Hearts of fire creates love desire

Mood: excited  Music: That's the Way of the World - Earth, Wind & Fire  Reading: World War Z

Still rundown from this past week at work, so I took a quick nap to refresh myself. Just what I needed. I woke up at 1130a, messed around with coding here on Fascination, did my laundry, ate lunch, and curled up in my blanket and took my nap. I am doing everything I can to enjoy this last week of freedom. I’m sure my Mondays beginning in two weeks will be enhanced by doing homework out my nose.

School starts next week the day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day next week. Meep. I was so preoccupied with hoping that my paycheck would suffice, that I completely forgot all about my textbooks! So after I shook off the sleepy bug, I hit up the bookstores at school to get the book lists, as well as pricing them, or seeing if I could get them from the library, rather than buying ‘em.

I am sofa king excited. Look at the book list below and tell me this semester isn’t gonna kick maja ass.

World Lit I
Arabian Nights: Burton
Epic of Gilgamesh: Sandars
Lysistrata: Aristophanes/Sommerstein
Canterbury Tales: Chaucer

World Lit II
Bedford Anthology of World Lit, Book 4, The Eighteenth Century
Bedford Anthology of World Lit, Book 5, The Nineteenth Century
Bedford Anthology of World Lit, Book 6, The Twentieth Century

Women and Lit
Wife of Bath: Chaucer
Bloody Chamber: Carter
Sula: Morrison
Edible Woman: Atwood
Red Tent: Diamant (which I already own, score!)
Madame Bovary: Flaubert

Kinda nervous about the anthology only because I am of the school that they are problematic. When choosing what to put in an anthology, how do you decide what goes in and what gets left behind? Why should we study this author over that author? What makes this piece good enough to be included but why exclude the other one? But I’m willing to put the philosophical debate aside and enjoy reading the pieces. Hopefully they’ll also take note of the other authors in the same publishing age and say, “This author was also famous at the time this piece was published, this is the title of their work, however, we couldn’t fit it in due to our obvious limitations but we did research it. But go check it out for yourself.”

At least Joanna assigned Wife of Bath to Women and Lit too. I bought “Canterbury Tales” so that’s one less book I have to invest in. I had to buy the anthologies and “Canterbury” tonight. The others I can get at the library easily.

I love being an English major!

?: “Have you read any of these books from my book lists?“