Books To-Be Read
Reason for ReadingFor book titles two, three, five, and six through fourteen, I want to read them because they are classics that shaped a lot of writing that is done today. Gone with the Wind is a fantastic movie, and the book is always better than the movie, but the point being made is that I am ashamed to not have read it and I probably would not get around to reading it until I was near retirement if it were not for this assignment. Practically all the books on my list would not get picked up until later in my life if it were not for this assignment, purely because it seems I have no time anymore. Present Theresa is kicking past Theresa’s butt for not getting these books read in high school like I wish I could have done. Honestly, I feel like I would be a better reader (and writer) if I had read these titles in high school.
In the past I have stuck to the same type of works to read. I shied away from a lot of classics and I am hoping that reading and writing about these pieces will help me grow as a reader and a writer and in the process push me into getting me into the mindset of publication. I want to go into editing, it’s my dream job. And I know that when I go into editing I cannot say I want to be a young adult romance editor. That’s not how it works. Using these novels will help round me out so that I may be better acquainted and have a better understanding of a variation of works so that I may be a better editor. |
01. A Long Fatal Love Chase – Louisa May Alcott
02. Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 03. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 04. On Writing – Steven King 05. Dracula – Bram Stoker 06. Antigone – Sophocles 07. Turn of the Screw – Henry James 08. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 09. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 10. Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell 11. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka 12. A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen 13. Tess of d’Uberville – Thomas Hardy 14. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy |