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1eronn
Hi all,
This is the first time I'm attempting a challenge on Librarything, but 13 being my lucky number-how could I resist! I've been using catagories for the last 2 years to try to organize my reading and find it useful and fun--last year I attempted 10 cities, 7 books each; that was a blast.
this is my attempt for 2013 consisting of books I always wanted to read, but... time...etc, some books and plays I want to re-read, some new authors and interests and some just plain delicious mind adventures; the weight is in modern fiction. I will keep it to under 70--not written in stone, I may expand or substitute, or go off on some crazed tangtent, and it will also depend on...time.
I-Meditations and Ruminations:
1-The Variety of Religeous Experience --William James
2- The Life of Tilopa and the Ganges Mahamudra --Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
3-The Cloud of Unknowing--Anon
II-History,Fact and Fiction:
1-The Rise and Fall of Alexandria--Justin Pollard and Howard Reid
2-I, Claudius --Robert Graves
3-Wolf Hall --Hilary Mantel
4-Ghost on the Throne --James Romm
5-The Things They Carried --Tim O'Brian
III-Lives and Letters:
1-Caravaggio --Andrew Graham-Dixon
2-Eric Satie --Rollo H. Myers
3-Henry James and Edith Wharton: Letters 1900-1915
4-Cultural Amnesia--Clive James
5-Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763-ed. Frederick A. Pottle
6-84 Charing Cross Road--Helen Hoff
7-New York Diaries: 1609-2009 --ed.Theresa Carpenter
IV-Adventure:
1-The Stockholm Octavo --Eleanor Brown
2-The Life of Pi --Yann Martel
3-Whatever You Do, Don't Run --Peter Allison
4-The Count of Monte Cristo --Alexandre Dumas
5-Night Flight --Antoine de Saint-Exupery
V-This Natural World:
1-Landscape and Memory --Simon Schama
2-Walden --Henry David Thoreau
3-The Meaning of Rivers --T. S. McMillin
4-? (Blind Corral --Ralph Beers) if I can get a copy
5-? (maybe-Gossip From the Forest--Sara Maitland or a Craig Childs, I liked his Animal Dialogs)
VI-Four Feet:
1-The Natural Superiority of Mules --John Hauer
2-James Herriot's Cat Stories
3-The Eighty Dollar Champion: Snowman --Elizabeth Letts
VII-Fabulous Inventions:
1-Cold Days --Jim Butcher
2-Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell --Susanna Clarke
3-One Hundred Years of Solitude --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4-Invisible Cities --Italo Calvino
5-(perhaps one more urban fantasy-Kate Griffin if she does another of the electric angel series)
VIII-World Literature:
1-The Brothers Karamazov --Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2-A Disaffection --James Kelman
3-Soul Mountain --Gao Xigjian
4-In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way --Marcel Proust
5-The Tobacco Keeper --Ali Bader
6-Mother London --Michael Moorcock
7-City of the Mind --Penelope Lively
8-Miramar --Naguib Mafouz
9-Ulysses --James Joyce
10-Life and Death are Wearing Me Out --Mo Yan
11-(maybe A House for Mr. Biswa --V.S. Naipaul) if there is ...time
IX-American Literature:
1-A Light In August --William Faulkner
2-Tinkers --Paul Harding
3-Ethan Frome --Edith Wharton
4-The Round House --Louise Ercrich
5-The Moviegoer --Walker Perry
6-To Have and Have Not --Ernest Hemingway
X-Steampunk:
1-The Time Machine --H.G. Wells
2-Against the Day --Thomas Pynchon
XI-Theatre:
1-Measure for Measure --Wm. Shakespeare
2-Don Juan in Hell --George Bernard Shaw
3-Shakespeare After All --Marjorie Garber
4-The Seagull --Anton Chekhov
5-Seven Against Thebes --Aeschylus
6-Exils --James Joyce
7-(W. S. -maybe a re-read of King Lear which I love)
8-(W. S. -maybe A Comedy of Errors)
XII-Crime Fiction:
1-Black Ice --Michael Connelly
2-Lost Light --M. Connelly
3-Jar City --Armaldar Indiadson
4-(a new Robert Crais - waiting for an addition to the Elvis and Joe series)
5- ?
