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POEM
I think most regular visitors know that Dylan Thomas is one of my absolute favourites and this poem is one of my absolute favourites of his.
I think most regular visitors know that Dylan Thomas is one of my absolute favourites and this poem is one of my absolute favourites of his.
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Reading Record First Quarter
JANUARY
1. Plague 99 by Jean Ure (1989) 218 pp
2. Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes (1857) 309 pp
3. A Lear of the Steppes by Ivan Turgenev (1870) 117 pp
4. A Fall from the Sky by Ian Serraillier (1966) 78 pp
5. The Overnight Kidnapper by Andrea Camilleri (2015) 262 pp
6. Dove on the Waters by Maurice Shadbolt (1996) 198 pp
7. A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson (2019) 81 pp
8. The Other End of the Line by Andrea Camilleri (2016) 293 pp
9. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (2019) 208 pp
10. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (1930) 501 pp
11. Carrie's War by Nina Bawden (1973) 211 pp
12. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (2020) 430 pp
13. Judge Savage by Tim Parks (2003) 442 pp
14. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie (1962) 280 pp
15. Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer (1969) 227 pp
16. Jazz by Toni Morrison (1992) 229 pp
17. A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell (1951) 230 pp
4,313 pages.
FEBRUARY
18. Junk by Melvyn Burgess (1996) 278 pp
19. The Great Fire by Monica Dickens (1970) 64 pp
20. At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie (1965) 265 pp
21. A Room of Own's Own by Virginia Woolf (1929) 153 pp
22. Bury the Dead by Peter Carter (1987) 374 pp
23. Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch (2011) 390 pp
24. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne (1873) 242 pp
25. Woods, etc. by Alice Oswald (2005) 56 pp
26. Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg (2015) 293 pp
27. A Burning by Megha Majumdar (2020) 289 pp
28. Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch (2011) 373 pp
29. What is History? by Edward Hallett Carr (1961) 156 pp
30. A Buyer's Market by Anthony Powell (1951) 278 pp
3,211 pages
MARCH
31. The Return : Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar (2016) 239 pp
32. The Hammer of the Scots by Jean Plaidy (1978) 417 pp
33. Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon (2015) 101 pp
34. Some Experiences of an Irish RM by Somerville & Ross (1899) 223 pp
35. The Age of Improvement 1783-1867 by Asa Briggs (1959) 523 pp
36. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (1853) 203 pp
1,706 pages
JANUARY
1. Plague 99 by Jean Ure (1989) 218 pp
2. Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes (1857) 309 pp
3. A Lear of the Steppes by Ivan Turgenev (1870) 117 pp
4. A Fall from the Sky by Ian Serraillier (1966) 78 pp
5. The Overnight Kidnapper by Andrea Camilleri (2015) 262 pp
6. Dove on the Waters by Maurice Shadbolt (1996) 198 pp
7. A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson (2019) 81 pp
8. The Other End of the Line by Andrea Camilleri (2016) 293 pp
9. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (2019) 208 pp
10. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (1930) 501 pp
11. Carrie's War by Nina Bawden (1973) 211 pp
12. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (2020) 430 pp
13. Judge Savage by Tim Parks (2003) 442 pp
14. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie (1962) 280 pp
15. Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer (1969) 227 pp
16. Jazz by Toni Morrison (1992) 229 pp
17. A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell (1951) 230 pp
4,313 pages.
FEBRUARY
18. Junk by Melvyn Burgess (1996) 278 pp
19. The Great Fire by Monica Dickens (1970) 64 pp
20. At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie (1965) 265 pp
21. A Room of Own's Own by Virginia Woolf (1929) 153 pp
22. Bury the Dead by Peter Carter (1987) 374 pp
23. Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch (2011) 390 pp
24. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne (1873) 242 pp
25. Woods, etc. by Alice Oswald (2005) 56 pp
26. Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg (2015) 293 pp
27. A Burning by Megha Majumdar (2020) 289 pp
28. Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch (2011) 373 pp
29. What is History? by Edward Hallett Carr (1961) 156 pp
30. A Buyer's Market by Anthony Powell (1951) 278 pp
3,211 pages
MARCH
31. The Return : Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar (2016) 239 pp
32. The Hammer of the Scots by Jean Plaidy (1978) 417 pp
33. Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon (2015) 101 pp
34. Some Experiences of an Irish RM by Somerville & Ross (1899) 223 pp
35. The Age of Improvement 1783-1867 by Asa Briggs (1959) 523 pp
36. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (1853) 203 pp
1,706 pages
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APReading Record Second Quarter
APRIL
37. Love Story, With Murders by Harry Bingham (2013) 439 pp
38. Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid (2000) 270 pp
39. Diary of a Murderer by Kim Young-Ha (2013) 200 pp
40. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2001) 428 pp
41. Blue Horses by Mary Oliver (2014) 79 pp
42. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864) 160 pp
43. The Curious Case of Dassoukine's Trousers by Fouad Laroui (2012) 134 pp
44. The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths by Harry Bingham (2014) 457 pp
45. Arid Dreams by Duanwad Pimwana (2019) 244 pp
46. Figures in a Landscape by Barry England (1968) 208 pp
47. Echoland by Per Petterson (1989) 132 pp
48. Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith (2019) 205 pp
2,956 pages
MAY
49. The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley (1984) 330 pp
50. I Choose to Live by Sabine Dardenne (2004) 210 pp
51. Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan (2018) 71 pp
611 pages (maybe my worst ever performance!)
JUNE
52. Still Waters by Viveca Sten (2008) 434 pp
53. Half a Life by VS Naipaul (2001) 211 pp
54. Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (1969) 169 pp
55. A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (1944) 269 pp
56. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell (2020) 370 pp
57. Springtime in a Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti (1982) 181 pp
58. My Country : A Syrian Memoir by Kassim Eid (2018) 194 pp
59. Vita Nova by Louise Gluck (1999) 51 pp
60. The God Child by Nana Oforiatta Ayim (2019) 241 pp
61. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (1946) 154 pp
62. Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood (1935) 230 pp
63. Mr Rosenblum Dreams in English by Natasha Solomons (2010) 355 pp
64. Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge (1977) 212 pp
65. In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen (2014) 244 pp
66. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (2015) 438 pp
67. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1851) 1,179 pp
68. Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass (1961) 191 pp
69. No Turning Back by Beverley Naidoo (1995) 191 pp
70. Look at Me by Anita Brookner (1983) 192 pp
71. Vice Versa by F. Anstey (1882) 219 pp
72. The Age of Revolution by Eric Hobsbawm (1975) 308 pp
73. Mrs Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw (1893) 98 pp
6,131 pages (best for a while)
APRIL
37. Love Story, With Murders by Harry Bingham (2013) 439 pp
38. Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid (2000) 270 pp
39. Diary of a Murderer by Kim Young-Ha (2013) 200 pp
40. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2001) 428 pp
41. Blue Horses by Mary Oliver (2014) 79 pp
42. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864) 160 pp
43. The Curious Case of Dassoukine's Trousers by Fouad Laroui (2012) 134 pp
44. The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths by Harry Bingham (2014) 457 pp
45. Arid Dreams by Duanwad Pimwana (2019) 244 pp
46. Figures in a Landscape by Barry England (1968) 208 pp
47. Echoland by Per Petterson (1989) 132 pp
48. Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith (2019) 205 pp
2,956 pages
MAY
49. The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley (1984) 330 pp
50. I Choose to Live by Sabine Dardenne (2004) 210 pp
51. Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan (2018) 71 pp
611 pages (maybe my worst ever performance!)
JUNE
52. Still Waters by Viveca Sten (2008) 434 pp
53. Half a Life by VS Naipaul (2001) 211 pp
54. Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (1969) 169 pp
55. A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (1944) 269 pp
56. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell (2020) 370 pp
57. Springtime in a Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti (1982) 181 pp
58. My Country : A Syrian Memoir by Kassim Eid (2018) 194 pp
59. Vita Nova by Louise Gluck (1999) 51 pp
60. The God Child by Nana Oforiatta Ayim (2019) 241 pp
61. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (1946) 154 pp
62. Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood (1935) 230 pp
63. Mr Rosenblum Dreams in English by Natasha Solomons (2010) 355 pp
64. Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge (1977) 212 pp
65. In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen (2014) 244 pp
66. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (2015) 438 pp
67. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1851) 1,179 pp
68. Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass (1961) 191 pp
69. No Turning Back by Beverley Naidoo (1995) 191 pp
70. Look at Me by Anita Brookner (1983) 192 pp
71. Vice Versa by F. Anstey (1882) 219 pp
72. The Age of Revolution by Eric Hobsbawm (1975) 308 pp
73. Mrs Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw (1893) 98 pp
6,131 pages (best for a while)
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Reading Record 3rd Quarter
JULY
74. Bernard Hinault and the Fall and Rise of French Cycling by William Fotheringham (2015) 345 pp
75. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling (1997) 332 pp
76. Rendang by Will Harris (2020) 85 pp
77. Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (2016) 383 pp
78. Corridors of Power by C.P. Snow (1964) 352 pp
79. Arab Jazz by Karim Miske (2012) 242 pp
80. The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier (1949) 136 pp
81. The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (2000) 395 pp
82. The Quality of Madness by Tim Rich (2020) 417 pp
83. The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (2006) 404 pp
84. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe (1838) 162 pp
85. The Devil's Pool by George Sand (1846) 119 pp
3,372 pages
AUGUST
86. Poetry Please! edited by Charles Causley (1985) 113 pp
87. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (2020) 448 pp
88. Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World by Edward Shepherd Creasy (1851) 380 pp
89. Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell (2011) 380 pp
90. Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2021) 85 pp
91. The Pagan Lord by Bernard Cornwell (2013) 345 pp
92. The Return by Dulce Maria Cardoso (2011) 267 pp
93. Here and Now by Stephen Dunn (2011) 103 pp
94. I am, I am, I am by Maggie O'Farrell (2017) 285 pp
95. Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe (1958) 189 pp
96. The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1954) 322 pp
97. At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop (2018) 145 pp
98. A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow (1960) 345 pp
99. The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi (2000) 282 pp
3,689 pages
SEPTEMBER
100. Pew by Catherine Lacey (2020) 207 pp
101. Northlight by Douglas Dunn (1988) 81 pp
102. A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende (2019) 349 pp
103. The First Century After Beatrice by Amin Maalouf (1992) 192 pp
104. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard (1967) 118 pp
105. Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (2020) 107 pp
JULY
74. Bernard Hinault and the Fall and Rise of French Cycling by William Fotheringham (2015) 345 pp
75. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling (1997) 332 pp
76. Rendang by Will Harris (2020) 85 pp
77. Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (2016) 383 pp
78. Corridors of Power by C.P. Snow (1964) 352 pp
79. Arab Jazz by Karim Miske (2012) 242 pp
80. The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier (1949) 136 pp
81. The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (2000) 395 pp
82. The Quality of Madness by Tim Rich (2020) 417 pp
83. The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (2006) 404 pp
84. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe (1838) 162 pp
85. The Devil's Pool by George Sand (1846) 119 pp
3,372 pages
AUGUST
86. Poetry Please! edited by Charles Causley (1985) 113 pp
87. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (2020) 448 pp
88. Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World by Edward Shepherd Creasy (1851) 380 pp
89. Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell (2011) 380 pp
90. Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2021) 85 pp
91. The Pagan Lord by Bernard Cornwell (2013) 345 pp
92. The Return by Dulce Maria Cardoso (2011) 267 pp
93. Here and Now by Stephen Dunn (2011) 103 pp
94. I am, I am, I am by Maggie O'Farrell (2017) 285 pp
95. Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe (1958) 189 pp
96. The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1954) 322 pp
97. At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop (2018) 145 pp
98. A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow (1960) 345 pp
99. The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi (2000) 282 pp
3,689 pages
SEPTEMBER
100. Pew by Catherine Lacey (2020) 207 pp
101. Northlight by Douglas Dunn (1988) 81 pp
102. A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende (2019) 349 pp
103. The First Century After Beatrice by Amin Maalouf (1992) 192 pp
104. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard (1967) 118 pp
105. Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (2020) 107 pp
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Reading Record 4th Quarter
OCTOBER
106. Everyman's Poetry : Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Alfred Lord Tennyson 1996 103 pp
107. The Watcher in the Shadows by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (1995) 247 pp
108. The Face of Battle by John Keegan (1976) 336 pp
109. Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (2021) 589 pp
110. The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes (1956) 272 pp
111. The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed (2021) 372 pp
112. Corpus by Rory Clements (2017) 464 pp
113. The Promise by Damon Galgut (2021) 293 pp
NOVEMBER
114. Strangers on a Pier by Tash Aw (2016) 91 pp
115. A Time to Dance by Melvyn Bragg (1990) 220 pp
116. Nucleus by Rory Clements (2018) 366 pp
117. And Furthermore by Judy Dench (2010) 292 pp
118. Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrique (2013) 262 pp
119. The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You (1998) 49 pp
OCTOBER
106. Everyman's Poetry : Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Alfred Lord Tennyson 1996 103 pp
107. The Watcher in the Shadows by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (1995) 247 pp
108. The Face of Battle by John Keegan (1976) 336 pp
109. Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (2021) 589 pp
110. The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes (1956) 272 pp
111. The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed (2021) 372 pp
112. Corpus by Rory Clements (2017) 464 pp
113. The Promise by Damon Galgut (2021) 293 pp
NOVEMBER
114. Strangers on a Pier by Tash Aw (2016) 91 pp
115. A Time to Dance by Melvyn Bragg (1990) 220 pp
116. Nucleus by Rory Clements (2018) 366 pp
117. And Furthermore by Judy Dench (2010) 292 pp
118. Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrique (2013) 262 pp
119. The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You (1998) 49 pp
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CURRENTLY READING
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BAC
January: Children's Classics https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7317610 9 READ
February: LGBT+ History Month https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7317871 2 READ
March: Vaseem Khan & Eleanor Hibbert https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7318561 1 READ
April: Love is in the Air https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7319432 2 READ
May: V. S. Naipaul & Na'ima B. Robert https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7320231 1 READ
June: The Victorian Era (1837-1901) https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7320541 3 READ
July: Don't judge a book by its movie https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7321220 10 READ
August: Bernard Cornwell & Helen Oyeyemi https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7321374 2 READ
September: She Blinded Me with Science https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7321899
October: Narrative Poetry https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7322840 3 read
November: Tade Thompson & Elizabeth Taylor https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7323772
December: Awards & Honors https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7325017 2 READ
Wildcard: Books off your shelves https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7325595 20 READ
55 BOOKS READ TO DATE
January: Children's Classics https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7317610 9 READ
February: LGBT+ History Month https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7317871 2 READ
March: Vaseem Khan & Eleanor Hibbert https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7318561 1 READ
April: Love is in the Air https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7319432 2 READ
May: V. S. Naipaul & Na'ima B. Robert https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7320231 1 READ
June: The Victorian Era (1837-1901) https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7320541 3 READ
July: Don't judge a book by its movie https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7321220 10 READ
August: Bernard Cornwell & Helen Oyeyemi https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7321374 2 READ
September: She Blinded Me with Science https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7321899
October: Narrative Poetry https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7322840 3 read
November: Tade Thompson & Elizabeth Taylor https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7323772
December: Awards & Honors https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7325017 2 READ
Wildcard: Books off your shelves https://www.librarything.com/topic/326122#7325595 20 READ
55 BOOKS READ TO DATE
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AMERICAN AUTHOR CHALLENGE
Please see:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/327669#7354831
January : Keep it in the Family :
February : Ethan Canin
March : Roxane Gay
April : Makers of Music : Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
May : Mary McCarthy
June : Ken Kesey
July : Native American Themes : The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
August : Connie Willis
September : Howard Norman
October : Attica Locke
November : Albert Murray
December : YA Fiction
Please see:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/327669#7354831
January : Keep it in the Family :
February : Ethan Canin
March : Roxane Gay
April : Makers of Music : Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
May : Mary McCarthy
June : Ken Kesey
July : Native American Themes : The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
August : Connie Willis
September : Howard Norman
October : Attica Locke
November : Albert Murray
December : YA Fiction
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BOOKERS
Personal Reading Challenge: Every winner of the Booker Prize since its inception in 1969
1969: P. H. Newby, Something to Answer For - READ
1970: Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member
1970: J. G. Farrell, Troubles (awarded in 2010 as the Lost Man Booker Prize) - READ
1971: V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State
1972: John Berger, G.
