Thursday 31 May 2012

Third Year Reading List


The bad news: my laptop has decided to randomly break (I'm writing this on my boyfriend's laptop). The good news: I've got my reading list for next year. The modules I'm doing next year are Writing History Fiction, Advanced Fictional Writing, Writing Comic Books and Graphic Novels, Science Fictions, Creative Visions, and finally Creative Voice.

Out of all the books I have only read two so far, and one of them is the Writer's and Artist's Yearbook, so not too fun.

For Creative Voice I have to read the following:

Have a look at How to Write a Novel by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark (Penguin) and The Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook 2012 (A&C Black).

http://www.thebookseller.com/jobs.html
http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/
http://www.prweekjobs.co.uk/
http://jobs.thirdsector.co.uk/

Hypertext: The Electronic Labyrinth at http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/elab/.
Ebbflux at http://www.ebbflux.com/
The Multiple Perspectives of Jekyll & Hyde at
http://www.calumkerr.co.uk/jekyll/
E-zines: Blankpages at
http://www.blankmediacollective.org/index.php/news/blankpages/
The Recusant at http://www.therecusant.org.uk/
Print-on-demand: CompletelyNovel at http://www.completelynovel.com/.

For Science Fictions I have to read:

H G Wells, The War of the Worlds
Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions
P K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Trudi Canavan, The Magicians’ Guild

I've already read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, you may know it as the film Blade Runner, and started on The War of the Worlds. It's a pretty fun reading list and I'm really looking forward to doing this module. 

For Writing History Fiction I have to read these books over the summer:

Mantel, Hilary: Wolf Hall (London, Fourth Estate, 2009; paperback 2010)
Taylor, Andrew: The American Boy (London, Harper Perennial, 2004)
Faber, Michel, The Apple and other Crimson Petal stories (Canongate UK, 2011)

Finally, for Comics and Graphic Novels I have to read:

Rene DeLiz, ed., Womanthology 
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman Vol1: Preludes and Nocturnes
Frank Miller, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

I'm really excited for this, Neil Gaiman and Batman? How much more awesome can you get?

As you can see I have a lot to read over the summer, but good things, no more boring things like Wuthering Heights. 

1 comment:

  1. even though the laptop breaks you have done a good job keep going and you rock.

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