Inquiries are welcome... I wrote this sort of journal down years ago. I have kept up on my reading in the meantime.
2015
. . . June
The Will To Power, Friedrich Nietzsche (translated by Walter Kaufmann)
July
Little Dorritt, Book One. Charles Dickens
August
New Poems, Charles Bukowski
Nietzsche (Book 1), Martin Heidegger
September
The Book Of Acts, Geneva/ King James Version
2014
January
Amerika, Franz Kafka
"Huckleberry Finn", Lionel Trilling
Puddin'head Wilson, Mark Twain
"Puddin'head Wilson", F. R. Leavis
Solomon Gurski Was Here, Mordechai Richler
The Boat Who Wouldn't Float, Farley Mowatt
Cymbaline, Shakesepare
"Simon Lee" Wordsworth
February
"Is The Bible A Book?", Ian Robinson
Two Blue Birds, D H Lawrence
Sun, D H Lawrence
The Woman Who Rode Away, D H Lawrence
Smile, D H Lawrence
The Three James --
*
Outcast of the Islands, Carol Reed
Filming Othello, Orson Welles
March
April
May
July
Epic of Gilgemesh
"The Border Line" D H Lawrence
"Jimmy and the Desperate Woman" D H Lawrence
The Medea
*
Medea Lars Van Triers
Nymphomaniac Lars Von Triers
August
The Conqueror Worm, Mike Mignola
Friends, Brian Fawcett
Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek
Miro, Mario Bucci
*
The Human Centipede, Tony Six
The Human Centipede 2, Tony Six
September
2013
January
Merry Wives of Windsor, William Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare
Principles of Wordsworth's Poetry, Robert Marchant
The Prelude, William Wordsworth -
The Confessions (Books 1&2), Jean-Jacques Rouseau
The Case of Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche
Discourse on Thinking, Martin Heidegger
February
Piers Plowman, William Langland
The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood
Surfacing, Margaret Atwood
March
The Confessions (Books 4, 5 & 6), Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Grief Lessons, Anne Carson, Euripides
Survival, Margaret Atwood
NOX, Anne Carson
Lady Oracle, Margaret Atwood
If Not, Winter, Anne Carson, Sappho
The March of Literature (Part 2), Ford Madox Ford
Irma Voth, Miriam Toews
"Monkey Nuts", D. H. Lawrence
"Wintry Peacock", D. H. Lawrence
"You Touched Me", D. H. Lawrence
"Less Delicate Than the Locust", Charles Bukowski
People Live Still in Cashtown Corners, Tony Burgess
"The Horse-Dealer's Daughter", D. H. Lawrence
Life Before Man, Margaret Atwood
Bodily Harm, Margaret Atwood
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
The Prague Cemetery, Umberto Eco -
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The Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo
Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino
Melancholy, Lars Van Triers
April
May
The Power of Delight, John Baylay --
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
The Secret Sharer, Joseph Conrad
"Conad's Belief in Victory", Ian Robinson
The English Prophets, Ian Robinson --
The Great Tradition, F. R. Leavis --
"The Secret Sharer", (from Anna Karenina and other Essays) F. R. Leavis
June
Victory, Joseph Conrad
Under Western Eyes, Joseph Conrad
A Smile of Fortune, Joseph Conrad
Frieda of the Seven Isles, Joseph Conrad
Castle to Castle, Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Rigadoon, Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The Collected Works of George Grant vol. 4 1970-1988 (Eds Arthur Davis and Henry Roper)
Under Conrad's Eyes, Micheal DiSanto --
"Conrad's Polish Joke", (from Love Confounded) Brian Crick
Notes on Life and Letters, Joseph Conrad --
An Anarchist, Joseph Conrad
"The Princess", D. H. Lawrence
"Two Blue-birds", D. H. Lawrence
*
The Lady Eve, Preston Sturges
Sullivan's Travels, Preston Sturges
July
"Man the Reformer", Emerson
1st Kings, King James Version
Isaiah, King Jamers Version
North, Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The Princess, D. H. Lawrence
Geneology of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsche (trans. Walter Kaufman)
The Shadow-Line, Joseph Conrad
King Lear, William Shakespeare
Chesterton on Shakespeare, G. K. Chesterton
Empire and Communication, Harold Innis
Stephen Harper and the Future of Canada, William Johnson
The Pen the Sword and the Swastika, Ed. Claude Owen
The Martyrology Book 3, bp nichol
The Phoenix and the Turtle, William Shakespeare
"Pictures on the Walls", D. H. Lawrence
"Making Pictures", D. H. Lawrence
"Introduction to these Paintings", D H. Lawrence
"Shakespeare and Shakespeareanisms", L. C. Knight
*
Mirage
A Dangerous Method, David Cronenbur
The Duallists, Ridley Scott
Journey Into Fear, Norman Foster
Il Penseroso, Milton, read by Anthony Quayle
August
The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayak
Almayer's Folly, Joseph Conrad
Candle in the Wind, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Autobiography in Red, Anne Carson
Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot
Bradaranyaka Upanisad, trans. Partrick Clivelle
The Nature of Economics, Jane Jacobs
Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
The Letters of Conrad Aiken and Malcolm Lowry 1929-1954 Ed. Cynthia Sugars-
The Myth of the Rational Market, Justin Fox
Picasso by Picasso: His First Museum Exhibition, Jokin Bezzok
Essays in Canadian Economic History, Ch. 1 - 6, Harold Innis
Madam Bovary, Gustave Flaubert (trans. . . )
"Madame Bovary", Vladimir Nabokov
September
Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall, Will Ellsworth-Jones-
The Diaries of Paul Klee, Paul Klee-
Charmides, Plato (trans . . . )
Chance in Hell, Gilbert Hernandez
*
Battle Royal, . . .
