GRE Review: fun readings for review

How R U Readers?

When I chose some of the books I included in my creative GRE Review, I think all I did was look around my mini-library and pick novels, which I haven't read and that according to The Princeton Review's "Cracking the GRE..." practice book fit the subject matters: American, British, Continental, Classical, Comparative, Modern ( post World War II and Literature in English from around the World ) etc..

I took out several Norton Anthologies I collected during my BA years ( American Literature A-C, British A, and Shakespeare ).  Since most tests are about strategies instead of knowledge and application (sadly), I plan on reading the intros, summaries, and sample of texts when it's closer to test time.  I also know I won't retain that much information in such a short period of time, so by focusing on American and British Literature ( which according to the practice book covers 70% of the test's content ), there's a greater chance that I'll get a "passing" grade.

For the rest of the content, I would have to rely on my exposure to various Literature in my ongoing English career.  So why not have fun, diba? Obviously I didn't bring these anthologies to the Philippines because if I did they would have taken up half of my luggage.  I brought 6 books all small and slender, and could be stored in my carry-on ( 5 fit the criteria above if "stretched" and 1 is a wild card ).

I started with Nick Joaquin's Cave and Shadows ( Comparative and Modern with allusions to other Western Literature ); then Robert Graves' The Greek Myths: 1 ( Classical establishing motifs and variations ); then Non Campus Mentis compiled by Prof. Anders Henriksson ( Mostly for context/timeline, a humorous approach to World History, but the puns et. al. can actually further confuse me ); then Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince ( Continental, but in Tagalog, interesting exercise of translation using images and memories ); then Jack Murnighan's Beowulf on the Beach ( Mostly British, some American, his Top 50 "Great Literary Works" ); and the wild card David G. Lanoue's Haiku Guy ( because I like haiku and the meta-haiku within ).