Well, here is The List, or at least the start of it. I know a few of you are still working on yours. I will continue to add to it & update it as I get more in. Thank you for participating. It was really fun to see the results. Top 25 are in orange. I just thought I would include the rest of the votes because it's interesting. Thanks again! Keep sending them in!
#1 - Gone With the Wind
The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harry Potter Series
Wuthering Heights
Little House on the Prairie Series
The Kite Runner
The Godfather
The Complete work of Wlm Shakespeare
Twilight Series
White Oleander
The Lovely Bones
Charlotte's Web
Pride & Prejudice
Catcher in the Rye
Loving Frank
Sarah's Key
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Lord of the Rings
The Bible
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
I Know this Much is True
Jane Eyre
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Color Purple
A Clockwork Orange
The Grapes of Wrath
Drangonlance
Memoires of a Geisha
Sea Glass
East of Eden
Of Mice & Men
The Shack
Artemis Fowl Series
The Little Prince
The Chronicles of Narnia
The DaVinci Code
Welcome to the Great Mysterious
A Time to Kill
The Space Trilogy
My Sisters Keeper
The Host
Winnie the Pooh
The Dark is Rising
The Tenth Circle
The Wind in the Willow
Where the Red Fern Grows
She's Come Undone
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Grinch who Stole Christmas
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Hobbit
1984
Frankenstein
The Prince of Tides
The Vampire Chronicles
Body Surfing
Bridges of Madison County
The Diggingest Dog
A Canticle for Liebowitz
Plain Truth
The Last Lecture
Dracula
Little Women
The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe
Bel Canto
Lord of the Flies
The Wizard of Oz
Bury My Hearth at Wounded Knee
Confessions of a Shopaholic
The BFG
The Millennium Series
Atonement
Old Yeller
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Time Machine
Don Quixote
The Song of Solomon
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
In The Gloaming
I've been thinking about a short story I read a while back called "In the Gloaming".
It was the story about a mothers last few days spent with her son who was dying of AIDS. It was an amazing, heart wrenching story. One that has haunted me for years.
I looked for my copy of this story over the weekend & can't find it. I wanted to reread it as it was on my mind. It was in a bigger book of short stories, "The Best Short Stories of 1994" that I had bought for my grandma as a gift one year. When she passed away I knew I wanted to have that book. I'm sure my grandma probably skipped that particular story as it wouldn't have been a subject she would have liked. Dealing with AIDS would have been something you wouldn't talk about and like so many people of her generation, was just something they didn't understand.
Christopher Reeve made an HBO movie out of this back in the mid 90's. Glenn Close, Bridget Fonda, David Strathairn, Whoopie Goldberg & Robert Shawn Leanard were all in it. I loved the movie adaptation as well. It was well acted and moving. I highly recommend seeing it but I warn you now, have tissue handy.
I use to read a lot of short stories. I'm not sure when I quit or why. After reflecting on this story over the last few days though I've decided it's time to start reading them again. In doing a little research for this post I noticed that this story made it into John Updikes "Best Short Stories of the Century", I think that will be a good place for me to start.
Do you have a favorite short story?
In the Gloaming 5 out of 5 stars.
It was the story about a mothers last few days spent with her son who was dying of AIDS. It was an amazing, heart wrenching story. One that has haunted me for years.
I looked for my copy of this story over the weekend & can't find it. I wanted to reread it as it was on my mind. It was in a bigger book of short stories, "The Best Short Stories of 1994" that I had bought for my grandma as a gift one year. When she passed away I knew I wanted to have that book. I'm sure my grandma probably skipped that particular story as it wouldn't have been a subject she would have liked. Dealing with AIDS would have been something you wouldn't talk about and like so many people of her generation, was just something they didn't understand.
Christopher Reeve made an HBO movie out of this back in the mid 90's. Glenn Close, Bridget Fonda, David Strathairn, Whoopie Goldberg & Robert Shawn Leanard were all in it. I loved the movie adaptation as well. It was well acted and moving. I highly recommend seeing it but I warn you now, have tissue handy.
I use to read a lot of short stories. I'm not sure when I quit or why. After reflecting on this story over the last few days though I've decided it's time to start reading them again. In doing a little research for this post I noticed that this story made it into John Updikes "Best Short Stories of the Century", I think that will be a good place for me to start.
Do you have a favorite short story?
In the Gloaming 5 out of 5 stars.
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