1973: J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur - READ
1974: Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist ... and Stanley Middleton, Holiday - READ
1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust - READ
1976: David Storey, Saville - READ
1977: Paul Scott, Staying On - READ
1978: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
1979: Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore - READ
1980: William Golding, Rites of Passage - READ
1981: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children - READ
1982: Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark - READ
1983: J. M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
1984: Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac - READ
1985: Keri Hulme, The Bone People
1986: Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils - READ
1987: Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger - READ
1988: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
1989: Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
1990: A. S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance - READ
1991: Ben Okri, The Famished Road
1992: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient ... and Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger - READ
1993: Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1994: James Kelman, How late it was, how late
1995: Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
1996: Graham Swift, Last Orders - READ
1997: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things READ
1998: Ian McEwan, Amsterdam - READ
1999: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace - READ
2000: Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
2001: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang - READ
2002: Yann Martel, Life of Pi READ
2003: DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little
2004: Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
2005: John Banville, The Sea - READ
2006: Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
2007: Anne Enright, The Gathering - READ
2008: Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger - READ
2009: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall - READ
2010: Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question
2011: Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending - READ
2012: Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies - READ
2013: Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
2014: Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North - READ
2015: Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings - READ
2016: Paul Beatty, The Sellout - READ
2017: George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
2018: Anna Burns, Milkman
2019: Margaret Atwood, The Testaments, and Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
2020: Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain READ JAN 21
2021: Damon Galgut, The Promise READ
READ 34 of 57 WINNERS
Personal Reading Challenge: Every winner of the Booker Prize since its inception in 1969
1969: P. H. Newby, Something to Answer For - READ
1970: Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member
1970: J. G. Farrell, Troubles (awarded in 2010 as the Lost Man Booker Prize) - READ
1971: V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State
1972: John Berger, G.
1973: J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur - READ
1974: Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist ... and Stanley Middleton, Holiday - READ
1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust - READ
1976: David Storey, Saville - READ
1977: Paul Scott, Staying On - READ
1978: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
1979: Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore - READ
1980: William Golding, Rites of Passage - READ
1981: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children - READ
1982: Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark - READ
1983: J. M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
1984: Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac - READ
1985: Keri Hulme, The Bone People
1986: Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils - READ
1987: Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger - READ
1988: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
1989: Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
1990: A. S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance - READ
1991: Ben Okri, The Famished Road
1992: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient ... and Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger - READ
1993: Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1994: James Kelman, How late it was, how late
1995: Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
1996: Graham Swift, Last Orders - READ
1997: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things READ
1998: Ian McEwan, Amsterdam - READ
1999: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace - READ
2000: Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
2001: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang - READ
2002: Yann Martel, Life of Pi READ
2003: DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little
2004: Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
2005: John Banville, The Sea - READ
2006: Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
2007: Anne Enright, The Gathering - READ
2008: Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger - READ
2009: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall - READ
2010: Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question
2011: Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending - READ
2012: Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies - READ
2013: Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
2014: Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North - READ
2015: Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings - READ
2016: Paul Beatty, The Sellout - READ
2017: George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
2018: Anna Burns, Milkman
2019: Margaret Atwood, The Testaments, and Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
2020: Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain READ JAN 21
2021: Damon Galgut, The Promise READ
READ 34 of 57 WINNERS
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NOBELS
Update on my Nobel Prize Winning Reading:
1901 Sully Prudhomme
1902 Theodor Mommsen
1903 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1904 Frédéric Mistral and José Echegaray y Eizaquirre
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz
1906 Giosuè Carducci
1907 Rudyard Kipling - READ
1908 Rudolf Christoph Eucken
1909 Selma Lagerlöf
1910 Paul Heyse --
1911 Count Maurice Maeterlinck
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann
1913 Rabindranath Tagore - READ
1915 Romain Rolland
1916 Verner von Heidenstam
1917 Karl Adolph Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan
1919 Carl Spitteler
1920 Knut Hamsun - READ
1921 Anatole France - READ
1922 Jacinto Benavente
1923 William Butler Yeats - READ
1924 Wladyslaw Reymont
1925 George Bernard Shaw - READ
1926 Grazia Deledda - READ
1927 Henri Bergson
1928 Sigrid Undset
1929 Thomas Mann - READ
1930 Sinclair Lewis - READ
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1932 John Galsworthy - READ
1933 Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin - READ
1934 Luigi Pirandello - READ
1936 Eugene O'Neill - READ
1937 Roger Martin du Gard
1938 Pearl S. Buck - READ
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1944 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
1945 Gabriela Mistral
1946 Hermann Hesse - READ
1947 André Gide - READ
1948 T.S. Elliot - READ
1949 William Faulkner - READ
1950 Bertrand Russell - READ
1951 Pär Lagerkvist - READ
1952 François Mauriac - READ
1953 Sir Winston Churchill - READ
1954 Ernest Hemingway - READ
1955 Halldór Laxness - READ
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez
1957 Albert Camus - READ
1958 Boris Pasternak (declined the prize) - READ
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo
1960 Saint-John Perse
1961 Ivo Andric - READ
1962 John Steinbeck - READ
1963 Giorgos Seferis
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre (declined the prize) - READ
1965 Michail Sholokhov
1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon and Nelly Sachs - READ
1967 Miguel Ángel Asturias
1968 Yasunari Kawabata - READ
1969 Samuel Beckett - READ
1970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - READ
1971 Pablo Neruda - READ
1972 Heinrich Böll - READ
1973 Patrick White
1974 Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson
1975 Eugenio Montale
1976 Saul Bellow - READ
1977 Vincente Aleixandre
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer - READ
1979 Odysseas Elytis - READ
1980 Czeslaw Milosz - READ
1981 Elias Canetti
1982 Gabriel Garciá Márquez - READ
1983 William Golding - READ
1984 Jaroslav Seifert - READ
1985 Claude Simon - READ
1986 Akinwande Ouwoe Soyinka
1987 Joseph Brodsky - READ
1988 Naguib Mahfouz - READ
1989 Camilo José Cela - READ
1990 Octavio Paz
1991 Nadine Gordimer - READ
1992 Derek Walcott - READ
1993 Toni Morrison - READ
1994 Kenzaburo Oe - READ
1995 Seamus Heaney - READ
1996 Wislawa Szymborska - READ
1997 Dario Fo - READ
1998 José Saramago - READ
1999 Günter Grass - READ
2000 Gao Xingjian
2001 Vidiadhar Surjprasad Naipaul - READ
2002 Imre Kertész - READ
2003 John Maxwell Coetzee - READ
2004 Elfriede Jelinek - READ
2005 Harold Pinter - READ
2006 Orhan Pamuk - READ
2007 Doris Lessing - READ
2008 J.M.G. Le Clézio
2009 Herta Müller - READ
2010 Mario Vargas Llosa - READ
2011 Tomas Tranströmer - READ
2012 Mo Yan
2013 Alice Munro - READ
2014 Patrick Modiano - READ
2015 Svetlana Alexievich - READ
2016 Bob Dylan - READ
2017 Kazuo Ishiguro - READ
2018 Olga Tokarczuk - READ
2019 Peter Handke - READ
2020 Louise Gluck - READ
2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah - READ
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118 LAUREATES
Update on my Nobel Prize Winning Reading:
1901 Sully Prudhomme
1902 Theodor Mommsen
1903 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1904 Frédéric Mistral and José Echegaray y Eizaquirre
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz
1906 Giosuè Carducci
1907 Rudyard Kipling - READ
1908 Rudolf Christoph Eucken
1909 Selma Lagerlöf
1910 Paul Heyse --
1911 Count Maurice Maeterlinck
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann
1913 Rabindranath Tagore - READ
1915 Romain Rolland
1916 Verner von Heidenstam
1917 Karl Adolph Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan
1919 Carl Spitteler
1920 Knut Hamsun - READ
1921 Anatole France - READ
1922 Jacinto Benavente
1923 William Butler Yeats - READ
1924 Wladyslaw Reymont
1925 George Bernard Shaw - READ
1926 Grazia Deledda - READ
1927 Henri Bergson
1928 Sigrid Undset
1929 Thomas Mann - READ
1930 Sinclair Lewis - READ
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1932 John Galsworthy - READ
1933 Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin - READ
1934 Luigi Pirandello - READ
1936 Eugene O'Neill - READ
1937 Roger Martin du Gard
1938 Pearl S. Buck - READ
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1944 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
1945 Gabriela Mistral
1946 Hermann Hesse - READ
1947 André Gide - READ
1948 T.S. Elliot - READ
1949 William Faulkner - READ
1950 Bertrand Russell - READ
1951 Pär Lagerkvist - READ
1952 François Mauriac - READ
1953 Sir Winston Churchill - READ
1954 Ernest Hemingway - READ
1955 Halldór Laxness - READ
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez
1957 Albert Camus - READ
1958 Boris Pasternak (declined the prize) - READ
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo
1960 Saint-John Perse
1961 Ivo Andric - READ
1962 John Steinbeck - READ
1963 Giorgos Seferis
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre (declined the prize) - READ
1965 Michail Sholokhov
1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon and Nelly Sachs - READ
1967 Miguel Ángel Asturias
1968 Yasunari Kawabata - READ
1969 Samuel Beckett - READ
1970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - READ
1971 Pablo Neruda - READ
1972 Heinrich Böll - READ
1973 Patrick White
1974 Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson
1975 Eugenio Montale
1976 Saul Bellow - READ
1977 Vincente Aleixandre
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer - READ
1979 Odysseas Elytis - READ
1980 Czeslaw Milosz - READ
1981 Elias Canetti
1982 Gabriel Garciá Márquez - READ
1983 William Golding - READ
1984 Jaroslav Seifert - READ
1985 Claude Simon - READ
1986 Akinwande Ouwoe Soyinka
1987 Joseph Brodsky - READ
1988 Naguib Mahfouz - READ
1989 Camilo José Cela - READ
1990 Octavio Paz
1991 Nadine Gordimer - READ
1992 Derek Walcott - READ
1993 Toni Morrison - READ
1994 Kenzaburo Oe - READ
1995 Seamus Heaney - READ
1996 Wislawa Szymborska - READ
1997 Dario Fo - READ
1998 José Saramago - READ
1999 Günter Grass - READ
2000 Gao Xingjian
2001 Vidiadhar Surjprasad Naipaul - READ
2002 Imre Kertész - READ
2003 John Maxwell Coetzee - READ
2004 Elfriede Jelinek - READ
2005 Harold Pinter - READ
2006 Orhan Pamuk - READ
2007 Doris Lessing - READ
2008 J.M.G. Le Clézio
2009 Herta Müller - READ
2010 Mario Vargas Llosa - READ
2011 Tomas Tranströmer - READ
2012 Mo Yan
2013 Alice Munro - READ
2014 Patrick Modiano - READ
2015 Svetlana Alexievich - READ
2016 Bob Dylan - READ
2017 Kazuo Ishiguro - READ
2018 Olga Tokarczuk - READ
2019 Peter Handke - READ
2020 Louise Gluck - READ
2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah - READ
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Pulitzer Winners
As with the Bookers, I want to eventually read all the Pulitzer winners (for fiction at least) and have most of the recent ones on the shelves at least. Current status.
