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About meMy 2013 reading logs, with comments
Club Read 2013 Third thread Second thread First thread
2013 75 Books Challenge First thread
Earlier Reading
2012 Club Read: 4th thread 3rd thread 2nd thread 1st thread. 75 Books: 3rd thread 2nd thread 1st thread
2011 Club Read: 3rd thread 2nd thread 1st thread 75 Books: 2nd thread 1st thread
2010 Club Read: 2nd thread 1st thread 75 Books: 4th thread 3rd thread 2nd thread 1st thread
2009 Club Read 75 Books
About my libraryBooks Read in 2013
* means the book was a favorite read
39. The Sorrow of War by Bảo Ninh
38. Transit by Anna Seghers*
37. Slammerkin by Emma Donaghue
36. The Dance of the Seagull by Andrea Camilleri
35. Alien Hearts by Guy de Maupassant
34. To Say Nothing of the Dog: or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last by Connie Willis*
33. Astragal by Albertine Sarrazin*
32. The Sin of Father Mouret by Émile Zola
31. An Armenian Sketchbook by Vassily Grossman*
30. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol*
29. Pieces of Light: How the New Science of Memory Illuminates the Stories we Tell about Our Pasts by Charles Fernyhough
28. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
27. The Necklace and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant*
26. Smile As They Bow by Nu Nu Yi
25. The Issa Valley by Czeslaw Milosz*
24. It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past by David Satter
23. The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia
22. To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia*
21. Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia
20. War and War by László Krasznahorkai*
19. The Opportune Moment, 1855 by Patrik Ouřednik*
18. The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life by Tom Reiss*
17. Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera
16. A Harlot High and Low by Honoré de Balzac
15. News from Heaven by Jennifer Haigh
14. Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac*
13. Jonathan Wild by Henry Fielding
12. The City Builder by George Konrád
11. Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore*
10. Old Man Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
9. The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola
8. Explosion in a Cathedral by Alejo Carpentier*
7. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
6. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel*
5. My Century by Alexsander Wat*
4. Kornél Esti by Dezsõ Kosztolányi
3. The Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo*
2. The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss*
1. Pot Luck by Emile Zola
Books Read in 2012
* means the books was a favorite read
110. The Stammering Century by Gilbert Seldes*
109. The Round House by Louise Erdrich*
108. The Damned by J.-K. Huysmans
107. V Is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton
106. Jack Sheppard by William Harrison Ainsworth*
105. When I Whistle by Shūsaku Endō*
104. Scandal by Shūsaku Endō
103. Les Diaboliques by Barbey d'Aurevilly
102. The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge*
101. In the House of the Interpreter by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
100. Dear Life by Alice Munro
99. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum*
98. Happy Moscow by Andrey Platonov
97. Red Sorghum by Mo Yan*
96. An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge*
95. Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge*
94. A Mixture of Frailties by Robertson Davies*
93. Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies*
92. Tempest-Tost by Robertson Davies*
91. The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers by Henry James
90. The Story of America: Essays on Origins by Jill Lepore*
89. The Dream by Emile Zola
88. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
Unfinished. Vertical Motion by Can Xue
87. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander*
86. The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangarembga
85. The Monk by Matthew Lewis*
84. The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition by Doreen Carvajal
83. Big Machine by Victor Lavalle*
82. The Kill by Emile Zola*
81. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama*
80. Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins
79. The Old Man and the Medal by Ferdinand Oyono
78. Nervous Conditions by Tistsi Dangarembga*
77. Nana by Emile Zola
76. Deep River by Shūsaku Endō
75. Vlad by Carlos Fuentes
74. The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle*
73. The Fortune of the Rougons by Emile Zola
72. L'Assommoir by Emile Zola*
71. Moving Parts by Magdalena Tulli*
70. The Blackbirder by Dorothy B. Hughes
69. The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi*
