Addicted to Print Reading Lists 2
Below are the books Gary Draper has referred to in each of his six lectures. Gary has asked that the lists appear following each lecture, so please return here each week for an updated list.
Feb 27, 2025 - Beginning
Every reader has a starting point, or a constellation of them. It can be illuminating to look at our earliest texts: where we found them and what they gave us.
LIST OF WORKS DISCUSSED OR REFERENCED IN TODAY’S LECTURE
William S. Gray [and others]. Fun With Dick and Jane. c. 1935--.
Will James [Joseph Dufault]. Smoky the Cowhorse. 1926.
Dennis Lee. “Wiggle to the Laundromat,” in Wiggle to the Laundromat. 1970.
Lucy Macdonald and Cathryn Taylor. Dumpy. 1947.
Daniel Pennac. “The Reader’s Bill of Rights,” in Better Than Life. 1994. Also available on the
web.
Kathy Stinson and Lauren Soloy. A Tulip in Winter: A Story about Folk Artist Maud Lewis. 2023.
Heather Cass White. Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life. New York 2021
The following poems may be accessed on the web:
Bobby Heath. “Pony Boy.”
Robert Louis Stevenson. “The Land of Counterpane.”
Theodore Tilton. “The Fly: A rhyme for children.”
Mar 6, 2025 - Escaping
Sometimes the world can be too much with us and we need to step out of our lives and into a book that takes us far from the world we must inhabit. Mystery, adventure, and imaginary worlds so different from our own can be just a bookshelf away.
LIST OF WORKS DISCUSSED OR REFERENCED IN TODAY’S LECTURE
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches,” in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. 1892.
Elle James. Two Dauntless Hearts. 2018.
Stephen Leacock. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. 1912.
Hilary Mantel. Wolf Hall. 2009.
James Michener Hawaii. 1959.
J. R. R. Tolkien. “On Fairy Stories,” in Tree and Leaf. 1964.
J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings. 1954.
The following poems may be accessed on the web:
Thomas Hardy. “Weathers.”
Mary Oliver. “Wild Geese.”
Robert W. Service. “The Shooting of Dan McGrew.”
Mar 13, 2025 - Engaging & Stretching
Each week’s list will be updated soon after the lecture.
Mar 20, 2025 - Paying Attention to Form (1): Fiction
Mar 27, 2025 - Paying Attention to Form (2): Poetry
Apr 3, 2025 - Getting On