LAST B2 Library Mayhem

Fellow library patrons,

the time for your presentations on literature is nigh, 

so I present you again with the lists of books to look upon:

that welcomed last-minute additions, or maybe a summer reading? Read away!

Here you can check the most actual list, also with books borrowed (to be returned!):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoiDA8dEogrHdEVwNWM4cjZVNXVSZW5SM0FMN0NJWGc

Here's an experimental version of the same, where it is easier to search by year, author, title, publisher, etc.

https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S478784T9zg

And here's the table of the books, newly arrived from Edinburgh:

NEW!! Click on the title to see their description and reviews from Amazon:

Wilde,Oscar: Dorian Grey
 Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby 
 Stevenson, Robert Louis: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other stories
 Amis, Martin: Time's Arrow
 Kelman, James: Selected  Stories
Hendry, J.F(ed):  The Penguin Book of Scottish Short Stories
 Greene, Graham: Brighton Rock
 Maguire, Susie: Furthermore



Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
Collins, Wilkie: Moonstone


Dickens, Charles: The Tale of Two Cities
Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451



Dylan et Matlin (prod.): The Caedmon Short Story Collection 
James, Henry: Washington Square
Kerouac, Jack: Dharma Bums
Defoe Daniel: Moll Flanders
Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Grisham, John: The Pelican Brief


Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
Davies, David Stuart (ed.): Short Stories from the 19th Century
Salinger, JD: The Catcher in the Rye
James, Henry: Daisy Miller
Green, Graham: Under the Garden
Wharton, Edith: Madame of Treymes
Wells, H.G.: The Red Room and other Stories
Lawrence, D.H.: Sons and Lovers
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Treasure Island
Tolkien, J.R.R: The Hobbit
Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty Four
Wellsh, Irvine: Trainspotting


Cochrane, James: The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
Hardy, Thomas: The Return of the Native

33. Spark, Muriel: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

34. Kerouac, Jack: On The Road

35. Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea

36. Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath

37. Shaw, Bernard: Saint Joan

38. Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited

39. Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein

40. Gallant, Mavis: The Cost of Living

41. Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility

42. Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

43. Wilde, Oscar: The Plays of Oscar Wilde

44. Hemingway, Ernest: For Whom the Bell Tolls

45 Orwell, George: Animal Farm

46. Maugham, William Somerset: Up at the Villa

47. Fitzgerald, Penelope: Offshore

48. Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea

49. Bradbury, Ray et Truffaut, Francois: Fahrenheit 451 [DVD]

50. Bowen, Elizabeth: The Little Girls

51. Porter, Katherine Anne: The Old Order

52. Steinbeck, John: The Cannery Row

53. Steinbeck, John: The Winter of Our Discontent

54. Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty-Four

55. Lee, Hermione: The Secret Self 1

56. Wharton,Edith: Age of Innocence

57. Wharton,Edith: Summer

58. Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway

59. Updike, John: The Witches of Eastwick

60. Carter, Angela: Heroes and Villains

61. Steinbeck, John:In Dubious Battle

62. Steinbeck, John:The Pearl

63. Miller, Arthur: Death of a Salesman (drama)

64. Shaw, George Bernard: Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts

65. Niffenegger, Audrey:The Time Traveler's wife

LAST B2 Literary Mayhem No.19 - Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

First of all - I am awaiting your presentations on the books next week! Book of your choice! 

I will be judging - 1.flow, 2.clarity, 3.vocabulary, 4.grammar and of course 5.the content. Four points each. 

And now,

Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. Now I wait for He nry. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow? 

My name is Claire, and I am The Time Traveler's Wife 

Here's my story in words read

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B66Lfya61yTuQUVkbzQ3Qm8zeFU

Here's my story in words spoken

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B66Lfya61yTuNFhPTlJ0Q1lRNFk

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B66Lfya61yTuTG56Ym5PSGEtdTg

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B66Lfya61yTudEVrVldPQ0hSbWc

And here's my author, Audrey Niffenegger

http://audreyniffenegger.com/

B2 Literary Mayhem No.18/2 Gump and Co. by Winston Groom

Some of you complained about not enough reading to do, so here's a funny one for those, I am going to ask questions about both texts on Forrest in two weeks and I am also awaiting your presentations on the books you have read. Enjoy your reading! and listening (I am attaching the audiobook this time as well)

Hello again, My Name is Forrest Gump and,

LET ME SAY THIS: EVERBODY MAKES MISTAKES, WHICH IS WHY THEY PUT A RUBBER MAT AROUND SPITOONS.
BUT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT—DON'TNEVER LET NOBODY MAKE A MOVIE OF YOURLIFE'S STORY.
Whether they get it right or wrong, it don't matter.
Problem is, people be comin up to you all the time, askin
questions, pokin TV cameras in your face, wantin your
autograph, tellin you what a fine feller you are. Ha! If bullshit
came in barrels, I'd get me a job as a barrel-maker an have
more money than Misters Donald Trump, Michael Mulligan,
an Ivan Bozosky put together. 

