Thanks to the wonderful Prof. Rebecca Hill, I’m taking part in a reading challenge for academics this fall. Teaching a heavy load, it’s all too easy to set both writing and reading aside during the semester. Having a “writing” or “reading” day isn’t realistic for me – it’s more like an hour here or there. I don’t know how we’ll I’ll do with this list, but filling it out was a lot of fun.
I’m starting with the American Quarterly issue and Kafka. I’m teaching the Metamorphosis for the first time in my composition class, and looking forward to rereading that one. Over the summer I tried to write a little about each book I finished and I’ll try to do the same here and on goodreads, for stuff reading for the challenge and other stuff also.
You can see more about the challenge and other people’s lists on Rebecca’s blog.
You can see more about the challenge and other people’s lists on Rebecca’s blog.
Professors’ Fall Semester Reading Challenge 2014 – checklist version
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Challenge Categories
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Author, Title, pp. #
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Date read
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Points
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Swapped for J. Baldwin, The Last Interview.
J. Baldwin Devil Finds Work
J. Baldwin No Name in the Street |
Oct. achieved 35 points |
15
10 10 |
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Chris Schmidt, The Next in Line, 71 page (poetry)
Also Anya Ulrich, Lena Finkel |
Oct.
Oct. |
10
10 |
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Nikhil Pal Singh, Black is a Country, 304 pages
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10
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American Quarterly, vo. 60, no. 2
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Oct.
achvd 10 |
10
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Ruthie Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, 388 pages.
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15
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Alice Kaplan, The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach, 336 pages
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15
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Erich Auerbach, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, 616 pages
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15
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TBA when list comes out
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20
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The Battle for Justice in Palestine, by Ali Abunimah, 224 pages.
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Finished 12/31
20 |
20
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Willa Cather, One of Ours, 206 pages
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25
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Arnold Weinstein, A Scream Goes through the house: 395 pages.
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20
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3 books on same topic in different disciplines below:
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35
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Stephanie Gilmore (ed) Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the US, 320 pages.
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Lisa Hogeland, Feminism and Its Fictions: The Consciousness-Raising Novel and the Women’s Liberation Movement, 224 pages.
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Rachel Blau Du Plessis and Ann Snitow, eds. The Feminist Memoir Project, 495 pages.
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10
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Rules:
The academic books must be at least 175 pages long
Novels must be at least 200 pages long
Any book on the list, except where specified by category, can be a novel
Books can only count for one category, but you can switch them from one category to the other before you’re done if you like.
Only one book can be a re-read
Audiobooks are fine as long as it is unabridged and the print edition is at least 200 pages long.
Books must be started no earlier than midnight Sept.2 and finished no later than Dec. 31, midnight.
This is a wonderful idea. If I weren't "booked" up until December with reading, I would want to join in the fun. If another challenge happens in the Spring, I will. What better way for teachers to get in their reading than to present the encouragement in the form of an assignment? We understand those.