reading List 2021

    1001 Books to Read Before You Die List

    Cosmos Books Read 2020

    RevisedBooks Read 2020

    Books read 2019books read during 2018

    books read

    Cosmos’s Reading List 2021

    Goals:  100 Books

    Read Classics

    One Thriller Per Month

    One history/politics book per month

    Read A Lot More Poetry

    Read At Least One Book A Year in Spanish

    Read At Least One Book A Year in Korean

    I will year try to finish reading classic books.  I have a collection from Kindle of 50 books to read before you die, in three volumes – 15O books in total see list below.  I have read many of them already which I have noted.  As I read them, I will add them to the chronological listing below. I also have the Harvard 50 volume Classics books collection, I will read from both sets, and from the 1001 books to read before you die list.

    Accomplishments:

    books read
    books read

    Loving Words Anthology – published Chains that Bind Me and Dream Girl, Ink Pantry, Two Drops of Ink, Spill Words, and Creativity Webzine have published recent poems.

    Cosmos’s Reading List 2021 

    The List

    Best American Poetry 2018

    Allison Adair Miscarriage

    Kaveh Akbar Against Dying

    Julia Alvarez American Dream

    David Barber Sherpa Song

    AR Amnov Finishing Up

    Andrew Bertaina A Translator’s Note

    Frank Bidart Mourning What We Thought We Were

    Bruce Bond Anthem

    George Bradley Those Were the Days

    Joyce Clement Birds Punctuate the Days

    Brennan Constantine The Opposite Games

    Marianne Cobbett Prayer Concerning the New More Accurate Translation of Certain Prayers

    Robert Cording Toast to My Dead Parents

    Cynthia Cruz Artaud

    Dick Davis A Personal Sonnet

    Warren Decker Today’s Special

    Susan De Sola the Wives of The Poets

    Dante De Stefano Reading Dostoyevsky At 17

    Nausheen Eusuf Pied Beauty

    Jonathan Galasso Oriental Epithalamion

    Jessica Goodfellow Test

    Sonia Greenfield Ghost Ship

    Joy Harjo An American Sunrise

    Terrance Hayes American Sonnet from My Past and Future Assassins

    Ernest Hilbert Mars Ultor

    Nemo Hill the View from The Bar

    Tony Hoagland Into the Mystery

    Anna Maria Hong Yonder a Rental

    Paul Hoover, I Am the Size of What I see

    Maria Howe Walking Home

    Mandy Kahn Ives

    Ilya Kaminski, We Lived Happily During the War

    Stephan Kampa The Quiet Boy

    Denika Kelly Love Poem Chimera

    Mary Jo Salter We Will Always Have Parents

    Jason Schneiderman Voxel

    Nicole Sealy Violence

    Michael Schumacher Advent

    Carmen Gimenez Smith Dispatch from Midlife

    Tracy K. Smith an Old Story

    Gary Snyder Why California Will Never Be Like Tuscany

    An E Stallings Pencil

    Anne Stevenson How Poems Arrive

    Adriene Su Substitutions

    Natasha Trethewey Shooting Wild

    Agnieszka Tworek Grief Runs Untamed

    Waldrep Dear Office in Which I Must Account for Tears

    Wang Ping Lao Jia

    James Matthew Wilson On A Palm

    Ryan Wilson Face It

     

    Best American Poetry 2017

    Christian Wiman Assembly

    Dan Allerbotti Weapons Exchange Report

    David Barber on A Shaker Admonition

    Dan Beachy-Quick Apophatic

    Bruce Bond Homage to a Painter of Small Things

    John Brennan Intrigue in The Trees

    John Ashbery Commotion of Birds

    Jericho Brown Bullet Points

    Nicole Brown The Dead

    Cyrus Cassells Elegy with A Gold Cradle

    Isaac Cates Fidelity and The Dead Singer

    Allison Cobb, I Forgive You

    Leonard Cohen Steer Your Way

    Michael Collier A Wild Tom Turkey

    Billy Collins Presence

    Carl Dennis Two Lives

    Katia Claudia Emerson Spontaneous Emission

    David Feinstein Kaddish

    Carolyn Fouche The Boatman

    Viva Francis Given to Those proclivities By God

    Amy Gerstler Dead Butterfly

    Reginald Gibbons Canasta

    Margaret Given Passage

    Aracelis Girmay From the Black Maria

    Jeffrey Harrison Higher Education

    Terrace Hayes Ars Poetica With Bacon

    RJ Herbert Mounting the Dove Box

    Tony Hoagland Cause of Death Fox News

    John Hogan Hamlet Texts Guildenstern About Paying Upon the Pipe

    David Brendan Hopes Certain Things

    Major Jackson Trends A Well Light Summer Cocktail

    John James History

    Rodney Jones Homecoming

    Fatty Judah Progress Notes

    Meg Kearney Crackle

    John Koethe the Age of Anxiety

    Yusef Komunyakaa from the last bohemian of Avenue A

    Danusha Lammers The Watch

    Jordan Laux Lapse

    Phillip Le Van Rain in Winter

    Amit Majumdar Kill List

    Jamal May Things That Break

    Judson Mitchem White

    John Murillo Upon reading that Eric Dolphy transcribed Even the calls of certain species of birds

    Joyce Carol Oates To Marlon Brando In Hell

    Sharon Olds Ode to The Glands

    Matthew Bozeman Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czeslaw Milosz

    Gregory Orr Three Dark Proverb Sonnets

    Carl Phillips Rockabye

    Rowan Picado Phillips Halo

    Robin Robert Pinksy Names

    Stanley Plumly Poliomyelitis

    Paisley Rekdal Assemblage of ruined Plane Parts Vietnam Military Museum

    Michael Ryan the Mercy Home

    David St John Emanations

    Cheryl Santos, I Went for A Walk in Winter

    Taiji Silverman Where to Put It

    Charles Simic Seeing Things

    Danny Smith Last Summer of Innocence

    Maggie Smith Good Bones

    RT Smith Maricon

    RE Stallings Shattered

    Pamela Sutton Afraid to Pray

    Chase Twitchell Sad Song

    James Valvis Something

    Emily Van Kley Dear Skull

    Wendy Videlock Deconstruction

    Lucy Waigner Scheherazade

    Crystal Williams Double Helix

    Christian Wiman Prelude

    Monica Yoan Green acre

    C Dale Young Precatico Simplex

    Dean Young Infinitives

    Kevin Young Money Road

    Matthew Zapruder Poem for Vows

     

    Best American Poetry 2019

     

    Dilruba Ahmed Phase One

    Rosa Alclad You and The Raw Bullets

    Margaret Atwood Updates on Werewolves

    Catherine Barnett Center Park

    Joshua Bennett America Will Be

    Fleda Brown Afternoons on The Lake

    Sumitra Chakraborty Essay on Joy

    Victoria Chung Six Orbits

    Glen Chan, I Invite My Parents to A Dinner Party

    Leonard Cohen, I Drank A Lot

    Laura Cronk Like A Cat

    Kate Daniels Metaphor Less

    Carol Dennis Armed Neighbor

    Tori Derricotte Apology to The Reader

    Thomas Devaney Brilliant Corners

    Natalie Diaz Skin- Light

    Jean Dominique Duryer Declined in The Adoration of Jack in The Pulpits

    Martin Espada, I Now Pronounce You Dead

    Nausheen Eusurf The Analytic Hour

    Vievere Francis Cazonian Blue Than Bluer

    Gabriela García Guantanamera

    Amy Gerstler Update

    Camila Guthrie Virgil

    Yona Harvey Dark and Lonely After Takeoff A Future

    Robert Hass Dancing

    Terrance Hayes American Silent My Past and Future Assassin

    Juan Felipe Herrera Roll Under the Waves

    Edward Hirsch Stranger by Night

    Jane Hershfield Ledger

    James Hock Sunflowers

    Bob Homan All Praise Cecil Taylor

    Garrett Hongo The Brothers Cassia

    Ishion Hutchison Sympathy of a Clear Day

    Major Jackson In Memory of Derek Alton Walcott

    Ilya Kaminski from testament

    Ruth Ellen Kocher We May No Longer Considered the End

    Deborah Landau Soft Targets

    Quraysh Ali Lansana Higher Calling

    Li-Young Lee the Undressing

    David Lehman, It Could Happen to You

    Ada Limon Cannibal Women

    Rebecca Lynn Berry A Brief History of The Future Apocalypse

    Nubile Lovelace The S in I Love You Porgy

    Clarence Major Hair

    Gail Mazur At A Lands End

    Shane McRae The President Visits the Storm

    Jeffrey Mcdonald Fired from A Parallel World

    Campbell McGrath, Gray Miles Davis Birth of The Cool at The Founding in Brasilia

    Ange Milinko Sleepwalking in Venice

    Kamela Aisha Moon

    The Last of England

    Paul Moulton Aubade

    John Murio on Confessionalism

    Naomi Shihab Nye My Own State Department

    Sharon Olds Rasputin Aria

    Michael Palmer Nord-Sur

    Morgan Parker The Black Saint, And the Sinner Lady, The Dead, and The Truth

    William Perdomo Head Crack Head Crack

    Carl Philip Star Map with Action Figures

    Ishmael Reed Just Rolling Along

    Paisley Rekdal Four Marys

    Sonia Sanchez Belly, Buttons and Straight Spines

    Nicole Santalucia #Me Too

    Philip Schultz Encore

    Jane Shore Who Knows One

    The Greatest Personal Privation

    Ae Stallings Harms Way

    Arthur Sze The White Orchard

    Natasha Trethewey Through Her A Duty

    Ocean Voong Partly True Phone Reflecting in A Mirror

    David Wojahn Still Life Stevens Wallet and Key West Hotel Dresser

    Kevin Young High

     

    Frederick Forsythe Icon

    George Elliot  The Mill on the Floss (1860),

     

     

    To Read

     

    Elliot Novels

    Adam Bede (1859) read,

    The Lifted Veil   read

    The Mill on the Floss (1860), read

    Silas Mariner (1861),

    Romola (1862–63),

    Felix Holt, the Radical (1866),

    Middlemarch (1871–72)

    and Daniel Deronda (1876).

    Harvard Classics

    Poets Companion Finish

    Art and Craft of Poetry Finish

    Whitman Leaves of Grass

    Dickenson Collected Poems

    Robert Service Poems (From Alaskan Gold Rush Period)

    Milton Collected Poems

    Mira Nair Beyond and Back Indian short stories

    Robert Buswell The Zen Monastic Tradition

      50 Books to Read Before You Die – three volumes 150 books total. I have read the following

    Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy

    Jane Austen Emma

    Jane Austen Persuasion

    Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre

    Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights

    Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote

    Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness

    Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders

    Charles Dickens Bleak House

    Charles Dickens Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers –

    Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Gambler –

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from The Underground –

    Marcus Aurelius Meditations –

    1. Frank Baum the Wonderful Wizard of Oz –

    Dale Carnegie the Art of Public Speaking –

    Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe

    Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four

    Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Arthur Conan Doyle The Lost World –

    Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers

    -F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise

    Henry Rider Haggard King Solomon’s Mines

    Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

    D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover

    Jack London the Son of the Wolf

    HP Lovecraft The Dun ich Horror

    HP Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness

    Plato The Republic –

    Mary Shelley The Last Man –

    The Complete List, Volume One

    Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy

    Jane Austen Emma

    Jane Austen Persuasion

    Honoré de Balzac Father Gorgio

    Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre

    Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights

    Samuel Butler the Way of All Flesh

    Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote

    Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness

    Joseph Conrad Nostromo

    Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders

    Charles Dickens Bleak House

    Charles Dickens Great Expectations

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot

    Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo

    George Eliot Middlemarch

    George Eliot Daniel Deronda

    Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper

    Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls

    The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

    Homer the Odyssey

    Homer the Iliad

    Victor Hugo Les Misérables

    Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

    Henry James the Portrait of a Lady

    James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers

    Gaston Leroux The Phantom of the Opera

    Jack London The Call of The Wild

    Herman Melville The Great God Pan Moby Dick

    Marcel Proust Swann’s Way

    Mary Shelley Frankenstein

    Stendhal The Red and the Black

    Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Bram Stoker Dracula

    Sun Tzu the Art of War

    Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels

    William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair

    Leo Tolstoy War and Peace

    Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina

    Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich

    Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Grant Allen What’s Bred in the Bone –

    Lucius Apuleius The Golden Ass –

    Marcus Aurelius Meditations –

    Jane Austen Lady Susan

    Jane Austen Northanger Abbey

    Frank Baum, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz –

    Dale Carnegie the Art of Public Speaking –

    Margaret Cavendish The Blazing World –

    G. K. Chesterton The Innocence of Father Brown –

    G. K. Chesterton Heretics –

    G. K. Chesterton -The Dennington Affair

    G. K. Chesterton The Wisdom of Father Brown –

    John Cleland Fanny Hill –

    Wilkie Collins The Moonstone –

    Joseph Conrad Lord Jim –

    Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe

    The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens

    A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Gambler –

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from The Underground –

    Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four

    Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskerville ,

    Arthur Conan Doyle the Lost World

    Alexandre Dumas the Three Musketeers

    Alexandre Dumas, the Man in the Iron Mask

    -F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise

    Elizabeth Gaskell Curious, if True, Strange Tales

    Henry Rider Haggard King Solomon’s Mines

    Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

    Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book

    Rudyard Kipling Captains Courageous

    Rudyard Kipling -Kim –

    D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover

    Jack London The Son of the Wolf

    Hendrik Antoon Lorentz The Einstein Theory of Relativity

    HP Lovecraft The Dun ich Horror

    HP Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness

    Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince –

    Lucy Maud Montgomery The Story Girl

    The Antichrist – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

    Plato The Republic –

    Mary Shelley The Last Man –

    Mark Twain Life on The Mississippi –

    Vats Ayana The Kama Sutra

    Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days

    Volume two

    Grant Allen What’s Bred in the Bone –

    Lucius Apuleius The Golden Ass –

    Marcus Aurelius Meditations –

    Jane Austen Lady Susan

    Jane Austen Northanger Abbey

    Frank Baum the Wonderful Wizard of Oz –

    Dale Carnegie the Art of Public Speaking –

    Margaret Cavendish The Blazing World –

    The Innocence of Father Brown – G.K Chesterton

    G.K Chesterton Heretics –

    G.K Chesterton -The Dennington Affair

    G.K Chesterton The Wisdom of Father Brown –

    John Cleland Fanny Hill –

    Wilkie Collins The Moonstone –

    Joseph Conrad Lord Jim –

    Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe

    The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens

    A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Gambler –

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes from The Underground –

    Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four

    Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Arthur Conan Doyle The Lost World –

    Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers

    Alexandre Dumas The Man in the Iron Mask

    -F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise

    Elizabeth Gaskell Curious, If True: Strange Tales

    Henry Rider Haggard King Solomon’s Mines

    Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

    Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book

    Rudyard Kipling Captains Courageous

    Rudyard Kipling -Kim –

    D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover

    Jack London the Son of the Wolf

    Hendrik Anton Lorentz The Einstein Theory of Relativity

    HP Lovecraft The Dun ich Horror

    HP Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness

    Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince –

    Lucy Maud Montgomery The Story Girl

    The Antichrist – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

    Plato The Republic –

    Mary Shelley The Last Man –

    Mark Twain Life on The Mississippi –

    Vats Ayana The Kama Sutra

    Around the World in Eighty Days

    Jules Verne In the Year 2889 –

    Edgar Wallace Four Just Men –

    Lew Wallace Ben-Hurl: A Tale of the Christ

    H.G. Wells Tales of Space and Time –

    Virginia Woolf Jacob’s Room –

    Volume Three

    Louisa May Alcott Little Women

    Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility

    M. Barrie Peter Pan

    M. Bower Cabin Fever

    Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

    Frances Hodgson Burnett, a Little Princess

    Lewis Carroll Alice In Wonderland

    Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables

    Vatsyayana The Kama Sutra

    Jules Verne A Journey into the Center of the Earth

    Jules Verne The Mysterious Island

    Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

    H, G. Wells the War of the Worlds

    H. G. Wells The Time Machine 

    Oscar Wilde The Centerville Ghost

    Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out

    William Chambers the King in Yellow

    William Chesterton the Man Who Knew Too Much

    Wilkie Collins The Woman in White

    HG Wells the Star

    Dorothy Leigh Sayers Whose Body?

    Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe

    Margaret Deland the Iron Woman

    Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities

    Charles Dickens Oliver Twist

    Charles Dickens David Copperfield

    Fyodor Dostoevsky The Double

    Arthur Conon Doyle the Hounds of the Baskerville

    Arthur Conan Doyle Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

    Alexandre Dumas the Three Musketeers

    F Scott Fitzgerald The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    EM Foster a Room with a View

    Sigmund Freud Dream Psychology

    Thomas Hardy Tess

    Hermann Hesse Siddhartha

    James Joyce Dubliners

    Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher

    Andrew Lang the Arabian Nights

    Jack London The Sea Wolf

    HP Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu

    Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables

    William Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil

    Edgar Allan Poe the Murders in the Rue Morgue

    Edgar Allan Poe the Black Cat

    Edgar Allan Poe The Raven

    Michael Proust Swan’s Way

    Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island

    William Strunk the Elements of Style

    Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Mark Twain The Prince and the Pauper

    Poetry for Dummies

    Abdul Ala Armada Rafi I poem

    Ali Ahmad Saeed poem

    Alton David translation of a man and a woman white

    Mary Bernard, translation of Sofia he is more than a hero

    Ingeborg Bachman poem

    Willis Barnstone translation of mother’s song if snow

    Charles Bernstein writing exercises

    Elizabeth Bishop one art Britain

    Andre Carter Stephen D translation lady is shichimi if someone would come

    William Barnstone she is at island me turn off

    Maxine Chernoff writing exercises

    Chilam Balam poem

    Chiyo various lines

    William Corbett Vermont Apollinaire

    Robert Creeley the business

    EE Cummings In Jest

    David Wagner lines and since a call since Elam since summer

    Emily Dickinson lines and poems 214

    Emily Dickinson poem 262

    Emily Dickinson poem 640

    Emily Dickinson poem 986

    Emily Dickinson poem 1732

    TS Eliot excerpt from the wasteland

    Enheduanna The Exaltation of Inanna, antiphonal Hymns Praise of Inanna

    Elaine Feinstein excerpt from translation Marina Tsvetayeva poems of the end Lawrence Ferlinghetti excerpt from constantly risking absurdity Coney Island of the mind

    Donald Finkel excerpt from a translation of Bel Dao

    Roberts Elizabeth silent poems

    Frances Kathleen vanishing point third black quartet from Wayne

    Robert Frost Nothing Gold can stay

    Robert Clark translation departure by Pierre Reverdy

    Jorie Graham In what matter is the body united with the soul

    Barbara Guest Lines from red lilies

    HD Dread

    HD Sea Rose

    Allen Hibbert translation of Adonis desire moving through the Maps of the material

    Ronald Hoffman excerpt from deceptively like a solid

    Kelly Holt writing exercises

    Homer Odyssey

    Homer Iliad

    Fanny Howe About Face

    Linda Jarkesy the bed

    Randall Jarred the death of the Bell turret gunner

    John Keats absents from the eyes of Saint Agnes

    Daniel Langston writing exercise

    Lao TZU Rule a Large Nation

    DH Lawrence Bavarian Gentians

    LiPo Moonlight Pools

    Liu Tsung-yuan From One thousand mountains

    Audre Lorde lines from coal

    Hugh MacDiarmid Another epitaph on the army of mercenaries

    Jackson Mac Lou excerpt from antic quartans

    Bernadette Mayer writing exercises

    WS Merwin excerpts from leviathan

    Pablo Neruda leaning into afterworlds

    Pablo Neruda and walking around

    John Milton excerpts from Allegro

    John Milton excerpts from paradise lost

    Mariana Moore experts from the monkeys

    Laura Moriarty the mouth

    Bridge Mullins writing exercises

    Ellen Miles honey bear

    Lorraine Niedecker now in one year

    Charles North excerpt from shooting for line

    George Oppen excerpt from psalm

    Dorothy Parker resume

    Bob Pearlman speaker vibrates through the entire house after from AK

    Ezra Pound in a station in the Metro

    David Ray translation lines from Chiyo

    Kenneth Rexroth translation of Midnight songs

    Christopher Sawyer Lucano translation Flight of the Itza

    Dominion Searls translation of a kind of loss

    Jack Spicer lines for imaginary elegies part 1-111

    John Tipán translated Abu Hamza Al online from this world

    Dante in the middle of the road ,

    anonymous Egyptian poem only one matchless sister

    Issa Morning

    Beowulf soon saw

    Homer then wide ruling Agamemnon

    Homer infinite terror

    Homer wars spears

    Imr el Quais here was the place I watched her

    Arthur Rimbaud Bateau Ivre if I desire

    Arthur Rimbaud memory

    Arthur Rimbaud longing for young arms

    Rig Veda there was no such things

    Sappho the moon has set

    Charles Thomasson lines from Mr. Birdy

    David Trinidad monster mash

    Anne Waldman excerpt for Lovis 19

    William Carlos Williams except for the descent

    William Butler Yeats the second coming

    Louis Zukofsky in Arizona from 729 songs

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    January 30, 2021
  • 1001 Books to Read Before You Die List

    1001 Books to Read Before You Die List

    Books Read 2020
    Books read 2019
    books read during 2018
    books read

    The books on Boxall’s list, which is found in the 5 editions of the published book with a TOTAL NUMBER OF 1315 books.

    These books are mostly NOVELS. That is why there are no holy books, Shakespeare, etc.

    THIS LIST IS COMPLETE. DO NOT ADD ANY BOOKS AND ALSO DO NOT REMOVE ANY. In case of doubt post a comment here and the people maintaining this list will take a look at it! The list can be found at https://docs.google.com/ spreadsheet/c…

    My reading list

    I have read the following 226 books from the 1315 books on the list 

     

    I have read the following 226 books form the 1315 books on list

     

    Book Title Author
    Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas
    Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Adams, Douglas
    The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul Adams, Douglas
    Aesop’s Fables Aesopus
    Little Women Alcott, Louisa May
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou, Maya
    The Thousand and One Nights Anonymous
    I, Robot Asimov, Isaac
    Foundation Asimov, Isaac
    The Handmaid’s Tale Atwood, Margaret
    Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane
    Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane
    Mansfield Park Austen, Jane
    Emma Austen, Jane
    Go Tell It on the Mountain Baldwin, James
    Empire of the Sun Ballard, J.G.
    Giles Goat-Boy Barth, John
    Henderson the Rain King Bellow, Saul
    Herzog Bellow, Saul
    Jane Eyre Brontë, Charlotte
    Shirley Brontë, Charlotte
    Villette Brontë, Charlotte
    Wuthering Heights Brontë, Emily
    A World for Julius Bryce Echenique, Alfredo
    The Thirty-Nine Steps Buchan, John
    The Master and Margarita Bulgakov, Mikhail
    The Pilgrim’s Progress Bunyan, John
    A Clockwork Orange Burgess, Anthony
    Inside Mr. Enderby Burgess, Anthony
    Evelina Burney, Fanny
    Cecilia Burney, Fanny
    Camilla Burney, Fanny
    Tarzan of the Apes Burroughs, Edgar Rice
    Junkie Burroughs, William
    Naked Lunch Burroughs, William
    The Wild Boys Burroughs, William
    Queer Burroughs, William
    Erewhon Butler, Samuel
    The Way of All Flesh Butler, Samuel
    Breakfast at Tiffany’s Capote, Truman
    In Cold Blood Capote, Truman
    Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Carroll, Lewis
    Through the Looking Glass Carroll, Lewis
    Don Quixote Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
    2001: A Space Odyssey Clarke, Arthur C.
    Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph
    The Secret Agent Conrad, Joseph
    Last of the Mohicans Cooper, James Fenimore
    Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel
    Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dick, Philip K.
    Oliver Twist Dickens, Charles
    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Dickens, Charles
    A Christmas Carol Dickens, Charles
    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles
    Bleak House Dickens, Charles
    Hard Times Dickens, Charles
    A Tale of Two Cities Dickens, Charles
    Great Expectations Dickens, Charles
    Out of Africa Dinesen, Isak
    Ragtime Doctorow, E.L.
    Billy Bathgate Doctorow, E.L.
    U.S.A. Dos Passos, John
    Notes from the Underground Dostoevsky, Fyodor
    Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky, Fyodor
    The Idiot Dostoevsky, Fyodor
    The Devils Dostoevsky, Fyodor
    The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky, Fyodor
    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan
    The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan
    The Three Musketeers Dumas, Alexandre
    The Count of Monte-Cristo Dumas, Alexandre
    Foucault’s Pendulum Eco, Umberto
    Adam Bede Eliot, George
    The Mill on the Floss Eliot, George
    Silas Marner Eliot, George
    Middlemarch Eliot, George
    Daniel Deronda Eliot, George
    Less Than Zero Ellis, Bret Easton
    American Psycho Ellis, Bret Easton
    Glamorama Ellis, Bret Easton
    The Black Dahlia Ellroy, James
    Like Water for Chocolate Esquivel, Laura
    The Sound and the Fury Faulkner, William
    Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner, William
    The Hamlet Faulkner, William
    The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald, F. Scott
    Tender is the Night Fitzgerald, F. Scott
    Casino Royale Fleming, Ian
    Everything is Illuminated Foer, Jonathan Safran
    A Room With a View Forster, E.M.
    A Passage to India Forster, E.M.
    The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy, John
    No One Writes to the Colonel García Márquez, Gabriel
    One Hundred Years of Solitude García Márquez, Gabriel
    The Autumn of the Patriarch García Márquez, Gabriel
    Love in the Time of Cholera García Márquez, Gabriel
    Neuromancer Gibson, William
    Memoirs of a Geisha Golden, Arthur
    Lord of the Flies Golding, William
    The Tin Drum Grass, Günter
    The Third Man Greene, Graham
    The End of the Affair Greene, Graham
    The Quiet American Greene, Graham
    The Honorary Consul Greene, Graham
    King Solomon’s Mines Haggard, H. Rider
    The Thin Man Hammett, Dashiell
    Far from the Madding Crowd Hardy, Thomas
    Return of the Native Hardy, Thomas
    Tess of the D’Urbervilles Hardy, Thomas
    Jude the Obscure Hardy, Thomas
    The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne, Nathaniel
    The House of the Seven Gables Hawthorne, Nathaniel
    Stranger in a Strange Land Heinlein, Robert
    Catch-22 Heller, Joseph
    The Sun Also Rises Hemingway, Ernest
    A Farewell to Arms Hemingway, Ernest
    To Have and Have Not Hemingway, Ernest
    For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest
    The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway, Ernest
    Rosshalde Hesse, Herman
    Siddhartha Hesse, Herman
    Steppenwolf Hesse, Herman
    The Glass Bead Game Hesse, Herman
    The Talented Mr. Ripley Highsmith, Patricia
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame Hugo, Victor
    Les Misérables Hugo, Victor
    Brave New World Huxley, Aldous
    The World According to Garp Irving, John
    The Cider House Rules Irving, John
    A Prayer for Owen Meany Irving, John
    Fear of Flying Jong, Erica
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James
    The Trial Kafka, Franz
    The Castle Kafka, Franz
    Amerika Kafka, Franz
    Zorba the Greek Kazantzákis, Nikos
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Kesey, Ken
    Sometimes a Great Notion Kesey, Ken
    The Poisonwood Bible Kingsolver, Barbara
    The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Kundera, Milan
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being Kundera, Milan
    Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D.H.
    The Rainbow Lawrence, D.H.
    Women in Love Lawrence, D.H.
    The Plumed Serpent Lawrence, D.H.
    Lady Chatterley’s Lover Lawrence, D.H.
    The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Le Carré, John
    Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Le Carré, John
    Smiley’s People Le Carré, John
    To Kill a Mockingbird Lee, Harper
    Babbitt Lewis, Sinclair
    The Call of the Wild London, Jack
    At the Mountains of Madness Lovecraft, H.P.
    Vanishing Point Markson, David
    Pavel’s Letters Maron, Monika
    Life of Pi Martel, Yann
    The Back Room Martin Gaite, Carmen
    Santa Evita Martinez, Tomas Eloy
    Time of Silence Martín-Santos, Luis
    Tirant lo Blanc Martorell, Joanot
    The Daughter Matesis, Pavlos
    Cigarettes Mathews, Harry
    Melmoth the Wanderer Maturin, Charles Robert
    The Albigenses Maturin, Charles Robert
    Of Human Bondage Maugham, W. Somerset
    Cakes and Ale Maugham, W. Somerset
    The Razor’s Edge Maugham, W. Somerset
    A Woman’s Life Maupassant, Guy de
    Bel-Ami Maupassant, Guy de
    Pierre and Jean Maupassant, Guy de
    Vipers’ Tangle Mauriac, Francois
    Don’t Move Mazzantini, Margaret
    A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing McBride, Eimear
    The Butcher Boy McCabe, Patrick
    Blood Meridian McCarthy, Cormac
    All the Pretty Horses McCarthy, Cormac
    They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? McCoy, Horace
    Moby-Dick Melville, Herman
    Tropic of Cancer Miller, Henry
    Tropic of Capricorn Miller, Henry
    Cloud Atlas Mitchell, David
    Gone With the Wind Mitchell, Margaret
    Song of Solomon Morrison, Toni
    Beloved Morrison, Toni
    Jazz Morrison, Toni
    The Tale of Genji Murasaki, Shikibu
    The English Patient Ondaatje, Michael
    Animal Farm Orwell, George
    Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell, George
    Doctor Zhivago Pasternak, Boris
    Cry, the Beloved Country Paton, Alan
    Remembrance of Things Past Proust, Marcel
    Pharoah Prus, Boleslaw
    Heartbreak Tango Puig, Manuel
    Kiss of the Spider Woman Puig, Manuel
    Eugene Onegin Pushkin, Alexander
    The Godfather Puzo, Mario
    Excellent Women Pym, Barbara
    Quartet in Autumn Pym, Barbara
    V. Pynchon, Thomas
    The Crying of Lot 49 Pynchon, Thomas
    Gravity’s Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas
    Vineland Pynchon, Thomas
    Mason & Dixon Pynchon, Thomas
    Against the Day Pynchon, Thomas
    The Plot Against America Roth, Philip
    The God of Small Things Roy, Arundhati
    Midnight’s Children Rushdie, Salman
    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman
    The Moor’s Last Sigh Rushdie, Salman
    The Ground Beneath Her Feet Rushdie, Salman
    The Catcher in the Rye Salinger, J.D.
    Ivanhoe Schnitzler, Arthur
    Frankenstein Sembene, Ousmane
    The Jungle Sillitoe, Chinua
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Smith, Zadie
    Cancer Ward Smollett, Tobias George
    The First Circle Smollett, Tobias George
    Of Mice and Men St Aubyn, Edward
    The Grapes of Wrath Stead, Christina
    Cannery Row Stein, Gertrude
    Cryptonomicon Steinbeck, John
    Treasure Island Stendhal
    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stephenson, Neal
    Dracula Stevenson, Robert Louis
    Uncle Tom’s Cabin Stevenson, Robert Louis
    Gulliver’s Travels Svevo, Italo
    A Modest Proposal Svevo, Italo
    Vanity Fair Taktsis, Costas
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Tartt, Donna
    The Hobbit Thurber, James
    The Lord of the Rings Timm, Uwe
    War and Peace Timmermans, Felix
    Anna Karenina Tóibín, Colm
    The Death of Ivan Ilyich Tóibín, Colm
    Fathers and Sons Trollope, Anthony
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Turgenev, Ivan
    Journey to the Centre of the Earth Vargas Llosa, Mario
    Around the World in Eighty Days Vassilikos, Vassilis
    Cat’s Cradle Vidal, Gore
    God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Vila-Matas, Enrique
    Slaughterhouse Five Vittorini, Elio
    Breakfast of Champions Volpi, Jorge
    The Color Purple Voltaire
    The Time Machine Waugh, Evelyn
    The Island of Dr. Moreau Waugh, Evelyn
    The Invisible Man Waugh, Evelyn
    The War of the Worlds Waugh, Evelyn
    The Once and Future King White, Edmund
    The Picture of Dorian Gray White, Edmund
    The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy
    The Bonfire of the Vanities Wodehouse, P.G.
    Native Son Woolf, Virginia
    Monkey: Journey to the West Woolf, Virginia
    Day of the Triffids Woolf, Virginia

    the complete list follows

     

