Jordan's Little Summer Reading List

Books that I highly reccommend, just in case you are interested

• Anne of Green Gables --a wonderful book and a must for all redheads. I wanted to be her. I was her.
• The Bible--THE BOOK. Always nice to have handy, no matter what your religious affiliations.
• Anything by Ariel Dorfman -- I saw Death and the Maiden at an acting competition and was absolutely smitten by it. In great part, it inspired me to do a great deal of research on the Dirty War in Argentina and Los Desparecidos. I recently saw his newest play Widows. It was wonderful. I'd like to read one of his novels, particularly Konfidenz.
• Speaking of Argentina's Dirty War, Nunca Mas, the report of Argentina's National Commission on Dissapeared People, is difficult to find, and gruesome, but fascinating, and something that everyone should read.
• Eavan Boland -- is a brilliant Irish poet who everyone should read. She writes beautiful poetry and also has an autobiographical volume which is half prose, and half literary criticizm called Object Lessons, which I reccommend heartily.
• Orson Scott Card's Ender Trilogy --loads of people have reccommended his Ender's Game Trilogy to me. That's what I've been reding this August. Unfortunately, the only comprehensive page I've found thus far is in French.
• Dune--as long as we're on sci-fi. "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration." A great book that acutally made a good movie.
• C.S. Lewis, and his Chronicals of Narnia are wonderful. It's a pretty tricky way to sneak theology into the heads of little kids, but it's good to stretch minds and thoughts.
• Anything by Toni Morrison just about tops my list. Beloved is the hardest book I've ever read. She continues to amaze me.
• Leon Uris writes all kinds of historical fiction. I've read almost all of his books, and just finnished REdemption, the sequal to Trinity.
• Simone de'Beauvoir is a rockin' cool feminist/existentialist. She wrote "The Second Sex" and currently "The Ethics of Ambiguity" is on the list.
• I've been interested in Irish Mythology for a while now and my Anglo-Irish Literature Class is reading some. It is wonderful.
• I also love reading philosophy. I do it very, very slowly, but it's \ wonderful. This page is noteable short on the female side, but it's a nice little comprehensive list of dead white men, including links to the actual texts.
• Speaking of Philosophy, I like Existential Philosophy , especially Simone deBeauvoir
• I've just really began to read contemporary Irish Literature, and Seamus Heaney is a wonderful poet. I hope to read lots and lots more of him in the future.
• And for the non-contemporary Irish literature, check out some of the Irish Mythological Sagas , including the Tain Bo Culainaige.