68. Silence by Shūsaku Endō
67. In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes*
66. Germinal by Émile Zola*
65. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
64. Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
63. Phantoms on the Bookshelf by Jacques Bonnet
62. White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov*
61. Ashes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrzejewski
60. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
59. Almost Transparent Blue by Ryū Murakami
58. The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes*
57. Distant View of a Minaret, and Other Stories by Alifah Rifaat
56. The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies*
55. What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies*
54. The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies*
53. Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge*
52. The Age of Doubt by Andrea Camilleri
51. Dreams and Stones by Magdalena Tulli
50. The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death by Jill Lepore*
49. The Postter's Field by Andrea Camilleri
48. The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa
47. The Track of Sand by Andrea Camilleri
46. The Wings of the Sphinx by Andrea Camilleri
45. The Box Man by Kōbō Abe
44. Children of Reindeer Woods by Kristin Ómarsdóttir
43. August Heat by Andrea Camilleri
42. The Paper Moon by Andrea Camilleri
41 The Patience of the Spider by Andrea Camilleri
40. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov* (reread)
39. Rounding the Mark by Andrea Camilleri
38 The Smell of the Night by Andrea Camilleri
37. Excursion to Tindari by Andrea Camilleri
36. Voice of the Violin by Andrea Camilleri
35. Europe Central by William T. Vollman
34. The Snack Thief by Andrea Camilleri
33. The Terra-Cotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri
32. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
31. Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin
30. The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri
29. How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One by Stanley Fish
28. Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
27. Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia by Thant Myint-U
26. The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abé
25. Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
24. The Jokers by Albert Cossery
23. The Sea and Poison by Shūsaku Endō
22. Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman*
21. The First Crusade: The Call from the East by Peter Frankopan
20. Sanshirō by Natsume Sōseki
19. The Emotional Life of Your Brain by Richard J. Davidson with Sharon Begley
18. The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugrešić
17. Vesuvius by Gillian Darley
16. Adventures of Mottel, the Cantor's Son by Sholem Aleichem
15. The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner*
14. A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš
13. GB84 by David Peace*
12. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
11. Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki*
10. Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff*
9. The Letter Killers Club by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
8. The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier*
7. The Ermine of Czernopol by Gregor von Rezzori*
6. This Body of Death by Elizabeth George
5. Armies of Heaven: the First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse by Jay Rubenstein
4. To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson*
3. The Colors of Infamy by Albert Cossery*
2. The Murderess by Alexandros Papadiamantis
1. Proud Beggars by Albert Cossery*
To see which books I read in earlier years, please go to my library and look for collections labeled "Read in 2011," etc.
Groups75 Books Challenge for 2013, African/African American Literature, All Books Africa, And Other Stories, Author Theme Reads, Biographies, Memoirs and Autobiographies, Board for Extreme Thing Advances, Booker Prize, Bug Collectors, Club Read 2009 —show all groups, Club Read 2010, Club Read 2011, Club Read 2012, Club Read 2013, Combiners!, Dalkey Archive, Early Reviewers, Editors, Researchers, Whatever, Fans of Russian authors, Girlybooks, In Translation, IRATE, LibraryThing Community Outreach, Literary Centennials, New York Review Books, New Yorkers City, Nobel Laureates in Literature, Non-Fiction Challenge / Journal, Patrick White 100th Anniversary Challenge, Project 1929, Read Mo Yan, Reading Globally, Reading Globally II, Reading the States, Recommend Site Improvements, Story-writing Co-Op, The Federalist Papers, The New Yorker & Unread Magazines Support Group, The Prizes, The Red Room, Underappreciated Books and Authors, What Are You Reading Now?