    Book Title Author
    Things Fall Apart Achebe, Chinua
    Arrow of God Achebe, Chinua
    Blood and Guts in High School Acker, Kathy
    Hawksmoor Ackroyd, Peter
    The House of Doctor Dee Ackroyd, Peter
    The Lambs of London Ackroyd, Peter
    Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas
    Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Adams, Douglas
    The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul Adams, Douglas
    Half of a Yellow Sun Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
    Americanah Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
    The White Tiger Adiga, Aravind
    Aesop’s Fables Aesopus
    Novel With Cocaine Ageyev, M.
    In The Heart of the Seas Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
    Rashomon Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
    The Regent’s Wife Alas, Leopoldo
    Little Women Alcott, Louisa May
    Broad and Alien is the World Alegria, Ciro
    The Man With the Golden Arm Algren, Nelson
    Fantômas Allain, Marcel
    The House of the Spirits Allende, Isabel
    Of Love and Shadows Allende, Isabel
    Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon Amado, Jorge
    Tent of Miracles Amado, Jorge
    Cause for Alarm Ambler, Eric
    Lucky Jim Amis, Kingsley
    The Green Man Amis, Kingsley
    The Old Devils Amis, Kingsley
    Dead Babies Amis, Martin
    Money: A Suicide Note Amis, Martin
    London Fields Amis, Martin
    Time’s Arrow Amis, Martin
    The Information Amis, Martin
    I’m Not Scared Ammaniti, Niccolo
    Untouchable Anand, Mulk Raj
    The Commandant Anderson, Jessica
    The Bridge on the Drina Andrić, Ivo
    Bosnian Chronicle Andrić, Ivo
    Ashes and Diamonds Andrzejewski, Jerzy
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou, Maya
    The Thousand and One Nights Anonymous
    The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter Anonymous
    The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes Anonymous
    Fado Alexandrino Antunes, Antonio Lobo
    The Golden Ass Apuleius, Lucius
    The Bells of Basel Aragon, Louis
    Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus Arbuthnot, John et al
    Before Night Falls Arenas, Reinaldo
    Deep Rivers Arguedas, José María
    The Twilight Years Ariyoshi, Sawako
    The Green Hat Arlen, Michael
    I, Robot Asimov, Isaac
    Foundation Asimov, Isaac
    Surfacing Atwood, Margaret
    The Handmaid’s Tale Atwood, Margaret
    Cat’s Eye Atwood, Margaret
    The Robber Bride Atwood, Margaret
    Alias Grace Atwood, Margaret
    The Blind Assassin Atwood, Margaret
    Obabakoak Atxaga, Bernardo
    Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane
    Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane
    Mansfield Park Austen, Jane
    Emma Austen, Jane
    Persuasion Austen, Jane
    Northanger Abbey Austen, Jane
    The New York Trilogy Auster, Paul
    Moon Palace Auster, Paul
    The Music of Chance Auster, Paul
    Mr. Vertigo Auster, Paul
    Timbuktu Auster, Paul
    The Book of Illusions Auster, Paul
    Invisible Auster, Paul
    The Underdogs Azuela, Mariano
    So Long a Letter Ba, Mariama
    Go Tell It on the Mountain Baldwin, James
    Giovanni’s Room Baldwin, James
    The Drowned World Ballard, J.G.
    The Atrocity Exhibition Ballard, J.G.
    Crash Ballard, J.G.
    High Rise Ballard, J.G.
    Empire of the Sun Ballard, J.G.
    Cocaine Nights Ballard, J.G.
    Super-Cannes Ballard, J.G.
    Eugénie Grandet Balzac, Honoré de
    Père Goriot Balzac, Honoré de
    Lost Illusions Balzac, Honoré de
    The Wasp Factory Banks, Iain
    The Crow Road Banks, Iain
    Complicity Banks, Iain
    Dead Air Banks, Iain
    The Player of Games Banks, Iain M.
    Cloudsplitter Banks, Russell
    The Newton Letter Banville, John
    The Book of Evidence Banville, John
    The Untouchable Banville, John
    Shroud Banville, John
    The Sea Banville, John
    Elegance of the Hedgehog Barbery, Muriel
    The Inferno Barbusse, Henri
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    At the Mountains of Madness Lovecraft, H.P.
    Under the Volcano Lowry, Malcolm
    Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid Lowry, Malcolm
    Romance of the Three Kingdoms Luo, Guanzhong
    Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit Lyly, John
    Fall on Your Knees MacDonald, Ann-Marie
    H is for Hawk Macdonald, Helen
    The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria
    Dom Casmurro Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria
    Absolute Beginners MacInnes, Colin
    The Man of Feeling Mackenzie, Henry
    Wild Harbour MacPherson, Ian
    Midaq Alley Mahfouz, Naguib
    Miramar Mahfouz, Naguib
    Remembering Babylon Malouf, David
    Man’s Fate Malraux, André
    Faceless Killers Mankell, Henning
    Professor Unrat Mann, Heinrich
    Buddenbrooks Mann, Thomas
    Death in Venice Mann, Thomas
    The Magic Mountain Mann, Thomas
    Joseph and His Brothers Mann, Thomas
    Doctor Faustus Mann, Thomas
    Her Privates We Manning, Frederic
    The Garden Party Mansfield, Katherine
    Adjunct: An Undigest Manson, Peter
    The Betrothed Manzoni, Alessandro
    Embers Marai, Sandor
    All Souls Marias, Javier
    A Heart So White Marias, Javier
    Your Face Tomorrow Marias, Javier
    The Late-Night News Markaris, Petros
    Wittgenstein’s Mistress Markson, David
    Vanishing Point Markson, David
    Pavel’s Letters Maron, Monika
    Life of Pi Martel, Yann
    The Back Room Martin Gaite, Carmen
    Santa Evita Martinez, Tomas Eloy
    Time of Silence Martín-Santos, Luis
    Tirant lo Blanc Martorell, Joanot
    The Daughter Matesis, Pavlos
    Cigarettes Mathews, Harry
    Melmoth the Wanderer Maturin, Charles Robert
    The Albigenses Maturin, Charles Robert
    Of Human Bondage Maugham, W. Somerset
    Cakes and Ale Maugham, W. Somerset
    The Razor’s Edge Maugham, W. Somerset
    A Woman’s Life Maupassant, Guy de
    Bel-Ami Maupassant, Guy de
    Pierre and Jean Maupassant, Guy de
    Vipers’ Tangle Mauriac, Francois
    Don’t Move Mazzantini, Margaret
    A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing McBride, Eimear
    The Butcher Boy McCabe, Patrick
    Blood Meridian McCarthy, Cormac
    All the Pretty Horses McCarthy, Cormac
    They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? McCoy, Horace
    The Cement Garden McEwan, Ian
    The Comfort of Strangers McEwan, Ian
    The Child in Time McEwan, Ian
    Black Dogs McEwan, Ian
    Enduring Love McEwan, Ian
    Amsterdam McEwan, Ian
    Atonement McEwan, Ian
    Saturday McEwan, Ian
    Amongst Women McGahern, John
    That They May Face the Rising Sun McGahern, John
    Schooling McGowan, Heather
    The Heart of Redness Mda, Zakes
    Moby-Dick Melville, Herman
    Billy Budd, Foretopman Melville, Herman
    A Light Comedy Mendoza, Eduardo
    The Manila Rope Meri, Veijo
    Day of the Dolphin Merle, Robert
    American Rust Meyer, Philipp
    Fugitive Pieces Michaels, Anne
    Tropic of Cancer Miller, Henry
    Tropic of Capricorn Miller, Henry
    The Sound of Waves Mishima, Yukio
    The Sea of Fertility Mishima, Yukio
    The Romantics Mishra, Pankaj
    A Fine Balance Mistry, Rohinton
    Family Matters Mistry, Rohinton
    Cloud Atlas Mitchell, David
    Gone With the Wind Mitchell, Margaret
    The Pursuit of Love Mitford, Nancy
    Love in a Cold Climate Mitford, Nancy
    Crossfire Miyabe, Miyuki
    Chaka the Zulu Mofolo, Thomas
    Amadis of Gaul Montalvo, Garci Rodríguez de
    Watchmen Moore, Alan
    Anagrams Moore, Lorrie
    Like Life Moore, Lorrie
    A Gate at the Stairs Moore, Lorrie
    The Time of Indifference Moravia, Alberto
    Disobedience Moravia, Alberto
    A Ghost at Noon (aka Contempt) Moravia, Alberto
    Anton Reiser Moritz, Karl Philipp
    News from Nowhere Morris, William
    The Bluest Eye Morrison, Toni
    Sula Morrison, Toni
    Song of Solomon Morrison, Toni
    Beloved Morrison, Toni
    Jazz Morrison, Toni
    Down Second Avenue Mphahlele, Es’kia
    The Holder of the World Mukherjee, Bharati
    The Discovery of Heaven Mulisch, Harry
    Max Havelaar Multatuli
    Lives of Girls and Women Munro, Alice
    The Beggar Maid Munro, Alice
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Murakami, Haruki
    Sputnik Sweetheart Murakami, Haruki
    After the Quake Murakami, Haruki
    Kafka on the Shore Murakami, Haruki
    1Q84 Murakami, Haruki
    Almost Transparent Blue Murakami, Ryu
    The Tale of Genji Murasaki, Shikibu
    Under the Net Murdoch, Iris
    The Bell Murdoch, Iris
    A Severed Head Murdoch, Iris
    The Nice and the Good Murdoch, Iris
    The Black Prince Murdoch, Iris
    The Sea, The Sea Murdoch, Iris
    Inland Murnane, Gerald
    Young Törless Musil, Robert
    The Man Without Qualities Musil, Robert
    The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll Mutis, Alvaro
    Lolita Nabokov, Vladimir
    Pnin Nabokov, Vladimir
    Pale Fire Nabokov, Vladimir
    Ada Nabokov, Vladimir
    In A Free State Naipaul, V.S.
    A Bend in the River Naipaul, V.S.
    Enigma of Arrival Naipaul, V.S.
    The Guide Narayan, R.K.
    The Unfortunate Traveller Nashe, Thomas
    Kokoro Natsume, Soseki
    Memoirs of a Peasant Boy Neira Vilas, Xosé
    Suite Française Nemirovsky, Irene
    The River Between Ngugi wa Thiong’o
    Petals of Blood Ngugi wa Thiong’o
    Matigari Ngugi wa Thiong’o
    Delta of Venus Nin, Anaïs
    Rituals Nooteboom, Cees
    All Souls Day Nooteboom, Cees
    Fear and Trembling Nothomb, Amélie
    Henry of Ofterdingen Novalis
    Them Oates, Joyce Carol
    Marya Oates, Joyce Carol
    Black Water Oates, Joyce Carol
    Blonde Oates, Joyce Carol
    The Country Girls O’Brien, Edna
    Girl With Green Eyes O’Brien, Edna
    August is a Wicked Month O’Brien, Edna
    In the Forest O’Brien, Edna
    At Swim-Two-Birds O’Brien, Flann
    The Poor Mouth O’Brien, Flann
    The Third Policeman O’Brien, Flann
    The Things They Carried O’Brien, Tim
    Wise Blood O’Connor, Flannery
    The Violent Bear it Away O’Connor, Flannery
    Everything That Rises Must Converge O’Connor, Flannery
    Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring Oe, Kenzaburo
    The Talk of the Town O’Hanlon, Ardal
    The English Patient Ondaatje, Michael
    At Swim, Two Boys O’Neill, Jamie
    The Shipyard Onetti, Juan Carlos
    Burmese Days Orwell, George
    Keep the Aspidistra Flying Orwell, George
    Coming Up for Air Orwell, George
    Animal Farm Orwell, George
    Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell, George
    Cataract Osadchyi, Mykhailo
    Metamorphoses Ovid
    Black Box Oz, Amos
    A Tale of Love and Darkness Oz, Amos
    Life is a Caravanserai Özdamar, Emine
    The Year of the Hare Paasilinna, Arto
    Manon des Sources Pagnol, Marcel
    Choke Palahniuk, Chuck
    The Laws Palmen, Connie
    Snow Pamuk, Orhan
    Life of Christ Papini, Giovanni
    The Manors of Ulloa Pardo Bazan, Emilia
    Land Park,, Kyŏng-ni
    Ballad for Georg Henig Paskov, Viktor
    The Ragazzi Pasolini, Pier Paulo
    Doctor Zhivago Pasternak, Boris
    Marius the Epicurean Pater, Walter
    Cry, the Beloved Country Paton, Alan
    The Harvesters Pavese, Cesare
    The Moon and the Bonfires Pavese, Cesare
    Dictionary of the Khazars Pavic, Milorad
    The Labyrinth of Solitude Paz, Octavio
    Nineteen Seventy Seven Peace, David
    Titus Groan Peake, Mervyn
    Gormenghast Peake, Mervyn
    The Clay Machine-Gun Pelevin, Victor
    The Life of Insects Pelevin, Victor
    Things: A Story of the Sixties Perec, Georges
    A Man Asleep Perec, Georges
    A Void Perec, Georges
    W, or the Memory of Childhood Perec, Georges
    Life: A User’s Manual Perec, Georges
    Fortunata y Jacinta Pérez Galdós, Benito
    Compassion Pérez Galdós, Benito
    The Dumas Club Pérez-Reverte, Arturo
    The Book of Disquiet Pessoa, Fernando
    Vernon God Little Pierre, D.B.C.
    Money to Burn Piglia, Ricardo
    One, No One and One Hundred Thousand Pirandello, Luigi
    The Bell Jar Plath, Sylvia
    The Trusting and the Maimed Plunkett, James
    The Fall of the House of Usher Poe, Edgar Allan
    The Pit and the Pendulum Poe, Edgar Allan
    The Purloined Letter Poe, Edgar Allan
    Here’s to You, Jesusa Poniatowska, Elena
    A Dance to the Music of Time Powell, Anthony
    Typical Powell, Padgett
    The Shipping News Proulx, E. Annie
    Remembrance of Things Past Proust, Marcel
    Pharoah Prus, Boleslaw
    Heartbreak Tango Puig, Manuel
    Kiss of the Spider Woman Puig, Manuel
    Eugene Onegin Pushkin, Alexander
    The Godfather Puzo, Mario
    Excellent Women Pym, Barbara
    Quartet in Autumn Pym, Barbara
    V. Pynchon, Thomas
    The Crying of Lot 49 Pynchon, Thomas
    Gravity’s Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas
    Vineland Pynchon, Thomas
    Mason & Dixon Pynchon, Thomas
    Against the Day Pynchon, Thomas
    Exercises in Style Queneau, Raymond
    Gargantua and Pantagruel Rabelais, François
    The Mysteries of Udolpho Radcliffe, Ann
    The Devil in the Flesh Radiguet, Raymond
    The Last World Ransmayr, Christoph
    The Story of O Réage, Pauline
    The Forest of the Hanged Rebreanu, Liviu
    All Quiet on the Western Front Remarque, Erich Maria
    Quartet Rhys, Jean
    Good Morning, Midnight Rhys, Jean
    Wide Sargasso Sea Rhys, Jean
    Interview With the Vampire Rice, Anne
    Pilgrimage Richardson, Dorothy
    Pamela Richardson, Samuel
    Clarissa Richardson, Samuel
    The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Rilke, Rainer Maria
    Larva: Midsummer Night’s Babel Rios, Julian
    Jealousy Robbe-Grillet, Alain
    Home Robinson, Marilynne
    Cost Robinson, Roxana
    La Celestina Rojas, Fernando de
    Hadrian the Seventh Rolfe, Frederick
    The Devil to Pay in the Backlands Rosa, João Guimarães
    Love’s Work Rose, Gillian
    Call it Sleep Roth, Henry
    The Radetzky March Roth, Joseph
    Portnoy’s Complaint Roth, Philip
    The Breast Roth, Philip
    Operation Shylock Roth, Philip
    Sabbath’s Theater Roth, Philip
    American Pastoral Roth, Philip
    The Human Stain Roth, Philip
    The Plot Against America Roth, Philip
    Nemesis Roth, Philip
    Julie; or, the New Eloise Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
    Émile; or, On Education Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
    Reveries of a Solitary Walker Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
    Confessions Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
    Impressions of Africa Roussel, Raymond
    Locus Solus Roussel, Raymond
    The God of Small Things Roy, Arundhati
    The Tin Flute Roy, Gabrielle
    The Burning Plain Rulfo, Juan
    Grimus Rushdie, Salman
    Midnight’s Children Rushdie, Salman
    Shame Rushdie, Salman
    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman
    The Moor’s Last Sigh Rushdie, Salman
    The Ground Beneath Her Feet Rushdie, Salman
    Fury Rushdie, Salman
    The Deadbeats Ruyslinck, Ward
    The 120 Days of Sodom Sade, Marquis de
    Justine Sade, Marquis de
    The Witness Saer, Juan Jose
    Contact Sagan, Carl
    Bonjour Tristesse Sagan, Françoise
    The Little Prince Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
    Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem Salgari, Emilio
    Season of Migration to the North Salih, Tayeb
    The Catcher in the Rye Salinger, J.D.
    Franny and Zooey Salinger, J.D.
    The Devil’s Pool Sand, George
    Alberta and Jacob Sandel, Cora
    Baltasar and Blimunda Saramago, Jose
    The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis Saramago, José
    The History of the Siege of Lisbon Saramago, José
    The Double Saramago, José
    Cain Saramago, Jose
    Facundo Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino
    Nausea Sartre, Jean-Paul
    Pastoralia Saunders, George
    Murder Must Advertise Sayers, Dorothy L.
    The Nine Tailors Sayers, Dorothy L.
    The Swarm Schatzing, Frank
    The Reader Schlink, Bernhard
    None but the Brave Schnitzler, Arthur
    Memoirs of my Nervous Illness Schreber, Daniel Paul
    The Street of Crocodiles Schulz, Bruno
    To Each His Own Sciascia, Leonardo
    Rob Roy Scott, Sir Walter
    Ivanhoe Scott, Sir Walter
    The Monastery Scott, Sir Walter
    Vertigo Sebald, W.G.
    The Emigrants Sebald, W.G.
    The Rings of Saturn Sebald, W.G.
    Austerlitz Sebald, W.G.
    Transit Seghers, Anna
    Requiem for a Dream Selby, Jr. Hubert
    Great Apes Self, Will
    How the Dead Live Self, Will
    Death and the Dervish Selimovic, Mesa
    The Lonely Londoners Selvon, Sam
    God’s Bits of Wood Sembene, Ousmane
    The Case of Comrade Tulayev Serge, Victor
    A Suitable Boy Seth, Vikram
    Retreat Without Song Shahnour, Shahan
    An Obedient Father Sharma, Akhil
    Frankenstein Shelley, Mary
    The Water Margin Shi, Nai’an
    The Stone Diaries Shields, Carol
    Unless Shields, Carol
    A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil
    Quo Vadis Sienkiewicz, Henryk
    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Sillitoe, Chinua
    Downriver Sinclair, Iain
    London Orbital Sinclair, Iain
    Dining on Stones Sinclair, Iain
    Life and Death of Harriett Frean Sinclair, May
    The Jungle Sinclair, Upton
    The Magician of Lublin Singer, Isaac Bashevis
    The Manor Singer, Isaac Bashevis
    Animal’s People Sinha, Indra
    The Engineer of Human Souls Skvorecky, Josef
    The Forbidden Realm Slauerhoff, Jan Jacob
    Islands Sleigh, Dan
    The Accidental Smith, Ali
    There But For The Smith, Ali
    Winter Smith, Ali
    White Teeth Smith, Zadie
    On Beauty Smith, Zadie
    Roderick Random Smollett, Tobias George
    Peregrine Pickle Smollett, Tobias George
    Humphry Clinker Smollett, Tobias George
    The Port Šoljan, Antun
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
    Cancer Ward Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
    The First Circle Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
    The Real Charlotte Somerville and Ross
    Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. Somerville and Ross
    Lady Number Thirteen Somoza, Jose Carlos
    Memento Mori Spark, Muriel
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Spark, Muriel
    The Girls of Slender Means Spark, Muriel
    The Driver’s Seat Spark, Muriel
    Mother’s Milk St Aubyn, Edward
    The Man Who Loved Children Stead, Christina
    Three Lives Stein, Gertrude
    The Making of Americans Stein, Gertrude
    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Stein, Gertrude
    Of Mice and Men Steinbeck, John
    The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck, John
    Cannery Row Steinbeck, John
    The Red and the Black Stendhal
    The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal
    The Charwoman’s Daughter Stephens, James
    Cryptonomicon Stephenson, Neal
    Tristram Shandy Sterne, Laurence
    A Sentimental Journey Sterne, Laurence
    Treasure Island Stevenson, Robert Louis
    Kidnapped Stevenson, Robert Louis
    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson, Robert Louis
    The Master of Ballantrae Stevenson, Robert Louis
    Indian Summer Stifter, Adalbert
    Dracula Stoker, Bram
    Uncle Tom’s Cabin Stowe, Harriet Beecher
    Couples, Passerby Strauss, Botho
    The Young Man Strauss, Botho
    The Red Room Strindberg, August
    The People of Hemsö Strindberg, August
    By the Open Sea Strindberg, August
    Perfume Süskind, Patrick
    The Pigeon Süskind, Patrick
    As a Man Grows Older Svevo, Italo
    Zeno’s Conscience Svevo, Italo
    Waterland Swift, Graham
    The Light of Day Swift, Graham
    A Tale of a Tub Swift, Jonathan
    Gulliver’s Travels Swift, Jonathan
    A Modest Proposal Swift, Jonathan
    The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman Szczypiorski, Andrzej
    Pereira Declares: A Testimony Tabucchi, Antonio
    The Home and the World Tagore, Rabindranath
    The Third Wedding Taktsis, Costas
    Some Prefer Nettles Tanizaki, Junichiro
    The Secret History Tartt, Donna
    The Goldfinch Tartt, Donna
    Blaming Taylor, Elizabeth
    Vanity Fair Thackeray, William Makepeace
    The Great Indian Novel Tharoor, Shashi
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Thompson, Hunter S.
    The Killer Inside Me Thompson, Jim
    Walden Thoreau, Henry David
    Cutter and Bone Thornburg, Newton
    The 13 Clocks Thurber, James
    The Wonderful “O” Thurber, James
    The Invention of Curried Sausage Timm, Uwe
    Pallieter Timmermans, Felix
    The Heather Blazing Tóibín, Colm
    The Master Tóibín, Colm
    The Hobbit Tolkien, J.R.R.
    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J.R.R.
    War and Peace Tolstoy, Leo
    Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo
    The Death of Ivan Ilyich Tolstoy, Leo
    The Kreutzer Sonata Tolstoy, Leo
    The Leopard Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe
    Confederacy of Dunces Toole, John Kennedy
    Cane Toomer, Jean
    City Sister Silver Topol, Jáchym
    The Ogre Tournier, Michael
    The Colour Tremain, Rose
    The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Tressell, Robert
    Fools of Fortune Trevor, William
    Felicia’s Journey Trevor, William
    The Story of Lucy Gault Trevor, William
    Castle Richmond Trollope, Anthony
    The Last Chronicle of Barset Trollope, Anthony
    Phineas Finn Trollope, Anthony
    He Knew He Was Right Trollope, Anthony
    Summer in Baden-Baden Tsypkin, Leonid
    The Christmas Oratorio Tunstrom, Goran
    On the Eve Turgenev, Ivan
    Fathers and Sons Turgenev, Ivan
    King Lear of the Steppes Turgenev, Ivan
    Spring Torrents Turgenev, Ivan
    Virgin Soil Turgenev, Ivan
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark
    The Museum of Unconditional Surrender Ugresic, Dubravka
    Kristin Lavransdatter Undset, Sigrid
    Rabbit, Run Updike, John
    Rabbit Redux Updike, John
    Rabbit is Rich Updike, John
    Pepita Jimenez Valera, Juan
    Our Lady of the Assassins Vallejo, Fernando
    Ancestral Voices van, Heerden, Etienne
    The Time of the Hero Vargas Llosa, Mario
    The Cubs and Other Stories Vargas Llosa, Mario
    The War of the End of the World Vargas Llosa, Mario
    The Feast of the Goat Vargas Llosa, Mario
    Z Vassilikos, Vassilis
    Under the Yoke Vazov, Ivan
    Southern Seas Vázquez Montalbán, Manuel
    The House by the Medlar Tree Verga, Giovanni
    Journey to the Centre of the Earth Verne, Jules
    Around the World in Eighty Days Verne, Jules
    The Birds Vesaas, Tarjei
    The Garden Where the Brass Band Played Vestdijk, Simon
    Froth on the Daydream Vian, Boris
    Myra Breckinridge Vidal, Gore
    Bartleby and Co. Vila-Matas, Enrique
    Conversations In Sicily Vittorini, Elio
    In Search of Klingsor Volpi, Jorge
    Candide Voltaire
    Cat’s Cradle Vonnegut, Kurt
    God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Vonnegut, Kurt
    Slaughterhouse Five Vonnegut, Kurt
    Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut, Kurt
    The Color Purple Walker, Alice
    The Temple of My Familiar Walker, Alice
    Possessing the Secret of Joy Walker, Alice
    Infinite Jest Wallace, David Foster
    Ben-Hur Wallace, Lew
    The Castle of Otranto Walpole, Horace
    Halftime Walser, Martin
    Morvern Callar Warner, Alan
    Indigo Warner, Marina
    Summer Will Show Warner, Sylvia Townsend
    After the Death of Don Juan Warner, Sylvia Townsend
    The House with the Blind Glass Windows Wassmo, Herbjorg
    Billy Liar Waterhouse, Keith
    Tipping the Velvet Waters, Sarah
    Fingersmith Waters, Sarah
    Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Watson, Winifred
    Decline and Fall Waugh, Evelyn
    Vile Bodies Waugh, Evelyn
    A Handful of Dust Waugh, Evelyn
    Brideshead Revisited Waugh, Evelyn
    The Graduate Webb, Charles
    The Time Machine Wells, H.G.
    The Island of Dr. Moreau Wells, H.G.
    The Invisible Man Wells, H.G.
    The War of the Worlds Wells, H.G.
    Tono-Bungay Wells, H.G.
    Trainspotting Welsh, Irvine
    The Optimist’s Daughter Welty, Eudora
    Miss Lonelyhearts West, Nathanael
    The Return of the Soldier West, Rebecca
    Harriet Hume West, Rebecca
    The Thinking Reed West, Rebecca
    The Birds Fall Down West, Rebecca
    The House of Mirth Wharton, Edith
    Ethan Frome Wharton, Edith
    Bunner Sisters Wharton, Edith
    Summer Wharton, Edith
    The Age of Innocence Wharton, Edith
    The Glimpses of the Moon Wharton, Edith
    A Boy’s Own Story White, Edmund
    The Beautiful Room is Empty White, Edmund
    The Living and the Dead White, Patrick
    The Tree of Man White, Patrick
    Voss White, Patrick
    The Once and Future King White, T.H.
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    Tarka the Otter Williamson, Henry
    No Laughing Matter Wilson, Angus
    I Thought of Daisy Wilson, Edmund
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Winterson, Jeanette
    The Passion Winterson, Jeanette
    Sexing the Cherry Winterson, Jeanette
    Written on the Body Winterson, Jeanette
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    The Quest for Christa T. Wolf, Christa
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    Jacob’s Room Woolf, Virginia
    Mrs. Dalloway Woolf, Virginia
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    Orlando Woolf, Virginia
    The Waves Woolf, Virginia
    The Years Woolf, Virginia
    Between the Acts Woolf, Virginia
    Native Son Wright, Richard
    Monkey: Journey to the West Wu, Cheng’en
    Day of the Triffids Wyndham, John
    The Midwich Cuckoos Wyndham, John
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    Drunkard Zola, Émile
    Nana Zola, Émile
    Germinal Zola, Émile
    La Bête Humaine Zola, Émile
    Gimmick! Zwagerman, Joost
    The Case of Sergeant Grischa Zweig, Arnold
    Amok Zweig, Stefan
    Chess Story Zweig, Stefan