Fiction
1918 HIS FAMILY - Ernest Poole
1919 THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS - Booth Tarkington
1921 THE AGE OF INNOCENCE - Edith Wharton
1922 ALICE ADAMS - Booth Tarkington
1923 ONE OF OURS - Willa Cather
1924 THE ABLE MCLAUGHLINS - Margaret Wilson
1925 SO BIG - Edna Ferber
1926 ARROWSMITH - Sinclair Lewis (Declined)
1927 EARLY AUTUMN - Louis Bromfield
1928 THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY - Thornton Wilder
1929 SCARLET SISTER MARY - Julia Peterkin
1930 LAUGHING BOY - Oliver Lafarge ON SHELVES
1931 YEARS OF GRACE - Margaret Ayer Barnes
1932 THE GOOD EARTH - Pearl Buck
1933 THE STORE - Thomas Sigismund Stribling
1934 LAMB IN HIS BOSOM - Caroline Miller
1935 NOW IN NOVEMBER - Josephine Winslow Johnson
1936 HONEY IN THE HORN - Harold L Davis
1937 GONE WITH THE WIND - Margaret Mitchell ON SHELVES
1938 THE LATE GEORGE APLEY - John Phillips Marquand
1939 THE YEARLING - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1940 THE GRAPES OF WRATH - John Steinbeck
1942 IN THIS OUR LIFE - Ellen Glasgow
1943 DRAGON'S TEETH - Upton Sinclair
1944 JOURNEY IN THE DARK - Martin Flavin
1945 A BELL FOR ADANO - John Hersey
1947 ALL THE KING'S MEN - Robert Penn Warren ON SHELVES
1948 TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC - James Michener
1949 GUARD OF HONOR - James Gould Cozzens
1950 THE WAY WEST - A.B. Guthrie
1951 THE TOWN - Conrad Richter
1952 THE CAINE MUTINY - Herman Wouk
1953 THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA - Ernest Hemingway
1955 A FABLE - William Faulkner
1956 ANDERSONVILLE - McKinlay Kantor
1958 A DEATH IN THE FAMILY - James Agee ON SHELVES
1959 THE TRAVELS OF JAIMIE McPHEETERS - Robert Lewis Taylor
1960 ADVISE AND CONSENT - Allen Drury
1961 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - Harper Lee
1962 THE EDGE OF SADNESS - Edwin O'Connor
1963 THE REIVERS - William Faulkner ON SHELVES
1965 THE KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE - Shirley Ann Grau
1966 THE COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER - Katherine Anne Porter
1967 THE FIXER - Bernard Malamud
1968 THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER - William Styron
1969 HOUSE MADE OF DAWN - N Scott Momaday ON SHELVES
1970 THE COLLECTED STORIES OF JEAN STAFFORD - Jean Stafford
1972 ANGLE OF REPOSE - Wallace Stegner ON SHELVES
1973 THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER - Eudora Welty ON SHELVES
1975 THE KILLER ANGELS - Jeff Shaara ON SHELVES
1976 HUMBOLDT'S GIFT - Saul Bellow
1978 ELBOW ROOM - James Alan McPherson
1979 THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER - John Cheever ON SHELVES
1980 THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG - Norman Mailer ON SHELVES
1981 A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES - John Kennedy Toole ON SHELVES
1982 RABBIT IS RICH - John Updike
1983 THE COLOR PURPLE - Alice Walker ON SHELVES
1984 IRONWEED - William Kennedy ON SHELVES
1985 FOREIGN AFFAIRS - Alison Lurie ON SHELVES
1986 LONESOME DOVE - Larry McMurtry ON SHELVES
1987 A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS - Peter Taylor
1988 BELOVED - Toni Morrison - ON SHELVES
1989 BREATHING LESSONS - Anne Tyler
1990 THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE - Oscar Hijuelos
1991 RABBIT AT REST - John Updike
1992 A THOUSAND ACRES - Jane Smiley
1993 A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN - Robert Olen Butler
1994 THE SHIPPING NEWS - E Annie Proulx
1995 THE STONE DIARIES - Carol Shields ON SHELVES
1996 INDEPENDENCE DAY - Richard Ford ON SHELVES
1997 MARTIN DRESSLER - Steven Millhauser ON SHELVES
1998 AMERICAN PASTORAL - Philip Roth ON SHELVES
1999 THE HOURS - Michael Cunningham ON SHELVES
2000 INTERPRETER OF MALADIES - Jumpha Lahiri
2001 THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY - Michael Chabon ON SHELVES
2002 EMPIRE FALLS - Richard Russo ON SHELVES
2003 MIDDLESEX - Jeffrey Eugenides ON SHELVES
2004 THE KNOWN WORLD - Edward P. Jones ON SHELVES
2005 GILEAD - Marilynne Robinson ON SHELVES
2006 MARCH - Geraldine Brooks
2007 THE ROAD - Cormac McCarthy
2008 THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO - Junot Diaz ON SHELVES
2009 OLIVE KITTERIDGE - Elizabeth Strout ON SHELVES
2010 TINKERS - Paul Harding
2011 A VISIT FROM THE GOOD SQUAD - Jennifer Egan ON SHELVES
2013 ORPHAN MASTER'S SON - Adam Johnson ON SHELVES
2014 THE GOLDFINCH - Donna Tartt ON SHELVES
2015 ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE - Anthony Doerr ON SHELVES
2016 THE SYMPATHIZER - Viet Thanh Nguyen ON SHELVES
2017 THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD - Colson Whitehead ON SHELVES
2018 LESS - Andrew Sean Greer ON SHELVES
2019 THE OVERSTORY - Richard Powers ON SHELVES
2020 THE NICKEL BOYS - Colson Whitehead
2021 THE NIGHT WATCHMAN - Louise Erdrich
19 READ
37 ON SHELVES
38 NOT OWNED OR READ
94 TOTAL
As with the Bookers, I want to eventually read all the Pulitzer winners (for fiction at least) and have most of the recent ones on the shelves at least. Current status.
Fiction
1918 HIS FAMILY - Ernest Poole
1919 THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS - Booth Tarkington
1921 THE AGE OF INNOCENCE - Edith Wharton
1922 ALICE ADAMS - Booth Tarkington
1923 ONE OF OURS - Willa Cather
1924 THE ABLE MCLAUGHLINS - Margaret Wilson
1925 SO BIG - Edna Ferber
1926 ARROWSMITH - Sinclair Lewis (Declined)
1927 EARLY AUTUMN - Louis Bromfield
1928 THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY - Thornton Wilder
1929 SCARLET SISTER MARY - Julia Peterkin
1930 LAUGHING BOY - Oliver Lafarge ON SHELVES
1931 YEARS OF GRACE - Margaret Ayer Barnes
1932 THE GOOD EARTH - Pearl Buck
1933 THE STORE - Thomas Sigismund Stribling
1934 LAMB IN HIS BOSOM - Caroline Miller
1935 NOW IN NOVEMBER - Josephine Winslow Johnson
1936 HONEY IN THE HORN - Harold L Davis
1937 GONE WITH THE WIND - Margaret Mitchell ON SHELVES
1938 THE LATE GEORGE APLEY - John Phillips Marquand
1939 THE YEARLING - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1940 THE GRAPES OF WRATH - John Steinbeck
1942 IN THIS OUR LIFE - Ellen Glasgow
1943 DRAGON'S TEETH - Upton Sinclair
1944 JOURNEY IN THE DARK - Martin Flavin
1945 A BELL FOR ADANO - John Hersey
1947 ALL THE KING'S MEN - Robert Penn Warren ON SHELVES
1948 TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC - James Michener
1949 GUARD OF HONOR - James Gould Cozzens
1950 THE WAY WEST - A.B. Guthrie
1951 THE TOWN - Conrad Richter
1952 THE CAINE MUTINY - Herman Wouk
1953 THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA - Ernest Hemingway
1955 A FABLE - William Faulkner
1956 ANDERSONVILLE - McKinlay Kantor
1958 A DEATH IN THE FAMILY - James Agee ON SHELVES
1959 THE TRAVELS OF JAIMIE McPHEETERS - Robert Lewis Taylor
1960 ADVISE AND CONSENT - Allen Drury
1961 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - Harper Lee
1962 THE EDGE OF SADNESS - Edwin O'Connor
1963 THE REIVERS - William Faulkner ON SHELVES
1965 THE KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE - Shirley Ann Grau
1966 THE COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER - Katherine Anne Porter
1967 THE FIXER - Bernard Malamud
1968 THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER - William Styron
1969 HOUSE MADE OF DAWN - N Scott Momaday ON SHELVES
1970 THE COLLECTED STORIES OF JEAN STAFFORD - Jean Stafford
1972 ANGLE OF REPOSE - Wallace Stegner ON SHELVES
1973 THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER - Eudora Welty ON SHELVES
1975 THE KILLER ANGELS - Jeff Shaara ON SHELVES
1976 HUMBOLDT'S GIFT - Saul Bellow
1978 ELBOW ROOM - James Alan McPherson
1979 THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER - John Cheever ON SHELVES
1980 THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG - Norman Mailer ON SHELVES
1981 A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES - John Kennedy Toole ON SHELVES
1982 RABBIT IS RICH - John Updike
1983 THE COLOR PURPLE - Alice Walker ON SHELVES
1984 IRONWEED - William Kennedy ON SHELVES
1985 FOREIGN AFFAIRS - Alison Lurie ON SHELVES
1986 LONESOME DOVE - Larry McMurtry ON SHELVES
1987 A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS - Peter Taylor
1988 BELOVED - Toni Morrison - ON SHELVES
1989 BREATHING LESSONS - Anne Tyler
1990 THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE - Oscar Hijuelos
1991 RABBIT AT REST - John Updike
1992 A THOUSAND ACRES - Jane Smiley
1993 A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN - Robert Olen Butler
1994 THE SHIPPING NEWS - E Annie Proulx
1995 THE STONE DIARIES - Carol Shields ON SHELVES
1996 INDEPENDENCE DAY - Richard Ford ON SHELVES
1997 MARTIN DRESSLER - Steven Millhauser ON SHELVES
1998 AMERICAN PASTORAL - Philip Roth ON SHELVES
1999 THE HOURS - Michael Cunningham ON SHELVES
2000 INTERPRETER OF MALADIES - Jumpha Lahiri
2001 THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY - Michael Chabon ON SHELVES
2002 EMPIRE FALLS - Richard Russo ON SHELVES
2003 MIDDLESEX - Jeffrey Eugenides ON SHELVES
2004 THE KNOWN WORLD - Edward P. Jones ON SHELVES
2005 GILEAD - Marilynne Robinson ON SHELVES
2006 MARCH - Geraldine Brooks
2007 THE ROAD - Cormac McCarthy
2008 THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO - Junot Diaz ON SHELVES
2009 OLIVE KITTERIDGE - Elizabeth Strout ON SHELVES
2010 TINKERS - Paul Harding
2011 A VISIT FROM THE GOOD SQUAD - Jennifer Egan ON SHELVES
2013 ORPHAN MASTER'S SON - Adam Johnson ON SHELVES
2014 THE GOLDFINCH - Donna Tartt ON SHELVES
2015 ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE - Anthony Doerr ON SHELVES
2016 THE SYMPATHIZER - Viet Thanh Nguyen ON SHELVES
2017 THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD - Colson Whitehead ON SHELVES
2018 LESS - Andrew Sean Greer ON SHELVES
2019 THE OVERSTORY - Richard Powers ON SHELVES
2020 THE NICKEL BOYS - Colson Whitehead
2021 THE NIGHT WATCHMAN - Louise Erdrich
19 READ
37 ON SHELVES
38 NOT OWNED OR READ
94 TOTAL
13PaulCranswick
AROUND THE WORLD CHALLENGE
Around the world in books challenge. I want to see how many countries I can cover without limiting myself to a specific deadline.
From 1 October 2020
1. United Kingdom - The Ways of the World by Robert Goddard EUROPE
2. Ireland - The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde EUROPE
3. Lithuania - Selected and Last Poems by Czeslaw Milosz EUROPE
4. Netherlands - The Ditch by Herman Koch EUROPE
5. Armenia - The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian ASIA PACIFIC
6. Zimbabwe - This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga AFRICA
7. United States - Averno by Louise Gluck AMERICA
8. Australia - Taller When Prone by Les Murray ASIA PACIFIC
9. France - Class Trip by Emmanuel Carrere EUROPE
10. Russia - The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov EUROPE
11. Denmark - Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard EUROPE
12. Democratic Republic of Congo - Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanze Mujila AFRICA
13. Canada - I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven AMERICA
14. Italy - The Overnight Kidnapper by Andrea Camilleri EUROPE
15. New Zealand - Dove on the Waters by Maurice Shadbolt ASIA PACIFIC
16. India - A Burning by Megha Majumdar ASIA PACIFIC
17. Libya - The Return by Hisham Matar AFRICA
18. Pakistan - Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid ASIA PACIFIC
19. South Korea - Diary of a Murderer by Kim Young-Ha ASIA PACIFIC
20. Morocco - The Curious Case of Dassoukine's Trousers by Fouad Laroui AFRICA
21. Thailand - Arid Dreams by Duanwad Pimwana ASIA PACIFIC
22. Norway - Echoland by Per Petterson EUROPE
23. Belgium - I Choose to Live by Sabine Dardenne EUROPE
24. Sweden - Still Waters by Viveca Sten EUROPE
25. Trinidad - Half a Life by VS Naipaul AMERICAS
26. Sudan - Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih AFRICA
27. Uruguay - Springtime in a Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti AMERICAS
28. Syria - My Country : A Syrian Memoir by Kassem Eid ASIA PACIFIC
29. Ghana - The God Child by Nana Oforiatta Ayim AFRICA
30. Austria - Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl EUROPE
31. Germany - Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass EUROPE
32. South Africa - No Turning Back by Beverley Naidoo AFRICA
33. Mauritania - Arab Jazz by Karim Miske AFRICA
34. Cuba - The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier AMERICAS
35. Nigeria - Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie AFRICA
36. Portugal - The Return by Dulce Maria Cardoso EUROPE
37. Japan - Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe ASIA PACIFIC
38. Senegal - At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop AFRICA
39. Malta - The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi EUROPE
40. Chile - A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende AMERICAS
41. Lebanon - The First Century After Beatrice by Amin Maalouf ASIA PACIFIC
42. Spain - The Watcher in the Shadows by Carlos Ruiz Zafon EUROPE
43. Somalia - The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed AFRICA
44. Malaysia - Strangers on a Pier by Tash Aw ASIA PACIFIC
45. Mexico - Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrigue AMERICAS
Create Your Own Visited Countries Map
Around the world in books challenge. I want to see how many countries I can cover without limiting myself to a specific deadline.
From 1 October 2020
1. United Kingdom - The Ways of the World by Robert Goddard EUROPE
2. Ireland - The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde EUROPE
3. Lithuania - Selected and Last Poems by Czeslaw Milosz EUROPE
4. Netherlands - The Ditch by Herman Koch EUROPE
5. Armenia - The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian ASIA PACIFIC
6. Zimbabwe - This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga AFRICA
7. United States - Averno by Louise Gluck AMERICA
8. Australia - Taller When Prone by Les Murray ASIA PACIFIC
9. France - Class Trip by Emmanuel Carrere EUROPE
10. Russia - The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov EUROPE
11. Denmark - Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard EUROPE
12. Democratic Republic of Congo - Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanze Mujila AFRICA
13. Canada - I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven AMERICA
14. Italy - The Overnight Kidnapper by Andrea Camilleri EUROPE
15. New Zealand - Dove on the Waters by Maurice Shadbolt ASIA PACIFIC
16. India - A Burning by Megha Majumdar ASIA PACIFIC
17. Libya - The Return by Hisham Matar AFRICA
18. Pakistan - Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid ASIA PACIFIC
19. South Korea - Diary of a Murderer by Kim Young-Ha ASIA PACIFIC
20. Morocco - The Curious Case of Dassoukine's Trousers by Fouad Laroui AFRICA
21. Thailand - Arid Dreams by Duanwad Pimwana ASIA PACIFIC
22. Norway - Echoland by Per Petterson EUROPE
23. Belgium - I Choose to Live by Sabine Dardenne EUROPE
24. Sweden - Still Waters by Viveca Sten EUROPE
25. Trinidad - Half a Life by VS Naipaul AMERICAS
26. Sudan - Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih AFRICA
27. Uruguay - Springtime in a Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti AMERICAS
28. Syria - My Country : A Syrian Memoir by Kassem Eid ASIA PACIFIC
29. Ghana - The God Child by Nana Oforiatta Ayim AFRICA
30. Austria - Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl EUROPE
31. Germany - Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass EUROPE
32. South Africa - No Turning Back by Beverley Naidoo AFRICA
33. Mauritania - Arab Jazz by Karim Miske AFRICA
34. Cuba - The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier AMERICAS
35. Nigeria - Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie AFRICA
36. Portugal - The Return by Dulce Maria Cardoso EUROPE
37. Japan - Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe ASIA PACIFIC
38. Senegal - At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop AFRICA
39. Malta - The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi EUROPE
40. Chile - A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende AMERICAS
41. Lebanon - The First Century After Beatrice by Amin Maalouf ASIA PACIFIC
42. Spain - The Watcher in the Shadows by Carlos Ruiz Zafon EUROPE
43. Somalia - The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed AFRICA
44. Malaysia - Strangers on a Pier by Tash Aw ASIA PACIFIC
45. Mexico - Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrigue AMERICAS
Create Your Own Visited Countries Map
14PaulCranswick
QUEEN VIC CHALLENGE
Regarding my Victorian Era Challenge which I started this month with the aim of completing it by the end of 2021. 64 years. 64 books. 64 authors.
