Now having actually read the 'rules', I'd have to add Night by Elie Wiesel and completely revamp the list.... I doubt The Fifties will leave any lasting impression on me in any way. Actually, poets would account for a lot of the list.
With Steinbeck, Swift, Austen and Keyes we share a love, most of the rest I am unfamiliar.
Thank YOU, and BtB, I keep forgetting I've wanted to read the complete Wiesel account for years, as I only know excerpts of it. Good reminder! As for poetry, I'm afraid I'm not much into it, though I do read and enjoy it upon occasion (usually when I'm pointed out by someone else *hangs head*) Most poets in a possible list of mine are, of course, Italian (there's *no way* poetry is not distorted in translation IMHO, and I rely too much on the mood to really enjoy facing-page readings.) OTOH, my favourite method for studying a foreign language, back at school, was by learning songs, short poems and theatre monologues by heart, which I usually did by adding some (horrendously childish and invented) melody I deemed fit to the mood, and singing the verses aloud, as opposed to declaming - the Bard himself was a victim of said mistreatment, poor Will
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With Steinbeck, Swift, Austen and Keyes we share a love, most of the rest I am unfamiliar.
I'm off to research the rest on Amazon.
Thanks!
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As for poetry, I'm afraid I'm not much into it, though I do read and enjoy it upon occasion (usually when I'm pointed out by someone else *hangs head*)
Most poets in a possible list of mine are, of course, Italian (there's *no way* poetry is not distorted in translation IMHO, and I rely too much on the mood to really enjoy facing-page readings.)
OTOH, my favourite method for studying a foreign language, back at school, was by learning songs, short poems and theatre monologues by heart, which I usually did by adding some (horrendously childish and invented) melody I deemed fit to the mood, and singing the verses aloud, as opposed to declaming - the Bard himself was a victim of said mistreatment, poor Will ( ... )
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