I barely made the 75 book challenge for 2008 (as you can see in my topic), but ready to signed up for 2009. My categories are:
I. Science fiction
1. The Wave by Walter Mosley (added 3/18/2009, read 1/25/2009)
2.
... and I remembered that when I saw it on a sale table--buy one for $2.99 and get a 2nd one free. This was the free one! (Cry the Beloved Country was the one I knew I wanted--I've never read it and I wanted it for my Africa category in 999.)
alcottacre--I'll be interested to hear how you ...
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Seasons of the Beento Blackbird by Akosua Busia
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Small Island by Andrea Levy
... from 2008 so far. I attempted to put them in order.
fiction
1. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
2. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
4. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5. The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
6. Th ...
... year!
My top reads for 2008.
Fiction:
By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Seasons of the Beento Blackbird by Akosua Busia
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Mosquito by Roma Tearne
Half of a Yellow Su ...
... 888.
Then I plan to read something light and not on this list, and then I will read The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Cry the Beloved Country (for my 888 Global category), and Breakfast at Tiffany's. This will complete all my personal challenges. Then I will continue to read through the ...
Cry, the Beloved Country, The Crying of Lot 49 and Death in Venice all get HUGE SHOVES from me. If you want a wholly separate idea for Thomas Mann, try The Transposed Heads. But, I'm a Mann Fanatic.
Lot's of other good reading, but that pile is full of nudges, so I'm just giving you ...
... The Day could certainly fit in that category.
My problem is that I start to go... and The Trial and The Plague and Cry, the Beloved Country and True History of the Kelly Gang and... before I know where I am I've stuffed the category with hundreds of books! Which I suppose doesn't work ...
Late to the thread, and SHOVING Cry the Beloved Country !!! It was one of the first books I read this year and it's still my top read. I doubt anything will unseat it.
I'd nudge Cry the Beloved Country. It's an excellent read, beautifully written and moving. One of my favourites of all time. It's not overly long and a good one to get you going.
...
1 The Winter's Tale - 1/10/09
2 The Moon is Down - 1/29/09
3 Anna Karenina -3/4/09
4 Cannery Row - 3/17/09
5 Cry, the Beloved Country - 3/23/09
6 The Mayor of Casterbridge - 5/28/09
7 The Sound and the Fury - 6/5/09
8 Jane Eyre - 6/28/09
9 The Pearl - 7/7/09
Cry the Beloved Country is terrific. Breakfast at Tiffany's good fast read. Prime of Miss Jean Brodie enjoyable. Shipping News one of my favorite books, therefore my first choice. And for you CanLit choice, I would suggest something not in this pile, but probably on another pile in your ...
I'll nudge Cry, the Beloved Country. It's one of my top reads for 2008.
Good choices! Cry the Beloved Country most definitely. As Kevin said, a very moving book.
Lots of good reads here. I think I'd choose Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton above the others. It's a very moving book but not, I thought, at all sentimental.
I was exceedingly impressed by Timothy Findley's Famous Last Words but haven't yet read anything else by him - Pilgrim awaits ...
... (no touchstone)
Death in Venice
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
The History of the Siege of Lisbon
Cry the Beloved Country
The Life of Insects
... The Month That Saved America by Jay Winik
Young Adult/Juvenile
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
The Won ...
You have an interesting list--
I have an African category also and will be r4eading Blood River and Cry, the Beloved Country--which is one I should have read years ago, I think.
The Princess Bride and Cannery Row are two of my favorite novels. I also love Anne of Green Gables (all ...
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9.
Other possibilities:
Orwell, George: Animal Farm (Fantasy)
Category 2: Africa or Global
1. Paton, Alan: Cry, the Beloved Country
2. Kapuscinski, Ryzard: The Shadow of the Sun
3. Butcher, Tim: Blood River
5. Bashir, Halima: Tears of the Desert (memoir)
6. God ...
... by Rian Malan, the grandson of DF Malan, one of the chief orchestrators of Apartheid; and the very moving classic, Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton.
That's a very impressive map, Hemlokgang!
Looks like you might want to visit Africa a bit more. Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country is a wonderful South African book, if you haven't read it yet.