From Dec 2020
1838 NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET by Poe
1843 FEAR AND TREMBLING by Kierkegaard
1845 THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO by Dumas
1846 THE DEVIL'S POOL by Sand
1850 PENDENNIS by Thackeray
1851 FIFTEEN DECISIVE OF THE WORLD by Creasy
1853 CRANFORD by GASKELL
1854 CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE by Tennyson
1857 TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS by Hughes
1864 NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND by Dostoevsky
1870 A LEAR OF THE STEPPES by Turgenev
1873 AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS by Verne
1881 PRINCE AND THE PAUPER by Twain
1882 VICE VERSA by Anstey
1893 MRS WARREN'S PROFESSION by Shaw
1899 SOME EXPERIENCES OF AN IRISH RM by Somerville & Ross
1900 THREE SISTERS by Chekhov
17/64
Regarding my Victorian Era Challenge which I started this month with the aim of completing it by the end of 2021. 64 years. 64 books. 64 authors.
From Dec 2020
1838 NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET by Poe
1843 FEAR AND TREMBLING by Kierkegaard
1845 THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO by Dumas
1846 THE DEVIL'S POOL by Sand
1850 PENDENNIS by Thackeray
1851 FIFTEEN DECISIVE OF THE WORLD by Creasy
1853 CRANFORD by GASKELL
1854 CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE by Tennyson
1857 TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS by Hughes
1864 NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND by Dostoevsky
1870 A LEAR OF THE STEPPES by Turgenev
1873 AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS by Verne
1881 PRINCE AND THE PAUPER by Twain
1882 VICE VERSA by Anstey
1893 MRS WARREN'S PROFESSION by Shaw
1899 SOME EXPERIENCES OF AN IRISH RM by Somerville & Ross
1900 THREE SISTERS by Chekhov
17/64
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QUEEN BETTY CHALLENGE
From December 2020 70 Years 70 Books 70 Different British Authors
1952 A Buyer's Market by Anthony Powell
1954 The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner
1956 The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes
1959 The Age of Improvement by Asa Briggs
1960 A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow
1961 What is History? by EH Carr
1962 The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side by Agatha Christie
1964 Corridors of Power by CP Snow
1966 A Fall from the Sky by Ian Serraillier
1967 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
1968 Figures in a Landscape by Barry England
1969 Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Framer
1970 The Great Fire by Monica Dickens
1973 Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
1975 The Age of Capital by Eric Hobsbawm
1976 The Face of Battle by John Keegan
1977 Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge
1978 The Hammer of the Scots by Jean Plaidy
1983 Look at Me by Anita Brookner
1984 The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
1985 Poetry Please! edited by Charles Causley
1987 Bury the Dead by Peter Carter
1988 Northlight by Douglas Dunn
1989 Plague 99 by Jean Ure
1990 A Time to Dance by Melvyn Bragg
1996 Junk by Melvyn Burgess
1997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling
1998 The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You by Paul Farley
2000 The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
2001 Half a Life by VS Naipaul
2003 Judge Savage by Tim Parks
2005 Woods, etc. by Alice Oswald
2010 Mr Rosenblum Dreams in English by Natasha Solomons
2011 Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
2013 A Delicate Truth by John Le Carre
2014 The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths by Harry Bingham
2015 Bernard Hinault and the Fall and Rise of French Cycling by William Fotheringham
2017 I am, I am, I am by Maggie O'Farrell
2018 Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan
2019 A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson
2020 Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
2021 The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
42/70
From December 2020 70 Years 70 Books 70 Different British Authors
1952 A Buyer's Market by Anthony Powell
1954 The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner
1956 The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes
1959 The Age of Improvement by Asa Briggs
1960 A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow
1961 What is History? by EH Carr
1962 The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side by Agatha Christie
1964 Corridors of Power by CP Snow
1966 A Fall from the Sky by Ian Serraillier
1967 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
1968 Figures in a Landscape by Barry England
1969 Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Framer
1970 The Great Fire by Monica Dickens
1973 Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
1975 The Age of Capital by Eric Hobsbawm
1976 The Face of Battle by John Keegan
1977 Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge
1978 The Hammer of the Scots by Jean Plaidy
1983 Look at Me by Anita Brookner
1984 The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
1985 Poetry Please! edited by Charles Causley
1987 Bury the Dead by Peter Carter
1988 Northlight by Douglas Dunn
1989 Plague 99 by Jean Ure
1990 A Time to Dance by Melvyn Bragg
1996 Junk by Melvyn Burgess
1997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling
1998 The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You by Paul Farley
2000 The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
2001 Half a Life by VS Naipaul
2003 Judge Savage by Tim Parks
2005 Woods, etc. by Alice Oswald
2010 Mr Rosenblum Dreams in English by Natasha Solomons
2011 Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
2013 A Delicate Truth by John Le Carre
2014 The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths by Harry Bingham
2015 Bernard Hinault and the Fall and Rise of French Cycling by William Fotheringham
2017 I am, I am, I am by Maggie O'Farrell
2018 Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan
2019 A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson
2020 Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
2021 The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
42/70
16PaulCranswick
52 BOOK CLUB CHALLENGE
Based on this challenge suggested by Katie & Chelle
https://www.the52book.club/challenges/2021-reading-challenge/
January
Week 1 : Set in a school : Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes Read 2 Jan 2021
Week 2 : Legal profession : Judge Savage by Tim Parks Read 28 Jan 2021
Week 3 : Dual timeline : Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer Read 29 Jan 2021
Week 4 : Deceased author : Jazz by Toni Morrison READ 30 Jan 2021
Week 5 : Published by Penguin : Junk by Melvyn Burgess READ 3 Feb 2021
Week 6 : Male Family Member : Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch READ 12 Feb 2021
Week 7 : 1 Published Work : A Burning by Megha Majumdar READ 19 Feb 2021
Week 8 : Dewey 900 Class : What is History? by EH Carr READ 28 February
Week 9 : Set in a Mediterranean Country : The Return by Hisham Matar READ 5 MAR 2021
Week 10 : Book with discussion questions : Love Story, With Murders by Harry Bingham READ 2 APR
Week 11 : Relating to fire : Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid READ 4 APR
Week 12 : Title Starting with D : Diary of a Murderer by Kim Young-Ha READ 6 APR
Week 13 : Includes an Exotic Animal : Life of Pi by Yann Martel READ 11 April
Week 14 : Written by an author over 65 : Blue Horses by Mary Oliver READ 14 April
Week 15 : Book Mentioned in a book : Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky READ 15 April
Week 16 : Set before 17th Century : Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell READ 5 June
Week 17 : Character on the run : Figures in a Landscape by Barry England READ 26 April
Week 18 : Author with 9 letter surname : Springtime in a Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti READ 6 JUNE
Week 19 : Book with a deckled edge : In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen READ 21 JUNE
Week 20 : Became a TV series : Corridors of Power by CP Snow READ 12 JUL
Week 21 : Book by Kristin Hannah : The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah READ 22 JUNE
Week 22 : A Family Saga : Mr Rosenblum Dreams in English by Natasha Solomons READ 14 JUN
Week 23 : Surprising Ending : Still Waters by Viveca Sten READ 2 JUN
Week 24 : Book to be read in schools : Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl READ
Week 25 : Multiple POVs : Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys READ 11 JUL
Week 26 : Author of Colour : The God Child by Nana Oforiatta Ayim READ 8 JUN
Week 27 : 1st Chapter Odd Page : The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner READ 25 JUL
Week 28 : Little known historical event : The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier READ 20 JUL
Week 29 : The Environment : The First Century After Beatrice by Amin Maalouf READ 16 SEP
Week 30 : Dragons : Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling READ 8 JUL
Week 31 : Similar Title : The Return by Dulce Maria Cardoso READ 9 AUG
Week 32 : Selfish Character : The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner READ 24 AUG
Week 33 : Adoption : The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi READ 31 AUG
Week 34 : Five Star Read : Poetry Please! by Charles Causley READ 1 AUG
Week 35 : Country Starting with S :
Week 36 : Nameless Narrator : Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe READ 22 AUG
Week 37 : An educational read :
Week 38 : Book Bub :
Week 39 : Alternate History : Corpus by Rory Clements READ 30 OCT
Week 40 : On #Bookstagram :
Week 41 : Endorsement by Author : At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop READ 28 AUG
Week 42 : An epistolary : A Time to Dance by Melvyn Bragg READ 13 NOV
Week 43 : Includes a pet cat :
Week 44 : Includes a garden :
Week 45 : A Coming of Age :
Week 46 : National Book Award winner :
Week 47 : A character with disability :
Week 48 : Woman Facing Away : A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow READ 30 AUG
Week 49 : Flavour in the title :
Week 50 : A shoe on the cover :
Week 51 : Published in 2021 : Notes on Grief by Adichie READ 7 AUG
Week 52 : Repeat Category : The Promise by Damon Galgut READ 31 OCT
Based on this challenge suggested by Katie & Chelle
https://www.the52book.club/challenges/2021-reading-challenge/
January
Week 1 : Set in a school : Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes Read 2 Jan 2021
Week 2 : Legal profession : Judge Savage by Tim Parks Read 28 Jan 2021
Week 3 : Dual timeline : Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer Read 29 Jan 2021
Week 4 : Deceased author : Jazz by Toni Morrison READ 30 Jan 2021
Week 5 : Published by Penguin : Junk by Melvyn Burgess READ 3 Feb 2021
Week 6 : Male Family Member : Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch READ 12 Feb 2021
Week 7 : 1 Published Work : A Burning by Megha Majumdar READ 19 Feb 2021
Week 8 : Dewey 900 Class : What is History? by EH Carr READ 28 February
Week 9 : Set in a Mediterranean Country : The Return by Hisham Matar READ 5 MAR 2021
Week 10 : Book with discussion questions : Love Story, With Murders by Harry Bingham READ 2 APR
Week 11 : Relating to fire : Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid READ 4 APR
Week 12 : Title Starting with D : Diary of a Murderer by Kim Young-Ha READ 6 APR
Week 13 : Includes an Exotic Animal : Life of Pi by Yann Martel READ 11 April
Week 14 : Written by an author over 65 : Blue Horses by Mary Oliver READ 14 April
Week 15 : Book Mentioned in a book : Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky READ 15 April
Week 16 : Set before 17th Century : Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell READ 5 June
Week 17 : Character on the run : Figures in a Landscape by Barry England READ 26 April
Week 18 : Author with 9 letter surname : Springtime in a Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti READ 6 JUNE
Week 19 : Book with a deckled edge : In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen READ 21 JUNE
Week 20 : Became a TV series : Corridors of Power by CP Snow READ 12 JUL
Week 21 : Book by Kristin Hannah : The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah READ 22 JUNE
Week 22 : A Family Saga : Mr Rosenblum Dreams in English by Natasha Solomons READ 14 JUN
Week 23 : Surprising Ending : Still Waters by Viveca Sten READ 2 JUN
Week 24 : Book to be read in schools : Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl READ
Week 25 : Multiple POVs : Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys READ 11 JUL
Week 26 : Author of Colour : The God Child by Nana Oforiatta Ayim READ 8 JUN
Week 27 : 1st Chapter Odd Page : The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner READ 25 JUL
Week 28 : Little known historical event : The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier READ 20 JUL
Week 29 : The Environment : The First Century After Beatrice by Amin Maalouf READ 16 SEP
Week 30 : Dragons : Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling READ 8 JUL
Week 31 : Similar Title : The Return by Dulce Maria Cardoso READ 9 AUG
Week 32 : Selfish Character : The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner READ 24 AUG
Week 33 : Adoption : The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi READ 31 AUG
Week 34 : Five Star Read : Poetry Please! by Charles Causley READ 1 AUG
Week 35 : Country Starting with S :
Week 36 : Nameless Narrator : Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe READ 22 AUG
Week 37 : An educational read :
Week 38 : Book Bub :
Week 39 : Alternate History : Corpus by Rory Clements READ 30 OCT
Week 40 : On #Bookstagram :
Week 41 : Endorsement by Author : At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop READ 28 AUG
Week 42 : An epistolary : A Time to Dance by Melvyn Bragg READ 13 NOV
Week 43 : Includes a pet cat :
Week 44 : Includes a garden :
Week 45 : A Coming of Age :
Week 46 : National Book Award winner :
Week 47 : A character with disability :
Week 48 : Woman Facing Away : A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow READ 30 AUG
Week 49 : Flavour in the title :
Week 50 : A shoe on the cover :
Week 51 : Published in 2021 : Notes on Grief by Adichie READ 7 AUG
Week 52 : Repeat Category : The Promise by Damon Galgut READ 31 OCT
17PaulCranswick
SERIES PAIR CHALLENGE
January : Andrea Camilleri - MONTALBANO DONE
February : Agatha Christie - MISS MARPLE DONE
March : Ben Aaronovitch - PETER GRANT DONE
April : Harry Bingham - FIONA GRIFFITHS DONE
May : Megan Whalen Turner - EUGENIDES DONE
June : Bernard Cornwell - UHTRED DONE
July : Rory Clements - TOM WILDE DONE
January : Andrea Camilleri - MONTALBANO DONE
February : Agatha Christie - MISS MARPLE DONE
March : Ben Aaronovitch - PETER GRANT DONE
April : Harry Bingham - FIONA GRIFFITHS DONE
May : Megan Whalen Turner - EUGENIDES DONE
June : Bernard Cornwell - UHTRED DONE
July : Rory Clements - TOM WILDE DONE
18PaulCranswick
BRITISH HISTORIANS
As if I don't have enough challenges! I want to polish up on my reading and re-reading of the British historians who either inspired me as a student or who I have since come to greatly admire
The French Revolution by Thomas CARLYLE 1837
The Age of Improvement by Asa BRIGGS 1959 READ MAR 21
The History of England by Thomas Babington MACAULAY 1848
The Making of the English Working Class by EP THOMPSON 1963
Fifteen Decisive Battles by EDWARD CREASEY 1851 READ AUG 21
What is History? by EH CARR 1961 READ FEB 21
The Course of German History by AJP TAYLOR 1945
The American Future by Simon SCHAMA 2009
The Face of Battle by John KEEGAN 1976 READ OCT 21
The King's Peace by CV WEDGWOOD 1955
The Age of Capital by ERIC HOBSBAWM 1975 READ JUN 21
As if I don't have enough challenges! I want to polish up on my reading and re-reading of the British historians who either inspired me as a student or who I have since come to greatly admire
The French Revolution by Thomas CARLYLE 1837
The Age of Improvement by Asa BRIGGS 1959 READ MAR 21
The History of England by Thomas Babington MACAULAY 1848
The Making of the English Working Class by EP THOMPSON 1963
Fifteen Decisive Battles by EDWARD CREASEY 1851 READ AUG 21
What is History? by EH CARR 1961 READ FEB 21
The Course of German History by AJP TAYLOR 1945
The American Future by Simon SCHAMA 2009
The Face of Battle by John KEEGAN 1976 READ OCT 21
The King's Peace by CV WEDGWOOD 1955
The Age of Capital by ERIC HOBSBAWM 1975 READ JUN 21
19PaulCranswick
READ MORE THAN ACQUIRED
Last year I added 300 books but read 50 of them. In addition I have another 4,500 plus on the TBR.