     

     

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    December 13, 2020
  • Cosmos Books Read 2020 Revised

    Cosmos Books Read 2020 Revised

    Cosmos Books Read 2020 Revised

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    The 10 Best Books of 2020

    • A Children’s Bible. …
    • Deacon King Kong. …
    • Hamnet. A bold feat of imaging …
    • Homeland Elegies. …
    • The Vanishing Half. …
    • Hidden Valley Road. …
    • A Promised Land. …
    • Shakespeare in a Divided Ameri …
    • Uncanny Valley. …
    • War. This is a short book but …

    New York Public Library List

    Books Read 2020

    Books read 2019

    books read during 2018

    books read

    Reading the Classics

    Goals: 100 Books

    Read Classics

    One Thriller Per Month

    One history/politics book per month

    Read A Lot More Poetry

    Read At Least One Book A Year in Spanish

    Read At Least One Book A Year in Korean

    Accomplishments:

    Read about 100 books, (380 stories, poems included as part of the total). I read a lot of classics this year, finishing Dante’s Inferno and the first couple of volumes of the Harvard classics. Also read a lot of poetry, completed Mod Po, and read the best American Poetry 2019, 2018 and 2017, and the first two George Elliot Novels.

    Anthologies Where My Work Has Been Published

    1. Anatomy of The Beatnik Cowboy

    2. Horror/Sleaze/Trash Poems

    3. Otherwise Engaged Volume 1

    4. On the Road the Poet Volume 1

    5. Poets Facing the Wall

    I have about 100 poems and short stories published this year. See separate worksheet coming for complete list.

    1. Horror/Sleaze/Trash Poems
    2. Otherwise Engaged Volume 1
    3. On the Road the Poet Volume 1
    4. Poets Facing the Wall

    I have about 100 poems and short stories published this year. See separate worksheet coming for complete list.

    Books Read

     

    1. Dante The Divine Comedy Own Library
    2. John Burnet Bangkok Haunts
    3. Micah Caida Time Trap Red Moon Trilogy Vol 1
    4. Demelza Carlton See You in Hell
    5. Lee Child Jack Reacher 61 Hours Own Library
    6. Lee Child Jack Reacher the Enemy Own Library
    7. Cs Lewis The Lion, The Witch, And the Wardrobe in Spanish
    8. Theresa Crater Under the Stone Paw
    9. Charles Cuming A Foreign Country
    10. Earnest Dempsey The Secrets of The Stones
    11. Earnest Dempsey The Templar Curse
    12. Brandon Ellis Atlantis Quadrilogy
    13. Sterling E Lanier Hiero’s Journey Own Library
    14. George Elliot Adam Bede
    15. Ts Elliot Complete Poems and Plays Own Library
    16. Milos Fowler Captain Bartholomew Quasar

     

    AC Fuller

     

    1. Ac Fuller the Cutline an Alex Vance Novel Own Library
    2. Ac Fuller the Inverted Pyramid Own Library
    3. Ac Fuller the Anonymous Source Own Library
    4. Ac Fuller the Mockingbird Drive Own Library
    5. Ac Fuller the Shadow File Own Library
    6. Ac Fuller the Last Journalist

     

    1. Jeschonek The Greatest Serial Killer in The Universe
    2. Jeschonek The Love Quest of Smidgen the Snack Cake
    3. Dieter Kellen Enigma What Lies Below

     

    Harvard classics Vol one

     

    1. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
    2. William Penn Fruits of Solitude
    3. The Journals of John Woolman

     

    Harvard Classics Volume Two

     

    1. Plato The Apology, Phaedo And Crito
    2. The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
    3. The Mediations of Marcus Aurelius

     

    1. Warren Hately Reporting the Appocalypse
    2. Jim Heskett Museum Attack
    3. John Ling Fallen Angel
    4. Robert Ludlum The Cry of The Haledon
    5. Lincoln Cole Second Chances
    6. Mathew Mather Dark Net
    7. Kyle Mills the Utopia Experiment
    8. James Rollins Map of Bones Own Library
    9. Nick Thacker the Depths
    10. Nick Thacker the Enigma Strain
    11. Nick Thacker the Relics
    12. Nick Thacker the Atlantis Stone
    13. Elizabeth Williamson Tokyo Firewall

    Clark Aston Smith Abominations of Yondo

    1. Clark The Nameless Offspring
    2. Clark The Witchcraft of Ulua
    3. Clark The Devotee of Evil
    4. Clark The Epiphany of Death
    5. Clark A Vintage from Atlantis
    6. Clark The Abominations of Yonda
    7. Clark The White Sybil
    8. Clark The Ice Demon
    9. Clark The Voyage of King Eurovan
    10. Clark The Master of The Crabs
    11. Clark The Enchantress of Sylaire
    12. Clark The Dweller in The Gulf
    13. Clark The Dark Age
    14. Clark The Third Episode of Vahek
    15. Clark Chinoiseries
    16. Clark The Mirror in The Hall of Ebony
    17. Clark The Passing of Aphrodite

    Mod Po Week One

    1. Mod Po Poems – Week One- Emily Dickinson The Brain in Its Groove
    2. Emily Dickinson Tell the Truth Slant
    3. Emily Dickson, I Dwell in Possibility Second Favorite
    4. Whitman Songs of I Favorite Note to Self-Read Entire Leaves of Glass in December After Mod Po
    5. Vanek Whitman’s Soul
    6. William Carlos Williams Smell
    7. William Carlos Williams Dance Russe Second Favorite
    8. Allen Ginsberg Supermarket in California Favorite
    9. Lorraine Neidecker Grandfather Advised Me
    10. Lorraine Neidecker You Are My Friend
    11. Lorraine Neidecker Foreclosure
    12. Cid Corman It Is not for Want
    13. Ray Armantrout the Way

    Mod Po Week Three

    1. Hd Sea Rose
    2. Ezra Pound (Ep) In A Station of The Metro
    3. Ep the Encounter
    4. Tony Foster Haiku
    5. William Carlos Williams (Wcm) Lines
    6. Wcm Between Walls
    7. Wcm This Is Just to Say
    8. Wcm Red Wheelbarrow
    9. Wcw The Rose Is Obsolete
    10. Wcm Portrait of a Lady
    11. Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending A Stairway
    12. MP Fountain

    Mod Po Week Four

    1. Gertrude Stein Tender Buttons Raining (From Tender Buttons)
    2. Malachite (From Tender Buttons)
    3. A Carafe That Is A Blind Glass
    4. Long Dress
    5. Composition as Explanation
    6. Let Us Describe – My Second Favorite]f I Told Him Would He Like It Completed Portrait of Picasso –
    7. My Favorite Baroness Elsa Von Freytag Lorringhoven a Dozen Cocktails
    8. Tristan Tzara How to Make a Dadaist Poem
    9. John Pearl Bishop A Recollection Sonnet

     

    Mod Po Week Five

     

    1. Ruth Lectlitian Lines for An Abortionist Office
    2. Genevieve Taggard Intern
    3. Harlem Renaissance Poets Countee Cullen Yet I Do Marvel]
    4. Incident
    5. Claud Mc Kay If We Must Die
    6. Langston Hughes Dinner Guest Me
    7. Gwendolyn Brooks Boy Breaking Glass
    8. Gwendolyn Brooks Truth

     

    Robert Frost Conservative reaction

     

    1. Robert Frost Mending Wells

     

    Week Six Beat Poets

     

    1. Robert Creeley I Know A Man
    2. Jayne Cortez, She Got It He Got It
    3. Ginsberg Howl
    4. Fereghetthi Baseball Canto
    5. Le Roi Jones Incident
    6. Le Roi Jones How You Sound
    7. Jack Kerouac Belief and Techniques for Modern Prose
    8. Jack Kerouac Essentials of Spontaneous Prose
    9. Jack Kerouac Ideas About Prose
    10. Jack Kerouac Old Angel Midnight
    11. Jack Kerouac Babble Flow
    12. Bob Kaufman Jail Poems
    13. Anne Waldman Rogue State

     

    Week Seven NY School

     

    1. Harrif Abdurraqib Usa V Cuba
    2. John Ashbury Instruction Manual
    3. Some Trees
    4. Barbara Guest 20
    5. Frank O Hara the Day Lady Died
    6. Kenneth Koch Variations on A Theme by William Carlos Williams
    7. Bernadette Madeline Invasion of The Body Snatchers
    8. Eileen Myers Mount St Helens
    9. Patrick Rosal Uptown Ode
    10. James Schuler February

     

    Week Eight Language Poets

     

    1. Hejinian My Life
    2. Bob Pearlman Chronic Meaning
    3. Charles Bernstein In A Restless World Like This
    4. Emily Dickinson My Life Has Stood A Loaded Gun
    5. Susan Howe My Emily Dickinson
    6. Harriette Muller Sleeping with The Dictionary
    7. Tyrone Williams Cannot Tyrone Williams Written by Him
    8. John Keens Persons and Places

     

    Week Nine Aleatory Poets

     

    1. Week Nine John Cage Writing Through Howl
    2. John Cage Adagio Jackson Mac Law A Vocabulary for Peter Innisfree Moore
    3. Jackson Mac Law Version of Stein’s A Grass Carafe
    4. Jackson Mac Law Version of Stein 100 Feather Justice Chair
    5. Jeana Osman Dropping Leaflets
    6. Bernadette Myers Writing Experiments
    7. Realtak Not A Cage

     

    Week Ten  Experimental Poets

     