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHOTNSNHdmM0VOTjg

AUDIO

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B66Lfya61yTuU1EyOGZLRlA1bjQ

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B66Lfya61yTudVRXUGNiWGp3N2c

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B66Lfya61yTuZzhRZVYxZlpHalU

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B66Lfya61yTuRGdJQkE5WjgtNG8

Gump & Co. (or Forrest Gump and Co.) is a 1995 novel by Winston Groom. It is the sequel to his novel Forrest Gump (1986), and theAcademy Award-winning film Forrest Gump (1994), with Tom Hanks.^[1]

B2 Literary Mayhem No 18 / Forrest Gump

Hullo, 

My name is Forrest Gump and

LET ME SAY THIS: BEIN A IDIOT IS NO BOX OF CHOCOLATES.

 here's my story

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B66Lfya61yTuR3VIYWtnaU9tUm8

My creator is the American writer Winston Groom, but I was made popular by Tom Hanks in a Robert Zemeckis Movie
http://www.tomhanks-online.com/media/video/detail/88/forrest-gump-making-of

B2 Literary Mayhem 17/2, The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck

again, before you read this: don't forget the "gorilla" translations (by e-mail) and to check out new books in library: 

here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoiDA8dEogrHdEVwNWM4cjZVNXVSZW5SM0FMN0NJWGc

and here https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=119iEakjLOTuZ2XXmx1TkRziHhmC0b3GnAmQEFp4

Hello again from John Steinbeck,

and I believe that "Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become more needed."

Here's some of mine, from my 1961 novel, The Winter Of Our Discontent, for you to read until next week:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHY1hocTRNVHRRSTIxTVU1Wk5SRmstdw

We are also going to listen to an excerpt from my 1962 Nobel Prize Acceptance speech, which you can see here:

http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1303

or here

John Steinbeck - Nobel Prize Speech - YouTube
► 5:27► 5:27	www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SKEODtaQUU3. aug. 2010 - 5 min. - John Steinbeck's speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962 ...

B2 Literary Mayhem 17, Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

before you read this: don't forget the "gorilla" translations and to check out new books in library: 

here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoiDA8dEogrHdEVwNWM4cjZVNXVSZW5SM0FMN0NJWGc

and here https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=119iEakjLOTuZ2XXmx1TkRziHhmC0b3GnAmQEFp4

Hello gang, 

my name is John Steinbeck, and I'm telling you this:

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought."

 I am going to be your host for the next two weeks starting with my 1945 novel about Cannery Row in Monterrey, California:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHTzBIMFppQ05RQml2NzdndFVzai12UQ

Cannery Row

Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses... 

more:

audio to chapter: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHQUFMR1FGZjVSck9IanJ4U2kwUzdkZw

1. ► 16:35► 16:35

   Steinbeck's Cannery Row - C-SPAN Video Library  c-spanvideo.org25 Apr 2002 - 17 min Mr. Hemp talked about Cannery Row in Monterey, JohnSteinbeck's novels, and Steinbeck's treatment of ...

2. ► 2:51► 2:51

   Our drive along Steinbeck's Cannery Row in ...  youtube.com21 Apr 2009 - 3 min - Uploaded by AvikJan This is Cannery Row made famous by author John Steinbeckwho wrote the Grapes or Rath and Of Mice and ...

B2 Literary Mayhem No. 16/2 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

BEFORE YOU READ THIS: please remember we will start the class discussing one quote you liked from what we've read so far.

Hello again,

you might know me as Ray Bradbury and I am going to continue telling you my story about a fireman, called Guy Montag and his young friend, Clarisse McCLellan

here it is: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHbVJEdGlweTZRNnlGZl8zclI4X0N1Zw

The story is from the novel Fahrenheit 451. You might borrow the novel from you teacher, or read it online.

You fail only if you stop writing ~ Ray Bradbury 

B2 Literary Mayhem No. 16 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

before you read this: please don't forget your answers/quotes on The Great Gatsby. We'll start from those and have some fun with translation.

Hello fellow humans,

they call me Ray Bradbury and my job is to help you fall in love. "A life's work should be based on love," is what I say..

In the course of my life (I was born in 1920), I have written over ten novels and innumerable collections of short stories. 

But the one I value the most is called Fahrenheit 451. It is a dystopian novel, and 451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which book paper burns.

Here's what we're going to read together:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHM1BsNzd5ak1TbVM2andDMXo0emMzdw

if you're interested, you can also read the whole book online or borrow it from me

Enjoy!

p.s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVzc67YuRQE

Iconic author Ray Bradbury and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner talk with LATimes.com blogger Geoff Boucher (Hero Complex) about how TV and radio inspired Fahrenheit 451, the connection between the novel and Playboy magazine and why Bradbury thinks of himself as a "pomegranate."