The challenge is not to make the situation of my TBR worse.
So I must read or remove from my wider TBR more than I acquire this year and I will gauge this against last years "new" TBR and any future incomings. Therefore the older TBRs don't count against this challenge.
The figure at the start of the year is 250 books and this number must be smaller by December 31. These are the 250 books:
1 Stay with Me Adebayo
2 American War Akkad
3 The Catholic School Albinati
4 The Unwomanly Face of War Alexievich
5 Saltwater Andrews
6 Big Sky Atkinson
7 At the Jerusalem Bailey
8 The Body Lies Baker
9 The Lost Memory of Skin Banks
10 Remembered Battle-Felton
11 Springtime in a Broken Mirror Benedetti READ JUN 21
12 A Crime in the Neighborhood Berne
13 Stand By Me Berry
14 Love Story, With Murders Bingham READ APR 21
15 This Thing of Darkness Bingham
16 The Sandcastle Girls Bohjalian
17 The Ascent of Rum Doodle Bowman
18 Clade Bradley
19 The Snow Ball Brophy
20 Paladin of Souls Bujold
21 Parable of the Sower Butler
22 The Adventures of China Iron Camara
23 The Overnight Kidnapper Camilleri READ JAN 21
24 The Other End of the Line Camilleri READ JAN 21
25 Lord of all the Dead Cercas
26 Uncle Vanya Checkov
27 The Cherry Orchard Checkov
28 Blue Moon Child
29 Trust Exercise Choi
30 The Night Tiger Choo
31 The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side Christie READ JAN 21
32 At Bertram's Hotel Christie READ FEB 21
33 The Water Dancer Coates
34 The New Wilderness Cook
35 Hopscotch Cortazar
36 The Illumination of Ursula Flight Crowhurst
37 Deviation D'Eramo
38 Boy Swallows Universe Dalton
39 The Girl with the Louding Voice Dare
40 The Rose of Tibet Davidson
41 Dhalgren Delany
42 The Butterfly Girl Denfeld
43 Vernon Subutex 1 Despentes
44 Postcolonial Love Poem Diaz READ SEP 21
45 Childhood Ditlevsen
46 Youth Ditlevsen
47 Dependency Ditlevsen
48 Burnt Sugar Doshi
49 Frenchman's Creek Du Maurier D
50 Trilby Du Maurier G
51 Sincerity Duffy
52 Sumarine Dunthorne
53 The Narrow Land Dwyer-Hickey
54 Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race Eddo-Lodge
55 Axiom's End Ellis
56 Figures in a Landscape England READ APR 21
57 kaddish.com Englander
58 Shadow Tag Erdrich
59 The Carpet Makers Eschbach
60 The Emperor's Babe Evaristo
61 Small Country Faye
62 To Rise Again at a Decent Hour Ferris
63 At Freddie's Fitzgerald
64 The Guest List Foley
65 Man's Search for Meaning Frankl READ JUN 21
66 Love in No Man's Land Ga
67 Norse Mythology Gaiman
68 The Spare Room Garner
69 The Kites Gary
70 Gun Island Ghosh
71 Vita Nova Gluck READ JUN 21
72 Trafalgar Gorodischer
73 Potiki Grace
74 Killers of the Flower Moon Grann
75 The Last Banquet Grimwood
76 Guapa Haddad
77 The Porpoise Haddon
78 Late in the Day Hadley
79 The Final Bet Hamdouchi
80 The Parisian Hammad
81 Nightingale Hannah
82 Coastliners Harris J
83 The Truths We Hold Harris K
84 Conclave Harris R
85 The Second Sleep Harris R
86 Tales of the Tikongs Hau'ofa
87 A Thousand Ships Haynes
88 The River Heller
89 Dead Lions Herron
90 Real Tigers Herron
91 War and Turpentine Hertmans
92 A Political History of the World Holslag
93 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Honeyman
94 The Light Years Howard
95 Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself Huber
96 A High Wind in Jamaica Hughes
97 Ape and Essence Huxley
98 Me John
99 Nightblind Jonasson
100 Black Out Jonasson
101 How to be an Anti-Rascist Kendi
102 Death is Hard Work Khalifa
103 Darius the Great is Not Okay Khorram
104 Himself Kidd
105 Diary of a Murderer Kim READ APR 21
106 Dance of the Jacakranda Kimani
107 The Bridge Konigsberg
108 Who They Was Krauze
109 The Mars Room Kushner
110 The Princesse de Cleves La Fayette
111 The Other Americans Lalami
112 The Curious Case of Dassoukine's Trousers Laroui READ APR 21
113 Fish Can Sing Laxness
114 Agent Running in the Field Le Carre
115 Pachinko Lee
116 The Turncoat Lenz
117 The Topeka School Lerner
118 Caging Skies Leunens
119 The Fifth Risk Lewis
120 The Three-Body Problem Liu
121 Lost Children Archive Luiselli
122 Black Moses Mabanckou
123 Blue Ticket Mackintosh
124 A Burning Majumdar READ FEB 21
125 The Mirror and the Light Mantel
126 Original Spin Marks
127 Deep River Marlantes
128 The Return Matar READ MAR 21
129 The Island Matute
130 Hame McAfee
131 Apeirogon McCann
132 Underland McFarlane
133 Hurricane Season Melchor
134 The Shadow King Mengiste
135 The Human Swarm Moffett
136 She Would Be King Moore
137 The Starless Sea Morgenstern
138 Poetry by Heart Motion
139 A Fairly Honourable Defeat Murdoch
140 The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov
141 The Warlow Experiment Nathan
142 The Left-Handed Booksellers of London Nix
143 Born a Crime Noah
144 The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney Nzelu
145 Girl O'Brien
146 After You'd Gone O'Farrell
147 Henry, Himself O'Nan
148 Inland Obreht
149 Weather Offill
150 Dept. of Speculation Offill
151 Stag's Leap Olds
152 Blue Horses Oliver READ APR 21
153 Felicity Oliver
154 Will Olyslaegers
155 Woods, etc Oswald READ FEB 21
156 Night Theatre Paralkar
157 The Damascus Road Parini
158 Empress of the East Peirce
159 The Street Petry
160 Disappearing Earth Phillips
161 Arid Dreams Pimwana READ APR 21
162 Peterloo : Witness to a Massacre Polyp
163 Lanny Porter
164 The Women at Hitler's Table Postorino
165 A Question of Upbringing Powell A READ JAN 21
166 A Buyer's Market Powell A READ FEB 21
167 The Acceptance World Powell A
168 The Interrogative Mood Powell P
169 Rough Magic Prior-Palmer
170 The Alice Network Quinn
171 Where the Red Fern Grows Rawls
172 Such a Fun Age Reid
173 Selected Poems 1950-2012 Rich
174 The Discomfort of Evening Rijneveld
175 Jack Robinson
176 The Years of Rice and Salt Robinson K
177 A Portable Paradise Robinson R READ JAN 21
178 The Fall of the Ottomans Rogan
179 Normal People Rooney
180 Conversations with Friends Rooney
181 Alone Time Rosenbloom
182 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Rowling READ JUL 21
183 The Watch Roy-Bhattacharya
184 The Five Rubenhold
185 Contact Sagan
186 The Hunters Salter
187 The Seventh Cross Seghers
188 Will Self
189 Moses Ascending Selvon
190 The Dove on the Water Shadbolt READ JAN 21
191 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World Shafak
192 In Arabian Nights Shah
193 The Caliph's House Shah
194 Mrs Warren's Profession Shaw READ JUN 21
195 Arms and the Man Shaw
196 Candida Shaw
197 Man and Superman Shaw
198 Dimension of Miracles Sheckley
199 The Last Man Shelley
200 Temple of a Thousand Faces Shors
201 Year of the Monkey Smith P READ APR 21
202 Eternity Smith T
203 Crossing Statovci
204 Lucy Church, Amiably Stein
205 Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead Stoppard READ SEP 21
206 Blood Cruise Strandberg
207 Shuggie Bain Stuart READ JAN 21
208 Three Poems Sullivan READ MAY 21
209 Rules for Perfect Murders Swanson
210 Cane River Tademy
211 Real Life Taylor
212 The Queen's Gambit Tevis
213 Far North Therous
214 Walden Thoreau
215 Civil Disobedience Thoreau
216 Survivor Song Tremblay
217 The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee Treuer
218 The Small House at Allingham Trollope
219 A Nest of Gentlefolk Turgenev
220 A Quiet Backwater Turgenev
221 A Lear of the Steppes Turgenev READ JAN 21
222 The Queen of Attolia Turner READ JUL 21
223 The King of Attolia Turner READ JUL 21
224 Redhead by the Side of the Road Tyler
225 Outlaw Ocean Urbina
226 Plague 99 Ure READ JAN 2021
227 The Age of Miracles Walker
228 The Uninhabitable Earth Wallace-Wells
229 Judith Paris Walpole
230 Love and Other Thought Experiments Ward
231 The Death of Mrs. Westaway Ware
232 Lolly Willows Warner
233 Second Life Watson
234 Final Cut Watson
235 Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen Weldon
236 Before the War Weldon
237 Lazarus West
238 Educated Westover
239 The Nickel Boys Whitehead READ JAN 21
240 The Death of Murat Idrissi Wieringa
241 Salome Wilde
242 An Ideal Husband Wilde
243 Lady Windemere's Fan Wilde
244 A Woman of No Importance Wilde
245 The Salt Path Winn
246 The Natural Way of Things Wood C
247 East Lynne Wood E
248 A Room of One's Own Woolf READ FEB 21
249 Interior Chinatown Yu
250 How Much of These Hills is Gold Zhang
BEGIN : 250
READ : 33
LEFT : 217
Last year I added 300 books but read 50 of them. In addition I have another 4,500 plus on the TBR.
The challenge is not to make the situation of my TBR worse.
So I must read or remove from my wider TBR more than I acquire this year and I will gauge this against last years "new" TBR and any future incomings. Therefore the older TBRs don't count against this challenge.
The figure at the start of the year is 250 books and this number must be smaller by December 31. These are the 250 books:
1 Stay with Me Adebayo
2 American War Akkad
3 The Catholic School Albinati
4 The Unwomanly Face of War Alexievich
5 Saltwater Andrews
6 Big Sky Atkinson
7 At the Jerusalem Bailey
8 The Body Lies Baker
9 The Lost Memory of Skin Banks
10 Remembered Battle-Felton
11 Springtime in a Broken Mirror Benedetti READ JUN 21
12 A Crime in the Neighborhood Berne
13 Stand By Me Berry
14 Love Story, With Murders Bingham READ APR 21
15 This Thing of Darkness Bingham
16 The Sandcastle Girls Bohjalian
17 The Ascent of Rum Doodle Bowman
18 Clade Bradley
19 The Snow Ball Brophy
20 Paladin of Souls Bujold
21 Parable of the Sower Butler
22 The Adventures of China Iron Camara
23 The Overnight Kidnapper Camilleri READ JAN 21
24 The Other End of the Line Camilleri READ JAN 21
25 Lord of all the Dead Cercas
26 Uncle Vanya Checkov
27 The Cherry Orchard Checkov
28 Blue Moon Child
29 Trust Exercise Choi
30 The Night Tiger Choo
31 The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side Christie READ JAN 21
32 At Bertram's Hotel Christie READ FEB 21
33 The Water Dancer Coates
34 The New Wilderness Cook
35 Hopscotch Cortazar
36 The Illumination of Ursula Flight Crowhurst
37 Deviation D'Eramo
38 Boy Swallows Universe Dalton
39 The Girl with the Louding Voice Dare
40 The Rose of Tibet Davidson
41 Dhalgren Delany
42 The Butterfly Girl Denfeld
43 Vernon Subutex 1 Despentes
44 Postcolonial Love Poem Diaz READ SEP 21
45 Childhood Ditlevsen
46 Youth Ditlevsen
47 Dependency Ditlevsen
48 Burnt Sugar Doshi
49 Frenchman's Creek Du Maurier D
50 Trilby Du Maurier G
51 Sincerity Duffy
52 Sumarine Dunthorne
53 The Narrow Land Dwyer-Hickey
54 Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race Eddo-Lodge
55 Axiom's End Ellis
56 Figures in a Landscape England READ APR 21
57 kaddish.com Englander
58 Shadow Tag Erdrich
59 The Carpet Makers Eschbach
60 The Emperor's Babe Evaristo
61 Small Country Faye
62 To Rise Again at a Decent Hour Ferris
63 At Freddie's Fitzgerald
64 The Guest List Foley
65 Man's Search for Meaning Frankl READ JUN 21
66 Love in No Man's Land Ga
67 Norse Mythology Gaiman
68 The Spare Room Garner
69 The Kites Gary
70 Gun Island Ghosh
71 Vita Nova Gluck READ JUN 21
72 Trafalgar Gorodischer
73 Potiki Grace
74 Killers of the Flower Moon Grann
75 The Last Banquet Grimwood
76 Guapa Haddad
77 The Porpoise Haddon
78 Late in the Day Hadley
79 The Final Bet Hamdouchi
80 The Parisian Hammad
81 Nightingale Hannah
82 Coastliners Harris J
83 The Truths We Hold Harris K
84 Conclave Harris R
85 The Second Sleep Harris R
86 Tales of the Tikongs Hau'ofa
87 A Thousand Ships Haynes
88 The River Heller
89 Dead Lions Herron
90 Real Tigers Herron
91 War and Turpentine Hertmans
92 A Political History of the World Holslag
93 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Honeyman
94 The Light Years Howard
95 Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself Huber
96 A High Wind in Jamaica Hughes
97 Ape and Essence Huxley
98 Me John
99 Nightblind Jonasson
100 Black Out Jonasson
101 How to be an Anti-Rascist Kendi
102 Death is Hard Work Khalifa
103 Darius the Great is Not Okay Khorram
104 Himself Kidd
105 Diary of a Murderer Kim READ APR 21
106 Dance of the Jacakranda Kimani
107 The Bridge Konigsberg
108 Who They Was Krauze
109 The Mars Room Kushner
110 The Princesse de Cleves La Fayette
111 The Other Americans Lalami
112 The Curious Case of Dassoukine's Trousers Laroui READ APR 21
113 Fish Can Sing Laxness
114 Agent Running in the Field Le Carre
115 Pachinko Lee
116 The Turncoat Lenz
117 The Topeka School Lerner
118 Caging Skies Leunens
119 The Fifth Risk Lewis
120 The Three-Body Problem Liu
121 Lost Children Archive Luiselli
122 Black Moses Mabanckou
123 Blue Ticket Mackintosh
124 A Burning Majumdar READ FEB 21
125 The Mirror and the Light Mantel
126 Original Spin Marks
127 Deep River Marlantes
128 The Return Matar READ MAR 21
129 The Island Matute
130 Hame McAfee
131 Apeirogon McCann
132 Underland McFarlane
133 Hurricane Season Melchor
134 The Shadow King Mengiste
135 The Human Swarm Moffett
136 She Would Be King Moore
137 The Starless Sea Morgenstern
138 Poetry by Heart Motion
139 A Fairly Honourable Defeat Murdoch
140 The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov
141 The Warlow Experiment Nathan
142 The Left-Handed Booksellers of London Nix
143 Born a Crime Noah
144 The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney Nzelu
145 Girl O'Brien
146 After You'd Gone O'Farrell
147 Henry, Himself O'Nan
148 Inland Obreht
149 Weather Offill
150 Dept. of Speculation Offill
151 Stag's Leap Olds
152 Blue Horses Oliver READ APR 21
153 Felicity Oliver
154 Will Olyslaegers
155 Woods, etc Oswald READ FEB 21
156 Night Theatre Paralkar
157 The Damascus Road Parini
158 Empress of the East Peirce
159 The Street Petry
160 Disappearing Earth Phillips
161 Arid Dreams Pimwana READ APR 21
162 Peterloo : Witness to a Massacre Polyp
163 Lanny Porter
164 The Women at Hitler's Table Postorino
165 A Question of Upbringing Powell A READ JAN 21
166 A Buyer's Market Powell A READ FEB 21
167 The Acceptance World Powell A
168 The Interrogative Mood Powell P
169 Rough Magic Prior-Palmer
170 The Alice Network Quinn
171 Where the Red Fern Grows Rawls
172 Such a Fun Age Reid
173 Selected Poems 1950-2012 Rich
174 The Discomfort of Evening Rijneveld
175 Jack Robinson
176 The Years of Rice and Salt Robinson K
177 A Portable Paradise Robinson R READ JAN 21
178 The Fall of the Ottomans Rogan
179 Normal People Rooney
180 Conversations with Friends Rooney
181 Alone Time Rosenbloom
182 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Rowling READ JUL 21
183 The Watch Roy-Bhattacharya
184 The Five Rubenhold
185 Contact Sagan
186 The Hunters Salter
187 The Seventh Cross Seghers
188 Will Self
189 Moses Ascending Selvon
190 The Dove on the Water Shadbolt READ JAN 21
191 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World Shafak
192 In Arabian Nights Shah
193 The Caliph's House Shah
194 Mrs Warren's Profession Shaw READ JUN 21
195 Arms and the Man Shaw
196 Candida Shaw
197 Man and Superman Shaw
198 Dimension of Miracles Sheckley
199 The Last Man Shelley
200 Temple of a Thousand Faces Shors
201 Year of the Monkey Smith P READ APR 21
202 Eternity Smith T
203 Crossing Statovci
204 Lucy Church, Amiably Stein
205 Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead Stoppard READ SEP 21
206 Blood Cruise Strandberg
207 Shuggie Bain Stuart READ JAN 21
208 Three Poems Sullivan READ MAY 21
209 Rules for Perfect Murders Swanson
210 Cane River Tademy
211 Real Life Taylor
212 The Queen's Gambit Tevis
213 Far North Therous
214 Walden Thoreau
215 Civil Disobedience Thoreau
216 Survivor Song Tremblay
217 The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee Treuer
218 The Small House at Allingham Trollope
219 A Nest of Gentlefolk Turgenev
220 A Quiet Backwater Turgenev
221 A Lear of the Steppes Turgenev READ JAN 21
222 The Queen of Attolia Turner READ JUL 21
223 The King of Attolia Turner READ JUL 21
224 Redhead by the Side of the Road Tyler
225 Outlaw Ocean Urbina
226 Plague 99 Ure READ JAN 2021
227 The Age of Miracles Walker
228 The Uninhabitable Earth Wallace-Wells
229 Judith Paris Walpole
230 Love and Other Thought Experiments Ward
231 The Death of Mrs. Westaway Ware
232 Lolly Willows Warner
233 Second Life Watson
234 Final Cut Watson
235 Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen Weldon
236 Before the War Weldon
237 Lazarus West
238 Educated Westover
239 The Nickel Boys Whitehead READ JAN 21
240 The Death of Murat Idrissi Wieringa
241 Salome Wilde
242 An Ideal Husband Wilde
243 Lady Windemere's Fan Wilde
244 A Woman of No Importance Wilde
245 The Salt Path Winn
246 The Natural Way of Things Wood C
247 East Lynne Wood E
248 A Room of One's Own Woolf READ FEB 21
249 Interior Chinatown Yu
250 How Much of These Hills is Gold Zhang
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THIS YEAR'S ACQUISITIONS
1. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Somerville & Ross READ MAR 21
2. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome READ JAN 21
3. The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
4. The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
5. The Black Corsair by Emilio Salgari
6. The Prime Ministers : Reflections on Leadership from Wilson to Johnson by Steve Richards
7. The God Child by Nana Oforiatta Ayim READ JUN 21
8. Arturo's Island by Elsa Morante
9. Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli
10. The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
11. The Light in Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron
12. Death's Mistress by Terry Goodkind
