Wednesday, June 4, 2014

“There Is Always a Struggle”: An Interview with Chieko N. Okazaki

see the whole interview here.

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V45N01_CO.pdf

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime

Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (finished 3/11/2016. It was wonderful)
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (read 2010)
  • The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank (read 1999)
  • 1984 by George Orwell (read 2016)
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (read 2000 and 2007)
  • The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (finished May 2014... finally)
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (read 2003)
  • Charlotte’s Web by Garth Williams 
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (read 2013)
  • The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (read 2006)
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (read January 2016- sobering and relevant.)
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte  (read October 2014 in Jane's honor. Not my favorite but glad I did).
  • Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (read 1999 and 2005)
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  by Mark Twain (read 2000)
  • The Help by Kathryn Stockett (read 2012)
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (read 2004)
  • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (read 2010)
  • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (read 2013)
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • Night by Elie Wiesel
  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (read 1999)
  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
  • The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (read 2005)
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (read December 2016)
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (read 1995)
  • Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (read 1999)
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (read January 2017. Scary sobering and relevant)
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • The Little Prince by Antoine de St-Expupery
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (read 1995)
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry (read 1996)
  • Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery (read 1996 and 2014)
  • MacBeth by William Shakespeare (read 2001)
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (read 2000)
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling (read 2007)
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (read 2001 and 2002)
  • The Holy Bible: New King James Version (read 2001)
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  • The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  • Catch-22 by Joesph Heller
  • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  • The Stand by Stephen King
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • Watership Down by Richard Adams
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (read 2001)
  • Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (read 1999)
  • Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  • Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling (read 2000)
  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  • A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin (read July 2016. Bleh)
  • The Princess Bride by William Goldman 
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel (read 2006)
  • The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  • Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (read 2000)
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling (read 2005)
  • Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (read 2010)
  • Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
  • The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe (read 1999)
  • The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
  • Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (read 2012, 2013, 2014, audio 2015)
  • A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (read 2001)
  • The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
  • The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (read 2011 and 2014)
  • The Odyssey by Homer (read 1999)
  • Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from 5 Years of Weekly Knowledge by Sri Sri Ravi Shanker
  • A Prayer for Own Meany by John Irving
  • And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (read 2012- fascinating and sobering)
  • The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullogh (read 2015- LOVED it. Absolutely epic and beautiful)
  • The Glass Castle by Jeanette Wall
  • Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (read 2010)
  • The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (read June 2016. Beautiful and challenging.)
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison (read December 2016 along with The Underground Railroad. So many lasting and awful legacies of slavery)
  • Helen Keller: The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
  • The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
  • From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler by EL Konigsburg (read 1996)
  • Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (read April 2014 and immediately deleted from my kindle. Not impressed. And I also "figured it out" right away, so that wasn't the reason)
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
51/100 as of January 2017