Dore' Ripley
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- CLAYTON, California, US
- Last Login: 7/2/2009
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Interests
General
GRAPHIC NOVELS
American Born Chinese written and illustrated by Gene Luen Yang
AND
Eternal Smile by Gene Luen Yang & Derek Kirk Kim
BTW Gene Luen Yang is an alum of CSUEB.
Epileptic by David B.
Jew in Communist Prague: I-11 by Vittorio Giardino
Maus I - III written and illustrated by Art Speigelman
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, illustrated by Peter Kuper "Spy vs. Spy"
Migra Mouse: Political Cartoons on Immigration written and illustrated by Lalo Alcaraz
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood written and illustrated by Marjane Satrapi
300by Frank Miller
Workman Publishing's Illustrated and Unabridged Shakespeare: including Ian Pollack's illustrated King Lear and Oscar Zarate's Othello
Beginners Documentary Comic Books with titles like Nietzsche for Beginners illustrated by Patrick Boussignac
and
Philosophy for Beginners illustrated by Ralph Edney
COMIC BOOK GENERATORS
Want to create your own comics?
Here are two easy web programs: www.mashon.com
OR
www.comiqs.com
BOOKS ON CREATING GRAPHIC NOVELS
Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist by Will Eisner--a great book on storytelling, visual or otherwise.
Drawing Words & Writing Pictures: A Definitive course from Concept to Comic in 15 Lessons by Jessica Abel & Matt Madden--concentrates on the art of it all.
Movies
Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
Dangerous Liaisons
Shakespeare in Love--or, at least, the 40 minutes without GP.
The New Star TrekTelevision
SciFi's Firefly a futuristic western set in a post-apocalyptic universe. Of course, it got canceled midway through its first season. But, all is not lost, Firefly is available on HULU and graphic novels.
Put down the remote, pick up a book!Books
Some of my Favorite Books:
Voices in a Mask by Geoffrey Green
Interred with Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell
Young Will: The Confessions of William Shakespeare by Bruce Cook
The Players: A Novel of the Young Shakespeare by Stephanie Cowell
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes
The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian by Anne Radcliffe
The Monk by Matthew G. Lewis
Emma by Jane Austen
Machiavelli's Prince
A Far and Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
..Some Favorite Authors..
Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee Mysteries
Mary Renault's Ancient World Historical Fictions
Clive Cussler's Mysteries with an Archaelogical Twist
Mark Twain especially Roughing It and The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
More later . . .
Blurbs
About me:
Dore' Ripley, Lecturer, Cal State East Bay and Diablo Valley College.If you are one of my students, go to Bb at the CSUEB website or WebCT at DVC for information about current assignments. Don't forget to check your school e-mail account for important last-minute announcements.
*****CLASS BLOG is located at www.Read-Think-B4-U-Write.blogspot.com *****
READ anything including magazines, newspapers, comic books, graphic novels, fiction and non-fiction full-length books.
READ every genre, including sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, thriller, essay anthologies, historical fiction, short story collections, literary fiction and non-fiction.
BTW these reading lists are not meant to be all-inclusive.
..This month's highlighted selection:..
Voices in a Mask by Geoffrey Green
SUGGESTED READING FOR A LIFETIME:
Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf
Dr. Eliot was a Harvard University President who gathered a 51-volume anthology together of the "classics" to provide students an excellent liberal studies education. A list of Dr. Eliot's Classic titles can be found at Wikipedia under "Harvard Classics".
GLOBALIZED READING LIST:
The Globalization of World Politics by John Baylis
The Culture of Prosperity by Gregory Clark
Globalization and Race: Transformation in the Cultural Production of Blackness by Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas
Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization by Ian Condry
Globalization and American Popular Culture by Lane Crothers
The World is Flat and Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why we Need a Green Revolution--and How it Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Democracy as Human Rights: Freedom and Equality in the Age of Globalization by Michael Goodhart
The Gender of Globalization: Women Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities by Nandini Gunewardena and Ann Kingsolver
The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car by Tim Harford
Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism by Walter Lafeber
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
Real World Globalization by Dollars and Sense
Making Globalization Work by Joseph E. Stiglitz
The World is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy by David Smick
Classic Foreign Literature (all titles available in English):
..Algeria (French language):.. The Stranger by Albert Camus
..Argentina:.. The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
..China:.. Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xeuqin
..Czech Republic:..The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
..Egypt:.. Chitchat on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz
..Finland:.. ..The Egyptian, The Etruscan, The Roman.. by Mika Waltari
..France:.. The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
..Germany:.. Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
..India(?)(German Language):.. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
..Italy:.. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
..Japan:.. The Tale of Ganji by Yoshitaka Amano
..Mexico:.. The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz
..Nigeria:.. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
..Russia:.. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
..Spain:.. Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
A HEALTH PROFESSIONAL'S READING LIST:
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge
Lies! Lies!! Lies!!! The Psychology of Deceit by Charles V. Ford
The Gifts of Caregiving: Stories of Hardship, Hope, and Healing by Connie Goldman
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman.
Caring for Patients from Different Cultures by Geri-An Galanti
The Blood of Strangers, Stories from Emergency Medicine by F. Huyler
Making a Difference: Stories from the Point of Care by Sharon Hudacek
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo by Cleo Koff
On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
What I Talk About When I'm Running by Haruki Murakami
Mothering Mother: A Daughter's Humorous and Heartbreaking Memoir by Carol O'Dell
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Everything I Want to do is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front by Joel Salatin
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE WRITERS(my special interest):
My favorite Shakespeare:
Hamlet
MacBeth
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
The Merchant of Venice
Twelfth Night
The Isle of Dogs [;-) if you can find a copy] by Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson
Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson
The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont
The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum by Aemilia Lanyer
The Witch of Edmonton by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, and John Ford
A READING LIST ABOUT SHAKESPEARE AND HIS SOCIETY
Age of Shakespeareby Francois Laroque (pocket book, tons of illustrations)
Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents edited by Russ McDonald
Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt
The Lodger by Charles Nicholl 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
Playgoing in Shakespeare's London by Andrew Gurr
Shakespeare by Michael Wood (companion guide to PBS series, lots of illustrations)
Southwark: A History of Bankside, Bermondsey, and 'The Borough' by Globe Theatre Society
Walking Shakespeare's London by Nicholas Robins
The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl
Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory by Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass
Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America by Peter C. Mancall
The Case for Shakespeare: The End of the Authorship Question by Scott McCrea
SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYHOUSE..
A full-size replica of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre was built close to its original site in Southwark, just outside London, visit their website: www.shakespeares-globe.org
MORE HISTORy
..United States of America
To get a good grasp of American history, read a biography or autobiography of each President (examples to come later)
To get a good grasp of American Politics read the Constitution and the Federalist Papers
The Sprit of Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution as Told by Participants edited by Henry S. Commager and Richard B. Morris
ANCIENT HISTORY
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter by Thomas Cahill
The Roman Way and The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton
Classics in Translation. Volume I: Greek Literature; Volume II: Latin Literature edited by Paul MacKendrick and Herbert M. Howe
Robert Fagles' translations of Homer's Iliad (audio book performed by Derek Joacobi) and Odyssey (audio book performed by Ian McKellen)
THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE or HOW SCIENCE MADE HISTORY..
Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age by William Manchester
More when I have time . . .