... bookshop with the cheapest second-hand books on the Boulevard Saint-Michel) and brought back Le Pays des asphodèles, Pleure, ô pays bien-aimé, Le vertige and Silbermann. The four cost me 1,40 €. Selected Poems (e.e. cummings) and Prière à la lune are due tomorrow.
I'm now ...
... Cavalcade
Nigeria -- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart and Wole Soyinka, The Interpreters
South Africa -- Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country and much Nadine Gordimer, but especially, Burger's Daughter
Kenya -- Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa
Rhodesia -- not on map -- Doris Lessing the ...
cry, the beloved country alan paton
roll of thunder, hear my cry mildred d. taylor
a sound of thunder ray bradbury
the sound and the fury william faulkner
cup of fury upton sinclair
dihiba, Cry, the Beloved Country is one of the best books I have read this year. I had never read it before, but after seeing the wonderful reviews of it here on LT, I decided it was about time for me to read it. I am so glad I did!
86. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton.
A study of black/white relations in South Africa just after WWII. A modern classic. Very moving and lyrically written.
CRY,THE BELOVED COUNTRY by ALAN PATON
Schmerguls, my husband attended Notre Dame when Fr. Hesburgh was the president. He still admires him immensely.
... It has become one of my favorite books. Most all the other students who read it, loved it as well.
I also had to read Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton one year. I didn't run into many people who liked it, but I thought it was a beautiful, moving story, that captured the time and ...
You're forgetting Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, which is actually one of the best books about anything ever. But certainly about Africa.
Also, the books that make up The Alexandria Quartet, technically, although the tone is much more European.
... Sean Greer
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
And my very first books from Bookmooch came in the mail today:
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Clique by Lisi Harrison (for my daughter)
I'm almost finished with Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton. After that, I've got The Red and the Black standing by. I hope it will last me 3 weeks in Africa because I don't have room to pack anything else...
I've just started Cry, The Beloved Country (as I'm going to Africa next week, yay!).
Cry, the beloved country?
... some of my favorite books in the past, East of Eden, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Love in the Time of Cholera, Cry, The Beloved Country, etc. I think she has better luck when she is choosing more classic novels.
There were quite a few I was not happy with and that bored me out of my mind Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, Cry,the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, and The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain. I think I lost brain cells to these books.
1. In my library? Yes
2. Cry, the Beloved Country? No. But that's a wonderful book.
#67 - akeela - I read Cry, The Beloved Country earlier this year and loved it.
I had a great reading quarter! My top five:
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
After You’d Gone by Maggie O’ Farrell
Mosquito by Roma Tearne
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
#48 Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton. Easily the best book I’ve read this year. The prose is filled with beauty, grace, sensitivity and wisdom. It’s a very easy read layered with meanings, which one can ignore or choose to pay heed to. But the story will tug at your heartstrings. Hig ...
LT has paid off this year. I've read Out Stealing Horses , Cry, The Beloved Country , Half of a Yellow Sun and Late Innings. All were wonderful and LT gets the blame.
Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
City of Darkness, City of Light by Marge Piercy
The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
Busy, Busy Town by Richard Scarry
... control first arrived??). But the most significant books I remember her handing me in the 1960s were Alan Paton's Cry the Beloved Country and The Autobiography of Malcolm X -- these from a small-town upstate NY white woman, the mother of 8, a veteran who had served as a nurse in Japa ...
From BM, I got:
Lisey's Story by Stephen King.
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
and from PBS:
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Umm....
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton???
... morning, spent $30 and got quite a haul. The ones I can remember are:
Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt (yay!)
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (also yay!)
The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
The Stone Diaries by Ca ...
There are a lot of good "C" books! My favorite, though, has to be Cry, the Beloved Country.
Cry, the Beloved Country is one of my favorite books of all time. Beautiful and sad, wise.
Just curious, Alcottacre - you classified Cry, the Beloved Country as Young Adult - I never thought it was. Or did you read a YA version?