XIII-Classic Crime Fiction:
1-The Hollow Man --John Dickson Carr
2-Farwell My Lovely --Ramond Chandler
3-The Thumbprint --Fredrick Glauser
4-The Glass Key --Dashield Hammett
Well, that's all folks. I might add a Philip Dick SciFi and re-read Intruders in the Dust--Wm Faulkner...ah the endless possibilities.
This is the first time I'm attempting a challenge on Librarything, but 13 being my lucky number-how could I resist! I've been using catagories for the last 2 years to try to organize my reading and find it useful and fun--last year I attempted 10 cities, 7 books each; that was a blast.
this is my attempt for 2013 consisting of books I always wanted to read, but... time...etc, some books and plays I want to re-read, some new authors and interests and some just plain delicious mind adventures; the weight is in modern fiction. I will keep it to under 70--not written in stone, I may expand or substitute, or go off on some crazed tangtent, and it will also depend on...time.
I-Meditations and Ruminations:
1-The Variety of Religeous Experience --William James
2- The Life of Tilopa and the Ganges Mahamudra --Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
3-The Cloud of Unknowing--Anon
II-History,Fact and Fiction:
1-The Rise and Fall of Alexandria--Justin Pollard and Howard Reid
2-I, Claudius --Robert Graves
3-Wolf Hall --Hilary Mantel
4-Ghost on the Throne --James Romm
5-The Things They Carried --Tim O'Brian
III-Lives and Letters:
1-Caravaggio --Andrew Graham-Dixon
2-Eric Satie --Rollo H. Myers
3-Henry James and Edith Wharton: Letters 1900-1915
4-Cultural Amnesia--Clive James
5-Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763-ed. Frederick A. Pottle
6-84 Charing Cross Road--Helen Hoff
7-New York Diaries: 1609-2009 --ed.Theresa Carpenter
IV-Adventure:
1-The Stockholm Octavo --Eleanor Brown
2-The Life of Pi --Yann Martel
3-Whatever You Do, Don't Run --Peter Allison
4-The Count of Monte Cristo --Alexandre Dumas
5-Night Flight --Antoine de Saint-Exupery
V-This Natural World:
1-Landscape and Memory --Simon Schama
2-Walden --Henry David Thoreau
3-The Meaning of Rivers --T. S. McMillin
4-? (Blind Corral --Ralph Beers) if I can get a copy
5-? (maybe-Gossip From the Forest--Sara Maitland or a Craig Childs, I liked his Animal Dialogs)
VI-Four Feet:
1-The Natural Superiority of Mules --John Hauer
2-James Herriot's Cat Stories
3-The Eighty Dollar Champion: Snowman --Elizabeth Letts
VII-Fabulous Inventions:
1-Cold Days --Jim Butcher
2-Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell --Susanna Clarke
3-One Hundred Years of Solitude --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4-Invisible Cities --Italo Calvino
5-(perhaps one more urban fantasy-Kate Griffin if she does another of the electric angel series)
VIII-World Literature:
1-The Brothers Karamazov --Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2-A Disaffection --James Kelman
3-Soul Mountain --Gao Xigjian
4-In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way --Marcel Proust
5-The Tobacco Keeper --Ali Bader
6-Mother London --Michael Moorcock
7-City of the Mind --Penelope Lively
8-Miramar --Naguib Mafouz
9-Ulysses --James Joyce
10-Life and Death are Wearing Me Out --Mo Yan
11-(maybe A House for Mr. Biswa --V.S. Naipaul) if there is ...time
IX-American Literature:
1-A Light In August --William Faulkner
2-Tinkers --Paul Harding
3-Ethan Frome --Edith Wharton
4-The Round House --Louise Ercrich
5-The Moviegoer --Walker Perry
6-To Have and Have Not --Ernest Hemingway
X-Steampunk:
1-The Time Machine --H.G. Wells
2-Against the Day --Thomas Pynchon
XI-Theatre:
1-Measure for Measure --Wm. Shakespeare
2-Don Juan in Hell --George Bernard Shaw
3-Shakespeare After All --Marjorie Garber
4-The Seagull --Anton Chekhov
5-Seven Against Thebes --Aeschylus
6-Exils --James Joyce
7-(W. S. -maybe a re-read of King Lear which I love)
8-(W. S. -maybe A Comedy of Errors)
XII-Crime Fiction:
1-Black Ice --Michael Connelly
2-Lost Light --M. Connelly
3-Jar City --Armaldar Indiadson
4-(a new Robert Crais - waiting for an addition to the Elvis and Joe series)
5- ?
