Dogwood.
Ok....a couple more books....
Collected Poems: Gerard Manley Hopkins: I've always considered Spring and Fall one of my favourite poems, but didn't delve too deeply into the Hopkins repertoire....my mistake. Beauty, grandeur, profoundness, all to be found in these lines. The world is charged with the grandeur of God....just one of the poems I memorized this year and my favourite one to contemplate when I go for longish nature rambles. I find myself praying many of these poems....
Now...on a much more frivolous note...
Generica: (Novel) Will Ferguson: Sharp like a knife humour to be found here. The premise of the book is that a self help book that promises to show its' readers how to; quite smoking, loose weight, find love, advance in career goals, and find inner peace actually works. Once published the results of its' nefarious influence an apocalypse is unleashed upon America. Very witty off-skew humour. If you enjoy weird and funny and black you'll enjoy this book.
Orientalism: Edward W. Said: Not really fair to include this yet, as it's more a potential than a sure entry....I've just started it. But from a few Said articles I've read recently, and the strong opening I have a feeling that it will make the list. I can always edit it out later if I change my mind (: I enjoy a good critique and am interested in intellectual tradition and communication, therefore a good critique of intellectual tradition and communication seems right up my alley.
Ok....I think that does it for books. I read many others of course and many of the many were also wonderful....but these are the ones I've chosen to write on. Stay tuned for Music, Movies and Photos......
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