    1. Christin Bur Chapter E of Eudora
    2. Erica Baumgart Catalogue
    3. Erica Baumgart Dog Ears
    4. Caroline Bergville Via
    5. Michael Magee The Pledge
    6. Michael Magee My Emily Dickinson
    7. Michael Magee Farf Poetry
    8. Rose Marie Waldrops Shorter American Memory of The Declaration of Independence
    9. Naser Hussain Sky Write Ngs
    10. Jordan Abel Place of Scraps
    11. Terrae Morris African Emily Dickinson The Poet Lights the Lamp Essay One
    12. William Carlos Williams The Attic Which Is Desire Essay Two
    13. James Schuller The Day Gets Started Slowly Essay Three

     

     

    1. Jack Carr the Terminal List

     

    George Elliot Novels

     

    1. Adam Bede
    2. The Lifted Veil

     

    Gabriel Garcia Marquest Stories

     

    1. Eyes of A Blue Dog: The Third Resignation
    2. Eyes of A Blue Dog: The Other Side of Death
    3. Eyes of A Blue Dog: Eva Is Inside Her Cat
    4. Eyes of A Blue Dog: Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers
    5. Eyes of A Blue Dog; Dialogue with The Mirror
    6. Eyes of A Blue Dog
    7. Eyes of A Blue Dog the Woman That Came At 6:00 O’clock
    8. Eyes of A Blue Dog: Someone Has Been Disarranging
    9. Eyes of A Blue Dog: The Night of The Curlews
    10. Eyes of A Blue Dog: Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Moncondo
    11. Big Mama’s Funeral: Tuesday Siesta
    12. Big Mama’s Funeral: One of These Days
    13. Big Mama’s Funeral: There Are No Thieves in This Town
    14. Big Mama’s Funeral: Balthazar’s Marvelous Afternoon
    15. Big Mama’s Funeral: Montiel’s Widow
    16. Big Mama’s Funeral: One Day After Saturday
    17. Big Mama’s Funeral: Artificial Roses
    18. Big Mama’s Funeral
    19. The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent in Erendira And Her Heartless Grandmother Old Man with Enormous Wings
    20. Heartless Grandmother: The Sea of Last Time
    21. Heartless Grandmother: Handsome Drowned Man in The World
    22. Heartless Grandmother: Death Constant Beyond Love
    23. Heartless Grandmother: Last Voyage of The Ghost Ship
    24. Heartless Grandmother: Blacaman The Good, Vendor of Miracles
    25. The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent in Erendira And Her Heartless Grandmother

     

    Best American Poetry 2019

     

     

    1. Dilruba Ahmed Phase One
    2. Rosa Alclad You and The Raw Bullets
    3. Margaret Atwood Updates on Werewolves
    4. Catherine Barnett Center Park
    5. Joshua Bennett America Will Be
    6. Fleda Brown Afternoons on The Lake
    7. Sumitra Chakraborty Essay on Joy
    8. Victoria Chung Six Orbits
    9. Glen Chan I Invite My Parents to A Dinner Party
    10. Leonard Cohen I Drank A Lot
    11. Laura Cronk Like A Cat
    12. Kate Daniels Metaphor Less
    13. Carol Dennis Armed Neighbor
    14. Tori Derricotte Apology to The Reader
    15. Thomas Devaney Brilliant Corners
    16. Natalie Diaz Skin- Light
    17. Jean Dominique Duryer Declined in The Adoration of Jack in The Pulpits
    18. Martin Espada I Now Pronounce You Dead
    19. Nausheen Eusurf The Analytic Hour
    20. Vievere Francis Cazonian Blue Than Bluer
    21. Gabriela García Guantanamera
    22. Amy Gerstler Update
    23. Camila Guthrie Virgil
    24. Yona Harvey Dark and Lonely After Takeoff A Future
    25. Robert Hass Dancing
    26. Terrance Hayes American Silent My Past and Future Assassin
    27. Juan Felipe Herrera Roll Under the Waves
    28. Edward Hirsch Stranger by Night
    29. Jane Hershfield Ledger
    30. James Hock Sunflowers
    31. Bob Homan All Praise Cecil Taylor
    32. Garrett Hongo The Brothers Cassia
    33. Ishion Hutchison Sympathy of a Clear Day
    34. Major Jackson In Memory of Derek Alton Walcott
    35. Ilya Kaminski From Last Will and Testament
    36. Ruth Ellen Kocher We May No Longer Considered the End
    37. Deborah Landau Soft Targets
    38. Quraysh Ali Lansana Higher Calling
    39. Li Young Lee the Undressing
    40. David Lehman It Could Happen to You
    41. Ada Limon Cannibal Women
    42. Rebecca Lynn Berry A Brief History of The Future Apocalypse
    43. Nubila Lovelace The S in I Love You Porgy
    44. Clarence Major Hair
    45. () Gail Mazur At A Lands End
    46. () Shane Mcrae The President Visits the Storm
    47. () Jeffrey Mcdonald Fired from A Parallel World
    48. () Campbell Mcgrath Gray Miles Davis Birth of The Cool at The Founding in Brasilia
    49. Ange Milinko Sleepwalking in Venice
    50. Kamela Aisha Moon
    51. The Last of England
    52. Paul Moulton Aubade
    53. John Murio on Confessionalism
    54. Naomi Shihab Nye My Own State Department
    55. Sharon Olds Rasputin Aria
    56. Michael Palmer Nord-Sur
    57. Morgan Parker The Black Saint, And the Sinner Lady, The Dead and The Truth
    58. William Perdomo Head Crack Head Crack
    59. Carl Philip Star Map with Action Figures
    60. Ishmael Reed Just Rolling Along
    61. Paisely Rekdal Four Marys
    62. Sonia Sanchez Belly, Buttons and Straight Spines
    63. Nicole Santalucia #Me Too
    64. Philip Schultz Encore
    65. Jane Shore Who Knows One
    66. The Greatest Personal Privation
    67. Ae Stallings Harms Way
    68. Arthur Sze The White Orchard
    69. Natasha Trethewey Through Her A Duty
    70. Ocean Voong Partly True Phone Reflecting in A Mirror
    71. David Wojahn Still Life Stevens Wallet and Key West Hotel Dresser
    72. Kevin Young High

     

    Best American Poetry 2018

     

    1. Allison Adair Miscarriage
    2. Kaveh Akbar Against Dying
    3. Julia Alvarez American Dream
    4. David Barber Sherpa Song
    5. AR Amnov Finishing Up
    6. Andrew Bertaina A Translator’s Note
    7. Frank Bidart Mourning What We Thought We Were
    8. Bruce Bond Anthem
    9. George Bradley Those Were The Days
    10. Joyce Clement Birds Punctuate The Days
    11. Brennan Constantine The Opposite Games
    12. Marianne Cobbett Prayer Concerning The New More Accurate Translation Of Certain Prayers
    13. Robert Cording Toast To My Dead Parents
    14. Cynthia Cruz Artaud
    15. Dick Davis A Personal Sonnet
    16. Warren Decker Today’s Special
    17. Susan De Sola The Wives of The Poets
    18. Dante De Stefano Reading Dostoyevsky At 17
    19. Nausheen Eusuf Pied Beauty
    20. Jonathan Gallasi Oriental Epithalamion
    21. Jessica Goodfellow Test
    22. Sonia Greenfield Ghost Ship
    23. Joy Harjo An American Sunrise
    24. Terrance Hayes American Sonnet From My Past And Future Assassins
    25. Ernest Hilbert Mars Ultor
    26. Nemo Hill The View From The Bar
    27. Tony Hoagland Into The Mystery
    28. Anna Maria Hong Yonder a Rental
    29. Paul Hoover I Am The Size Of What I see
    30. Maria Howe Walking Home
    31. Mandy Kahn Ives
    32. Ilya Kaminski We Lived Happily During The War
    33. Stephan Kampa The Quiet Boy
    34. Denika Kelly Love Poem Chimera
    35. Mary Jo Salter We Will Always Have Parents
    36. Jason Schneiderman Voxel
    37. Nicole Sealy Violence
    38. Michael Schumacher Advent
    39. Carmen Gimenez Smith Dispatch From Midlife
    40. Tracy K Smith An Old Story
    41. Gary Snyder Why California Will Never Be Like Tuscany
    42. A E Stallings Pencil
    43. Anne Stevenson How Poems Arrive
    44. Adriene Su Substitutions
    45. Natasha Trehewey Shooting Wild
    46. Agniezeku Tworek Grief Runs Untamed
    47. Waldrep Dear Office In Which I Must Account For Tears
    48. Wang Ping Lao Jia
    49. James Matthew Wilson On A Palm
    50. Ryan Wilson Face It

     

    Best American Poetry 2017

     

    1. Christian Wiman Assembly
    2. Dan Allerbotti Weapons Exchange Report
    3. David Barber On A Shaker Admonition
    4. Dan Beachy – Quick Apophatic
    5. Bruce Bond Homage to a Painter Of Small Things
    6. John Brennan Intrigue in The Trees
    7. John Ashbery Commotion Of Birds
    8. Jericho Brown Bullet Points
    9. Nicole Brown The Dead
    10. Cyrus Cassells Elegy With A Gold Cradle
    11. Isaac Cates Fidelity And The Dead Singer
    12. Allison Cobb I Forgive You
    13. Leonard Cohen Steer Your Way
    14. Michael Collier A Wild Tom Turkey
    15. Billy Collins Presence
    16. Carl Dennis Two Lives
    17. Katia Claudia Emerson Spontaneous Emission
    18. David Feinstein Kaddish
    19. Carolyn Fouche The Boatman
    20. Vieva Francis Given To Those proclivities By God
    21. Amy Gerstler Dead Butterfly
    22. Reginald Gibbons Canasta
    23. Margaret Given Passage
    24. Aracelis Girmay From The Black Maria
    25. Jeffrey Harrison Higher Education
    26. Terrace Hayes Ars Poetica With Bacon
    27. RJ Herbert Mounting The Dove Box
    28. Tony Hoagland Cause Of Death Fox News
    29. John Hogan Hamlet Texts Guildenstern About Paying Upon The Pipe
    30. David Brendan Hopes Certain Things
    31. Major Jackson Trends A Well Light Summer Cocktail
    32. John James History
    33. Rodney Jones Homecoming
    34. Fatty Judah Progress Notes
    35. Meg Kearney Kearney Crackle
    36. John Koethe The Age Of Anxiety
    37. Yusef Komunyakaa from the last bohemian of Avenue A
    38. Danusha Lammeris The Watch
    39. Jordan Laux Lapse
    40. Phillip Le Van Rain In Winter
    41. Amit Majumdar Kill List
    42. Jamal May Things That Break
    43. Judson Mitchem White
    44. John Murillo Upon reading that Eric Dolphy transcribed Even the calls of certain species of birds
    45. Joyce Carol Oates To Marlon Brando In Hell
    46. Sharon Olds Ode To The Glands
    47. Matthew Bozeman Letter Beginning With Two Lines By Czeslaw Milosz
    48. Gregory Orr Three Dark Proverb Sonnets
    49. Carl Phillips Rockabye
    50. Rowan Picado Phillips Halo
    51. Robin Robert Pinksy Names
    52. Stanley Plumly Poliomyelitis
    53. Paisley Rekdal Assemblage of ruined Plane Parts Vietnam Military Museum
    54. Michael Ryan the Mercy Home
    55. David St John Emanations
    56. Cheryl Santos I Went For A Walk In Winter
    57. Taiji Silverman Where To Put It
    58. Charles Simic Seeing Things
    59. Danny Smith Last Summer Of Innocence
    60. Maggie Smith Good Bones
    61. RT Smith Maricon
    62. RE Stallings Shattered
    63. Pamela Sutton Afraid To Pray
    64. Chase Twitchell Sad Song
    65. James Valvis Something
    66. Emily Van Kley Dear Skull
    67. Wendy Videlock Deconstruction
    68. Lucy Waigner Scheherazade
    69. Crystal Williams Double Helix
    70. Christian Wiman Prelude
    71. Monica Yoan Green acre
    72. C Dale Young Precatico Simplex
    73. Dean Young Infinitives
    74. Kevin Young Money Road
    75. Matthew Zapruder Poem for Vows

     

     

    To Read  first quarter 2021

     

    Elliot Novels

     

    Adam Bede (1859)  read,

    The Lifted Veil   read

    The Mill on the Floss (1860),

    Silas Marner (1861),

    Romola (1862–63),

    Felix Holt, the Radical (1866),

    Middlemarch (1871–72)

    and Daniel Deronda (1876).

     

    Harvard Classics

     

    Poets Companion Finish

    Art and Craft of Poetry Finish

    Poetry for Dummies

    Whitman Leaves of Grass
    Dickenson Collected Poems
           Robert Service Poems (From Alaskan Gold Rush Period)
    Milton Collected Poems

    Mina Nair Beyond and Back Indian short stories

    Robert Buswell The Zen Monastic Tradition

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    December 13, 2020
  • Books Read 2020

    Books Read 2020

    Books Read 2020

     

    Books read 2019

    books read during 2018

    books read

    Reading the Classics

    the list 2020

    Books Read 2020

    Goals:  100 books
    Read classics

    One thriller per month
    One history or current affairs book per month
    one to do book per month
    Read a lot more Poetry

    >Read at least one book a year in Spanish

    Read at least one book a year in Korean

    Anthologies where my work has been published

    Anatomy of the Beatnik Cowboy

    Horror/Sleaze/Trash Poems

    Otherwise Engaged Volume 1

    On the Road the Poet Volume 1

    Poets Facing the Wall

    Books read

    Close up of books on desk in library.
    Close up of books on desk in library.

     

     

     

     

    Books Read 2020

    Goals:  100 books

    Read classics

    One thriller per month

    Read a lot more Poetry

    Read at least one book a year in Spanish

    Read at least one book a year in Korean

     

    Anthologies where my work has been published

     

    1. Anatomy of the Beatnik Cowboy
    2. Horror/Sleaze/Trash Poems
    3. Otherwise Engaged Volume 1
    4. On the Road the Poet Volume 1
    5. Poets Facing the Wall
    6. Best American Poetry 2017
    7. Best American Poetry 2018
    8. Best American Poetry 2019

     

    Books Read

     