XIII-Classic Crime Fiction:
1-The Hollow Man --John Dickson Carr
2-Farwell My Lovely --Ramond Chandler
3-The Thumbprint --Fredrick Glauser
4-The Glass Key --Dashield Hammett
Well, that's all folks. I might add a Philip Dick SciFi and re-read Intruders in the Dust--Wm Faulkner...ah the endless possibilities.
2PawsforThought
This is really impressive! You're going to try and read Ulysses, In Search of Lost Time AND The Brothers Karamazov in one year?
I might have to keep my distance from this thread as it's full of books on my TBR list and I really don't need temptation right now.
Your idea of reading cities sounds great, I'll remember that idea for later. Mind if I ask what cities you "travelled" to and what books you picked?
Anyway, welcome to the challenge and good luck!
I might have to keep my distance from this thread as it's full of books on my TBR list and I really don't need temptation right now.
Your idea of reading cities sounds great, I'll remember that idea for later. Mind if I ask what cities you "travelled" to and what books you picked?
Anyway, welcome to the challenge and good luck!
3mamzel
I would be interested to hear what cities you covered as well. Good luck on accomplishing your goal!
4lkernagh
Welcome and good luck with your challenge! Your cities challenge you did last year does sound like a great idea. Looking forward to following your reading in 2013!
6rabbitprincess
Great categories and selections! Hope you like the Arnaldur Indridason book; it's a good series and I love that it's set in Iceland. The classic crime and history categories also look very interesting. Happy reading!
7DeltaQueen50
Welcome to the challenge, you have set yourself an interesting reading year and I'm looking forward to following along.
8-Eva-
Welcome!! You have a seriously great reading-year ahead - I'm looking forward to following along!
9eronn
Thanks for the welcome. Yes, the 'cities' reading was fun. I tried for 2-3 non-fiction and 3-4 fiction for each, but I found that some of my picks were hard to get hold of and that, while some books really give you a sense of place, some of my cities didn't hold as much interest for me as I thought they might; it's all an adventure in learning. Here are some of them, the ones with the asterisk I'm still reading, if I don't have time to finish, I'll add them to 2013.
Dublin:
Dublin: a cultural history--Siobhan Killfeather
The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga--Edward Rutherfore
The Dubliners--James Joyce
Death of an Irish Politician--Benjamin Gill
The Priest--Gerard O'Donovan
London:
Saturday--Ian McEwan
A Madness of Angels--Kate Griffin
City of the Mind--Penelope Lively*
The Midnight Mayor--K. Griffin
The White Trilogy--Ken Bruen
Los Angeles:
Los Angeles Diaries--James Brown
Taken--Robert Crais
Bright Shiny Morning--James Frey- exiting, provocative multiple story lines;
Los Angeles, a novel--Peter Moore Smith- a fascinating, atmospheric trip and a very strange story.
Black Echo--Michael Connelly
Paris:
Metro Stop Paris--Gregor Dallas- a well written, cultural foray through the city;
Crimes of Paris--Dorothy Hooble
The Elegance of the Hedgehog-Muriel Barbery
Murder in the Marais--Cara Black
The Black Count--Thomas Reisse
Baghdad:
Babylon's Ark--Lawrence Anthony-story of the survival of the Baghdad zoo and its inhabitants during the war.