... during WWII
117. Deathstalker by Simon R. Green - science fiction; first book in the Deathstalker series
118. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton - young adult; absolutely loved this book
119. The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner - young adult
120. Lady Sus ...
>77: thekoolaidmom, just adding my endorsement for Cry, the Beloved Country to those of philosojerk and alcottacre. I just read it in January. I came to it without much knowledge of what it was about. It completely bowled me over, was my top read for the first quarter, and I expect will be a ...
... myself go to page 50 as I normally do. I may try again at a later date, but for right now, I have put it aside. I started Cry, the Beloved Country and have made it to page 83 and so far, it is very good.
>77 I'll weigh in and say definitely bump Cry, the Beloved Country up on the list. I read it last summer and thought it was excellent - beautiful and haunting, and definitely a book that everyone should read.
#71 alcottacre
I have Perdido Street Station in my TBR pile, and I'm dying to read Cry, the Beloved Country. Let me know how you like those. I might bump them up the list if they're really good. :-D
... up both Soldiers of the Night and Deathstalker, then working through The Queen of Attolia, Perdido Street Station, Cry, the Beloved Country, Black Swan Green, Cranford, The Monsters of Templeton, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Shattered Dreams, Lady Susan, and Cu ...
... Shaara
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Blood and Roses - Helen Castor
Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
Shield of Three Lions - Pamela Kaufman
The Venetian Mask - Rosalind Laker (my ...
... for $4 I came home with the following:
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Winner by David Baldacci
Middle Age: A Romance by Joyce Carol Oates
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
I Am Le ...
18. Cry, The Beloved Country - Alan Paton
I liked this book, but I'm positive I would have enjoyed it a lot more if I didn't have to read it for school. It was difficult to care while reading at our slow, methodical, and utterly boring pace. Here's to hoping college level English classes ...
... Night, Castle Nowhere, Three Victorian Travellers, The Queen of Attolia, Deathstalker, Perdido Street Station, Cry, the Beloved Country, A Game of Thrones, and Black Swan Green. And yes, they are all library books.
... Now?'s Top Five Books first quarter of 2008:
1. Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton
2. March, by Geraldine Brooks
3. Astrid and Veronika, by Linda Olsson
4. The Secret River, by Kate Grenville
5. What is ...
Sorry, double post
... order - except for the first book which is my favourite book of all time.
1) Franny and Zooey
2) The bell jar
3) Cry the beloved country
4) Dangerous liasions
5) Einstein's dreams
6) Family matters
7) Gilead
8) The joyluck club
9) The life of insects
10) Midnight's ...
The first three were absolutely wonderful.
1. Out Stealing Horses by Per Patterson
2. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
3. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4. The Subtle Knife & The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
5. Measuring the World by D ...
... by Amin Maalouf
Red Herrings and White Elephants by Albert Jack
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
Blood Red Snow White by Marc ...
I've read Cry, the Beloved Country - fantastic book.
I'm currently working on Foucault's Pendulum.
My top 5 are:
1. Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton
2. March, by Geraldine Brooks
3. Astrid and Veronika, by Linda Olsson
4. The Secret River, by Kate Grenville
5. What is the What, by Dave Eggers
For what it's worth, Cry, the Beloved Country was my first book of 2008 and ...
I've read Amsterdam! I've read 67 from the list and will "nominate" a recent favorite : Cry, the Beloved Country.
Books with "sound" or a sound in the title.
The Sound and the Fury Faulkner
Cry the Beloved Country Paton
Howl, and other Poems Alan Ginsberg
Bang the Drum Slowly Mark Harris
Shout: the Beatles in their Generation Philip Norman
The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crow ...
... vsky
Scotland -- Death at Glamis Castle by Robin Paige
Sierra Leone -- A Long Way Gone by Ismael Beah
South Africa -- Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Sudan -- The Translator: a Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
Tibet -- My Land and My People by the Dalai Lama
Wales -- ...
... was overwhelming. I did find several books by Francis Scheaffer, one by his wife, Edith and a biography on him. Also Cry the Beloved Country, which I've not read and several Oregon/California history type books, journals and such. I love journals.
I read two, both excellent.
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
...
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Behind the Scenes at the Museum and One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson;
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Breath, Eyes Memory -- Edwidge Danticat, which I think I've read but don't ...
