“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.” ~ F. Bacon (“Of Studies”).
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“I have been at my book, and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation.” ~ Ben Jonson (Volpone, 2.1) [Books Digested]
The Alchemist [2P84; 4V09] [2 February 2009; 29 March 2009; 7 April 2009]
A Long Way Down [May 2008; Reviewed]
Anonymity [12 August 2008]
Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England [August 2008]
Baloney [March 2009] [Reviewed]
Batman: Arkham Asylum [July 2008]
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice [July 2009]
Billy Budd [4V73] [12 January 2009]
Black Hole [April 2009]
Box Office Poison [May 2008]
Brave New World [1F93] [18 March 2009]
Briar Rose [July 2008]
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside [2P84] [11 February 2009]
Click [March 2009]
Clyomon and Clamydes [February 2009]
Coraline [January 2009] [Reviewed]
The Court Beggar [July 2009]
Crystallography [4V90] [19 November 2008]
Cul de Sac: This Exit [January 2008]
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [4V73] [February 2009]
The Dangerous Alphabet [June 2009]
Daniel [4P70] [January 2009]
The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish [June 2009]
Death of a Salesman [21 November 2008]
Death with Interruptions [29 December 2008; Reviewed]
Doctor Faustus [4P70][April 2009]
Dog Eat Doug [September 2008]
The Duchess of Malfi [10 October 2008; 5 March 2009] [1P90; 2P84]
Edward II [2P84] [January 2009]
Endymion [2 July 2009]
End Zone [4V73] 16 March 2009]
The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch [21 August 2009]
A Feast of Snakes [4V73] [30 March 2009]
The Final Solution [10 March 2009]
The Fire Gospel [31 December 2008]
Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire [July 2009]
Fool [February 2009]
Frankenstein [1F93] [25 February 2009]
Frazz 3.1416 [27 November 2008]
From Hell [July 2008]
Gertrude and Claudius [March 2009] [Reviewed]
Gerusalemme liberata [June 2009]
Ghostwritten [May 2008; Reviewed]
The Gilded Bat [30 October 2008]
The Giver [May 2008]
The Graveyard Book [July 2009]
Hamlet [4V09] [12 January 2009]
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World [June 2008]
Hero and Leander [May 2009]
How I Live Now [6 May 2009]
Humouring the Body [July 2008]
The Hydrofoil Mystery [March 2009]
If He Hollers Let Him Go [4V73] [23 February 2009]
The Insatiate Countess [May 2008]
The Jew of Malta [4V09] [10 March 2009]
The Jungle [4V73] [1 February 2009]
Just in Case [June 2009]
King Lear [4V09] [24 February 2009]
Lacan: a feminist introduction [March 2009]
Little Theatres [July 2008]
The Lives of Animals [4V90] [12 October 2008]
The London Merchant [1P90] [17 October 2008]
A Mad Couple Well-Match’d [June 2009]
The Maiden’s Tragedy [4V09] [25 March 2009]
The Malcontent [31 July 2008]
The Man Who Cried I Am [4V73] [7 March 2009]
McTeague [4V73] [19 January 2009]
Medea [1P90] [18 September 2008]
The Merchant of Venice [4V09] [18 March 2009]
Me Talk Pretty One Day [July 2008]
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane [May 2009]
M is for Magic [December 2008]
Morality Play [7 May 2009]
The Mysterious Benedict Society [March 2009]
Neverwhere [July 2009]
A New Way to Pay Old Debts [2P84] 25 March 2009]
The Novella [June 2009]
O Cadoiro [July 2008]
On the Natural Faculties [July 2008]
On the Nature of Things [1F93] [6 September 2008]
The Oresteia [1P90] [29 September 2008]
Orfeo [9 October 2008]
The Origin of the Species [7 December 2008; Reviewed]
Orlando [May 2008; Reviewed]
An Outline of Psychoanalysis [4V09] [January 2009]
Phedre [1P90] [October 2008]
Prometheus Bound [1F93] [25 September 2008]
The Radical Kingdom [4P70]
Ralph Roister Doister [1 July 2009]
RASL Volume 1: The Drift [March 2009]
Revelation [4P70] January 2009]
Rick Mercer Report: The (Paperback) Book. [27 December 2008; Reviewed]
A Room of One’s Own [June 2008; Reviewed]
Runaways (HC V.1) [July 2008]
Runaways (HC V.2) [July 2008]
The Selected Poems of Sir Philip Sidney [July 2009]
The Sense of An Ending [4P70] [March 2009]
The Shape of Water [June 2009]
The Shakespearean Stage [22 July 2009]
Shakespeare Wrote for Money [16 May 2009]
Silent Spring [4V90] [16 Spetember 2008]
Skellig [June 2008]
The Shoemaker’s Holiday [2P84] [28 January 2009]
The Spanish Tragedy [2P84] [January 2009]
Speculum of the Other Woman [15 August 2009]
Story Time [February 2009]
The Sun Also Rises [4V73] [8 February 2009]
The Tale of Despereaux [15 November 2008]
The Tales of Beedle the Bard [7 December 2008; Reviewed]
Tales of Terror from the Black Ship [4 April 2009]
The Tao of Pooh [November 2008]
The Te of Piglet [22 November 2008]
The Tempest [4P70] [April 2009]
‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore [4V09; 2P84] [11 February 2009; 18 March 2009]
The Tragedy of Miriam [2P84] [24 February 2009]
Travels in the Scriptorium [May 2009]
The Turn of the Screw [May 2008]
Twelfth Night [4V09] [8 February 2009]
Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror [3 April 2009]
The Unfortunate Traveller [11 May 2009]
The Underneath [March 2009]
Vis à Vis [4V90] [27 September 2008]
Weight [May 2009]
White Rapids [March 2009] [Reviewed]
Why Are We in Vietnam [4V73] [28 February 2009]
Wicked [August 2009]
The Winter Vault [5 May 2009]
The Wolves in the Walls [June 2009]
The Years [July 2008; Reviewed]
“When I meet with difficulties in my reading, I do not bite my nails over them; after making one or two attempts, I give them up.” ~ M. de Montaigne (“On Books”) [Books Temporarily Abandoned]
Agatha Christie: Masterpieces in Miniature
Edgar Allen Poe & the Juke-Box
Inferno [Reading group]
Notebooks of Roses and Civilization
The Political Unconscious [for paper submission]
“Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.” ~ V. Woolf. [In Progress]
The Four Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis
“Consult the book of armaments!” ~ Arthur/Graham Chapman (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) [Read by decree of the almighty syllabus.
Last updated: 23 August 2009
4v09: Psychoanalysis and Renaissance Drama
4v73: American Masculinity
4P70: Apocalypse in Art and Literature
2P84: Non-Shakespearean Drama
4V90: Writing the Environment
1P90: Tragedy in Art, Literature and Philosophy
1F93: Order and Chaos in the Cosmos
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