The Thieves of Baghdad--Mattew Bogdamos-art thieves and public relations in a war zone;
In the Court of the Caliphs--Hugh Kennedy
The Tobacco Keeper--Ali Badar*
The Arabian Nights-trans. by Husain Haddaway
Boston:
The Boston Irish--Tim O'Conner
Infinate Jest--David Foster Wallace*
A Drink Before the War--Dennis Lehane
The Given Day--D. Lehane
Three Complete Novels--Robert Parker
Vienna:
Vienna Secrets--Frank Tallis
When Nietze Wept--Irving Yaloom
Alexandria:
Alexander the Great--Plutarch
The Levant--Phillip Mansel
Miramar--Naguib Mahfouz*
New York:
New York Trilogy--Paul Austin
Let the Great World Spin--Colam McCaum*
The China Trade--S.T. Roza
Chicago:
Chicago in Time--Ray Forse
The Devil in the White City--Eric Larson
The Chicago Way--Michael T. Harvey
The Criminologist--Eugene Izzy
I'm looking forward to investigating everyone's choices for 2013.
Dublin:
Dublin: a cultural history--Siobhan Killfeather
The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga--Edward Rutherfore
The Dubliners--James Joyce
Death of an Irish Politician--Benjamin Gill
The Priest--Gerard O'Donovan
London:
Saturday--Ian McEwan
A Madness of Angels--Kate Griffin
City of the Mind--Penelope Lively*
The Midnight Mayor--K. Griffin
The White Trilogy--Ken Bruen
Los Angeles:
Los Angeles Diaries--James Brown
Taken--Robert Crais
Bright Shiny Morning--James Frey- exiting, provocative multiple story lines;
Los Angeles, a novel--Peter Moore Smith- a fascinating, atmospheric trip and a very strange story.
Black Echo--Michael Connelly
Paris:
Metro Stop Paris--Gregor Dallas- a well written, cultural foray through the city;
Crimes of Paris--Dorothy Hooble
The Elegance of the Hedgehog-Muriel Barbery
Murder in the Marais--Cara Black
The Black Count--Thomas Reisse
Baghdad:
Babylon's Ark--Lawrence Anthony-story of the survival of the Baghdad zoo and its inhabitants during the war.
The Thieves of Baghdad--Mattew Bogdamos-art thieves and public relations in a war zone;
In the Court of the Caliphs--Hugh Kennedy
The Tobacco Keeper--Ali Badar*
The Arabian Nights-trans. by Husain Haddaway
Boston:
The Boston Irish--Tim O'Conner
Infinate Jest--David Foster Wallace*
A Drink Before the War--Dennis Lehane
The Given Day--D. Lehane
Three Complete Novels--Robert Parker
Vienna:
Vienna Secrets--Frank Tallis
When Nietze Wept--Irving Yaloom
Alexandria:
Alexander the Great--Plutarch
The Levant--Phillip Mansel
Miramar--Naguib Mahfouz*
New York:
New York Trilogy--Paul Austin
Let the Great World Spin--Colam McCaum*
The China Trade--S.T. Roza
Chicago:
Chicago in Time--Ray Forse
The Devil in the White City--Eric Larson
The Chicago Way--Michael T. Harvey
The Criminologist--Eugene Izzy
I'm looking forward to investigating everyone's choices for 2013.
10eronn
Well, I read in:
Dublin, Boston, London, Vienna, Los Angeles, Paris, Baghdad, Chicago, NYC and Alexandria. I found it was easier to get books on, or set in, some cities than for others-at least, books I found interesting or fun. I read some new authors-for better or worse-and generally had a good time. Looking forward to the Lucky 13!
Dublin, Boston, London, Vienna, Los Angeles, Paris, Baghdad, Chicago, NYC and Alexandria. I found it was easier to get books on, or set in, some cities than for others-at least, books I found interesting or fun. I read some new authors-for better or worse-and generally had a good time. Looking forward to the Lucky 13!
11Tanglewood
Interesting reading list. You have several titles that are in my TBR pile, including Landscape and Memory. Looking forward to seeing your reads!
12christina_reads
Lots of interesting reading here! I was very impressed by Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, and The Brothers Karamazov is brilliant. I'm also excited that you're reading some Boswell, as I will be tackling his huge bio of Samuel Johnson in 2013.
