My favorite bookstore, Borders, is going out of business, but I managed to snag these items on sale in the past two weeks (from left to right):

• 3 Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn by Howard Zinn
• For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
• Abnormal by Michel Foucault
• Sweep: Volume 15 by Cate Tiernan
• Sweep: Volume 14 by Cate Tiernan
• Push by Sapphire
• For One More Day by Mitch Albom
• The Worst-Case Scenario Almanic: Politics by David Borgenicht & Turk Regan
• Extras by Scott Westerfield
• [DVD] A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!
• Girls Like Us by Rachel Lloyd
• Somewhere Inside by Laura Ling & Lisa Ling
• November by David Mamet
• In Defense of Flogging by Peter Moskos
• [DVD] Stonewall Uprising
• [DVD] A Single Man

I’m not going to lie; I’m most excited about A Single Man because Nicholas Hoult is in it and it’s a beautiful film. If you want to borrow it (or any of my books or DVDs), just ask! :)

I’ve been lacking intellectual stimulation, which means I need to start reading insightful texts. Attempting to read as much as possible over winter break.

Plays/Books

• Lysistrata by Aristophanes
• The Plague by Albert Camus
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Medea by Euripides
• The Diviners by Margaret Laurence
• Nausea by Jean-Paul Satre
• As You Like It by William Shakespeare
• The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
• Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part by Michael Shurtleff

Acting Teachers

• Stella Adler
• Michael Chekhov
• Uta Hagen
• Sanford Meisner
• Constantin Stanislavski
• Lee Strasberg

Philosophers

• Aristotle (Politics)
• Hobbes (Leviathan)
• Hume (Treatise of Human Nature)
• Locke (Second Treatise of Government)
• Kant (Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals)
• Marx (Communist Manifesto)
• Mill (On Liberty)
• Nietzsche (On the Genealogy of Morality)
• Plato (Apology, Crito, & Republic)
• Rosseau (Discourse on the Origin of Inequality & On the Social Contract)

Does anyone have recommendations on what I should read?

(Source: community.livejournal.com)

“reasons to be pretty confronts America’s obsession with physical beauty headlong. In Neil LaBute’s new play, Greg’s (Sadoski) tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his off-handed remarks about a female co-worker’s pretty face (and his girlfriend’s lack thereof) get back to said girlfriend (Ireland). But that’s just the beginning.” [Source]

“A love story about the impossibility of love, reasons to be pretty introduces us to Greg, who really, truly adores his girlfriend Steph. Unfortunately, he also thinks she has a few physical imperfections, and when he casually mentions them, all hell breaks loose. A hopelessly romantic drama about the hopelessness of romance, reasons to be pretty is a gorgeous play.” [Source]

I want to see this! It sounds really interesting.