Ancie 75 books challenge

My first year, never tried this before. Reading in a group. I'm not usually a group person.

My first book this year:
Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Marquez has been one of my favourite authors for a long time. But it hit me the other day that I haven't read more than one book and one novella of his. So therefor when I found this copy in my brothers book shelf I've decided its time to read another one if I want to keep calling him one of my favourite authors, or maybe I will not after this. You never know, although you can never take away the amazing work he did with One hundred years of solitude. I will give a report when I finished the book.

Cheers

Welcome! That's a good one.

Hi Ancie - I love that book, and Marquez's writing in general. I've just requested Marquez's The General in his Labyrinth from my library as it fits the Reading Globally group's current theme of Journeys. Anyway welcome to the group.

Glad to have you join us, Anna!

< 2,3 and 4 thank you for welcoming me. This is a really amazing forum and you can really get stuck!!

I'm still reading Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but I usually read several books at a time. And I have just visited the nonfiction thread (http://www.librarything.com/topic/104772) and got inspired to read The wandering jews by Joseph Roth.

This is my reading plan so far:

Fiction:

Wolf Hall and The Lacuna

Graphic Novels:

Essex County If I can find a copy

NonF:

?? I don't know yet, anybody has a good suggestion?

One of my favorite books, Anna. I hope you enjoy it.

Ffortsa, I do enjoy it and he writes beautiful, but the characters and the story don't touch me like with his other books... Well maybe I will feel different when I'm finished.

When I'm not trying to get through Love in the time of cholera I read a collection of crime comics Noir wich is an anthology and very mixed in quality. I do like the stories of Jeff Lemire and David Lapham, horrible but really good.

I also read Footnotes in Gaza wich is very interesting and I'm blown away of the work he has put into this project.

I also read Wolf Hall and The Wandering Jews at the same time and I have not finished one book yet this year. I think I have a problem I can't focus on one book and I feel restless in my reading.

Well it is what it is, I just go with the feeling...

The characters in Marquez's book are a little hard to get used to, and many people in my book group felt an 'euw' factor towards the end, but I loved it anyway.

Finally finished my first book in 2011:

#1 Noir An anthology of crime comics

As I said above it was of various quality. My intention when I bought it was to get to know various comic artists, and that's exactly what I did. Some of the stories was a little bit too dark for me even though I could see the quality in them, like David Lapham's story Stray bullets and Ed Brubaker's Criminal: 21:st century. Others was just good without being too dark like Jeff Lemire's The old silo, Dean Motter's Mr X and Phillips/Baretto The new me. And some just didn't make any sense like De Campi/Petrus Fracture.

I'll give a 2,5 star for the overall impression of the anthology.

"an 'euw' factor towards the end" Hihi something to look forward to

#9: Sorry your first book of the year was not a better one for you, Anna. I hope your next read is!

Alcottacre: Well that's ok, I mean that way you learn what you don't like and you be better at chosing the next book. Usually I'm very good at picking out the books that I know I would like. But this happens, especially in genres that are new for me. So I'm glad I read the book even though I didn't like.
Now I'm reading Footnotes in Gaza wich is very good so far. So yeah my next book is definitely better

Well, I am glad to hear that Footnotes in Gaza is a better read for you than your last book was!

This is what I've finished these last couple of days:

#2 Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco 4,5 stars

#3 Jetlag by Etgar Keret 2 stars

#4 Varmints by Helen Ward 3 stars

I'm still struggeling with Love in the time of cholera and I read Wolf Hall, that I enjoy very much.

#15: I wish my local library had a copy of Footnotes in Gaza. It looks very good.

Have'nt been around for a while. It took hundred years, it feels like, to finish wolf hall. It was'nt cause it was bad, on the contrary it was really good. And I got my intrest up for more historical novels. So this is what I've been reading listening to since last time:

#5 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, 4 stars

#6 Who killed Palomino Molero By Mario Vargas LLosa (Audio) 4 stars

>15 Ancie: It's a good history lesson and also you understand how deep and complicated this conflict is. It's also intresting the way he discusses the difficulties about trying to get the fact strait, when nothig is written down and you have to rely on memories of emotionally involved humans.

#17: I am glad to see that you liked Wolf Hall. I did too.

I have not read Palomino Molero by MVL. I will have to get to it one of these days.

#7 Kolka by Bengt Ohlsson

#8 Netherland by Joseph O'Neill

Two more...

Alcottacre: Wolf Hall made me want more historical fiction. I read som books about egypt when I was child and loved it. Maybe you can reccomend me something?

If you enjoy Ancient Egypt, I would highly recommend The Egyptian by Mika Waltari.