Essay Reading Challenge Completed
Posted By CarrieK on May 5, 2009
My goal: to read 30 essays during 2009. Completed April 20, 2009.
1. The Aeroplanes at Brescia by Franz Kafka
2. Chicago by Rudyard Kipling
3. Market Day by D.H. Lawrence
4. Chrysanthemums by Maurice Maeterlinck
5. Anna Karenina by Thomas Mann
6. Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham
7. Manhattan: The Great American Desert by Jean Paul Sartre
8. The Sentence is a Lonely Place by Gary Lutz
9. Chesterton on Shaw by Bernard Shaw
10. On Being Found Out by William Makepeace Thackeray
11. On Art by Leo Tolstoy
12. Hamlet and Don Quixote by Ivan Turgenev
13. Traveling with a Reformer by Mark Twain
14. The Bible as Poetry by Walt Whitman
15. Impressions of America by Oscar Wilde
16. How Should One Read a Book? by Virgina Woolf
17. Magic by William Butler Yeats
18 through 31. Housekeeping vs. the Dirt by Nick Hornby
Way to go!
Congrats to you! I don’t think I’ve read an essay in my life. They are on my list of things I need to dabble in, just to say that I’ve tried!
Congrats, Carrie! I’ve been meaning to mention that I finally reviewed a book of essays on my blog. Can you add the link to your list please?
Wow, you don’t pace yourself, do you?
Of course, considering just how many book challenges you’ve taken up for 2009, I kind of don’t blame you. Ha!
Anyway, congratulations on finishing this one.
Kathy – thanks!
Sandy – you should really give them a try – in all your “spare” time.
Avis – I will definitely add your review to the challenge page.
Phyl – Yes, I was very happy to check one off the list.
Thanks, Carrie!
Good for you – on completing your challenge. I find your list very interesting. I’m going to copy down some of your titles and check my local library. I love a good essay.
Congratulations! I too think your list is interesting…sounds like some really good ones by great writers. I keep seeing the Hornby popping up…just for the title alone I should check it out.
Margot – I hope you find some that you like.
Book Psmith – a lot of the essays I read came from Essays of the Masters, edited by Charles Neider. It did have a few that were really boring, though, and I skipped those.
Congrats! I am not finished with the challenge yet. I am to read 10 essays and I have read a measly 3 essays. I am trying to finish these 2 challenges that end in June and then I can devote more time to this challenge. I enjoy reading essays. I think On Art by Leo Tolstoy looks interesting.
Rebecca – that’s the good thing about a challenge that lasts all year long – you still have plenty of time to complete it. The Tolstoy was very interesting – as was the Thomas Mann on Anna Karenina.
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