Mumbler Unbound: How It Is

Greetings everyone!

I completed last year's 75 successfully. I didn't read many of the books I'd planned to so this year I'm not making any plans.

January
1. The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
2. Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth
3. The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth
4. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
5. The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
6. The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form by Cormac McCarthy
7. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
8. Reader's Block by David Markson

*- marks books from my TBR pile from before 2014
**- reread

Welcome! Nice start.

February
9. Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard P. Feynman
10. The Procrastination Equation by Piers Steel
11. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
12. What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard P. Feynman
13. The Prague Orgy by Philip Roth
14. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
15. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track by Richard P. Feynman

*- marks books from my TBR pile from before 2014
**- reread

Just randomly checking out threads and stumbled into yours. You have read so much Philip Roth in just this month! He is one of my favorite authors and I'm glad to see that someone else is reading his stuff, though I will easily admit that I wouldn't be able to make it through three of his books in one month. The book by Richard Feynman looks very interesting and is definitely something I'm going to have to put on my wish list.

Thanks, Roth is one of my recent big favourite. I tend to go for a short book as an introduction to an author's style so I read Everyman last year. The prose was masterful but I found it a bit thematically shallow. (I feel the same way about Jonathan Franzen at times) Then I read Goodbye, Columbus which was stunning and became very interested so I thought I'd read one of his longer and acclaimed novels - American Pastoral. It didn't take long to become completely enthralled by Zuckerman's imagining of Swede Levov's life. I rank that book as one of my all time greatest reading experiences. Which lead me to reading the books chronicling Nathan Zuckerman's almost Molloy-like unravelling. Can't get enough of Roth. He is definitely somebody I will be rereading in the future (Everyman deserves a second chance).

Re: Feynman, if you can find the audiobook, you won't regret it because these are 6 lectures he gave at CalTech and you actually get to hear him speaking.

I also developed my love for Roth after reading Everyman for one of my classes in school, but it was American Pastoral that sealed the deal. Hoping to read The Plot Against America sometime this month and The Anatomy Lesson has been sitting on my shelf for a while now. I'm looking into the book by Feynman and thanks for the heads up about the potential audiobook, listening to the lectures would definitely by my preference.

March:
16. The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
17. The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography by Philip Roth
18. The Counterlife by Philip Roth
19. Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo
20. Mourning Diary by Roland Barthes
21. I Married A Communist by Philip Roth

*- marks books from my TBR pile from before 2014
**- reread

April:
22. Indignation by Philip Roth
23. The Humbling by Philip Roth
24. The Breast by Philip Roth
25. Nemesis by Philip Roth
26. Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
27. The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form** by Cormac McCarthy

*- marks books from my TBR pile from before 2014
**- reread

May was a dead month...

June:
28. Thinking Fast and Slow** by Daniel Kahneman
29. The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt
30. The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
31. Patrimony: A True Story by Philip Roth
32. How to be Alone* by Jonathan Franzen
33. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
34. Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
35. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

*- marks books from my TBR pile from before 2014
**- reread

May was almost a bust for me too. :(

I just had too much work to do finishing up my final year as an undergrad in psychology and couldn't find the time for leisure reading. But the toil of the past months is paying off. Now I get to edit my dissertation for publication and will be starting a PhD in September! As a physicist, drneutron, I'm sure you can relate to the joys of making academic progress. I hope your summer picks up the way mine has.

Actually, June has been better. And yeah, I'm glad to be done.. :)

July:
36. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

August:
37. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story by D.T. Max

September:
38. Steppenwolf** by Hermann Hesse
39. Fahrenheit 451** by Ray Bradbury

**- reread

October:
40. Factotum by Charles Bukowski
41. The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
42. Here and Now: Letters (2008-2011) by Paul Auster & J. M. Coetzee
43. Farther Away: Essays by Jonathan Franzen
44. A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut

November:
45. Missing Person by Patrick Modiano
46. Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney

December:
47. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
48. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love** by Raymond Carver
49. Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould

**- reread