13. The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
14. Small Days and Nights by Tishani Doshi
15. Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
16. Desert by JMG Le Clezio
17. For the Record by David Cameron
18. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
19. The Guardians of the West by David Eddings
20. Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
21. The Council of Egypt by Leonardo Sciascia
22. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
23. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin
24. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
25. Rupture by Ragnar Jonasson
26. White Out by Ragnar Jonasson
27. The Age of Capital by Eric Hobsbawm READ JUN 21
28. The World Turned Upside Down by Christopher Hill
29. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
30. Modern Times by Paul Johnson
31. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
32. The Warehouse by Rob Hart
33. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
34. Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
35. Queen of Sorcery by David Eddings
36. Magician's Gambit by David Eddings
37. Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan
38. In Ashes Lie by Marie Brennan
39. The Broken Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
40. The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
41. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
42. At Lady Molly's by Anthony Powell
43. Casanova's Chinese Restaurant by Anthony Powell
44. The Kindly Ones by Anthony Powell
45. The Financier by Theodore Dreiser
46. Still Waters by Viveca Sten READ JUN 21
47. Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
48. The Europeans by Henry James
49. Vice Versa by F. Anstey READ JUN 21
50. A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
51. The Scarred Woman by Jussi Adler Olsen
52. Closed for Winter Jorn Lier Horst
53. News of the World by Juliette Jiles
54. Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon READ MAR 21
55. A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina Nayeri
56. Death in the Tuscan Hills by Marco Vichi
57. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
58. Good Morning Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
59. Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud
60. The Enchanted by Rene Denefeld
61. The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
62. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis
63. The Innocents by Michael Crummey
64. Night Waking by Sarah Moss
65. Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
66. Throw me to the Wolves by Patrick McGuinness
67. Consent by Annabel Lyon
68. Selling Manhattan by Carole Ann Duffy
69. Rendang by Will Harris READ JUL 21
70. The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
71. No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
72. Amnesty by Aravind Adiga
73. The Awkward Squad by Sophie Henaff
74. The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown by Vaseem Khan
75. Afternoon Raag by Amit Chaudhuri
76. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
77. The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson
78. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
79. Bricks and Mortar by Clemens Meyer
80. The Eastern Shore by Ward Just
81. The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
82. The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck
83. Vertigo& Ghost by Fiona Benson
84. Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
85. Soot by Dan Vyleta
86. Deacon King Kong by James McBride
87. Abigail by Magda Szabo
88. Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugresic
89. Coming Up for Air by Sarah Leipciger
90. Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
91. Selection Day by Aravind Adiga
92. The Voyage by Murray Bail
93. Peace : A Novel by Richard Bausch
94. The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano
95. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
96. The Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier READ JUL 21
97. My Life as a Russian Novel by Emmanuel Carrere
98. Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau
99. Man V. Nature by Diane Cook
100. The Melody by Jim Crace
101. SS-GB by Len Deighton
102. Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
103. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
104. The Beautiful Indifference by Sarah Hall
105. Munich by Robert Harris
106. Bodies Electric by Colin Harrison
107. The Punch by Noah Hawley
108. Spook Street by Mick Herron
109. London Rules by Mick Herron
110. The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
111. The Land of Green Ginger by Winifred Holtby
112. The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes READ OCT 21
113. The Cider House Rules by John Irving
114. Exiles in the Garden by Ward Just
115. Duffy by Dan Kavanagh
116. The Good People by Hannah Kent
117. The Life to Come by Michelle de Krester
118. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin
119. 10:04 by Ben Lerner
120. Home is the Hunter by Helen MacInnes
121. Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan
122. The Blood Miracles by Lisa McInerney
123. The Girl in Green by Derek B. Miller
124. Arab Jazz by Karim Miske READ JUL 21
125. Bodies of Light by Sarah Moss
126. Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates
127. The Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe
128. The Horseman by Tim Pears
129. Echoland by Per Petterson READ APR 21
130. Last Stand by Michael Punke
131. The Waiting Time by Gerald Seymour
132. Home Run by Gerald Seymour
133. Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith
134. To the Back of Beyond by Peter Stamm
135. They Know Not What They Do by Jussi Valtonen
136. The Tulip Eaters by Antoinette Van Heugten
137. Smoke by Dan Vyleta
138. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
139. That Eye, The Sky by Tim Winton
140. Fear : Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward
141. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell READ JUN 21
142. Gerta by Katerina Tuckova
143. My Country: A Syrian Memoir by Kassem Eid READ JUN 21
144. Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann
145. The Hotel Tito by Ivana Bodrozic
146. Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride
147. Blame by Paul Read
148. House of Lords and Commons by Ishion Hutchinson
149. To Calais, In Ordinary Time by James Meek
150. Your Story, My Story by Connie Palmen
151. Wake Up : Why the World Has Gone Nuts by Piers Morgan
152. Death of a Coast Watcher by Anthony English
153. Limitless by Ala Glynn
154. Toddler Hunting and Other Stories by Taeko Kono
155. Daughter of the Tigris by Muhsin al-Ramli
156. Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
157. Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
158. Incomparable World by S.L. Martin
159. The Dancing Face by Mike Phillips
160. Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors
161. Sharks in the Time of Saviours by Kawai Strong Washburn
162. The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
163. Rest and Be Thankful by Emma Glass
164. Minty Alley by CLR James
165. The Fat Lady Sings by Jacqueline Roy
166. Actress by Anne Enright
167. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
168. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
169. Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas
170. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov *Replacement*
171. Summer by Ali Smith
172. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor *Replacement*
173. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
174. The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima
175. The Girls by Emma Cline
176. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich READ AUG 21
177. The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner READ AUG 21
178. The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
179. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
180. The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
181. Just Like You by Nick Hornby
182. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
183. Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih READ JUNE 21
184. The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
185. The Dig by Roger Preston
186. The Historians by Eavan Boland
187. Selected Poems by Elizabeth Jennings
188. The Deemster by Hall Caine
189. When Rainclouds Gather by Bessie Head
190. Maru by Bessie Head
191. Derek Mahon: New Selected Poems by Derek Mahon
192. A Move in the Weather by Anthony Thwaite
193. Door into the Dark by Seamus Heaney
194. Driftless by David Rhodes
195. Independence Square by AD Miller
196. Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga
197. Lot by Bryan Washington
198. A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende READ SEP 21
199. The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha
200. Fire and Ice by Dana Stabenow
201. Aria by Nazanine Hozar
202. Waking Lions by Ayelet Gudar-Goshen
203. Victim 2117 by Jussi Adler-Olsen
204. The Pagan Lord by Bernard Cornwell READ AUG 21
205. The Quality of Madness by Tim Rich READ JULY 21
206. Ghosts of the Past by Marco Vichi
207. The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray
208. Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie READ AUG 21
209. Here We Are by Graham Swift
210. Deaths of the Poets by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts
211. I am, I am, I am by Maggie O'Farrell READ AUG 21
212. The Whale at the End of the World by John Iremonger
213. Precious Bane by Mary Webb
214. Bina by Anakana Schofield
215. Little Siberia by Antti Tuomainen
216. At Night the Blood is Black by David Diop READ AUG 21
217. Muscle by Alan Trotter
218. The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
219. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
220. Missionaries by Phil Klay
221. Pew by Catherine Lacey READ SEP 21
222. Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
223. Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova
224. The Safety Net by Andrea Camilleri
225. Corpus by Rory Clements READ OCT 21
226. Nucleus by Rory Clements READ NOV 21
227. The Rain in Portugal by Billy Collins
228. The Hill Station by JG Farrell
229. Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
230. The Abstainer by Ian McGuire
231. The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray
232. Mating by Norman Rush
233. One by One by Ruth Ware
234. The Yield by Tara June Winch
235. The Sicilian Method by Andrea Camilleri
236. Rotten Days in Late Summer by Ralf Webb
237. Tracks by Louise Erdrich
238. The First Century After Beatrice by Amin Maalouf READ SEP 21
239. Dances With Wolves by Michael Blake
240. The Holy Road by Michael Blake
241. Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn by Brett Anderson
242. A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
243. A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
244. Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
245. The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed READ OCT 21
246. The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
247. E.E.G. by Dasa Drndic
248. English Monsters by James Scudamore
249. The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
250. The Matter of Desire by Edmundo Paz Soldan
251. The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
252. A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
253. Monogamy by Sue Miller
254. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
255. Bewilderment by Richard Powers
256. Evangeline and Other Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
257. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
258. Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
259. The Watcher in the Shadows by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. READ OCT 21
260. Cavalleria Rusticana by Giovanni Strega
261. A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux
262. Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead READ OCT 21
263. The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
264. Tribes by David Lammy
265. Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Conde
266. Hot Stew by Fiona Mozley
267. Girl A by Abigail Dean
268. The Promise by Damon Galgut READ OCT 21
269. The Crime Writer by Jill Dawson
270. The Cook of the Halcyon by Andrea Camilleri
271. The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
272. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
273. Strangers on a Pier by Tash Aw READ NOV 21
274. The Drowned City by K.J. Maitland
275. Remaking One Nation by Nick Timothy
276. How to Run a Government by Michael Barber
277. Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara
278. The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara
279. Nemesis by Rory Clements
280. Uncle Tom's Children by Richard Wright
281. The Power of Geography by Tim Marshall
282. Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree
283. Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
284. The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon
285. The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
286. The Colonel by Mahmood Dowlatabadi
287. Disquiet by Zulfu Livaneli
288. The Italian by Shukri Mabkhout
289. The Tunnel by AB Yehoshua
290. The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr
291. Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
292. Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
293. The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam
294. Mehmed, my Hawk by Yasar Kemal
295. Endgame by Ahmet Altan
296. What to Read Next by Stig Abell
297. The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam
298. The Runaways by Fatima Bhutto
299. The Most Precious of Cargoes by Jean-Claude Grumberg
300. Sunlight On a Broken Column by Attia Hosain
301. Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
302. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
303. The Plotters by Kim Un Su
304. Lemon by Kwon Yeo Sun
305. Endless Blue Sky by Lee Hyoseok
306. The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian
307. Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
308. The Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson
309. There's No Such Thing as An Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura
310. Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
310 added
32 read
278 nett additions
1. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Somerville & Ross READ MAR 21
2. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome READ JAN 21
3. The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
4. The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
5. The Black Corsair by Emilio Salgari
6. The Prime Ministers : Reflections on Leadership from Wilson to Johnson by Steve Richards
7. The God Child by Nana Oforiatta Ayim READ JUN 21
8. Arturo's Island by Elsa Morante
9. Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli
10. The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
11. The Light in Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron
12. Death's Mistress by Terry Goodkind
13. The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
14. Small Days and Nights by Tishani Doshi
15. Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
16. Desert by JMG Le Clezio
17. For the Record by David Cameron
18. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
19. The Guardians of the West by David Eddings
20. Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
21. The Council of Egypt by Leonardo Sciascia
22. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
23. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin
24. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
25. Rupture by Ragnar Jonasson
26. White Out by Ragnar Jonasson
27. The Age of Capital by Eric Hobsbawm READ JUN 21
28. The World Turned Upside Down by Christopher Hill
29. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
30. Modern Times by Paul Johnson
31. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
32. The Warehouse by Rob Hart
33. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
34. Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
35. Queen of Sorcery by David Eddings
36. Magician's Gambit by David Eddings
37. Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan
38. In Ashes Lie by Marie Brennan
39. The Broken Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
40. The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
41. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
42. At Lady Molly's by Anthony Powell
43. Casanova's Chinese Restaurant by Anthony Powell
44. The Kindly Ones by Anthony Powell
45. The Financier by Theodore Dreiser
46. Still Waters by Viveca Sten READ JUN 21
47. Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
48. The Europeans by Henry James
49. Vice Versa by F. Anstey READ JUN 21
50. A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
51. The Scarred Woman by Jussi Adler Olsen
52. Closed for Winter Jorn Lier Horst
53. News of the World by Juliette Jiles
54. Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon READ MAR 21
55. A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina Nayeri
56. Death in the Tuscan Hills by Marco Vichi
57. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
58. Good Morning Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
59. Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud
60. The Enchanted by Rene Denefeld
61. The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
62. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis
63. The Innocents by Michael Crummey
64. Night Waking by Sarah Moss
65. Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
66. Throw me to the Wolves by Patrick McGuinness
67. Consent by Annabel Lyon
68. Selling Manhattan by Carole Ann Duffy
69. Rendang by Will Harris READ JUL 21
70. The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
71. No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
72. Amnesty by Aravind Adiga
73. The Awkward Squad by Sophie Henaff
74. The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown by Vaseem Khan
75. Afternoon Raag by Amit Chaudhuri
76. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
77. The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson
78. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
79. Bricks and Mortar by Clemens Meyer
80. The Eastern Shore by Ward Just
81. The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
82. The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck
83. Vertigo& Ghost by Fiona Benson
84. Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
85. Soot by Dan Vyleta
86. Deacon King Kong by James McBride
87. Abigail by Magda Szabo
88. Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugresic
89. Coming Up for Air by Sarah Leipciger
90. Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
91. Selection Day by Aravind Adiga
92. The Voyage by Murray Bail
93. Peace : A Novel by Richard Bausch
94. The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano
95. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
96. The Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier READ JUL 21
97. My Life as a Russian Novel by Emmanuel Carrere
98. Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau
99. Man V. Nature by Diane Cook
100. The Melody by Jim Crace
101. SS-GB by Len Deighton
102. Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
103. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
104. The Beautiful Indifference by Sarah Hall
105. Munich by Robert Harris
106. Bodies Electric by Colin Harrison
107. The Punch by Noah Hawley
108. Spook Street by Mick Herron
109. London Rules by Mick Herron
110. The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
111. The Land of Green Ginger by Winifred Holtby
112. The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes READ OCT 21
113. The Cider House Rules by John Irving
114. Exiles in the Garden by Ward Just
115. Duffy by Dan Kavanagh
116. The Good People by Hannah Kent
117. The Life to Come by Michelle de Krester
118. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin
119. 10:04 by Ben Lerner
120. Home is the Hunter by Helen MacInnes
121. Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan
122. The Blood Miracles by Lisa McInerney
123. The Girl in Green by Derek B. Miller
124. Arab Jazz by Karim Miske READ JUL 21
125. Bodies of Light by Sarah Moss
126. Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates
127. The Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe
128. The Horseman by Tim Pears
129. Echoland by Per Petterson READ APR 21
130. Last Stand by Michael Punke
131. The Waiting Time by Gerald Seymour
132. Home Run by Gerald Seymour
133. Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith
134. To the Back of Beyond by Peter Stamm
135. They Know Not What They Do by Jussi Valtonen
136. The Tulip Eaters by Antoinette Van Heugten
137. Smoke by Dan Vyleta
138. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
139. That Eye, The Sky by Tim Winton
140. Fear : Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward
141. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell READ JUN 21
142. Gerta by Katerina Tuckova
143. My Country: A Syrian Memoir by Kassem Eid READ JUN 21
144. Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann
145. The Hotel Tito by Ivana Bodrozic
146. Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride
147. Blame by Paul Read
148. House of Lords and Commons by Ishion Hutchinson
149. To Calais, In Ordinary Time by James Meek
150. Your Story, My Story by Connie Palmen
151. Wake Up : Why the World Has Gone Nuts by Piers Morgan
152. Death of a Coast Watcher by Anthony English
153. Limitless by Ala Glynn
154. Toddler Hunting and Other Stories by Taeko Kono
155. Daughter of the Tigris by Muhsin al-Ramli
156. Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
157. Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
158. Incomparable World by S.L. Martin
159. The Dancing Face by Mike Phillips
160. Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors
161. Sharks in the Time of Saviours by Kawai Strong Washburn
162. The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
163. Rest and Be Thankful by Emma Glass
164. Minty Alley by CLR James
165. The Fat Lady Sings by Jacqueline Roy
166. Actress by Anne Enright
167. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
168. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
169. Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas
170. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov *Replacement*
171. Summer by Ali Smith
172. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor *Replacement*
173. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
174. The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima
175. The Girls by Emma Cline
176. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich READ AUG 21
177. The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner READ AUG 21
178. The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
179. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
180. The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
181. Just Like You by Nick Hornby
182. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
183. Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih READ JUNE 21
184. The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
185. The Dig by Roger Preston
186. The Historians by Eavan Boland
187. Selected Poems by Elizabeth Jennings
188. The Deemster by Hall Caine
189. When Rainclouds Gather by Bessie Head
190. Maru by Bessie Head
191. Derek Mahon: New Selected Poems by Derek Mahon
192. A Move in the Weather by Anthony Thwaite
193. Door into the Dark by Seamus Heaney
194. Driftless by David Rhodes
195. Independence Square by AD Miller
196. Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga
197. Lot by Bryan Washington
198. A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende READ SEP 21
199. The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha
200. Fire and Ice by Dana Stabenow
201. Aria by Nazanine Hozar
202. Waking Lions by Ayelet Gudar-Goshen
203. Victim 2117 by Jussi Adler-Olsen
204. The Pagan Lord by Bernard Cornwell READ AUG 21
205. The Quality of Madness by Tim Rich READ JULY 21
206. Ghosts of the Past by Marco Vichi
207. The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray
208. Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie READ AUG 21
209. Here We Are by Graham Swift
210. Deaths of the Poets by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts
211. I am, I am, I am by Maggie O'Farrell READ AUG 21
212. The Whale at the End of the World by John Iremonger
213. Precious Bane by Mary Webb
214. Bina by Anakana Schofield
215. Little Siberia by Antti Tuomainen
216. At Night the Blood is Black by David Diop READ AUG 21
217. Muscle by Alan Trotter
218. The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
219. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
220. Missionaries by Phil Klay
221. Pew by Catherine Lacey READ SEP 21
222. Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
223. Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova
224. The Safety Net by Andrea Camilleri
225. Corpus by Rory Clements READ OCT 21
226. Nucleus by Rory Clements READ NOV 21
227. The Rain in Portugal by Billy Collins
228. The Hill Station by JG Farrell
229. Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
230. The Abstainer by Ian McGuire
231. The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray
232. Mating by Norman Rush
233. One by One by Ruth Ware
234. The Yield by Tara June Winch
235. The Sicilian Method by Andrea Camilleri
236. Rotten Days in Late Summer by Ralf Webb
237. Tracks by Louise Erdrich
238. The First Century After Beatrice by Amin Maalouf READ SEP 21
239. Dances With Wolves by Michael Blake
240. The Holy Road by Michael Blake
241. Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn by Brett Anderson
242. A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
243. A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
244. Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
245. The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed READ OCT 21
246. The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
247. E.E.G. by Dasa Drndic
248. English Monsters by James Scudamore
249. The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
250. The Matter of Desire by Edmundo Paz Soldan
251. The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
252. A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
253. Monogamy by Sue Miller
254. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
255. Bewilderment by Richard Powers
256. Evangeline and Other Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
257. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
258. Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
259. The Watcher in the Shadows by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. READ OCT 21
260. Cavalleria Rusticana by Giovanni Strega
261. A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux
262. Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead READ OCT 21
263. The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
264. Tribes by David Lammy
265. Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Conde
266. Hot Stew by Fiona Mozley
267. Girl A by Abigail Dean
268. The Promise by Damon Galgut READ OCT 21
269. The Crime Writer by Jill Dawson
270. The Cook of the Halcyon by Andrea Camilleri
271. The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
272. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
273. Strangers on a Pier by Tash Aw READ NOV 21
274. The Drowned City by K.J. Maitland
275. Remaking One Nation by Nick Timothy
276. How to Run a Government by Michael Barber
277. Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara
278. The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara
279. Nemesis by Rory Clements
280. Uncle Tom's Children by Richard Wright
281. The Power of Geography by Tim Marshall
282. Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree
283. Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
284. The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon
285. The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
286. The Colonel by Mahmood Dowlatabadi
287. Disquiet by Zulfu Livaneli
288. The Italian by Shukri Mabkhout
289. The Tunnel by AB Yehoshua
290. The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr
291. Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
292. Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
293. The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam
294. Mehmed, my Hawk by Yasar Kemal
295. Endgame by Ahmet Altan
296. What to Read Next by Stig Abell
297. The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam
298. The Runaways by Fatima Bhutto
299. The Most Precious of Cargoes by Jean-Claude Grumberg
300. Sunlight On a Broken Column by Attia Hosain
301. Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
302. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
303. The Plotters by Kim Un Su
304. Lemon by Kwon Yeo Sun
305. Endless Blue Sky by Lee Hyoseok
306. The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian
307. Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
308. The Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson
309. There's No Such Thing as An Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura
310. Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
310 added
32 read
278 nett additions
21PaulCranswick
A book for the book bullet that made the biggest mark on me that month. Only one win per person each year.
January 2021 MARK (msf59) for THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS by Stephen Graham Jones
February 2021 ADRIENNE (fairywings) for THE BELGARIAD by David Eddings
March 2021 BONNIE (brenzi) for DRIFTLESS by David Rhodes
April 2021 KERRY (avatiakh) for THE DIG by John Preston
May 2021 DEBORAH (Cariola) for I AM, I AM, I AM by Maggie O'Farrell
June 2021 ES (Esquiress) for not failing any challenge
July 2021 CAROLINE (Caroline_McElwee) for Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford
August 2021 DEBORAH (arubabookwoman) for Skylark by Dezso Kosztolanyi
January 2021 MARK (msf59) for THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS by Stephen Graham Jones
February 2021 ADRIENNE (fairywings) for THE BELGARIAD by David Eddings
March 2021 BONNIE (brenzi) for DRIFTLESS by David Rhodes
April 2021 KERRY (avatiakh) for THE DIG by John Preston
May 2021 DEBORAH (Cariola) for I AM, I AM, I AM by Maggie O'Farrell
June 2021 ES (Esquiress) for not failing any challenge
July 2021 CAROLINE (Caroline_McElwee) for Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford
August 2021 DEBORAH (arubabookwoman) for Skylark by Dezso Kosztolanyi
22PaulCranswick
BOOKS OF THE MONTH
January : The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
February : Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
March : The Return by Hashim Matar
April : Life of Pi by Yann Martel
May : The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
June : Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
July : The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
August : I am I am I am by Maggie O'Farrell
January : The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
February : Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
March : The Return by Hashim Matar
April : Life of Pi by Yann Martel
May : The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
June : Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
July : The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
August : I am I am I am by Maggie O'Farrell
23PaulCranswick
BOOK STATS :
Books Read : 119
Books Added : 282
Nett TBR Addition : 163
Number of Pages in completed books : 31,019
Average per day : 97.24
Projected Page Total : 35,493
Number of days per book : 2.68
Projected Number : 136
LT Best : 157
Longest Book read : 1,179 pages
Shortest Book read : 49 pages
Mean Average Book Length : 260.66 pages
Male Authors : 73
Female Authors : 46
UK Authors : 60
USA : 19
France : 3
Italy, Russia, South Africa : 2
NZ, India, Libya, Pakistan, South Korea, Canada, Morocco, Thailand, Norway, Belgium, Sweden, Trinidad, Sudan, Uruguay, Syria, Ghana, Austria, Germany, Mauritania, Cuba, Nigeria, Portugal, Japan, Senegal, Malta, Chile, Lebanon, Spain, Somalia, Malaysia, Mexico : 1
1001 Books First Edition : 13 (317)
New Nobel Winners : 1 (73)
Pulitzer Fiction Winners : 3 (19)
Booker Winners : 3 (34)
Around the World Challenge : New countries : 31 (44)
BAC Books : 55
AAC Books : 2
Queen Vic Books : 16/64
Queen Betty Books : 41/70
52 Book Challenge : 41/52
British Historians : 5/12
Series Pairs : 14/24
Books Read : 119
Books Added : 282
Nett TBR Addition : 163
Number of Pages in completed books : 31,019
Average per day : 97.24
Projected Page Total : 35,493
Number of days per book : 2.68
Projected Number : 136
LT Best : 157
Longest Book read : 1,179 pages
Shortest Book read : 49 pages
Mean Average Book Length : 260.66 pages
Male Authors : 73
Female Authors : 46
UK Authors : 60
USA : 19
France : 3
Italy, Russia, South Africa : 2
NZ, India, Libya, Pakistan, South Korea, Canada, Morocco, Thailand, Norway, Belgium, Sweden, Trinidad, Sudan, Uruguay, Syria, Ghana, Austria, Germany, Mauritania, Cuba, Nigeria, Portugal, Japan, Senegal, Malta, Chile, Lebanon, Spain, Somalia, Malaysia, Mexico : 1
1001 Books First Edition : 13 (317)
New Nobel Winners : 1 (73)
Pulitzer Fiction Winners : 3 (19)
Booker Winners : 3 (34)
Around the World Challenge : New countries : 31 (44)
BAC Books : 55
AAC Books : 2
Queen Vic Books : 16/64
Queen Betty Books : 41/70
52 Book Challenge : 41/52
British Historians : 5/12
Series Pairs : 14/24
24PaulCranswick
OVERALL TBR RECORD/UPDATE
TBR at Midnight 31 May 2021
Books Unread : 4,425
Pages Unread : 1,555,749
Average Book Length : 351.58 pages
Books Read : 68
Pages Read : 18,201 pages
Books Added : 95
Pages Added : 28,852 pages
Books Culled : 180
Pages Culled : 77,262
Revised TBR
Books Unread : 4,272
Pages Unread : 1,489,138
Ave Book Length : 348.58 pages
TBR at Midnight 31 May 2021
Books Unread : 4,425
Pages Unread : 1,555,749
Average Book Length : 351.58 pages
Books Read : 68
Pages Read : 18,201 pages
Books Added : 95
Pages Added : 28,852 pages
Books Culled : 180
Pages Culled : 77,262
Revised TBR
Books Unread : 4,272
Pages Unread : 1,489,138
Ave Book Length : 348.58 pages
25PaulCranswick
Next is yours.