    1. Dante the Divine Comedy own library
    2. John Burnet Bangkok Haunts
    3. Micah Caida Time Trap Red Moon Trilogy Vol 1
    4. Demelza Carlton See You In Hell
    5. Lee Child Jack Reacher 61 Hours own library
    6. Lee Child Jack Reacher the Enemy own library
    7. CS Lewis The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in Spanish
    8. Theresa Crater Under the Stone Paw
    9. Charles Cuming A Foreign Country
    10. Earnest Dempsey the Secrets of the Stones
    11. Earnest Dempsey The Templar Curse
    12. Brandon Ellis Atlantis Quadrilogy
    13. Sterling E Lanier Hiero’s Journey own library
    14. George Elliot Adam Bede
    15. TS Elliot Complete Poems and Plays own library
    16. Milos Fowler Captain Bartholomew Quasar
    17. AC Fuller The Cutline an Alex Vance Novel own library
    18. AC Fuller The Inverted Pyramid own library
    19. AC Fuller The Anonymous Source own library
    20. AC Fuller the Mockingbird Drive own library
    21. AC Fuller the Shadow File own library
    22. AC Fuller the Last Journalist
    23. Jeschonek The Greatest Serial Killer in the Universe
    24. Jeschonek the Love Quest of Smidgen the Snack Cake
    25. Dieter Kellen Enigma What Lies Below
    26. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin HC Volume One
    27. William Penn Fruits of Solitude HC Volume One
    28. The Journals of John Woolman HC Volume One
    29. Plato the Apology, Phaedo and Crito HC Volume Two
    30. The Golden Sayings of Epictetus HC Volume Two
    31. The Mediations of Marcus Aurelius HC Volume Two
    32. Warren Hately Reporting the Appocalypse
    33. Jim Heskett Museum Attack
    34. John Ling Fallen Angel
    35. Robert Ludlum the Cry of the Haledon
    36. Lincoln Cole Second Chances
    37. Mathew Mather Dark Net
    38. Kyle Mills the Utopia Experiment
    39. James Rollins Map of Bones own library
    40. Nick Thacker the Depths
    41. Nick Thacker the Enigma Strain
    42. Nick Thacker The Relics
    43. Nick Thacker the Atlantis Stone
    44. Elizabeth Williamson Tokyo Firewall
    45. Clark Ashton Smith that Abominations of Yondo
    46. Clark the nameless offspring
    47. Clark the witch craft of Ulua
    48. Clark the devotee of evil
    49. Clark the Epiphany of death
    50. Clark a vintage from Atlantis
    51. Clark The Abominations of Yonda
    52. Clark The white Sybil
    53. Clark the ice demon
    54. Clark the voyage of King Eurovan
    55. Clark the master of the crabs
    56. Clark the enchantress of Sylaire
    57. Clark the dweller in the Gulf
    58. Clark the dark age
    59. Clark the third episode of Vahek
    60. Clark Chinoiseries
    61. Clark the mirror in the Hall of Ebony
    62. Clark the passing of Aphrodite
    63. Mod Po poems – week one- Emily Dickinson the brain in its groove
    64. Emily Dickinson tell the truth slant
    65. Emily Dickson I dwell in possibility  second favorite
    66. Whitman Songs of Myself   favorite  note to self read entire Leaves of Glass in December after MOD PO
    67. Vanek Whitman’s Soul
    68. Week Two William Carlos Williams Smell
    69. William Carlos Williams Dance Russe second favorite
    70. Allen Ginsberg Supermarket in California favorite
    71. Lorraine Neidecker Grandfather Advised Me
    72. Lorraine Neidecker You are my Friend
    73. Lorraine Neidecker Foreclosure
    74. Cid Corman It isn’t for Want
    75. Ray Armantrout The Way
    76. Week Three HD Sea Rose
    77. Ezra Pound (EP) in a station of the metro
    78. EP the Encounter
    79. Tony Foster Haiku
    80. William Carlos Williams (WCM) lines
    81. WCM Between Walls
    82. WCM this is Just to Say
    83. WCM Red Wheelbarrow
    84. WCW The Rose is Obsolete
    85. WCM Portrait of a Lady
    86. Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Stairway
    87. MP Fountain
    88. Week Four Mod Po Gertrude Stein Tender Buttons
    89. Water Raining  (from tender buttons)
    90. Malachite (from tender buttons)
    91. A Carafe that is a Blind Glass
    92. Long Dress
    93. Composition as Explanation
    94. Let Us Describe – my second favorite
    95. If I told Him would he like it completed portrait of Picasso – my favorite
    96. Baroness Elsa Von Freytag Lorringhoven A Dozen Cocktails
    97. Tristan Tzara How to Make a Dadist Poem
    98. John Peal Bishop  A recollection Sonnet
    99. Week Five Communist Poets Ruth Lectlitian Lines for an Abortionist Office
    100. Genevieve Taggard Intern
    101. Harlem Renaissance Poets        Countee Cullen Yet I Do Marvel]
    102. Incident
    103. Claud McKay  If we must Die
    104. Langston Hughes Dinner Guest Me
    105. Gwendolyn Brooks Boy Breaking Glass
    106. Gwendolyn Brooks Truth
    107. Robert Frost Mending Well
    108. Week Six Beats Robert Creeley I Know a Man
    109. Jayne Cortez She Got It He Got It
    110. Ginsberg Howl
    111. Fereghetthi Baseball Canto
    112. Le Roi Jones Incident
    113. Le Roi Jones How You Sound
    114. Jack Kerouac Belief and Techniques for Modern Prose
    115. Jack Kerouac Essentials of Spontaneous Prose
    116. Jack Kerouac Ideas About Prose
    117. Jack Kerouac Old Angel Midnight
    118. Jack Kerouac Babble Flow
    119. Bob Kaufman Jail Poems
    120. Anne Waldman Rogue State
    121. Week seven NY School Harrif Abdurraqib USA V Cuba
    122. John Ashbury Instruction Manual
    123. Some Trees
    124. Barbara Guest 20
    125. Frank O Hara the Day Lady Died
    126. Kenneth Koch Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
    127. Bernadette Madeline Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    128. Eileen Myers Mount St Helens
    129. Patrick Rosal Uptown Ode
    130. James Schuler February
    131. Week Eight Lyn Hejinian My Life
    132. Bob Pearlman Chronic Meaning
    133. Charles Bernstein In a Restless World Like this
    134. Emily Dickinson My Life Has Stood a Loaded Gun
    135. Susan Howe My Emily Dickinson
    136. Harriette Muller Sleeping with the Dictionary
    137. Tyrone Williams Can’t Tyrone Williams Written By Him
    138. John Keens Persons and Places
    139. Week Nine John Cage  Writing Through Howl
    140. John Cage Adagio Jackson Mac Law a Vocabulary for Peter Innisfree Moore
    141. Jackson Mac Law version of Stein’s a grass carafe
    142. Jackson Mac Law version of Stein 100 Feather Justice Chair
    143. Jeana Osman Dropping Leaflets
    144. Bernadette Myers Writing experiments
    145. Realtak Not a Cage
    146. Week Ten Christin Bur Chapter E of Eudora
    147. Erica Baumgart Catalogue
    148. Erica Baumgart dog ears
    149. Caroline Bergville VIA
    150. Michael Magee the Pledge
    151. Michael Magee My Emily Dickinson
    152. Michael Magee FARF poetry
    153. Rose Marie Waldrops Shorter American Memory of the Declaration of Independence
    154. Naser Hussain Sky Write NGS
    155. Jordan Abel Place of Scraps
    156. Terrae Morris African Emily Dickinson the Poet Lights the Lamp Essay One
    157. William Carlos Williams the Attic Which is desire essay two
    158. James Schuller the Day Gets Started Slowly essay three
    159. post mod po additional reading: Jack Carr The Terminal List
    160. George Elliot  The Lifted Veil
    161. Jeffrey Sypeck Becoming Charlemagne

     

    To Read

    Elliot Novels

    Mod Po 2020 Poems (to be listed as I read them)
    Harvard classics through Volume Six
    Poets Companion finish
    Art and Craft of Poetry finish
    Poetry for Dummies
    Whitman Leaves of Grass
    Dickenson Collected Poems
    Robert Service Poems (from Alaskan gold rush period)

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    36. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker
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    38. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
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    41. The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro
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    45. Sabbath’s Theater, Philip Roth
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    48. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
    49. Love’s Work, Gillian Rose
    50. The End Of The Story, Lydia Davis
    51. Mr. Vertigo, Paul Auster
    52. The Folding Star, Alan Hollinghurst
    53. Whatever, Michel Houellebecq
    54. Land, Park Kyong-ni
    55. The Master Of Petersburg, J.M. Coetzee
    56. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
    57. Pereira Declares: A Testimony, Antonio Tabucchi
    58. City Sister Silve, Jàchym Topol
    59. How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman
    60. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
    61. Felicia’s Journey, William Trevor
    62. Disappearance, David Dabydeen
    63. The Invention Of Curried Sausage, Uwe Timm
    64. The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
    65. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
    66. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
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    68. Operation Shylock, Philip Roth
    69. Complicity, Iain Banks
    70. On Love, Alain de Botton
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    72. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
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    74. The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
    75. The House Of Doctor Dee, Peter Ackroyd
    76. The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood
    77. The Emigrants, W.G. Sebald
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    84. The Crow Road, Iain Banks
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    96. Wild Swans, Jung Chang
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    124. The Trick Is To Keep Breathing, Janice Galloway
    125. The History Of The Siege Of Lisbon, José Saramago
    126. Like Water For Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
    127. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
    128. London Fields, Martin Amis
    129. The Book Of Evidence, John Banville
    130. Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood
    131. Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
    132. The Beautiful Room Is Empty, Edmund White
    133. Wittgenstein’s Mistress, David Markson
    134. The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
    135. The Swimming-Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst
    136. Oscar And Lucinda, Peter Carey
    137. Libra, Don DeLillo
    138. The Player Of Games, Iain M. Banks
    139. Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
    140. The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul, Douglas Adams
    141. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
    142. The Radiant Way, Margaret Drabble
    143. The Afternoon Of A Writer, Peter Handke
    144. The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy
    145. The Passion, Jeanette Winterson
    146. The Pigeon, Patrick Süskind
    147. The Child In Time, Ian McEwan
    148. Cigarettes, Harry Mathews
    149. The Bonfire Of The Vanities, Tom Wolfe
    150. The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
    151. World’s End, T. Coraghessan Boyle
    152. Enigma Of Arrival, V.S. Naipaul
    153. The Taebek Mountains, Jo Jung-rae
    154. Beloved, Toni Morrison
    155. Anagrams, Lorrie Moore
    156. Matigari, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
    157. Marya, Joyce Carol Oates
    158. Watchmen, Alan Moore & David Gibbons
    159. The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis
    160. Lost Language Of Cranes, David Leavitt
    161. An Artist Of The Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro
    162. Extinction, Thomas Bernhard
    163. Foe, J.M. Coetzee
    164. The Drowned And The Saved, Primo Levi
    165. Reasons To Live, Amy Hempel
    166. The Parable Of The Blind, Gert Hofmann
    167. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
    168. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
    169. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
    170. A Maggot, John Fowles
    171. Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
    172. Contact, Carl Sagan
    173. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
    174. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
    175. Old Masters, Thomas Bernhard
    176. White Noise, Don DeLillo
    177. Queer, William Burroughs
    178. Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd
    179. Legend, David Gemmell
    180. Dictionary Of The Khazars, Milorad Pavic
    181. The Bus Conductor Hines, James Kelman
    182. The Year Of The Death Of Ricardo Reis, José Saramago
    183. The Lover, Marguerite Duras
    184. Empire Of The Sun, J.G. Ballard
    185. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
    186. Nights At The Circus, Angela Carter
    187. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Milan Kundera
    188. Blood And Guts In High School, Kathy Acker
    189. Neuromancer, William Gibson
    190. Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes
    191. Money: A Suicide Note, Martin Amis
    192. Shame, Salman Rushdie
    193. Worstward Ho, Samuel Beckett
    194. Fools Of Fortune, William Trevor
    195. La Brava, Elmore Leonard
    196. Waterland, Graham Swift
    197. The Life And Times Of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee
    198. The Diary Of Jane Somers, Doris Lessing
    199. The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek
    200. The Sorrow Of Belgium, Hugo Claus
    201. If Not Now, When?, Primo Levi
    202. A Boy’s Own Story, Edmund White
    203. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
    204. Wittgenstein’s Nephew, Thomas Bernhard
    205. A Pale View Of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro
    206. Schindler’s Ark, Thomas Keneally
    207. The House Of The Spirits, Isabel Allende
    208. The Newton Letter, John Banville
    209. On The Black Hill, Bruce Chatwin
    210. Concrete, Thomas Bernhard
    211. The Names, Don DeLillo
    212. Rabbit Is Rich, John Updike
    213. Lanark: A Life in Four Books, Alasdair Gray
    214. The Comfort Of Strangers, Ian McEwan
    215. July’s People, Nadine Gordimer
    216. Summer In Baden-Baden, Leonid Tsypkin
    217. Broken April, Ismail Kadare
    218. Waiting For The Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee
    219. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
    220. Rites Of Passage, William Golding
    221. Rituals, Cees Nooteboom
    222. A Confederacy Of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
    223. City Primeval, Elmore Leonard
    224. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
    225. The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting, Milan Kundera
    226. Smiley’s People, John Le Carré
    227. Shikasta, Doris Lessing
    228. A Bend In The River, V.S. Naipaul
    229. Burger’s Daughter, Nadine Gordimer
    230. The Safety Net, Heinrich Böll
    231. If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler, Italo Calvino
    232. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
    233. The Cement Garden, Ian McEwan
    234. The World According To Garp, John Irving
    235. Life: A User’s Manual, Georges Perec
    236. The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch
    237. The Singapore Grip, J.G. Farrell
    238. Yes, Thomas Bernhard
    239. The Virgin In The Garden, A.S. Byatt
    240. In The Heart Of The Country, J.M. Coetzee
    241. The Passion Of New Eve, Angela Carter
    242. Delta Of Venus, Anaïs Nin
    243. The Shining, Stephen King
    244. Dispatches, Michael Herr
    245. Petals Of Blood, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
    246. Song Of Solomon, Toni Morrison
    247. The Hour Of The Star, Clarice Lispector
    248. The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke
    249. Ratner’s Star, Don DeLillo
    250. The Public Burning, Robert Coover
    251. Interview With The Vampire, Anne Rice
    252. Cutter and Bone, Newton Thornburg
    253. Amateurs, Donald Barthelme
    254. Patterns Of Childhood, Christa Wolf
    255. The Autumn Of The Patriarch, Gabriel García Márquez
    256. W, Or The Memory Of Childhood, Georges Perec
    257. A Dance To The Music of Time, Anthony Powell
    258. Grimus, Salman Rushdie
    259. The Dead Father, Donald Barthelme
    260. Fateless, Imre Kertész
    261. Willard And His Bowling Trophies, Richard Brautigan
    262. High Rise, J.G. Ballard
    263. Humboldt’s Gift, Saul Bellow
    264. Dead Babies, Martin Amis
    265. Correction, Thomas Bernhard
    266. Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow
    267. The Fan Man, William Kotzwinkle
    268. Dusklands, J.M. Coetzee
    269. The Lost Honor Of Katharina Blum, Heinrich Böll
    270. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Le Carré
    271. Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
    272. Fear Of Flying, Erica Jong
    273. A Question Of Power, Bessie Head
    274. The Siege Of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell
    275. The Castle Of Crossed Destinies, Italo Calvino
    276. Crash, J.G. Ballard
    277. The Honorary Consul, Graham Greene
    278. Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
    279. The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch
    280. Sula, Toni Morrison
    281. Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
    282. The Breast, Philip Roth
    283. The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
    284. G, John Berger
    285. Surfacing, Margaret Atwood
    286. House Mother Normal, B.S. Johnson
    287. In A Free State, V.S. Naipaul
    288. The Book Of Daniel, E.L. Doctorow
    289. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
    290. Group Portrait With Lady, Heinrich Böll
    291. The Wild Boys, William Burroughs
    292. Rabbit Redux, John Updike
    293. The Sea Of Fertility, Yukio Mishima
    294. The Driver’s Seat, Muriel Spark
    295. The Ogre, Michael Tournier
    296. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
    297. Goalie’s Anxiety At The Penalty Kick, Peter Handke
    298. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
    299. Mercier Et Camier, Samuel Beckett
    300. Troubles, J.G. Farrell
    301. Jahrestage, Uwe Johnson
    302. The Atrocity Exhibition, J.G. Ballard
    303. Tent Of Miracles, Jorge Amado
    304. Pricksongs And Descants, Robert Coover
    305. Blind Man With A Pistolm, Chester Hines
    306. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
    307. The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
    308. The Green Man, Kingsley Amis
    309. Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth
    310. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
    311. Ada Or Ardor, Vladimir Nabokov
    312. Them, Joyce Carol Oates
    313. A Void, Georges Perec
    314. Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen
    315. Myra Breckinridge, Gore Vidal
    316. The Nice And The Good, Iris Murdoch
    317. Belle Du Seigneur, Albert Cohen
    318. Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    319. The First Circle, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    320. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
    321. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
    322. Dark As The Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid, Malcolm Lowry
    323. The German Lesson, Siegfried Lenz
    324. In Watermelon Sugar, Richard Brautigan
    325. A Kestrel For A Knave, Barry Hines
    326. The Quest For Christa T., Christa Wolf
    327. Chocky, John Wyndham
    328. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
    329. The Cubs And Other Stories, Mario Vargas Llosa
    330. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
    331. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
    332. Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson
    333. The Joke, Milan Kundera
    334. No Laughing Matter, Angus Wilson
    335. The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien
    336. A Man Asleep, Georges Perec
    337. The Birds Fall Down, Rebecca West
    338. Trawl, B.S. Johnson
    339. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
    340. The Magus, John Fowles
    341. The Vice-Consul, Marguerite Duras
    342. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
    343. Giles Goat-Boy, John Barth
    344. The Crying Of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
    345. Things, Georges Perec
    346. The River Between, Ngugi wa Thiong’o
    347. August Is A Wicked Month, Edna O’Brien
    348. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut
    349. Everything That Rises Must Converge, Flannery O’Connor
    350. The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector
    351. Sometimes A Great Notion, Ken Kesey
    352. Come Back, Dr. Caligari, Donald Bartholme
    353. Albert Angelo, B.S. Johnson
    354. Arrow Of God, Chinua Achebe
    355. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein, Marguerite Duras
    356. Herzog, Saul Bellow
    357. V., Thomas Pynchon
    358. Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
    359. The Graduate, Charles Webb
    360. Manon Des Sources, Marcel Pagnol
    361. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, John Le Carré
    362. The Girls Of Slender Means, Muriel Spark
    363. Inside Mr. Enderby, Anthony Burgess
    364. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
    365. One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    366. The Collector, John Fowles
    367. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
    368. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
    369. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
    370. The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard
    371. The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
    372. Labyrinths, Jorg Luis Borges
    373. Girl With Green Eyes, Edna O’Brien
    374. The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis, Giorgio Bassani
    375. Stranger In A Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
    376. Franny And Zooey, J.D. Salinger
    377. A Severed Head, Iris Murdoch
    378. Faces In The Water, Janet Frame
    379. Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
    380. Cat And Mouse, Günter Grass
    381. The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
    382. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
    383. The Violent Bear It Away, Flannery O’Connor
    384. How It Is, Samuel Beckett
    385. Our Ancestors, Italo Calvino
    386. The Country Girls, Edna O’Brien
    387. To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
    388. Rabbit, Run, John Updike
    389. Promise At Dawn, Romain Gary
    390. Cider With Rosie, Laurie Lee
    391. Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse
    392. Naked Lunch, William Burroughs
    393. The Tin Drum, Günter Grass
    394. Absolute Beginners, Colin MacInnes
    395. Henderson The Rain King, Saul Bellow
    396. Memento Mori, Muriel Spark
    397. Billiards At Half-Past Nine, Heinrich Böll
    398. Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Truman Capote
    399. The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
    400. Pluck The Bud And Destroy The Offspring, Kenzaburo Oe
    401. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
    402. The Bitter Glass, Eilís Dillon
    403. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
    404. Saturday Night And Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe
    405. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris, Paul Gallico
    406. Borstal Boy, Brendan Behan
    407. The End Of The Road, John Barth
    408. The Once And Future King, T.H. White
    409. The Bell, Iris Murdoch
    410. Jealousy, Alain Robbe-Grillet
    411. Voss, Patrick White
    412. The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham
    413. Blue Noon, Georges Bataille
    414. Homo Faber, Max Frisch
    415. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
    416. Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
    417. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
    418. The Wonderful “O”, James Thurber
    419. Justine, Lawrence Durrell
    420. Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
    421. The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selvon
    422. The Roots of Heaven, Romain Gary
    423. Seize The Day, Saul Bellow
    424. The Floating Opera, John Barth
    425. The Lord Of The Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
    426. The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
    427. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
    428. A World Of Love, Elizabeth Bowen
    429. The Trusting And The Maimed, James Plunkett
    430. The Quiet American, Graham Greene
    431. The Last Temptation Of Christ, Nikos Kazantzákis
    432. The Recognitions, William Gaddis
    433. The Ragazzi, Pier Paulo Pasolini
    434. Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan
    435. I’m Not Stiller, Max Frisch
    436. Self Condemned, Wyndham Lewis
    437. The Story Of O, Pauline Réage
    438. A Ghost At Noon, Alberto Moravia
    439. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
    440. Under The Net, Iris Murdoch
    441. The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley
    442. The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
    443. The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett
    444. Watt, Samuel Beckett
    445. Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
    446. Junkie, William Burroughs
    447. The Adventures Of Augie March, Saul Bellow
    448. Go Tell It On the Mountain, James Baldwin
    449. Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
    450. The Judge And His Hangman, Friedrich Dürrenmatt
    451. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
    452. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
    453. Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor
    454. The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
    455. Memoirs Of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar
    456. Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett
    457. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
    458. Foundation, Isaac Asimov
    459. The Opposing Shore, Julien Gracq
    460. The Catcher In The Rye, J.D. Salinger
    461. The Rebel, Albert Camus
    462. Molloy, Samuel Beckett
    463. The End Of The Affair, Graham Greene
    464. The Abbot C, Georges Bataille
    465. The Labyrinth Of Solitude, Octavio Paz
    466. The Third Man, Graham Greene
    467. The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
    468. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
    469. The Grass Is Singing, Doris Lessing
    470. I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
    471. The Moon And The Bonfires, Cesare Pavese
    472. The Garden Where The Brass Band Played, Simon Vestdijk
    473. Love In A Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
    474. The Case Of Comrade Tulayev, Victor Serge
    475. The Heat Of The Day, Elizabeth Bowen
    476. Kingdom Of This World, Alejo Carpentier
    477. The Man With The Golden Arm, Nelson Algren
    478. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
    479. All About H. Hatterr, G.V. Desani
    480. Disobedience, Alberto Moravia
    481. Death Sentence, Maurice Blanchot
    482. The Heart Of The Matter, Graham Greene
    483. Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton
    484. Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann
    485. The Victim, Saul Bellow
    486. Exercises In Style, Raymond Queneau
    487. If This Is A Man, Primo Levi
    488. Under The Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
    489. The Path To The Spider’s Nest, Italo Calvino
    490. The Plague, Albert Camus
    491. Back, Henry Green
    492. Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake
    493. The Bridge On The Drina, Ivo Andric
    494. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
    495. Animal Farm, George Orwell
    496. Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
    497. The Pursuit Of Love, Nancy Mitford
    498. Loving, Henry Green
    499. Arcanum 17, André Breton
    500. Christ Stopped At Eboli, Carlo Levi
    501. The Razor’s Edge, William Somerset Maugham
    502. Transit, Anna Seghers
    503. Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
    504. Dangling Man, Saul Bellow
    505. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    506. Caught, Henry Green
    507. The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse
    508. Embers, Sandor Marai
    509. Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner
    510. The Outsider, Albert Camus
    511. Conversations In Sicily, Elio Vittorini
    512. The Poor Mouth, Flann O’Brien
    513. The Living And The Dead, Patrick White
    514. Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton
    515. Between The Acts, Virginia Woolf
    516. The Hamlet, William Faulkner
    517. Farewell My Lovely, Raymond Chandler
    518. For Whom The Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
    519. Native Son, Richard Wright
    520. The Power And The Glory, Graham Greene
    521. The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati
    522. Party Going, Henry Green
    523. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
    524. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
    525. At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien
    526. Coming Up For Air, George Orwell
    527. Goodbye To Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
    528. Tropic Of Capricorn, Henry Miller
    529. Good Morning, Midnight, Jean Rhys
    530. The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
    531. After The Death Of Don Juan, Sylvie Townsend Warner
    532. Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, Winifred Watson
    533. Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
    534. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
    535. Cause For Alarm, Eric Ambler
    536. Brighton Rock, Graham Greene
    537. U.S.A., John Dos Passos
    538. Murphy, Samuel Beckett
    539. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
    540. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
    541. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
    542. The Years, Virginia Woolf
    543. In Parenthesis, David Jones
    544. The Revenge For Love, Wyndham Lewis
    545. Out of Africa, Isak Dineson
    546. To Have And Have Not, Ernest Hemingway
    547. Summer Will Show, Sylvia Townsend Warner
    548. Eyeless In Gaza, Aldous Huxley
    549. The Thinking Reed, Rebecca West
    550. Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
    551. Keep The Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell
    552. Wild Harbour, Ian MacPherson
    553. Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner
    554. At The Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft
    555. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
    556. Independent People, Halldór Laxness
    557. Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti
    558. The Last Of Mr. Norris, Christopher Isherwood
    559. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, Horace McCoy
    560. The House In Paris, Elizabeth Bowen
    561. England Made Me, Graham Greene
    562. Burmese Days, George Orwell
    563. The Nine Tailors, Dorothy L. Sayers
    564. Threepenny Novel, Bertolt Brecht
    565. Novel With Cocaine, M. Ageyev
    566. The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
    567. Tropic Of Cancer, Henry Miller
    568. A Handful Of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
    569. Tender Is The Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
    570. Thank You, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
    571. Call It Sleep, Henry Roth
    572. Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathanael West
    573. Murder Must Advertise, Dorothy L. Sayers
    574. The Autobiography Of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein
    575. Testament Of Youth, Vera Brittain
    576. A Day Off, Storm Jameson
    577. The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
    578. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
    579. Journey To The End Of The Night, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
    580. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
    581. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
    582. To The North, Elizabeth Bowen
    583. The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
    584. The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth
    585. The Waves, Virginia Woolf
    586. The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett
    587. Cakes And Ale, W. Somerset Maugham
    588. The Apes Of God, Wyndham Lewis
    589. Her Privates We, Frederic Manning
    590. Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
    591. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
    592. Hebdomeros, Giorgio de Chirico
    593. Passing, Nella Larsen
    594. A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway
    595. Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
    596. Living, Henry Green
    597. The Time Of Indifference, Alberto Moravia
    598. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
    599. Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Döblin
    600. The Last September, Elizabeth Bowen
    601. Harriet Hume, Rebecca West
    602. The Sound And The Fury, William Faulkner
    603. Les Enfants Terribles, Jean Cocteau
    604. Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
    605. Story Of The Eye, Georges Bataille
    606. Orlando, Virginia Woolf
    607. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence
    608. The Well Of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall
    609. The Childermass, Wyndham Lewis
    610. Quartet, Jean Rhys
    611. Decline And Fall, Evelyn Waugh
    612. Quicksand, Nella Larsen
    613. Parade’s End, Ford Madox Ford
    614. Nadja, André Breton
    615. Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
    616. Remembrance Of Things Past, Marcel Proust
    617. To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
    618. Tarka The Otter, Henry Williamson
    619. Amerika, Franz Kafka
    620. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
    621. Blindness, Henry Green
    622. The Castle, Franz Kafka
    623. The Good Soldier Švejk, Jaroslav Hašek
    624. The Plumed Serpent, D.H. Lawrence
    625. One, None And A Hundred Thousand, Luigi Pirandello
    626. The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie
    627. The Making Of Americans, Gertrude Stein
    628. Manhattan Transfer, John Dos Passos
    629. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
    630. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
    631. The Counterfeiters, André Gide
    632. The Trial, Franz Kafka
    633. The Artamonov Business, Maxim Gorky
    634. The Professor’s House, Willa Cather
    635. Billy Budd, Foretopman, Herman Melville
    636. The Green Hat, Michael Arlen
    637. The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
    638. We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
    639. A Passage To India, E.M. Forster
    640. The Devil In The Flesh, Raymond Radiguet
    641. Zeno’s Conscience, Italo Svevo
    642. Cane, Jean Toomer
    643. Antic Hay, Aldous Huxley
    644. Amok, Stefan Zweig
    645. The Garden Party, Katherine Mansfield
    646. The Enormous Room, E.E. Cummings
    647. Jacob’s Room, Virginia Woolf
    648. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
    649. The Glimpses Of The Moon, Edith Wharton
    650. Life And Death Of Harriett Frean, May Sinclair
    651. The Last Days Of Humanity, Karl Kraus
    652. Aaron’s Rod, D.H. Lawrence
    653. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
    654. Ulysses, James Joyce
    655. The Fox, D.H. Lawrence
    656. Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley
    657. The Age Of Innocence, Edith Wharton
    658. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
    659. Women In Love, D.H. Lawrence
    660. Night And Day, Virginia Woolf
    661. Tarr, Wyndham Lewis
    662. The Return Of The Soldier, Rebecca West
    663. The Shadow Line, Joseph Conrad
    664. Summer, Edith Wharton
    665. Growth Of The Soil, Knut Hamsen
    666. Bunner Sisters, Edith Wharton
    667. A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, James Joyce
    668. Under Fire, Henri Barbusse
    669. Rashōmon, Akutagawa Ryunosuke
    670. The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
    671. The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf
    672. Of Human Bondage, William Somerset Maugham
    673. The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence
    674. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
    675. Kokoro, Natsume Soseki
    676. Locus Solus, Raymond Roussel
    677. Rosshalde, Herman Hesse
    678. Tarzan Of The Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs
    679. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
    680. Sons And Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
    681. Death In Venice, Thomas Mann
    682. The Charwoman’s Daughter, James Stephens
    683. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
    684. Fantômas, Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
    685. Howards End, E.M. Forster
    686. Impressions Of Africa, Raymond Roussel
    687. Three Lives, Gertrude Stein
    688. Martin Eden, Jack London
    689. Strait Is The Gate, André Gide
    690. Tono-Bungay, H.G. Wells
    691. The Inferno, Henri Barbusse
    692. A Room With A View, E.M. Forster
    693. The Iron Heel, Jack London
    694. The Old Wives’ Tale, Arnold Bennett
    695. The House On The Borderland, William Hope Hodgson
    696. Mother, Maxim Gorky
    697. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
    698. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
    699. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
    700. Young Törless, Robert Musil
    701. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
    702. The House Of Mirth, Edith Wharton
    703. Professor Unrat, Heinrich Mann
    704. Where Angels Fear To Tread, E.M. Forster
    705. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
    706. Hadrian The Seventh, Frederick Rolfe
    707. The Golden Bowl, Henry James
    708. The Ambassadors, Henry James
    709. The Riddle Of The Sands, Erskine Childers
    710. The Immoralist, André Gide
    711. The Wings Of The Dove, Henry James
    712. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
    713. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    714. Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann
    715. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
    716. Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
    717. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad

