Rebecca Reads

Reading The Iliad (trans. by Robert Fagles) isn’t like reading a modern-day novel: I think it did take a level of concentration I’m not accustomed to. But that just proved to me that the “difficult pleasure” of reading is highly worth experiencing.
The Robert Fagles translation was poetic and rhythmic. Once I became accustomed to reading [...]

I’m a beginner in terms of children’s literature criticism. However, I’m learning a lot from Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter by Seth Lerer, and I thought I’d bring you on the journey with me. Links below are to discussions on Rebecca Reads. (Books and authors in bold means I [...]

William Shakespeare
Comedies: All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsore, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles Prince of Tyre, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of [...]

The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published that year. (Wikipedia, Caldecott Medal)
Caldecott Medal Winners
2008 - The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
2007 - Flotsam by David Wiesner
2006 [...]

The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children of the American Library Association (ALA) to the author of the Outstanding American book for children. (Wikipedia, Newbery Medal)
Newbery Medal Winners
2008 - Laura Amy Schlitz. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
2007 - Susan Patron. The Higher Power of Lucky
2006 - [...]

I love lists. Lately, I’ve been making lists of my books to read. Weekly Geeks a number of weeks ago was to update something: that tells you something that it’s taken me this long to get my lists updated.
My husband says I’ve been working on reading lists more than I’ve been reading lately. But that’s [...]

I know I’m insane to think about another challenge when I’m already feeling overwhelmed. But I love the concept and the reading list for the Martel-Harper Challenge.

For further details, visit the Man Booker Prize site.
2008 - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
2007 - The Gathering by Anne Enright
2006 - The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
2005 - The Sea by John Banville
2004 - The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
2003 - Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
2002 - Life of Pi [...]

Click on the titles for links to my various reading lists.
Current Challenges/Projects
HTR&W: A list of the short stories, poems, novels, and plays from How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom. In the summer of 2008, I began reading these works along with Harold Bloom’s book of criticism.
Really Old Classics:As a sample listing of classics [...]

Bold below indicates I’ve read a work; I’ve included a link to any works that I’ve reviewed on Rebecca Reads. The author’s names link to the nobelprize.org. For some authors, I’ve listed various works they’ve written; I may or may not read those works in the future. Just because I haven’t listed it below doesn’t [...]