The Great McGuinty, Preston Sturges
Melinda and Melinda, Woody Allen
October
Little Dorritt, Charles Dickens-
Approaches to Politics, Pierre Elliot Trudeau
An Outcast of the Islands, Joseph Conrad-
*
1492:Conquest of Paradise, Ridley Scott
Anti-Christ, Lars Van Triers
2012
January
F.R. Leavis: Cambridge Don, Ian Robinson
The New Grammarians' Funereal, Ian Robinson
A Thug's Miscellany, BookThug
Jesus and Yahweh, Harold Bloom
Catullus, a selection, [forgot which edition]
"What is the People?", William Hazlitt
"On Constancy of Opinion", William Hazlitt
"Illustrations of 'The Times' Newspaper", William Hazlitt
from "The French Revolution", William Hazlitt
Round The Fire Mysteries, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Complete Short Stories of D.H. Lawrence Vol. 1, D.H. Lawrence
Septuagenarian Stew, Charles Bukowski
The Old Man and The Sea, Earnest Hemingway
The Green Knight, Iris Murdoch --
*
Thor, Kenneth Branagh
February
Summer of My Amazing Luck, Miriam Toews
Story of The Eye, Georges Bataille translated by Joachim Neugroschel
Nine Stories, J. D. Salinger
Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare
"Measure for Measure", S. T. Coleridge
All's Well That Ends Well, William Shakespeare
March
Les Precious Ridiculous, Moliere (a combination of English and French texts)
Fiction for Lovers, Tony Burgess
Glue, Irvine Welsh
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chiefs, Irvine Welsh
If You Liked School You'll Love Work, Irvine Welsh
Crime, Irvine Welsh
Underground to Canada, Barbara Smucker --
In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway --
April
Reheated Cabbage, Irvine Welsh
The Comedy of Forgiveness, John Haddon -
May
The Comedy of Forgiveness, John Haddon
The Offensive Art, C. J. Purvis
V For Vendetta, Alan Moore, David Lloyd
The Real Life of Sabatian Knight, Vladimir Nabokov --
June
Nostromo, Joseph Conrad --
Women, Charles Bukowski
Striation, Jordan Fry
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, S. T. Coleridge
Secresy (Volume 1), Eliza Fenwick
Movies, Ed. Gilbert Adair-
Jurassic Park, Micheal Crighton
Words in Edgeways 14, Ed. Duke Maskell
The Eumenides, Aechylus, traslated by Richard Lattimore
*
The Wire: Season 1, David Simon et al
Prometheus, Ridley Scott
July
Movies, Ed. Gilbert Adair
The Rape of Lucretia, Ronald Duncan
The Double Axe, Robinson Jeffers--
Hot Water Music, Charles Bukowski
Technology and Empire, George Grant--
The Sign of Jonah, R.J.P. Lyon
Nothing Larger Than Life, David Holbrook
The Story of the Prussian Officer Revisions: Littlewood among the Lawrence Scholars, Brian Crick
(x2)
"Odour of Chrysanthemums", D. H. Lawrence
"D. H. Lawrence and the Holy Family", Brian Crick
*
The Wire: Season 2, David Simon et al
The Wire: Season 3, David Simon et al
The Wire: Season 4, David Simon et al
The Wire: Season 5, David Simon et al
The Bride Wore Black, Francoise Truffaut
The Last Metro, Francoise Truffaut
August
Hamlet and the Pirates, D. S. Savage
"England, My England", D. H. Lawrence
"Tickets Please", D. H. Lawrence
The Ontario Curriculum Grades 9 and 10: English-
The Ontario Curriculum Grades 11 and 12: English-
Remarks on John Locke by Thomas Burnet, Ed. Gary Watson
"Spinoza and the Bible", Matthew Arnold
The Prose of the World, Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The Real Life of Sabatian Knight, Vladimir Nabokov-
This Way To The Tomb, Ronald Duncan
Jackdaw and Other Stories, M. B. Mencher
My Native English: Criticisms of an Unnecessary Crisis in English Studies, Ed. Roger Knight, Ian Robinson
How to Camp for Free and Enjoy the Wilderness, Eric Erme
Tribal Childhood, Adolf Hungrywolf--
The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin
Bone: Out From Boneville, Jeff Smith
Middle English Lyrics, Ed. Maxwell S. Luria and Richard L. Hoffman-
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte-
*
Fahrenheit 451, Francois Truffaut
Tiny Furniture, Lena Dunham
September
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
"I Present A Peculiar Problem", Heathcliff M. A.