    1800s

    1. Some Experiences Of An Irish R.M., Somerville and Ross
    2. The Stechlin, Theodore Fontane
    3. The Awakening, Kate Chopin
    4. The Turn Of The Screw, Henry James
    5. The War Of The Worlds, H.G. Wells
    6. The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
    7. What Maisie Knew, Henry James
    8. Fruits Of The Earth, André Gide
    9. Dracula, Bram Stoker
    10. Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz
    11. The Island Of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells
    12. The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
    13. Effi Briest, Theodore Fontane
    14. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
    15. The Real Charlotte, Somerville and Ross
    16. The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    17. Born In Exile, George Gissing
    18. Diary Of A Nobody, George & Weedon Grossmith
    19. The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    20. News From Nowhere, William Morris
    21. New Grub Street, George Gissing
    22. Gösta Berling’s Saga, Selma Lagerlöf
    23. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
    24. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
    25. The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy
    26. La Bête Humaine, Émile Zola
    27. By the Open Sea, August Strindberg
    28. Hunger, Knut Hamsun
    29. The Master Of Ballantrae, Robert Louis Stevenson
    30. Pierre And Jean, Guy de Maupassant
    31. Fortunata And Jacinta, Benito Pérez Galdés
    32. The People Of Hemsö, August Strindberg
    33. The Woodlanders, Thomas Hardy
    34. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
    35. She, H. Rider Haggard
    36. The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
    37. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
    38. Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
    39. bGerminal, Émile Zola
    40. The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
    41. Bel-Ami, Guy de Maupassant
    42. Marius The Epicurean, Walter Pater
    43. Against The Grain, Joris-Karl Huysmans
    44. The Death Of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy
    45. A Woman’s Life, Guy de Maupassant
    46. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
    47. The House By The Medlar Tree, Giovanni Verga
    48. The Portrait Of A Lady, Henry James
    49. Bouvard And Pécuchet, Gustave Flaubert
    50. Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace
    51. Nana, Émile Zola
    52. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
    53. The Red Room, August Strindberg
    54. Return Of The Native, Thomas Hardy
    55. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
    56. Drunkard, Émile Zola
    57. Virgin Soil, Ivan Turgenev
    58. Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
    59. The Hand Of Ethelberta, Thomas Hardy
    60. The Temptation Of Saint Anthony, Gustave Flaubert
    61. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
    62. The Enchanted Wanderer, Nicolai Leskov
    63. Around The World In Eighty Days, Jules Verne
    64. In A Glass Darkly, Sheridan Le Fanu
    65. The Devils, Fyodor Dostoevsky
    66. Erewhon, Samuel Butler
    67. Spring Torrents, Ivan Turgenev
    68. Middlemarch, George Eliot
    69. Through The Looking Glass, And What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll
    70. King Lear Of The Steppes, Ivan Turgenev
    71. He Knew He Was Right, Anthony Trollope
    72. War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
    73. Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert
    74. Phineas Finn, Anthony Trollope
    75. Maldoror, Comte de Lautréaumont
    76. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
    77. The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
    78. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
    79. Thérèse Raquin, Émile Zola
    80. The Last Chronicle Of Barset, Anthony Trollope
    81. Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, Jules Verne
    82. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
    83. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
    84. Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
    85. Uncle Silas, Sheridan Le Fanu
    86. Notes From The Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
    87. The Water-Babies, Charles Kingsley
    88. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
    89. Fathers And Sons, Ivan Turgenev
    90. Silas Marner, George Eliot
    91. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
    92. On The Eve, Ivan Turgenev
    93. Castle Richmond, Anthony Trollope
    94. The Mill On The Floss, George Eliot
    95. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
    96. The Marble Faun, Nathaniel Hawthorne
    97. Max Havelaar, Multatuli
    98. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
    99. Oblomovka, Ivan Goncharov
    100. Adam Bede, George Eliot
    101. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
    102. North And South, Elizabeth Gaskell
    103. Hard Times, Charles Dickens
    104. Walden, Henry David Thoreau
    105. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
    106. Villette, Charlotte Brontë
    107. Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
    108. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life Among The Lonely, Harriet Beecher Stowe
    109. The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne
    110. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
    111. Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
    112. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
    113. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
    114. Shirley, Charlotte Brontë
    115. Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell
    116. The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë
    117. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
    118. Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë
    119. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
    120. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
    121. The Count Of Monte-Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
    122. La Reine Margot, Alexandre Dumas
    123. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
    124. The Purloined Letter, Edgar Allan Poe
    125. Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens
    126. The Pit And The Pendulum, Edgar Allan Poe
    127. Lost Illusions, Honoré de Balzac
    128. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
    129. Dead Souls, Nikolay Gogol
    130. The Charterhouse Of Parma, Stendhal
    131. The Fall Of The House Of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe
    132. The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens
    133. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
    134. The Nose, Nikolay Gogol
    135. Le Père Goriot, Honoré de Balzac
    136. Eugénie Grandet, Honoré de Balzac
    137. The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
    138. The Red And The Black, Stendhal
    139. The Betrothed, Alessandro Manzoni
    140. Last Of The Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
    141. The Private Memoirs And Confessions Of A Justified Sinner, James Hogg
    142. The Albigenses, Charles Robert Maturin
    143. Melmoth The Wanderer, Charles Robert Maturin
    144. The Monastery, Sir Walter Scott
    145. Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
    146. Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    147. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
    148. Persuasion, Jane Austen
    149. Ormond, Maria Edgeworth
    150. Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott
    151. Emma, Jane Austen
    152. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
    153. Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen
    154. The Absentee, Maria Edg
    155. Elective Affinities, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    156. Castle Rackrent, Maria Edgeworth

    1700s

    1. Hyperion, Friedrich Hölderlin
    2. The Nun, Denis Diderot
    3. Camilla, Fanny Burney
    4. The Monk, M.G. Lewis
    5. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    6. The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe
    7. The Interesting Narrative, Olaudah Equiano
    8. The Adventures Of Caleb Williams, William Godwin
    9. Justine, Marquis de Sade
    10. Vathek, William Beckford
    11. Cecilia, Fanny Burney
    12. The 120 Days Of Sodom, Marquis de Sade
    13. Cecilia, Fanny Burney
    14. Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    15. Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
    16. Reveries Of A Solitary Walker, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    17. Evelina, Fanny Burney
    18. The Sorrows Of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    19. Humphrey Clinker, Tobias George Smollett
    20. The Man Of Feeling, Henry Mackenzie
    21. A Sentimental Journey, Laurence Sterne
    22. Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne
    23. The Vicar Of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith
    24. The Castle Of Otranto, Horace Walpole
    25. Émile; Or, On Education, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    26. Rameau’s Nephew, Denis Diderot
    27. Julie; Or, the New Eloise, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    28. Rasselas, Samuel Johnson
    29. Candide, Voltaire
    30. The Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox
    31. Amelia, Henry Fielding
    32. Peregrine Pickle, Tobias George Smollett
    33. Fanny Hill, John Cleland
    34. Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
    35. Roderick Random, Tobias George Smollett
    36. Clarissa, Samuel Richardson
    37. Pamela, Samuel Richardson
    38. Jacques The Fatalist, Denis Diderot
    39. Memoirs Of Martinus Scriblerus, J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
    40. Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding
    41. A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift
    42. Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
    43. Roxana, Daniel Defoe
    44. Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
    45. Love In Excess, Eliza Haywood
    46. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
    47. A Tale Of A Tub, Jonathan Swift

    Pre-1700

    1. Oroonoko, Aphra Behn
    2. The Princess Of Clèves, Comtesse de La Fayette
    3. The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
    4. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
    5. The Unfortunate Traveller, Thomas Nashe
    6. Euphues: The Anatomy Of Wit, John Lyly
    7. Gargantua And Pantagruel, Françoise Rabelais
    8. The Thousand And One Nights, Anonymous
    9. The Golden Ass, Lucius Apuleius
    10. Aithiopika, Heliodorus
    11. Chaireas And Kallirhoe, Chariton
    12. Metamorphoses, Ovid
    13. Aesop’s Fables, Aesopus

     

     

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    September 5, 2020
  • Reading the Classics

    Reading the Classics

    pilgrim's progress
    pilgrim’s process

    Reading the Classics

    Books read 2019

    books read during 2018

    books read

    About a year ago I started reading classic books, starting with books on the Good Read’s list of a 1001 books to read before you die. I also have been reading books in the Harvard Classics books which were published decades ago – I bought a complete set from the State Department book sale for 10 dollars a few years ago and vowed that I would start reading them some day and just completed volume one – the autobiography of Ben Franklin and William Penn’s reflections.

