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About meNew Year, new reading broom!
After 2012's 100-book challenge I want to try something different this year. One problem with reading books in sequence is that I'm not always in the mood for my current book - sometimes it's a slog!
In the past I've had up to five on the go - so that I can switch from fiction to non-fiction, memoir, short-story, poetry or travel. It's a friendlier and less demanding regime.
So this year I'm going to pick a dozen books a month to read without any pressure to finish any particular one quickly before I can start reading the next.
About my library2013 Read so far:
Jan 01. Chronicles / Bob Dylan / Memoir (USA)
Jan 02. The Woman in the Dunes / Kobo Abe / Fiction (Japan)
Jan 03. The Bell Jar / Sylvia Plath / Fiction (USA)
Jan 04. If On A Winter's Night A Traveller / Italo Calvino / Fiction (Italy)
Jan 05. Journey to the End of the Night / Louis-Ferdinand Celine / Fiction (France)
Jan 06. The Song of Achilles / Madeline Miller / Fiction (USA)
Jan 07. Ariel / Sylvia Plath / Poetry (USA)
Jan 08. Ragnarok / A.S. Byatt / Fiction (England)
Jan 09. The Quiet American / Graham Greene / Fiction (England)
Jan 10. The Winter's Tale / William Shakespeare / Drama (England)
Jan 11. As I Lay Dying / William Faulkner / Fiction (U.S.A.)
Feb 12. Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees / Roger Deakin / Non-Fiction (England)
Feb 13. The Small Hand / Susan Hill / Fiction (England)
Feb 14. The Lighthouse / Alison Moore / 2012 / Fiction (England)
Feb 15. The Barracks / John McGahern / Fiction (Rep. Ireland)
Feb 16. A Life of Galileo / Bertold Brecht (trans. Mark Ravenhill) / Drama (Germany)
Feb 17. Ancient Light / John Banville / Fiction (Rep.Ireland)
Feb 18. The Way by Swann's / Marcel Proust / Fiction (France)
Feb 19. Ficciones / Jorge Luis Borges / Fiction (Argentina)
Feb 20. Ham on Rye / Charles Bukowski / Fiction (USA)
Feb 21. The Effect / Lucy Prebble / Drama (England)
Feb 22. The Turn of The Screw / Rebecca Lenkeiwicz / Drama (England)
Feb 23. Keiron Smith, Boy / James Kelman / Fiction (Scotland)
Mar 24. A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalysis / Stephen Frosh / Non-Fiction (England)
Mar 25. Atomised / Michel Houellebecq / Fiction (France)
Mar 26. Bedlam / Catherine Arnold / Non-fiction (England)
Mar 27. Lost Paradise / Cees Nooteboom / Fiction (Netherlands)
Mar 28. Alone in Berlin / Hans Fallada / Fiction (Germany)
Mar 29. Every Short Story 1951-2012 / Alisdair Gray / Short Stories (Scotland)
Mar 30. Quilt / Nicholas Royle / Fiction (England)
Mar 31. Heather Gardner / Robin French / Drama (England)
Mar 32. A Fish Trapped Inside The Wind / Christien Gholson / Fiction (USA)
Mar 33. The Maker of Heavenly Trousers / Daniele Vare / Fiction (Italy)
Apr 34. Rabbit Redux / John Updike / Fiction (USA)
Apr 35. Swimming Home / Deborah Levy / Fiction (USA)
Apr 36. Cannibals / Rory Mullarky / Drama (England)
Apr 37. The Spire / William Golding / Fiction (Drama)
Apr 38. Your Face Tomorrow 1: Fever and Spear / Javier Marias / Fiction (Spain)
Apr 39. The Madman of Freedom Square / Hassan Blasim / Fiction (Iraq)
GroupsAnd Other Stories, Club Read 2012, Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge
Favorite authorsFleur Adcock, Martin Amis, Kate Atkinson, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, John Banville, Nicola Barker, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, Jorge Luis Borges, Albert Camus, Peter Carey, Angela Carter, Anton Chekhov, Don DeLillo, E. L. Doctorow, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Roddy Doyle, Bob Dylan, Sebastian Faulks, Timothy Findley, Janice Galloway, Philip Hensher, Henrik Ibsen, Kazuo Ishiguro, Franz Kafka, James Kelman, Jhumpa Lahiri, Stanisław Lem, Doris Lessing, Primo Levi, Gabriel García Márquez, Andrew Miller, Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrew O'Hagan, Michael Ondaatje, George Orwell, Salman Rushdie, William Shakespeare, Muriel Spark, Graham Swift, Colm Tóibín, Rose Tremain, John Updike, H. G. Wells (Shared favorites)
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And of course, I still have Zweigs 'Beware of Pity' to read soon. Actually, I may take that with me to Gladstone's Library when I am there for my annual 'hate February only happy there' visit! A rare excuse to do little but read most of the day.
