A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Books Read: An Index Post

This is my index post for all of the books I've read. I figure the end of high school is like the end of an era and deserves something special to mark it.

2011 
(Note: This year was the one I decided to attempt the 100 book challenge. So far, I've been failing miserably at it. I guess I don't read as much as I used to.)
1. Agnes Gray, Anne Bronte (review)
2. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole (review)
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston (review)
4. Master Harold...and the Boys, Athol Fugard (review)
5. Six Characters in Search of an Author, Luigi Pirandello (review)
6. True West, Sam Shepard (review)
7. Translations, Brian Friel (review)
8. A Simple Soul, Gustave Flaubert (review)
9. The Professor, Charlotte Bronte (review)
10. Daisy Miller, Henry James (review)
11. Looking for Alaska, John Green (review)
12. Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (review)
13. Where Angels Fear to Tread, E.M. Forster (review)
13.5 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling (reread)
14. Cracking the AP Calculus AB/BC Exams, Princeton Review (why the hell would I review this?!)

Currently reading:
Villette (Charlotte Bronte), This Side of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald), Thud! (Terry Pratchett)

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