    I completed 13% of the list. Lots more to read this year and in the coming years.My goal is to finish the list before I die so hopefully I will have enough time.

    here’s the list.  How many have you read? I’d love to know and will include your comments here. And you can join the Good Reads list as well.

    the list

    three books I have read recently that are not on the list but should be on the list include Dante’s Divine Comedy, Ben Franklin’s autobiography and William Penn’s reflections. The Ben Franklin autobiography and William Penn’s reflections are from part one of the Harvard Classic books list published decades ago. I was moved by all three pieces. The Dante Divine comedy is a moving epic masterpiece and is at times terrifying and inspirational. the autobiography of Ben Franklin was powerful as was William Penn’s reflections on life written just before he died. Enjoy the list and discussions on it.

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    February 16, 2020
  • Books read 2019

    Books read 2019

    end of the year reflections overview  book list 

    Every year at this time a year I like to reflect back on the year before what I had done what movies I had seen what books I had read where I have traveled and what I have accomplished this year for the first time I’m going to blog about this so here are my end-of-the-year book list movie list and travel list.

    books read during 2018

    books read

    Movies Watched During 2018

    Cosmos’s Music Play List 2018

    publication updates

    movies list

    new Yorker List Best Books of the Year

    good read choices

    books read
    books read

    First let’s look at the book list. This is the list of books I have read this year.

    reading goal for this year included 

    5 to 6  books per month  -2 from library one from Kindle  one from own library
    1 SF or thriller
    1 world lit including Korean, Latin American, Indian novels 
    1 poetry
    1 history or current event
    Read 19th classic novels 
    Read all my classic books as well
    One Korean history book
    One writing craft book
    One Spanish language book
    One Korean book   

    for next year continue as before but read more Korean and Spanish books

    The List

    1. AC Fuller   The Anonymous Source
    2. AC Fuller   the Inverted Pyramid
    3. AC Fuller   the Mocking Bird Drive 
    4. AC Fuller   the Shadow File 
    5. AC Fuller  The Last Journalist
    6. AC Fuller Cutline
    7. Earnest Howard The Atlantis Stone
    8. Down in the Dirt 2018 Anthology Natural Light includes my poem
    9. Down in the Dirt 2019 Literary Review my poem Strangeness in the Air appears November 
    10. Snarling Cup of Coffee My Chapbook as published in Poetry Superhighway give away
    11. David Balladaci Winner
    12. Making Out in Korean
    13. Vietnam Lonely Planet
    14. .Vietnam Cambodia Lonely Planet
    15. .Vietnam Easy Travel Guide
    16. .Continuing Korean
    17. .Advanced Korean
    18. Conspiracy Theory JD Oliva  Kindle
    19. .Museum Attack Jim Heskett Kindle
    20. .Jamie Thornton Germination did not finish Kindle
    21. Steve Konkoly Red Dragon Kindle
    22. Nathan Van Cooper In Times Like These Kindle
    23. Earnest Dempsey The Secret of the Stones Kindle
    24. Braddon Ellis Atlantis Quadrilogy Kindle
    25. .Bida Ernie Howard Kindle 
    26. .Howard Finn Adventures of Robin Hood Kindle
    27. .Nick Jones The Unexpected Gift of Joseph Bridgeman Kindle
    28. .Stephen Tharp the Western DMZ Paju
    29. .Icebergs Alistair Morgan
    30. An Ordinary Soldier Gramma Joyce  erotic shorts 
    31. The Camera and the Cobra erotic shorts
    32. .Substitutes Viet Dinh erotic shorts
    33. The Nursery Kirstein Sundberg erotic shorts
    34. Tell Him About Brother Joe Manuel Munoz erotic shorts
    35. Isabelle’s Daughter Karin Brown erotic shorts
    36. Purple Bamboo Park EV Slate erotic shorts
    37. This is Not Your City  Caitlin Horroks erotic shorts
    38. The Visitor Marisa Silver erotic shorts
    39. .The Bell Ring John Burnside erotic shorts
    40. .The House Behind A Weeping Cherry Ha Jin erotic shorts
    41. . And We Will Be Here  Paul Yoon erotic shorts
    42. Uncle Musto Takes A Mistress erotic shorts
    43. .Darkness  Andrew Sean Greer erotic shorts
    44. .Kind LE Miller erotic shorts
    45. .The Order of Things Judy Troy erotic shorts 
    46. Wildwood Junot Diaz  erotic shorts
    47. A Beneficiary Nadine Gordimer erotic shorts
    48.  Blasphemy Douglas Preston erotic shorts
    49.  .Michael Robinson The Alpha Plague erotic shorts
    50.  .The Enigma Stain Nick Thacke erotic shorts
    51. . Captain Bartholomew Quasar  Miles James Fowl erotic shorts
    52. .Kill Switch Steve N Lee – did not finish – a bit too violent for my taste
    53. .Second Chances Lincoln Cole Gripping emotional family drama – quite well done
    54. The Alpha Plague Michael Robinson – so so Zombie thriller
    55.  Strike Jim Heskett Did not finish
    56.  Tech Fall Austin Drago
    57. TS Elliot Complete poems and Plays
    58. Stuart Woods Skin Game – finished  YS Library 
    59. .Stuart Woods Desperate Measures 
    60. John Grisham The Reckoning YS 
    61. .David Poyer Deep Water
    62. .Bill Clinton/James Paterson The President Is Missing
    63. James Elroy This Story
    64. .Lindsay Buroker Star Nomad
    65. .Nick Thacker the Depths
    66. The Green Ghost Johnston Mc Cullety Shadow Justice
    67. Mr Death Takes the Wheel G Wyman Jones Shadow Justice
    68. The Emperor Runs the Gauntlet Charles Lee Jackson Shadow Justice
    69. the Shadow Smith Investigations Owen Fox Jerome Shadow Justice
    70. Fireball Charles Lee Jackson Shadow Justice
    71. the Crimson Mask Scorpion Trail Frank Johnson Shadow Justice
    72. The Reaper City of Thirst William Glass Shadow Justice
    73. The Mask of Cypher fireball adventure  Shadow Justice
    74. The emperor Marked for Death  Shadow Justice
    75. .Milo James Captain Bartholomew Quasar
    76. .Lincoln Cole Second Chances
    77. .Steve Lee Kill Switch
    78. .Michale Robinson the Alpha Plague
    79. .Micha Caridad Time Trap
    80. .Jim Hesket Strike
    81. .Ransom Riggs Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
    82. .Ransom Riggs Hollow City
    83. .Ransom Riggs library of Souls
    84. .James Elroy American Tabloid
    85. .James Elroy The Cold Six  Thousand
    86. .James Elroy Blood Requiem
    87. .David Poyer Deep Water 
    88. .Lindsay Buroker Star Nomad
    89. .Nick Thacker the Depths
    90. Micha Caridad Time Trap
    91. .Minnie’s Diary my poem included the Market Rules Us All
    92. Poetry Explosion News letter – My poem Fears included
    93. .Poets Against the Wall – my poem Take Down this Wall included 
    94. .Best American Poetry 2017
    95. .Best American Poetry 2018
    96. .Best American Poetry 2019
    97. Easy Thai
    98. .Fundamentals of Thai Language
    99. .Thai Phrasebook
    100. Scales Fall All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
    101. the Ant Tower All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
    102. Heft All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
    103. the first acolyte of the Upshot All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
    104. Bronwells Dowry All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
    105. the Spider and the Darkness All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
    106. The Dowager’s Largress All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
    107. Therjiac All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
    108. the Red Flame of Death All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
    109. The Blue Breeze All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
    110. The Rakam All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
    111. Arthur Doyle Lost World
    112. Franklin Autobiography
    113. Craig McDonnough Destination Roswell
    114. Clare Littermore FLow
    115. Incheon Travel Guide
    116. Gangnam style  Yangchechong Stream
    117. His forbidden touch ten Shades of Sexy
    118.  Heaven’s fire ten Shades of Sexy
    119. just Perfect ten Shades of Sexy
    120. the Games ten Shades of Sexy
    121. Taken by the Cowboy ten Shades of Sexy
    122. Lips that Touch Mine ten Shades of Sexy
    123. Justin ten Shades of Sexy
    124. Hidden Crimes ten Shades of Sexy
    125. Trust Me ten Shades of Sexy
    126. Ten Shades of Sexy ten Shades of Sexy
    127. Mathew Mather Dark Net
    128. Austin Dragon Tek Fail
    129. Austin Dragon Liquid Cool
    130. Dean F WIlson Cool Hand Luke
    131. Austin Dragon Hollow Blood
    132. Duncan Simpson Dark Horizon
    133. AJ Ramsey Apocalypse Rise of the Machines
    134. Bobby Adair Freedom Fire
    135. Bobby Adair Slow Burn
    136. Alice May Bell Hot Wife
    137. Robert Peace Scout

    Other

    Other James Elroy read

    The Underworld USA Trilogy

    American Tabloid
    the Cold Six  Thousand
    Blood Requiem

    LA Quartet

    black Dahlia
    The Big Nowhere
    LA Confidential

    To read

    Whitman Leaves of Grass
    Dickenson Collected Poems
    the Wrinkle in Time five volume Series
           Robert Service Poems (from Alaskan gold rush period)
           Poetry for dummies
    The Poets Companion
    Art and Craft of Poetry
    Crafting Scenes
    Creating Plot
    Ben Nyberg One Way to Write Short Stories
    James n Frey How to Write Damn Good Novel
    Rittenberg Your First Novel
    Myeongo’s korean reader
    the lion the witch and the ward-row in Spanish and english
    Kim Soo Sijo In Korean and English
    Robert Collins North Korean Organization and Guidance Department
    Robert Collins Denied Human Rights at the Local Level
    Courtland Robinson Lost Generation
    Federalist Papers

    the End

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    December 27, 2019
  • books read during 2018

    Jake Cosmos Aller 2018 Reading List

    I read a lot this year, completed 85 books, and started book reviews on Good Reads. As usual a very eclectic reading list. My goal for 2019 is 100 books including a lot more poetry, and short stories as I continue my publication quest, and I’d like to read a couple of books in Spanish and at least one in Korean. Would love to see what other people have read this year. One of my highlights was reading the entire “Oz” series, and re-reading Wind in the Willows.” The Oz stories have a hidden agenda, as the Land of oz is depicted almost like a communist paradise. I wonder why these books were not condemned at the time as being dangerously subversive?

    Drop me a line and lets chat about favorite books read.

    1. William Oday Darwin Protocol
    2. Steve Richer – the Kennedy Secret
    3. Steve Doucette The Space Ship Next Door
    4. Richard Dawkins the God Delusion
    5. David Baldacci End Game
    6. Blake Crouch Dark Matter
    7. Joe Hill Snap Shot
    8. Joe Hill Loaded
    9. Joe Hill Aloft
    10. Joe Hill Rain
    11. John Le Carre A legacy of Spies
    12. James Patterson Humans Bow Down
    13. Preston and Childs The Cabinet of Curiosities
    14. JL Bourne Tomorrow War YS too right wing a point of view but still decent
    15. Milton Collected Poems
    16. Nathan Van Coop In Times Like These
    17. Austin Dragon Liquid Cool
    18. Kim Stanley Robinson New York 2140
    19. William Johnstone The Doomsday Bunker
    20. David Cay Johnson Its Even Worst Than You Think What the Trump Administration is Doing to America
    21. Chris Fleur Little Blue
    22. Steven Vincent the Foundation
    23. Dinsel Noell White Rabbit
    24. Brad Taylor Ring of Fire
    25. Stephen Coots Liberty Last Stand
    26. Harry Turtledove Armistices The Hot War
    27. Seoul Survivor 2017-2018
    28. Brendan Dubois Resurrection Day
    29. Rachael Lee Crimson Code
    30. Graham the Wind in the Willows
    31. Stuart Woods Unbound
    32. John Grisham Sycamore Row
    33. John Grisham The Whistler
    34. Mike Bose Hidden Agenda
    35. Austin Dragon After Eden
    36. Alex Lukeman the Solomon Scroll
    37. Al Li Not a Memory Exactly
    38. Mt McGuire Few Are Chosen
    39. Mt McGuire The Wrong Stuff
    40. Nick Thacker The Jefferson Legacy
    41. Nick Thacker Relics
    42. Austin Dragon Blood Hollow
    43. Austin Dragon Through these Streets Darkly prequel to Liquid Cool
    44. Ernie Howard Midnight Portals – Short Stories
    45. Lost Templar Tom Harper
    46. James Becker Lost Treasures of the Templars
    47. Lincoln Cole Everett Exorcism
    48. Johann David Wyss Swiss Family Robinson
    49. Tom Harper Lost Temple
    50. James Becker Lost Treasure of the Templars
    51. William Shakespeare King Henry V – also saw at OSF
    52. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    53. The Marvelous Land of Oz
    54. Ozma of Oz
    55. Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz
    56. The Road to Oz
    57. The Emerald City of Oz
    58. The Patchwork Girl of Oz
    59. Tik-Tok of Oz
    60. The Scarecrow of Oz
    61. Rintitink in Oz
    62. The Lost Princess of Oz
    63. The Tin Woodman of Oz
    64. The Magic of Oz
    65. Glinda of Oz
    66. Stuart Woods Unbound
    67. Stuart Woods The Money Shot
    68. David Baldacci The Fallen
    69. Randy Wayne white Caribbean rim
    70. Stephen King Full dark no stars
    71. Nick Jones the Unexpected Gift of Time
    72. Austin Dragon Tek Fail
    73. Ernest Dempsey Earnest Templar
    74. Lonely Planet guide Korea
    75. Lonely Planet Guide Seoul
    76. Howard Pyle Adventures of Robin Hood
    77. Brandon Ellis Atlantis
    78. Stephen Hawking Brief Answers to Big Questions
    79. Randy Wayne White Mangrove Lightning
    80. James Patterson Never Never
    81. Victor Cha the Impossible State
    82. Rick Wilson Everything Trump Touches Dies
    83. Steve Berry The Bishop’s Pawn
    84. AC Fuller The Anonymous Source
    85. Matthew Mather Darknet

     
    Reviews – Partial list

    Jake Aller’s Reviews > Tik-Tok of Oz

    Tik-Tok of Oz (Oz, #8)
    by
    L. Frank Baum
    Recommended for: fans of the oz books

    always loved the Oz Books. This is the sixth of the 24 I have read. I think I will go ahead and binge read the rest of the series. This particular book was a fun quick read and introduces the Tik Tok man the Shaggy Man, Cap Bill and Trot It also has a veiled satirical look at the society of the early 20th century. Oz is depicted almost as communist utopian society! Ruled by a benevolent dictator.
    Update: finished reading the rest of the series. The social criticism is there, buried here and there. I am surprised that the Oz stories were not banned by social conservatives!!!!

    The Solomon Scroll (The Project, #10)
    by
    Alex Lukeman (Goodreads Author)

    not too bad a thriller. In the genre of Don Brown’s thriller with a nice twist, involving an ancient religion, and some supernatural elements as well. An interesting nexus between Catholic conspiracies and Islamic terrorist organizations. The love scenes could have been drawn out a bit more. but overall I’d give it a solid B and would read more from this author in the future.

    Jake Aller’s Reviews > The Wind in the Willows

    The Wind in the Willows
    by
    Kenneth Grahame
    I first read this when I was 6 years old. Re-read it at age 62. Still fresh and lively and full of great language and vivid images. Strong characters especially Toad, Rat, Badger and the Mole. My favorite is probably the Rat. I can identify with him. There were several tangents that would have made a great sequel particularly the sea rat’s offer to Rat to join him on a voyage to the Southern seas.

    I also like the basic story line that humans and animals all lived together in relative harmony and understanding. That was a nice story line in and of itself. All in all, I can see why this story has remained a classic story.

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