Valari's bookmine in 2014
Talk 75 Books Challenge for 2014
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1Valari2
Hello everyone and Happy New Year!
This is my 2nd year doing the 75 Books Challenge. I got sidetracked last time and finished the year with the rather disappointing 11 books. I hope to read more now and I'm looking forward to a busy, booky and exciting year :)
Books I want to read in 2014:
1. Les Misérables 1932
2. A Feast for Crows: 1224
3. How to Win Friends & Influence People : 218 of 376
4. Ride the Wind 685
5. The Year of the Flood 374
6. Memoirs of a Geisha 500
7. Stardust 160
8. Rendezvous With Rama 220
9. A Wizard of Earthsea
10. Gone Girl 463
11. Briefe aus dem Gefängnis (German Edition): 44
Books I didn't finish in 2013:
The Magic of Thinking Big
Briefe aus dem Gefängnis (German Edition)
After Capitalism
Also sprach Zarathustra
Ride the Wind
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
How to Win Friends & Influence People
A Feast for Crows
Watchmen
Letters from the Earth
Moon Called
Catch Me If You Can
Bird by Bird
COMPLETED: (goal: 20+)
1. Ride the Wind (Jan-17) ★★★★
2. Briefe aus dem Gefängnis (German Edition) (Jan-20) ★★★★
3. Ender's Shadow (Jan-26) ★★★★
4. Genesis (Feb-4) ★★★
5. Ernest Hemingway on Writing (Feb-5) ★★★★
6. Watchmen (Feb-13) ★★
7. The Handmaid's Tale (Feb-22) ★★★
8. Peter Camenzind (Mar-18) ★★★★ (paper, on TBR list for a long time)
9. Things Fall Apart (Jul-12) ★★★★ (finally have my ebook reader back)
10. Catch Me If You Can (Aug-02) ★★★★
11. A Feast for Crows (Oct-19) ★★★★
12. Netochka Nezvanova (Dec-31) ★★★
So far I have never been disappointed with the books I read each year. Be them few or not, there was a reason for me to read each one of them. Each book opened new horizons before me and was another piece of the puzzle of my life. Therefore, whether I read 11 or 20 or 50 books in a year, I will only be discontent if I have forced myself to read books which weren't fun just in order to reach my planned number. Looking back to 2011 when I started counting, the books I read glimmer like gems on the map of my life.
This is my 2nd year doing the 75 Books Challenge. I got sidetracked last time and finished the year with the rather disappointing 11 books. I hope to read more now and I'm looking forward to a busy, booky and exciting year :)
Books I want to read in 2014:
1. Les Misérables 1932
3. How to Win Friends & Influence People : 218 of 376
5. The Year of the Flood 374
6. Memoirs of a Geisha 500
7. Stardust 160
8. Rendezvous With Rama 220
9. A Wizard of Earthsea
10. Gone Girl 463
Books I didn't finish in 2013:
The Magic of Thinking Big
After Capitalism
Also sprach Zarathustra
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
How to Win Friends & Influence People
Letters from the Earth
Moon Called
Bird by Bird
COMPLETED: (goal: 20+)
1. Ride the Wind (Jan-17) ★★★★
2. Briefe aus dem Gefängnis (German Edition) (Jan-20) ★★★★
3. Ender's Shadow (Jan-26) ★★★★
4. Genesis (Feb-4) ★★★
5. Ernest Hemingway on Writing (Feb-5) ★★★★
6. Watchmen (Feb-13) ★★
7. The Handmaid's Tale (Feb-22) ★★★
8. Peter Camenzind (Mar-18) ★★★★ (paper, on TBR list for a long time)
9. Things Fall Apart (Jul-12) ★★★★ (finally have my ebook reader back)
10. Catch Me If You Can (Aug-02) ★★★★
11. A Feast for Crows (Oct-19) ★★★★
12. Netochka Nezvanova (Dec-31) ★★★
So far I have never been disappointed with the books I read each year. Be them few or not, there was a reason for me to read each one of them. Each book opened new horizons before me and was another piece of the puzzle of my life. Therefore, whether I read 11 or 20 or 50 books in a year, I will only be discontent if I have forced myself to read books which weren't fun just in order to reach my planned number. Looking back to 2011 when I started counting, the books I read glimmer like gems on the map of my life.
6Valari2
@scaifea: Thank you! :) I wish they were mine too, hehe, I only have an indoor cat and he's too scared to go outside.
@Zoe: Les Misérables has been on my reading list for ages. I keep starting to read it but then I get busy with something else and before I know it, it's been months since I picked it up last.
@Zoe: Les Misérables has been on my reading list for ages. I keep starting to read it but then I get busy with something else and before I know it, it's been months since I picked it up last.
7Valari2
1. Ride the Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson, published 1985, ★★★★
This was a great book, beautifully written and heart breaking. I knew that the Indians had no chance and still I wished all the while that there would be a way out for them. The saddest thing is that the madness which destroyed their world still lives on and the destruction continues.
As strange as it might sound, seeing the loss and suffering of Naduah and her people put my own hardships in perspective and gave me back my will to fight. Not to surrender even in the face of impossible odds. And even if you fall, to find once more your place under the sun.
I'm giving it 4 stars because it didn't flow as well for me as other books (some descriptions, switching between the Indian and white's perspective). I definitely recommend it though.
This was a great book, beautifully written and heart breaking. I knew that the Indians had no chance and still I wished all the while that there would be a way out for them. The saddest thing is that the madness which destroyed their world still lives on and the destruction continues.
As strange as it might sound, seeing the loss and suffering of Naduah and her people put my own hardships in perspective and gave me back my will to fight. Not to surrender even in the face of impossible odds. And even if you fall, to find once more your place under the sun.
I'm giving it 4 stars because it didn't flow as well for me as other books (some descriptions, switching between the Indian and white's perspective). I definitely recommend it though.
