Graduation!

This week has been a whirlwind!

I'm done! DONE! I finished both majors, I wrote two theses, and I did pretty damn well considering everything I've been through!

Consequently, I am now having a total fit of nostalgia, and so:

Every Book I Read in College (not including essays or additional research books I read or everything that showed up in course readers!)

Psychology of Language (David W. Carroll)

Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)

Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)

At Swim-Two-Birds (Flann O’Brien)

Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)

The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (ed. Leitch, et. al.)

Creating Black Americans (Nell Irvin Painter)

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2 (8^th ed.)

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

The Buddha of Suburbia (Hanif Kureishi)

Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)

Best American Essays (Ed. David Foster Wallace and Robert Atwan)

The Next American Essay (Ed. John D’Agata)

Textbook of Bacteriology (Kenneth Todar)

Lysistrata (Aristophanes)

The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare)

Scapin and Don Juan (Moliere)

The Country Wife (William Wycherley)

Man and Superman (George Bernard Shaw)

The Complete Plays (George Orton)

Cloud Nine (Caryl Churchill)

The Eunuch (Terence)

Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume C

Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume D

Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)

Paradise Lost (John Milton)

Introduction to Language (Rodman, Hyams, and Fromkim)

Norton Anthology of Poetry (Ed. Ferguson, Stallworthy, and Salter)

Doing Grammar (Max Morenberg)

Introducing Phonology (David Odden)

Gay Cuban Nation (Emilio Bejel)

Forbidden Stories of Marta Veneranda (Sonia Rivera-Valdés)

Before Night Falls (Reinaldo Arenas)

Understanding Scientific Reasoning (Giere)

Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (J.D. McClatchy)

Good Woman (Lucille Clifton)

Another Republic (Ed. Stand and Simic)

Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett (James Knowlson)

The Sighted Singer (Alan Grossman)

Selected Poems of Paul Celan (trans. Michael Hamburger)

Word Formation in English (Ingo Plag)

Word Structure (Richard Coates)

Natural Language Syntax (Peter Culicover)

Exploring Language (Gary Goshgarian)

English With an Accent (R. Lippi-Green)

Language Myths (Bauer and Trudgill)

Petronius: Selections from the Satyricon (Ed. Lawall)

Petronius: A Handbook (Wiley-Blackwell)

Amphitryo (Plautus)

Manaechmi (Plautus)

Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays by Plautus (Amy Richlin)

De Bello Gallico (Caesar)

What is the What (Dave Eggers)

The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume B (7^th Edition)

The Blithedale Romance (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

A Room of One’s Own (Virginia Woolf)

1989 (Joshua Clover)

A Very Short Introduction to Literary Theory

The Craft of Research

Portrait With Keys (Ivan Vladislavic)

Jacob’s Room (Virginia Woolf)

Journal of the Plague Year (Daniel Defoe)

Ways of Dying (Zakes Mda)

The Heat of the Day (Elizabeth Bowen)

Texaco (Patrick Chamoiseau)

Selected Poems and Four Plays (W.B. Yeats)

The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea (J.M. Synge)

Dubliners (James Joyce)

The Last September (Elizabeth Bowen)

The Third Policeman (Flann O’Brien)

Endgame (Samuel Beckett)

North (Seamus Heaney)

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume B

An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction (Ed. Paul Salzman)

Analyzing Grammar: An Introduction (Paul Kroeger)

Optimality Theory (Rene Kager)

Reading Latin: Grammar, Vocabulary, and Exercises (Jones and Sidwell)

Reading Latin: Text (Jones and Sidwell)

Dream Visions and Other Poems (Chaucer)

Troilus and Crysede (Chaucer)

Lexical Semantics (Cruse)

Logic in Linguistics (Allwood)

Now, after writing that list, all I have to say is this:

(which is just about the most accurate summation of the past four years that I can possibly think of!)