Hi guys,
So far my only contribution to the forum has been here so I thought I should make a bit more of an effort now I have a few spare moments - don't want to be thought of as a spammer . I'm not going deliberately to promote books I'm publishing here, but I am rather fond of a few of them so they will get mentioned for that reason.
I've just finished a Master's degree in English Literature (specifically, Writing and Cultural Politics) at the University of Edinburgh, so I've done my fair share of reading over the past year. I might also be starting a PhD in September 2007, so I'm reading towards that too.
I'll get this started now, and then add to it when I get some more time - and when I've remembered what I've read!
Currently reading:
Scotland: A New History by Michael Lynch
Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics of Place: Imagining a Scottish Republic by Scott Lyall
1982, Janine - Alasdair Gray
Recently read:
Lanark by Alasdair Gray - 10 out of 10
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh - 8 out of 10
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf - 8 out of 10
The Complete Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid - 9 out of 10 (overall; the quality of the poetry does vary a lot though!)
The Early Auden (W. H. Auden's 1930s poetry and prose) - 9 out of 10
In Defence of History by Richard J Evans - 7.5 out of 10
A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon - 8.5 out of 10
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray - 7 out of 10
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - 8 out of 10
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - 9 out of 10
Beloved by Toni Morrison - 9 out of 10
The Gulf War did not Take Place by Jean Baudrillard - 9.5 out of 10
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon - 9 out of 10
The Cyring of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon 9 out of 10
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson - 5.5 out of 10
The Political Unconscious by Fredric Jameson - 9 out of 10
For Marx by Louis Althusser - 8.5 out of 10
Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays by Louis Althusser - 8.5 out of 10
Illusion and Reality by Christopher Caudwell - 8 out of 10
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter - 8 out of 10
All time favourites:
Journal of a Sad Hermaphrodite by Michael de Larrabeiti - 10 out of 10
Lanark by Alasdair Gray - 10 out of 10
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Book 1 of A Scots Quair) - 10 out of 10
Intruder in the Dust - William Faulkner - 10 out of 10
Nineteen Eighty-Four - 10 out of 10