Blogger Entry #3

Due: Sunday, March 22nd

You may choose any "reading" you like.  This may include but is not limited to:

• novel (I suggest doing a chapter) 
• short story 
• newspaper article 
• magazine article 
• poem (may be hard- probably need a longer poem)
• television show
• film 
• blog 
• online article (buzzfeed, the onion, yahoo news, huffingtonpost, etc.) 
• Facebook article or post 
• Instagram and the blurb that describes the image 
• graphic novel 
• comic books
• manga 
• reports
• textbook chapters

Once you select a reading, fill out the "Active Reading Handout" posted in google docs under the "handout" folder.  You can then copy and paste the information, once you have filled it all out, in your blogger post.  

In your post, please include the title and author of your reading.  If possible, please also include a synopsis/brief summary from the reading (several have this already written and you can find it online- don't forget to cite the source, please).  

Amanda's Reading List

My list of titles plus some commentary plus some images 

1. A practical guide to personal freedom: The Four Agreements, Wisdom book by Don Miguel Ruiz 
2. Soulful Recipes: Building Healthy Traditions  
3. Haley's Hints  by Graham and Rosemary Haley
4. New Complete Guide to home Repair & Improvement 
5. The Spanish, Middle Eastern & African Cookbook 
6. Good Life Cooking-  Jacques Pepin
7. Mexican Cookbook
8. Best Quick Fixes: 180 recipes for the way you really cook 
9. The Complete Idiot's Guide to: Total Nutrition 
10. The Complete Idiot's Guide to: Low-Sodium Meals 
11. The Complete Idiot's Guide to: Good Fat, Good Carb Meals 
1. Most of the cook books above I've barely even tried :(  however I am a great cook either way.  no seriously, a really good cook.  
12. Lucy- Jamaica Kincaid
13. The Inferno- Dante Allegheri 
14. Trespass- Flecher Knebel 
15. A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess
16. The Tipping Point-  Malcolm Gladwell
17. The Man of Feeling-  Henry Mackenzie
18. Dead to the world- charlaine harris
19. club dead-charlaine harris   ** so this series is known as the Sookie Stackhouse Series and you guys might know it from the HBO show Trueblood which was based off of these 
20. dead as a doornail-charlaine harris
21. all together dead- charlaine harris 
22. definitely dead-charlaine harris 
23. dead until dark- charlaine harris 
24. living dead in dallas- charlaine harris 
25. The red and the black-  Stendhal 
26. The Amber Spy Glass- Phillip Pullman  ** extremely powerful triology- banned in several states and seemingly a children's story but it's really about religion and politics and crazy stuff.  GREAT read.  
27. City of Ashes-  Cassandra Clare
28. The Penelopiad-  Margaret Atwood  *** LOVE Margaret 
29. The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
30. Saving Fish from drowing- Amy Tan
31. Persuasion- Jane Austen
32. The Sun also Rises-  Ernest Hemingway 
33. Lord Jim-Joseph Conrad
34. Jane Eyre-  Charlotte Bronte
35. Interpreter of Maladies-  Jhumpa Lahiri 
36. The Cenci-  Percy Shelley 
37. Moll Flanders- Daniel Defoe
38. Body Language 101- David Lambert
39. The Lieutenant of Inshore-  Martin McDonagh 
40. The God of Small Things- Arundhati Roy 
41. The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare-  Russ McDonald 
42. The Fallen Part 1-  Thomas Sniegoski
43. The Fallen Part 2- Thomas Sniegoski
1. Fallen series is about fallen angels.  these novels were some of the first I started reading about angelic beings.  It's the weird retelling of biblical and mythological and imaginary stories of man but because of my catholic, christian, mixed background I really enjoy anything along these lines  
44. Elvis Day by Day-  Peter Guralnick & Ernest Jorgensen 
1. my daddy's book actually.  He loves Elvis.  
45. The ugly duckling-  ANderson Bogdanovic 
46. Andrea Mitchell Talking Back-  Andrea Mitchell
47. We who are alive and remain-  Marcus Brotherton 
48. Against All Enemies: Inside america's war on terror -  Richard Clarke
49. What I wish you knew-  American Girl 
50. Secrets of the Tomb: Skulls & Bones -  Alexandra Robbins 
1. I'm secretly not so secretly fascinated by 
51. Personality: A scientific Approach
52. Kaye Gibbons the life all around me by Ellen Foster 
53. The Sword of Anton by Gene del vecchio
54. Cesar's Way- Cesar Milan 
55. The Golden Compass- Phillip Pullman 
56. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson  
57. The Girl who played with Fire-  Stieg Larsson 
58. The Girl who kicked the hornet's nest- Stieg Larsson 
59. Ransom - David Malouf 
60. Blink-  Malcolm Gladwell 
61. A Tale Dark & Grimm-  adam gidwitz
62. Thirteen Reasons Why-  Jay Asher 
63. The Art of War-  Sun Tau 
64. City of Glass - Cassandra Clare
65. Brown Girl, Brown Stones-  Paule Marshall
66. As I Lay Dying-  William Faulkner 
67. America is in the Hear- Carlos Buloson 
68. The Fellowship of the Ring-  J.R.R Tolkien 
69. The Two Towers- J.R.R Tolkien
70. The Return of the Kind- JRR Tolkien 
71. The Three Theban Plays-  Sophocles 
72. Impulse -  Ellen Hopkins 
73. Crank- Ellen Hopkins 
74. Burned- Ellen Hopkins 
75. Glass- Ellen Hopkins 
76. Twilight-  Stephanie Meyer
77. New Moon- Stephanie Meyer
78. Breaking Dawn- Stephanie Meyer
79. The Bedford introduction to Drama 
80. The importance of being Earnest- Oscar Wilde 
81. All the Women of the Bible-  Lockyer
82. Harry Potter and the  Sorcerers Stone -  J. K Rowling
