I draw pretty!

[butterflydreaming]

If anyone is interested in taking me up on this, I think the results could be funny. C'mon, it'll be awful.

1. Comment here and I'll pick one of your LJ interests and draw a picture using the mighty MS Paint.
2. You have no say in what I draw for you, or in how bad it will be!
3. Put this in your journal along with the pictures people drew for you.

If you want, I can even make it icon sized.

Obligatory visit/meal with family today, conversation included discussion of the movies Catwoman and Memoirs of a Geisha, which led to Sayonara and The Hawaiians. My brother wanted anchovies on the pizza, and oddly enough, I had the same inclination.

After Full Dark House, I have The Count of Monte Cristo. No, really -- I haven't read it before. Like Robinson Crusoe, it's one that I simply haven't read. I am trying to put together a list of necessary-to-have-read books. Dumas, Defoe... if I do it alphabetically, I can avoid Tolstoy for a while.

Suggest one? I'll tell you if I've read it.

Comments

How did this comment become "A Reading List of Feisty Women in English Literature"?

[joyful-storm.livejournal.com]

I'd like a picture :) Make it any size you want - I can make it an icon later if that isn't the way you go.

I recommend Jane Eyre, one of my favorites that you probably have hit (but if you haven't, you should), and Vanity Fair, one that most people haven't. I FAR prefer Thackeray to Dickens so far as novels originally published in episodic format. Such a deliciously vicious satirical wit.

Please don't let your Defoe reading stop at Robinson Crusoe, do not pass go or collect $200 before reading Moll Flanders. Guy deserted on island, yes a classic, but feisty women need to read Moll Flanders. Well, ok, Jane and Becky are significantly feisty too.

I intend to read Anna Karenina someday - I took it out of the library once and got totally bogged down and stalled in the academic introduction, before I learned never to read them before reading the book itself (damn you, you stupid editors of Pride and Prejudice that let the introduction writer give away the plot before I even got past the pages with roman numerals!). Consequently I do not know if Anna is feisty or not.

I only intended to recommend a couple, so I'll stop now. I will add, however, that I feel it is a grevious error to allow someone (such as myself) to attain an English literature degree without forcing her to read Milton. I don't feel any real urge to pick up Milton (other than to deepen my understandings of the references Neil Gaiman makes in The Sandman oeuvre, sad creature that I am), but I sincerely believe that I ought to have been compelled to read some in order to get my stripes.

Re: How did this comment become "A Reading List of Feisty Women in English Literature"?

[butterflydrming.livejournal.com]

Thackeray is one of my favs. I'm mid-reread of VF; I read bits like tasty snacks. Have you read Dreiser's Sister Carrie?

AK is the Tolstoy on the list. I admit that the presence of a prominent female character can often be a deciding point for me when I'm choosing something to read or watch.

Re: How did this comment become "A Reading List of Feisty Women in English Literature"?

[joyful-storm.livejournal.com]

I haven't read anything of Dreiser's . . . is it same period?

BTW, I also liked Les Miserables a great deal, and read it several times. I have never seen/heard more than snippets from the musical so I didn't have that set of mental images to wipe out.

(steak)

[butterflydrming.livejournal.com]

Re: (steak)

[joyful-storm.livejournal.com]

Yay! Steak! *chases tail in delighted abandon*

If I might ask, what made you pick that one?

Re: (steak)

[butterflydrming.livejournal.com]

I have no excuse but whimsy. ^_^; I think I may have to add steak to my interests, as well.