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So, there seem to be quite a few lists and things to keep one busy.  There are apparently lists and lists of books that supposedly no one reads, put together by different sources.  I'm knocking them all out at once.  Songs Last.

 
Then there's the Big Read's top 100 books they publish, which they think the average adult has only read six of.  I've read a good many more than six
Then there's the American Library Association's list of banned books.  I haven't read as many of those as I thought I would have.  However, the list is heavy with "best seller" writers, some of whom I just can't be bothered to read.  Like Norman Mailer.  But I'm going to have to read som of the ones I haven't yet.


Here's all the ones that the SAT people think you should read.  I guess you could consider this the "Academic Canon".  Again, some odd choices, some obvious things left out.  Like, Animal Farm, but not 1984?  And, of course, not nearly enough Shakespeare, no Atlas Shrugged, no Anna Karenina,  and Woolf's To the Lighthouse over A Room of One's Own?  Anyway, here's my read list



Okay, I'm listed out.  Even I didn't want to know this much about me!
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I've been listening to old songs that I hardly ever hear. ITunes is great. I has returned to us the ability to buy singles, only instead of just the one chosen single hit from an album, now you can buy almost any cut.

But listening to old songs that you associate with your past, and people from your past is a double edged sword. It makes you feel young again, and brings up memories, good an bad. And sometimes, the really good ones are the worst to remember, because you ask your self, "How did I let that slip away?"

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