83. Harry potter and the chamber of secrets- J. K Rowling
84. harry potter and the prisoner of Azkaban- J. K Rowling
85. harry potter and the goblet of fire- J. K Rowling
86. harry potter and the order of the phoenix-J. K Rowling
87. harry potter and the half blood prince- J. K Rowling
88. harry potter and the deathly hallows- J. K Rowling
89. The DaVinci Code- Dan Brown 
90. The Painter of Battles-  Arturo Perez-Reverte 
91. The Forgery of Venus- Michael Gruber 
92. Trigonometry-  Dressler & rich 
93. Divine by Blood- P. C Cast 
94. divine by mistake- P. C Cast 
95. divine by choice-P. C Cast 
96. Discipline & Punish-  Michel Foucault 
97. Writing: Unit Lessons in Composition 
98. Basic Principles of American government 
99. Ender in Exile- orson scott card
100. Ender's Game- Orson scott card
101. Ender's Shadow-Orson scott card
102. children of the mind-Orson scott card
103. shadow puppets-Orson scott card
104. shadow of the giant-Orson scott card
105. Xenocide-Orson scott card 
106. A war of gifts- Orson scott card
107. pathfinder- orson scott card 
108. Red Prophet- orson scott card 
109. The StoneMason- Cormac McCarthy 
110. Blood Meridian- Cormac McCarthy 
111. The Vampyre and other tales of Macabre -  Pollori 
112. Frankenstein- Mary Shelley 
113. The Classic Fairy Tales -  Norton Edition 
114. Me, MySpace, and I- Larry Rosen
115. Patterns of Exposition 18th Edition 
116. Fault Lines: Debating the Issues in American Politics 
117. Five weeks in a balloon, A journey to the center of the earth, from the earth to the moon, twenty thousand leagues under the sea, around the world in eighty days  -Jules Verne 
118. Sense & Sensiblity, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield PArk, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan-  Jane Austen 
119. Old & Middle English an Anthology 
120. Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Victorian Age
121. Norton Anthology of English Literature:The 20th century and after
122. Norton Anthology of English Literature:the middle ages
123. Norton Anthology of English Literature: the restoration and the 18th century 
124. Norton Anthology of English Literature: the romantics
125. Norton Anthology of English Literature: American Literature 
126. A heartbreaking work of staggering genius- Dave Eggers
127. Accounting: basic principles 
128. Modern algebra 
129. guinesss book of world records 15th edition 
130. girl with a pearl earring tracy chevalier 
131. work this one out-  L.H Longley-Coolk 
132. united states history: ideas in conflict 
133. The Heir - barbara bradford 
134. The Necessary Shakespeare - Bevington 
135. The Hunchback of notre dame,  les miserables,  the man who laughs-  Victor Hugo 
136. Sacred Causes:  the clash of religion and politics, fromt eh great war to the war on terror
137. The Gambler- Fydor Dostoyoevsky 
138. The communist Manifesto and other Revolutionary
139. Holy Bible King James Version 
140. Holy Bible New Living Translations 
141. The Pillar s of the Earth-  Ken Follet 
142. the lime house text-   will thomas
143. the secret history of the world -  mary booth 
144. The house on mango street-  sandra cisneros 
145. breath, eyes, memory-   edwidge danticat
146. the kingdom come- will thomas 
147. kite runner- khaled hosseine 
148. Visually Guitar 
149. The illustrated encyclopedia of the animal kingdom 
150. Literary Theory  an Anthology 
151. The Lacuna-  Barbara kingsolver 
152. Feminine Mystique-  Berry Freidan 
153. Epitaph- james siegel 
154. A secret affair-  Barbara bradford 
155. Freud A-Z - Heller 
156. girl in landscape- jonathan lethem 
157. where the truth lies-  rupert holmes 
158. For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf- Ntozake Shange 
159. The last lecture- Randy Pausch 
160. The U.S Constitution: Fascinating Facts about it 
161. The taming of the Shrew- Shakespeare 
162. humphrey Clinker- Tobias Smollet 
163. Mary and Maria- Mary wollstonecraft
164. matilda - mary shelley 
165. Drift - Rachel Maddow 
166. Dying and Dignity: the meaning and control of a personal death- Melvin Krant 
167. Vellum-  Hal Duncan 
168. Expository Writing-  Fulton 
169. Paradise Lost - Milton 
170. Take one candle light a room - susan straight 
171. the secret-  rhonda byrne 
172. Notes from the underground , The double  -  Fyodor Dostoevsky 
173. The Giant Book of Poetry 
174. The Hunger Games- Suzanne Collins
175. Catching Fire- Suzanne Collins
176. MockingJay- Suzanne Collins
177. 50 shades of Grey -  E.L james 
178. 50 shades of darker- E.L james  
179. 50 shades freed- E.L james  
180. The Metamorphosis - Ovid 
181. Cien anos de solead- Gabriel Marquez
182.   the crying of lot 49- thomas pynchon 
183. the help-  kathryn stocked
184. tarzan of the apes-  edgar burroughs
185. the fixer-  bernard malamud 
186. one flew over the cuckoo's nest- ken kesey 
187. Orgasms: how to have them, give them, keep them --lou paget ( lmao *awkward* more awkward that this was in my mom's room and when I was taking books to my apartment from my parents house this got into one of the boxes lol ) 
188. phaedrus - Plato 
189. A portrait of the artist as a young man- James Joyce
190. Dubliners- James Joyce 
191. Game of Thrones- George R.R Martin 
192. The Scarlett letter-  Hawthorne 
193. World War Z- Max Brooks 
194. AS I live and breathe-  rinehart 
195. city of lost souls- cassandra clare 
196. Stay Up!  los angeles street art - James Daichendt 
197. Psychological Reflections-  C.G Jung

