So I’m making my way through the Greeks. I recently finished up Xenophon’s Persian Expedition (Anabasis), which I will soon post an entry for. Although I’m 200 pages in the middle of Herodotus as well and enjoying it to a certain degree I might put this one aside for now; although I am enjoying it, [...]
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Reading Plan: It’s all Greek to me!
Posted in Reading Plan, tagged Booklist 2008, Literature on December 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Re-thinking my Reading Plan
Posted in Book List 2008, Reading Plan, tagged Literature, Western Canon on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So after much deliberation I decided to rethink my reading plan for the year and the subsequent years once again. I realize this year I have been a tad fickle. I began the year planning to focus on religion, mythology, and philosophy and ended up going through the American Canon towards the end.
I changed my mind [...]
Free Books! Hooray!
Posted in Reading Plan on September 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Because two Professors retired, they cleaned out their offices. So they had a room full of free books that they announced on the Graduate Student Listserv.
So this is what I grabbed (with the help of a big box.) :
The Structuralists: From Marx to Levi-Strauss edited by Richard and Fernande DeGeorge
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert [...]
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