Robinson, you are a literary force to be reckoned with!!

Okay, so after extensive searching, I've concluded that the end for which God created the world is simply to find this bloody book!!!! If anyone knows where to search, please let me know. Also, Home is amazing. Only 50 pages in and Robinson is already pulling at my emotional strings. Of course, it also could have been the combo of trying to read a few pages while watching Extreme Home Makeover. Anyway, again let me know if you have found the Edwards' text. Thanks guys.

List revisited

I had nothing to do and thought it would be fun to condense my list by taking some of the books off that we've done. It just gives us an idea about some of the options, among endless others, that we've mentioned doing. I'm really enjoying the odyssey by the way. "Homer, I bow to thee!" Hope you all are doing well.



Book Club list
~ War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
~ The Castle - Franz Kafka
~ Confessions of St. Augustine - St. Augustine
~ Les Miserable - Victor Hugo
~ The Brother’s Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevski
~ The Stranger or The Plague - Albert Camus
~ The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
~ Inferno - Dante
~ Walden - Henry David Thoreau
~ On the Road - Jack Kerouac
~ The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevski
~ Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
~ The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
~ The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
~ The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis
~ The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
~ The Geneology of Morals - Friedrich Nietzsche
~ The Sun also Rises or A Farewell to Arms (something Hemmingway) - Ernest Hemmingway
~ Existentialism is a humanism - Jean-Paul Sartre
~ In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
~ Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
~ Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
~ Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
~ Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud
~ Candide - Voltaire
~ Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
~ Alice’s adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carol
~ Through the looking glass - Lewis Carol
~ Fanny and Zoey - J.D. Salinger
~ The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
~ Lolita - Nabakov
~ Fear and Trembling/ Either/or - Soren Kierkegaard
~ The Federalist Papers - James Madison, Alexander Hamilton

On The Docket

Last book club we talked about future reading. We decided that after we finish the Iliad, next book club, that we would start the Odyssey. Following the Odyssey we are going to read Home by Marilynne Robinson. After that we decided to read Jonathan Edwards and John Calvin. However, we need to decide what we want to read by Edwards or Calvin. I don't know Edwards enough to make a decision, however, at some point I want to start the Institutes. However, I think we should spread the Institutes out instead of trying to read the whole thing from cover to cover.

The Infamous List...

Hey guys. For those who didn't make it to book club, we discussed some options for reading selections to come. I thought it might be a good idea to post the list I made a while back so we could be reminded of some of the selections we had considered before, as well as, cross off the ones we have done. This way, we can add other options as we think of them. I think some of these books I had added later. At least we'll have it for a reference to go back to if we need. I know there were alot of great books mentioned that are not on this list so add whatever comes to mind.




Book Club list
1. Dracula - Bram Stoker
2. 1984 - George Orwell
3. Sickness unto Death - Soren Kierkegaard
4. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
5. The Castle - Franz Kafka
6. The Iliad or The Odyssey - Homer
7. Confessions of St. Augustine - St. Augustine
8. Les Miserable - Victor Hugo
9. The Brother’s Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevski
10. Animal Farm - George Orwell
11. The Stranger or The Plague - Albert Camus
12. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
13. Inferno - Dante
14. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
15. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
16. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevski
17. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
18. The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
19. The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
20. The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis
21. The Sound and the fury - William Faulkner
22. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
23. Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
24. A Testament of Hope - Martin Luther King Jr.
25. The Sun also Rises or A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemmingway
26. The Republic - Plato
27. Existentialism is a humanism - Jean-Paul Sartre
28. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
29. In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
30. Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
31. Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
32. Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
33. Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud
34. Candide - Voltaire
35. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
36. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
37. Alice’s adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carol
38. Through the looking glass - Lewis Carol
39. Fanny and Zoey - J.D. Salinger
40. The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
41. Lolita - Nabakov
42. Fear and Trembling/Works of Love - Soren Kierkegaard
43. The Federalist Papers - James Madison, Alexander Hamilton

Next Saturday

Unfortunately next Saturday I have a test I have to take for getting my teaching credential and I already forked over the 75$ to take it. So I'll have to leave around 12:00 for that. If you want to go there early I'll be there around 10:30 to get a little more discussion time.

Which Way?

Jared just called me wondering, like Herringmeister, which copy of the Tao to order. He's going to follow Brent and I in reading the Stephan Mitchell version. But don't worry too much. It might be fun to have a couple different versions to compare and contrast. I might check what they have in the library and read that version too.

The Tao of Plato

Hey Guys. As I've been reading the Republic I've been seeing a lot of similarities between it and the Tao Te Ching. It might be fun to squeeze that in before the Iliad. They are both old texts that are Philosophical/Religious that many think are different, but seem to me to share a Metaphysic. Just a thought. I don't want to mess up our schedule.

Our Reading List So Far...

Let me know if I'm missing anything.

Money and Power ~ Jacques Ellul
Weight of Glory (The Essay Weight of Glory) ~ C.S. Lewis
Master and Man ~ Leo Tostoy
How to Shoot an Elephant ~ George Orwell
Crime and Punishment ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Trial ~ Franz Kafka
The Windhover (Poem) ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Force that Through the Green Fuse... (Poem) ~ Dylan Thomas
Tyger (Poem) ~ William Blake
Sailing to Byzantium ~ William Butler Yeats
Moby Dick ~ Herman Melville
A Testament of Hope (Selected Essays) ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Sickness Unto Death ~ Soren Kierkegaard
Gilead ~ Marilynne Robinson
Dracula ~ Bram Stoker
The Cather in the Rye ~ J. D. Salinger
The Sound and The Fury ~ William Faulkner
Demons ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Currently Reading: Plato's Republic (Allan Bloom Translation)
On Deck: Homer's Iliad (Robert Fagles Translation)