I can't keep typing titles!!!!!! :(    Picture time   

Majority of the books below are my rhetoric and composition books.  I love every single one of them.  They aren't the writing books that most are used to, that whole strategy and readings style books.  They are more theoretical and philosophical. More real.  I have several here that are about location and space.  See the red Lefebvre one?  The politics of space.  Spent the last two years knee dip in spatial rhetoric.  How language can be expressed through location and architecture.  Sounds weird, I know.  But it's crazy to think how every aspect of our everyday lives are built for purposes beyond us.  Crafted, constructed, and created to sustain our living and direct our individual and societal lives.   The way streets create a grid. The way buildings and parks and apartments and houses collide and divide depending on the neighborhood.  The names of streets and the amount of money that goes to each community to clean it up or leave it decaying in poverty.  The liqueur stores and thrift shops and malls and Coach stores and cash and check and fancy restaurants and organic places and coffee shops... I rambling.

BECKETT.. All time favorite writer.  He completes me... ever read something that resonates so bad, that hits home so hard you swear in another life you could of wrote those very words?  ever read something so you, so YOU that you know without a doubt that the words before you were written in your mind before ink ever printed paper?   Beckett does that to me.  He makes me feel feelings I try to not feel.

 Below you'll notice half of my brother, Daniel, and my puppy, Ringo who is in fact 11 years old.

Below is my Best Western Literature Encyclopedia Collection!!!!  SOOOOOOO fucking badass.  I picked it up at a thrift shop in Glendale a while back and it is the first major collection I own.  I truly love this collection but I've yet to read it all :(