The Suppliant Maidens, Aeschylus, translated by Seth G. Benardete
Literary Language and Its Public, Erich Auerbach, translated by Ralph Manheim
"Bad Faith", Jean-Paul Sartre
Lectures in America, F. R. & Q. D. Leavis
The Anatomy of Poetry, Marjorie Boulton
The Art and Craft of Poetry, Lawrence J. Zillman
October
The Anatomy of Poetry, Majorie Boulton
Green Grass, Running Water, Thomas King
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Anna Karenina & Other Essays, F. R. Leavis
November
Logic and Philosophy: An Introduction -
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition, Michael Tomesello -
Troilus and Cressida, William Shakespeare
December
Inner Experience, Georges Bataille
Druid Madonna, Roy Kerridge
The Conference of the Books, Khaled M. Abou El Fadl
2011
January
The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
Cezanne, Michael Howard --
*
Breaking Bad: Seasons 1 and 2, Vince Gilliagan, et al
February
Interpreting the Personal: Expression and the Formation of Feelings, Sue Campbell
The Odyssey, Homer translated by Richard Lattimore
"Odysseus' Scar," Erich Auerbach
Mr Arkadin, Orson Welles
Middlemarch, George Eliot -
*
I'm Still Here, Joaquin Phoenix, et al
March
Middlemarch, George Eliot --
Bottle's Path, T. F. Powys
Birds Beasts and Flowers! D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence: The Major Phase/ Studies in Tradition and Renewal, J. C. F. Littlewood
The Trauma Model: A Solution to the Problem of Comorbidity in Psychiatry, Colin Ross
"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell," William Blake
The Island of the Day Before, Umberto Eco translated by William Weaver
The Mirror of the Sea, Joseph Conrad -
April
The English Bible and the Tragic, Robert Marchant
"Authoritative Teaching" (translated) The Nag Hammadi Library
The Leavises, The 'Social', and The Left, Gary Watson
The Mirror of the Sea, Joseph Conrad -
Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens --
May
Against the American Dream: Essays on Charles Bukowski, Russell Harrison
The Mirror of the Sea, Joseph Conrad
Untied Kingdom, Ian Robinson
Time as History, George Grant
"Civilization and its Discontents", Sigmund Freud
Druid Madonna, Roy Kerridge
June
Caesarea, Tony Burgess
Lee Harvey Oswald and other Plays, Colin A. Ross
Typhoon, Joseph Conrad
The First Lady Chatterley, D. H. Lawrence
July
The Gadfly: a Quarterly review of... (Vol. 7 No. 3 &4 Aug.-Nov., 1984), Ed. Duke Maskell
John Thomas and Lady Jane, D. H. Lawrence -
Shakespeare's Tragedies of Love, H. A. Mason -
The Rape of Lucretia, William Shakespeare --
*
The Last Six Sonatas, Haydn, Glenn Gould
Dear Heather, Leonard Cohen
Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick
August
Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael
Pulp, Charles Bukowski
Shakespeare's Tragedies of Love, H. A. Mason --
John Thomas and Lady Jane, D. H. Lawrence --
Leonard Cohen, Michael Ondaante
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Hobo with a Shotgun
www.dooneyscafe.com
September
Chaos Point: 2012 and Beyond, Ervin Laszlo
Beatrice and Virgil, Yann Martel
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Chagall, (Abbey Library)
The View From Castle Rock, Alice Munro -
October
The View From Castle Rock, Alice Munro --
Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen
"How Successful is Hard Times?", David Lodge
Idaho Winter, Tony Burgess
The Child in the House, Walter Pater
The Innocence of Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton
The Wisdom of Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton
*
The Iceman Cometh, John Frankenheimer, et al
December
Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
"Picking up the Thread", George Whalley
2010
August
Macbeth, Shakespeare
Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens
And Also Much Cattle, D. S. Savage
The Island, Peter Benchley
In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje
*
Jesus of Montreal, Denys Arcand
September
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens --
*
The X Files: Season 9, Chris Carter, et al
Glenn Gould's First Recordings of Grieg and Bizet, Glenn Gould
Synedoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman
October
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
November
Culture and Value, Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Lesson of the Master, Henry James
The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think, Robert Aunger --
The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins --
English-Speaking Justice, George Grant
Stages on Life's Way, Soren Kierkegaard
Mysteries, Knut Hamsum -
December
Mysteries, Knut Hamson
"Introduction to These Paintings," D. H. Lawrence
Politics Needs Literature, Duke Maskell
The Gatekeeper, Brian Griffin
Measure For Measure, Shakespeare --