C1/B2 Library Mayhem

Fellow friends, here is the list of new books in the library, donated from the SCSSS Fund Book Club

If you click at the book title, an Amazon.co.uk page will open for the edition that we have

Wilde,Oscar: Dorian Grey
 Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby 
 Stevenson, Robert Louis: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other stories
 Amis, Martin: Time's Arrow
 Kelman, James: Selected  Stories
Hendry, J.F(ed):  The Penguin Book of Scottish Short Stories
 Greene, Graham: Brighton Rock
 Maguire, Susie: Furthermore


Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
Collins, Wilkie: Moonstone
Dickens, Charles: The Tale of Two Cities
Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451


Dylan et Matlin (prod.): The Caedmon Short Story Collection 
James, Henry: Washington Square
Kerouac, Jack: Dharma Bums
Defoe Daniel: Moll Flanders
Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Grisham, John: The Pelican Brief
Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
Davies, David Stuart (ed.): Short Stories from the 19th Century
Salinger, JD: The Catcher in the Rye
James, Henry: Daisy Miller
Green, Graham: Under the Garden
Wharton, Edith: Madame of Treymes
Wells, H.G.: The Red Room and other Stories
Lawrence, D.H.: Sons and Lovers
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Treasure Island
Tolkien, J.R.R: The Hobbit
Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty Four
Wellsh, Irvine: Trainspotting

And here's an new list of ALL books in our small literary library

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoiDA8dEogrHdEVwNWM4cjZVNXVSZW5SM0FMN0NJWGc

and a little experimental feature where you can order them according to the year published, author, title, level...

https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S4073883oZF

If you want to borrow the books, or have any questions, contact me here or in class.

Thank you.

B2 Literary Mayhem No. 15 The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald

"Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."

My name is Nick Carraway and I am telling you a story of my friend, Jay Gatsby:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHNTdmYmRlNGYtOWQ0Ni00MDA4LWEzOGYtZTZkMWVhMjUzZDdk

I want you to read the story before the class and see if you can answer the questions here:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHeUpXemhBb1FTQTJ3LVo0Ujlwc3IxUQ

The Great Gatsby (1925) is one of the greatest American classics. The novel was written in Paris by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and it has come to be seen as a representation of the Jazz Age (or Roaring Twenties).  Read the whole novel here  or borrow it from me ;)

more interesting Gatsbys

Robert Redford as Jay Gatsby

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2E6F5B966E25A447

Great Gatsby explained in 60 seconds (tm)

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL926BEC0C4BBF2F64

Great Gatsby Adventure!

http://greatgatsbygame.com/

Could You Survive 1920s?

http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/games/game_0_1920s/

Fitzgerald Crossword Puzzle Contest - Puzzle Entry Form and Clues

 How much do you know about Fitzgerald's works and life? Print out the puzzle, complete it, and compare your answers to the solution.

B2 Literary Mayhem No. 14 The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Fellows,

I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

My name is Jack  London, and you are going to read my story about a dog called Buck. The name of the story is The Call of The Wild. Here you are:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHNzUyMWUxNTktMTQyZi00YTE3LTg1MTMtOWIzZWI3ZDc3ZmEz

B2 Literary Mayhem No.13 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

before you read this: don't forget to send me your Kerouac translations before Sunday midnight!

Friends,

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it. So, here's what I've got to say:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHNzQ0ODU5NWQtMjQ5NS00NTg1LTk2ZTctNDdkNjMyMDcwZWJi

"For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed." (Ernest Hemingway's Nobel Prize Acceptance speech)

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 was awarded to Ernest Hemingway "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC_ZksjsnRQ

Words from Ernest Hemingway and music from Fugazi. 
A Come Up, Kinch production.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LWb6_vPMN0

Gil (Owen Wilson) is introduced to Ernest Hemingway (Corey Stoll) in Woody Allen's Midnight In Paris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5ih1IRIRxI

Aleksandr Petrov, the one man Army behind this classic adaptation, has achieved so many well deserved prestigious awards for this once in a life time movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKeGQNxjNOA

readings from the novella, plus interviews with folks from Cuba who knew Papa back in the day, including Ernesto Garcia Gutierrez.

Ernest Miller Hemingway

Born: 21 July 1899, Oak Park, IL, USA

Died: 2 July 1961, Ketchum, ID, USA

Residence at the time of the award: USA

Prize motivation: "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style"

Language: English

Biography

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals. After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution.

During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an American ambulance officer's disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter. Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel,The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman's journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat.

Hemingway - himself a great sportsman - liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters - tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and faith. His straightforward prose, his spare dialogue, and his predilection for understatement are particularly effective in his short stories, some of which are collected in Men Without Women (1927) and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). Hemingway died in Idaho in 1961.

From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969