Favorite authorsChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, W. H. Auden, Beryl Bainbridge, Amy Bloom, Mikhaíl Bulgakov, Andrea Camilleri, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Alejo Carpentier, John le Carré, Sarah Caudwell, Anton Chekhov, Barbara Comyns, Albert Cossery, Robertson Davies, Jennifer Egan, Anne Fadiman, J. G. Farrell, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Paula Fox, Mavis Gallant, Jaimy Gordon, Vasily Grossman, Shirley Hazzard, A. E. Housman, Shirley Jackson, Jill Lepore, Mario Vargas Llosa, Thomas Mann, Hilary Mantel, Czesław Miłosz, Alice Munro, Flannery O'Connor, David Peace, Edith Pearlman, Andrey Platonov, Joseph Roth, Philip Roth, James Salter, Luc Sante, José Saramago, Leonardo Sciascia, Victor Serge, Vikram Seth, Jane Smiley, Rebecca Solnit, Vladimir Sorokin, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Leo Tolstoy, Honor Tracy, Barbara W. Tuchman, Sylvia Townsend Warner, W. B. Yeats, Émile Zola (Shared favorites)
VenuesFavorites
Favorite bookstoresBook Culture, Crawford-Doyle Booksellers, Posman Books, St. Mark's Bookshop (New York City), The Corner Bookstore
Favorite publishersNYRB Classics
Account typepublic, lifetime
URLs
http://www.librarything.com/profile/rebeccanyc (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/rebeccanyc (library)
Member sinceJul 14, 2006
Currently readingSurrender on Demand by Varian Fry
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry by Czesław Miłosz
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posted by ChocolateMuse at 3:46 am (EST) on Apr 27, 2013
I wanted to make sure that you knew how much I am enjoying being a member of the Club Read 2013 group. I think you do a very good job of coming up with interesting topics and questions that make me think, entertain me and elicit some very interesting responses from other members. I am sure you have a very busy life and I appreciate the contribution of time and thought you put into into being the administrator of the group. I feel inspired to do something more than just make a list of the books I read. Thank you.
Bill
posted by wildbill at 4:49 pm (EST) on Mar 27, 2013
posted by Rise at 10:30 pm (EST) on Dec 3, 2012
posted by JDHomrighausen at 1:54 am (EST) on Nov 14, 2012
I enjoyed your review of Citizens, myself and a lot of other people. I studied the French Revolution some in college and I have always found it to be a fascinating topic. Schama does a good job of proving that the standard analysis for the cause of the revolution is wrong. The nobility were as much the cause of the social explosion as were the other classes on the scene. I just bought volume two of Schama's History of Britain. I hope it is written as well as Citizens.
I like the point you picked up on about the revolution not being preordained. History is much too complex, with too many variables to be explained by systems or grand designs. Books like Schama's are a big reason I like to read history.
Bill
posted by wildbill at 9:18 pm (EST) on Sep 25, 2012
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posted by ChocolateMuse at 7:28 pm (EST) on Sep 23, 2012
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posted by elkiedee at 7:08 am (EST) on Jul 13, 2012
Paul.
posted by Polaris- at 7:13 pm (EST) on Jan 2, 2012
posted by TimBazzett at 10:38 pm (EST) on Jan 21, 2011
posted by copyedit52 at 6:53 pm (EST) on Nov 9, 2010
Fortunately for me, I picked up Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy first. So I knew that it was the first part and read the rest of the books chronologically. I don’t read that many Spy Thrillers or Thrillers in general. But the Smiley vs. Karla trilogy was so good! It is so well written (which is something that cannot often be said about thrillers). In this trilogy my favorite is first of all, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Secondly, Smiley’s People. And finally, The Honourable Schoolboy.
posted by Porua at 5:08 pm (EST) on Apr 23, 2010
Also, I wondered if the attack on his children would finally make Atticus snap, and show negative feelings - anger, guilt, frustration - for once. His naivety in assuming that Bob Ewell would seek an honourable, open revenge for being humiliated in court nearly cost him his children, and only the rare appearance of their elusive neighbour saved their lives. After finishing the book, I can only imagine Atticus' reaction!
And now I'm thinking about the book all over again! ;) A very thoughtful review of a classic novel, thanks.
posted by AdonisGuilfoyle at 4:19 am (EST) on Apr 15, 2010
Thanks for the comments
Cyrel
posted by torontoc at 12:16 pm (EST) on Jan 6, 2009
I just saw your note re: The Clothes on their Backs by Linda Grant. I thought that a pivotal moment that illustrated Vivien's helplessness ( cultivated by her parents ) was her acceptance of her mother's suggestion that she get an abortion after her husband died. Her mother deprived her of a connection to her marriage and perhaps a relationship with a child. Although Vivien might have decided to take that route, the author has her mother suggesting it first. I could see Vivien's rejection of her parent's way fo life and her attraction to her uncle and his telling of history, Just a few thoughts tonight.
Cyrel
posted by torontoc at 11:32 pm (EST) on Jan 5, 2009
posted by Medellia at 1:09 pm (EST) on Apr 3, 2008