merely talk

One of the blogs I enjoy reading on a regular basis is 50books.com. The writer is a lovely woman in Vancouver who enjoys a similar philosophy on reading as I do. Today she linked to a list of 1001 books one must read before they die.

I looked at it, and I've only read 54. But I recognized a majority of the titles, and I have been meaning to read a whole bunch of them. Some of them are even currently piled beside the bed waiting for me to crack them...

The list is written chronologically, and what I found interesting was that until about 1930 my number was pretty low. So most of my books are classics. Which makes sense if you think about school, but not so much if you think about me working in a book store.

Anyway I thought it was fun at least. It's not going to make me rush out and buy War and Peace or anything, and I definitely think that their are books left off the list, but it's fun all the same.

In other news some fellow WST gals and I are making some pretty funky buttons to raise funds for the Campus Sexual Assault Centre. Their to raise awareness about the issues of consent when it comes to Acquaintance Rape (which is the most common rape, and the most under reported.) I'll keep you posted on how things continue to develop, but I'm pretty excited. I like this whole political activism thing.

Labels: Books, Feminism