I bought Alastair Gray's illustrated memoir before xmas. It is years since I read him. Somewhere I have a volume of his short stories, and of course 'Lanark'.
Happy reading.
Best wishes
Caroline
posted by Caroline_McElwee at 1:11 pm (EST) on Jan 16, 2013
Best wishes
Caroline
posted by Caroline_McElwee at 10:51 pm (EST) on Dec 22, 2012
Funny we have not shared a read this year (despite over 500 mutual books) - you are right, it is the volume of possibilies, but I've read the Great Gatsby 30+ times (I think we have had that conversation.) I do try and retread about 8-10 books a year.
'Beware of Pity' is still on my radar for this year tho.
best wishes
Caroline
posted by Caroline_McElwee at 3:22 pm (EST) on Nov 18, 2012
posted by Caroline_McElwee at 6:36 pm (EST) on Nov 14, 2012
Just noticed last month was your sixth Librarything anniversary. you were about ten months ahead of me. Hope you celebrated in a good bookshop.
kind regards
Caroline
posted by Caroline_McElwee at 4:56 pm (EST) on Oct 2, 2012
I've never seen Pat Barker, but have seen the other two. I totally agree re 'The Regeneration Trilogy'. I'll look forward to hearing your report after the event.
When is Dylan going to write/publish 'Chronicles Two'? i loved the first one!
The Dutch writer Harry Mulisch used to say it was strange reading his work in English, as they weren't his words! I too am fascinated by the concept of translation, Imagine a world without Tolstoy and Chekov for example, let alone hundreds of others, but I wonder, if we perhaps only get a percentage of the writers intent when we read a book in our own language, where does that leave us with translations!
I have 'Santantango' in the pile and have persuaded my local reading group to read it.
Best wishes
Caroline
posted by Caroline_McElwee at 6:59 pm (EST) on Aug 16, 2012
btw - I think I am ignoring the musical... and haven't yet heard the BL soundtrack. I doubt it will have the emotional tug of that used for Sydney Pollack's version of 'Out of Africa'!
Kind regards
Caroline
posted by Caroline_McElwee at 5:54 am (EST) on Jun 20, 2012
As for Facebook, I have a page, but it is only there really for folk who have lost touch to find me, and to see colleagues photos. I am fighting for time to read the great books I have, so am staying away.
I have looked up to your 'recently added' and see we share another new addition, I have just been gifted a copy of 'Pereira Maintains'.
Will check out the article mentioned below on 'The Moveable Feast' - another of my all time favourites.
Kind regards
Caroline
posted by Caroline_McElwee at 4:44 am (EST) on Jun 20, 2012
I noticed you added Gitta Sereny's book on Mary Bell, I found it fascinating when I read it years ago.
I find Sereny an astute observer, and humane.
Kind regards
Caroline
posted by Caroline_McElwee at 1:19 pm (EST) on Jun 19, 2012
I'm enjoying the Steinbeck, and East of Eden also sits on my bookshelf calling to me. So many books, so little time! :)
posted by ominogue at 2:13 pm (EST) on May 12, 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/08/reading-group-in-our-time-moveable-f...
posted by ominogue at 8:37 pm (EST) on May 8, 2012
Good to hear that We Need to Talk About Kevin is better in film--although I really liked the book, I had some problems with it, and I love Tilda Swinton, so I'm looking forward to it.
"Readers Digesty" is a GREAT way to describe Still Alice--I'm going to steal that sometime. It was one of those books that I sort of dreaded reading, but then once I got into it I enjoyed, but now that it's been a week or so I'm already thinking "ick".
Happy reading to you, too! And I'll look out for you over at the Guardian.
posted by Nickelini at 12:16 am (EST) on Mar 6, 2012
posted by Nickelini at 1:06 pm (EST) on Mar 2, 2012