... ng
The Mist by Stephen King
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Brazil : paradise of gemstones by Jules Roger Sauer
Cry, the beloved country by Alan Paton
Open house : a novel by Elizabeth Berg
Cerulean sins Laurell K. Hamilton
Guilty Pleasures Laurell K. Hamilton
Bur ...
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Cut to the Quick by Kate Ross
Follow My Leader by James B Garfield
Look Back In Anger by John Osborne
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (I think it could be an imperative, depending on how you say it).
... reading this, so I thought I might as well join. I love the theme... may rank as one of my favorite books of all time.
Cry, the Beloved Country : This was the focus work for the regional academic team competition in my state, so I read it. Frankly, I didn't enjoy reading it, but when I ...
... by Megan Whalen Turner
Deathstalker by Simon R. Green
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by ...
... High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction - J.D. Salinger
4. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
5. Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
6. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
7. The Crucible - Arthur Miller
8. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
9. A Wind in ...
Finished Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton ... wow. Painful story but somehow beautiful. This is the second truly wonderful book I've read this year.
Next, um, not sure.
... he trusted
The birds fall down
The Brontes went to Woolworths
Cheerfulness breaks in
Consider this, Senora
Cry, the beloved country
Daddy was a number runner
A deputy was king
Don Camillo takes the devil by the tail
Don't tell Mama!
East is East
Elephants can ...
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton. Superb ... could be a Top 10 for 2008.
>106: dchaikin, ooooh, I just loved Cry, the Beloved Country! It was one of the first books I read this year but immediately struck me as a candidate for my 2008 Top 10. I hope you enjoy it.
... kind of read it just to stuff myself with information, but I did't have much of a reaction to it.
Last night I picked up Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton. Again, the reading is easy, but fascinating so far. I'm curious where it's going.
My top 3 in January were:
Cry, the Beloved Country
Astrid and Veronika
The Secret River
Close runner-up was March.
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
... and enjoyed it. I finally finished Emma. I've also read One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Jesus Land, Wide Awake, Cry, the Beloved Country, and Powers(by Le Guin) plus non-fiction. Good start to the year.
I finished Cry, the Beloved Country and am now reading Things Fall Apart. I had high hopes for this book but am having trouble getting into it. It's worth finishing, just not bowling me over as I expected.
I finished Cry, the Beloved Country and am now reading Things Fall Apart. I had high hopes for this book but am having trouble getting into it. It's worth finishing, just not bowling me over as I expected.
... and slow man,
nadine gordimer for the burger's daughter, A sport of nature, jump,
Alan Paton for Cry the Beloved Country;
The Dry White Season,
andre brink,
paul bowles for the sheltering sky,
olive schreiner for my african farm,
Mi ...
>54: A_musing, Cry, the Beloved Country was a quick read for me -- started yesterday, finished today -- but one of the most powerful books I've read in a while. Wow.
... mine (I have my parents' copy). I must re-read it sometime. Too Late the Phalarope is also good, if not quite as good as Cry the Beloved Country.
Just started Cry, the Beloved Country today and am finding it to be quite powerful. The prose is beautifully written and the plot rather melancholy.
It's been quite a while since I've read a book from the list, but I'm about to do two, back-to-back. Currently reading Cry, the Beloved Country. Next up will be Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
Having just spent some time in Kenya with Barack Obama's Dreams of my Father, I'm now in South Africa reading Cry, the Beloved Country. Very moving book ...
I've now read Cry, The Beloved Country and The Silenced, bringing me up to 8. I think I've made good progress before the start of school.
... favorites?
I've always loved Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Tess of the D'urbervilles, Native Son and Cry, the Beloved Country.
These are only five, but I love many, many more. I like the characters in these books and the way the author writes about social situations. I ...
... src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0020532105.01._SX50_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg"> Cry, the Beloved Country - review, profoundly moving and already a candidate for my 2008 Top 10. Read for "Themed ...
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
This is a tragic, yet uplifting story that follows Stephen Kumalo as he searches the Johannesburg slums for his estranged sister and son. Th ...