26ronincats
Getting in early, as I've missed your entire last thread!
ETA no I didn't, only 163 of your 312 messages!
ETA no I didn't, only 163 of your 312 messages!
27PaulCranswick
>26 ronincats: Wow that is quick, Roni.
Lovely to see you. x
Lovely to see you. x
28ronincats
One has to be quick around your threads, my dear, if one wants to have a chance of catching up!
29PaulCranswick
>28 ronincats: Hahaha true, Roni.
31figsfromthistle
Happy new one!
32amanda4242
Happy new thread!
34PaulCranswick
>30 avatiakh: I wondered when it would get mentioned, Kerry!
Actually well played NZ. I think the Black Caps were so unlucky to lose the ICC World Cup final the year before last so it is retribution of a sort. England were a little depleted by the loss of Roy and Mills in the tournament but NZ deserved the close victory and I will be rooting for them in the final.
>31 figsfromthistle: Thank you Anita. x
Actually well played NZ. I think the Black Caps were so unlucky to lose the ICC World Cup final the year before last so it is retribution of a sort. England were a little depleted by the loss of Roy and Mills in the tournament but NZ deserved the close victory and I will be rooting for them in the final.
>31 figsfromthistle: Thank you Anita. x
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>32 amanda4242: Thanks Amanda. I really need to get my reading "boots" on this month.
>33 quondame: Thank you Susan. I am always happy to see you visit.
>33 quondame: Thank you Susan. I am always happy to see you visit.
36alcottacre
Happy new thread, Paul!
37PaulCranswick
>36 alcottacre: Thank you, Stasia x
38weird_O
I've got a road trip planned for tomorrow; getting out of the house and off the estate. Dang, it's going to be fun. And by the time I check in tomorrow evening, there'll be about 75 more posts on this thread. Ya hoo!
Keep smiling, my friend.
Keep smiling, my friend.
39PaulCranswick
>38 weird_O: Thanks Bill. Have a great and safe trip.
42PaulCranswick
>40 humouress: Hahaha sometimes we just have to face up to losing fair and square. We were 25 runs short of the total we should have got and were always struggling to defend that score.
>41 mdoris: Thanks dear Mary.
>41 mdoris: Thanks dear Mary.
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>43 SirThomas: Thank you, Thomas.
As one of our most friendly and courteous members, I am surprised your figures are not even higher.
>44 SandDune: Thanks Amber. I have been enjoying the pictures on your thread though it is making me miss home.
As one of our most friendly and courteous members, I am surprised your figures are not even higher.
>44 SandDune: Thanks Amber. I have been enjoying the pictures on your thread though it is making me miss home.
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>46 Kristelh: Thank you Kristel. It has been lovely seeing you consistently around the threads this year. x
>47 jessibud2: Thanks dear Shelley.
>47 jessibud2: Thanks dear Shelley.
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>48 msf59: Thank you Grandpa. My Thursday was finished off nicely with a colleague in a bar/restaurant near the site with the descriptive name of "Concubine". Nice food and several Heineken beers before getting the Grab car home.
52PaulCranswick
>51 bell7: Thank you, Mary x
53SilverWolf28
Happy New Thread!
54SilverWolf28
Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/336673
55ocgreg34
>6 PaulCranswick: Happy new thread!
57PaulCranswick
>55 ocgreg34: Thanks Greg. Lovely to see you here.
59weird_O
I had a fun excursion, Paul. Flabbergasted to not find 75 additional posts since I posted last night.
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>58 drneutron: Thanks Jim
>59 weird_O: I'm getting old and slow, Bill! A mere 22 posts since your trip. :D
>59 weird_O: I'm getting old and slow, Bill! A mere 22 posts since your trip. :D
61PaulCranswick
Couldn't resist this cartoon from the Spectator which only slightly amends a line from one of Larkin's most famous of poems:
63m.belljackson
>61 PaulCranswick: Just finished and reviewed They May Not Mean To, But They do = 5 Stars for overall writing and humor; 3 Stars for pacing.
Perfect cartoon, complete with perplexed bear.
Perfect cartoon, complete with perplexed bear.
64PaulCranswick
>63 m.belljackson: Yes Marianne, that bear doesn't even look tired!
Schine is an unusual name for an author.
Schine is an unusual name for an author.
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>65 richardderus: Me too, RD. I have always liked Larkin as his sense of humour never ruined his writing, indeed the opposite.
67PaulCranswick
Interesting list of the best of the year in books by the Spectator. Mainly non-fiction titles and I will look for several of them.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/books-of-the-year-i-chosen-by-our-regular-re...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/books-of-the-year-i-chosen-by-our-regular-re...
68roundballnz
Did I see cricket being mentioned ...... oops 😬
69Familyhistorian
Happy new thread, Paul!
70PaulCranswick
>68 roundballnz: Hahaha Alex fancy seeing you right now?! So one of your best batsmen injures himself with his own bat celebrating.
I do hope that you win the final though as a tournament win for you is long overdue.
>69 Familyhistorian: Thanks Meg. x
I do hope that you win the final though as a tournament win for you is long overdue.
>69 Familyhistorian: Thanks Meg. x
71humouress
>68 roundballnz: Whazzat?
72fairywings
Happy newish thread Paul
73PaulCranswick
>71 humouress: No fisticuffs you two! I expect a good final but it is one on form you would have had to say would have been difficult to predict.
>72 fairywings: Thanks Adrienne. Lovely to see you.
>72 fairywings: Thanks Adrienne. Lovely to see you.
74Caroline_McElwee
>61 PaulCranswick: He hee...
75PaulCranswick
>74 Caroline_McElwee: And nicely having zero politics in it, Caroline.
76FAMeulstee
Happy newish thread, Paul!
>62 PaulCranswick: I forgot to comment on your previous thread, it is an impressive building you are working on.
>62 PaulCranswick: I forgot to comment on your previous thread, it is an impressive building you are working on.
77alcottacre
>67 PaulCranswick: Thanks for the link, Paul. I am going to have to check into those books and see if I can actually get my hands on some of them.
78roundballnz
>70 PaulCranswick: "So one of your best batsmen injures himself with his own bat celebrating." Yes that was a very unique way to rule oneself out of the final ... *** boys****
my re-emergence timing is coincidental but perfect 😎
my re-emergence timing is coincidental but perfect 😎
79PaulCranswick
>76 FAMeulstee: Lovely to see you as always, Anita.
I am sitting in the podium site office of that very building at 7.55 am on a Saturday morning typing this.
>77 alcottacre: I also didn't see any of those in the stores here yet, Stasia.
I am sitting in the podium site office of that very building at 7.55 am on a Saturday morning typing this.
>77 alcottacre: I also didn't see any of those in the stores here yet, Stasia.
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>78 roundballnz: Your re-emergence here will be celebrated by this thread whatever the reason, Alex!
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>81 Carmenere: Thank you, Lynda. I have a couple of more hours of stewardship of the site office this morning and then the weekend is mine!
83PaulCranswick
Today's cartoon has a little more politics - the politics of somnolence!
84humouress
>73 PaulCranswick: I think I've recovered from the disappointment now. I didn't see the other semi-final except for the last over. It was rather down to the wire!
I'm not sure who I'll be supporting for the final - I'm torn between supporting the 'underdog' (although NZ is a pretty strong cricketing nation; but the Aussies have had a lot of wins in world cricket in recent years) or going with family ties.
>78 roundballnz: I missed that celebration (I'd already turned off the TV once they hit the final score).
I'm not sure who I'll be supporting for the final - I'm torn between supporting the 'underdog' (although NZ is a pretty strong cricketing nation; but the Aussies have had a lot of wins in world cricket in recent years) or going with family ties.
>78 roundballnz: I missed that celebration (I'd already turned off the TV once they hit the final score).
85PaulCranswick
>84 humouress: Great minds and all that as I was posting over at your place while you were over here!
My choice of who to support is easy. I fell in love with NZ when we visited there several years ago and I would love to retire there.
My choice of who to support is easy. I fell in love with NZ when we visited there several years ago and I would love to retire there.
86PaulCranswick
BOOK # 115
A Time to Dance by Melvyn Bragg
Date of Publication : 1990
Origin of Author : UK
Pages : 220 pp
Challenges
BAC : 53rd
Queen Betty : 41/70
52 Book Club Challenge : 41/52
An epistolary novel told in the form of a love letter from an older man to his young lover.
I remember the TV series of the book which was more than a little bit racy and this relatively short novel is full of hyperbolic descriptions of love making.
I met Melvyn Bragg on the north platform of Carlisle train station a time or two in the early 1990s (shortly after release of this book) and enjoyed his company and his writing. This is not one of his best books due to the rather unrealistic actions of the protagonists. Just about worth a read.
A Time to Dance by Melvyn Bragg
Date of Publication : 1990
Origin of Author : UK
Pages : 220 pp
Challenges
BAC : 53rd
Queen Betty : 41/70
52 Book Club Challenge : 41/52
An epistolary novel told in the form of a love letter from an older man to his young lover.
I remember the TV series of the book which was more than a little bit racy and this relatively short novel is full of hyperbolic descriptions of love making.
I met Melvyn Bragg on the north platform of Carlisle train station a time or two in the early 1990s (shortly after release of this book) and enjoyed his company and his writing. This is not one of his best books due to the rather unrealistic actions of the protagonists. Just about worth a read.
87msf59
>83 PaulCranswick: "the politics of somnolence!" Well, said...
Happy Weekend, Paul. I am starting Swann's Way today. Have you read these?
Happy Weekend, Paul. I am starting Swann's Way today. Have you read these?
89m.belljackson
>85 PaulCranswick: New Zealand would certainly be an exciting choice for a peaceful retirement!
Not only is it a target on The Ring of Fire, but friends who live there say they just "get used to" all the shaking
and tsunami threats, yet are now concerned about rising Climate Change coastal flooding...
Not only is it a target on The Ring of Fire, but friends who live there say they just "get used to" all the shaking
and tsunami threats, yet are now concerned about rising Climate Change coastal flooding...
90PaulCranswick
>87 msf59: Thanks Mark. I must admit that I have never read Proust.
>88 Kristelh: Thank you, Kristel. Saturday was a little somnolent if I'm being honest!
>88 Kristelh: Thank you, Kristel. Saturday was a little somnolent if I'm being honest!
91PaulCranswick
>89 m.belljackson: The world has a bahit of correcting itself, Marianne. A couple of volcanic eruptions and the world's temperature levels will drop significantly. I'm not Nostradamus and note that predictions of extinction have been rife since the Dark Ages. I'll not rely on Joe and Kamala to save the world thank you very much.
93m.belljackson
>91 PaulCranswick: Just a safety alert...
94PaulCranswick
>92 alcottacre: You too, Stasia. xx
>93 m.belljackson: Surprisingly, given my earlier cynicism, I am very much a believer in everybody doing the little things we can all do to conserve our planet. Recycling, using public transport where possible or walking when I have the puff, and for me most noticeable investing in the planting of trees. Small is beautiful and improvements can be achieved at the micro level. In the final analysis though China, India and the Russkies also need to come to the party.
>93 m.belljackson: Surprisingly, given my earlier cynicism, I am very much a believer in everybody doing the little things we can all do to conserve our planet. Recycling, using public transport where possible or walking when I have the puff, and for me most noticeable investing in the planting of trees. Small is beautiful and improvements can be achieved at the micro level. In the final analysis though China, India and the Russkies also need to come to the party.
95roundballnz
Great choice of wishful retirement location .... despite a bit of earth movement, its a lot safer than many other locales ... do find it interesting the many overseas peeps tend to focus on the earthquakes etc .... where most locals don't unless we have a big one
96PaulCranswick
>95 roundballnz: The earth moves, Alex and it certainly wouldn't stop me from choosing NZ.
97PaulCranswick
BOOK #116
Nucleus by Rory Clements
Date of Publication : 2018
Origin of Author : UK
Pages : 366 pp
Challenges
Series Pair : 14/24
This is the 2nd book in the Tom Wilde series set largely in Cambridge on the cusp of World War.
The Cavendish Lab at Cambridge Uni was the place where the atom was first split. The Nazi's want its secrets and they want to be the first to use those secrets to develop a bomb. Amid escapes from Buchenwald, Jewish refugee children, Hollywood movie stars and the IRA, Tom Wilde must stop them.
Great fun.
Nucleus by Rory Clements
Date of Publication : 2018
Origin of Author : UK
Pages : 366 pp
Challenges
Series Pair : 14/24
This is the 2nd book in the Tom Wilde series set largely in Cambridge on the cusp of World War.
The Cavendish Lab at Cambridge Uni was the place where the atom was first split. The Nazi's want its secrets and they want to be the first to use those secrets to develop a bomb. Amid escapes from Buchenwald, Jewish refugee children, Hollywood movie stars and the IRA, Tom Wilde must stop them.
Great fun.
98PaulCranswick
NOVEMBER ABC CHALLENGE
I'm actually not as far behind as it seems as plenty of the qualifying books are advanced already. Completed so far:
A : Tash AW - Strangers on a Pier
B : Melvyn BRAGG - A Time to Dance
C : Rory CLEMENTS - Nucleus
I'm actually not as far behind as it seems as plenty of the qualifying books are advanced already. Completed so far:
A : Tash AW - Strangers on a Pier
B : Melvyn BRAGG - A Time to Dance
C : Rory CLEMENTS - Nucleus
99PaulCranswick
BOOK #117
And Furthermore by Judi Dench
Date of Publication : 2010
Origin of Author : UK
Pages : 292 pp
Challenges :
Shared Read
BAC : 54th
Less a memoir and more of a roll call of her acting credits from theatre, television and the cinema.
For an actress of such exquisite timing her anecdotes have a surprisingly wooden quality.
Not recommended.
And Furthermore by Judi Dench
Date of Publication : 2010
Origin of Author : UK
Pages : 292 pp
Challenges :
Shared Read
BAC : 54th
Less a memoir and more of a roll call of her acting credits from theatre, television and the cinema.
For an actress of such exquisite timing her anecdotes have a surprisingly wooden quality.
Not recommended.
100PaulCranswick
NOVEMBER ABC CHALLENGE
I'm actually not as far behind as it seems as plenty of the qualifying books are advanced already. Completed so far:
A : Tash AW - Strangers on a Pier
B : Melvyn BRAGG - A Time to Dance
C : Rory CLEMENTS - Nucleus
D : Judy DENCH - And Furthermore
I'm actually not as far behind as it seems as plenty of the qualifying books are advanced already. Completed so far:
A : Tash AW - Strangers on a Pier
B : Melvyn BRAGG - A Time to Dance
C : Rory CLEMENTS - Nucleus
D : Judy DENCH - And Furthermore
101bell7
You're still just ahead of me for books read, Paul.
I seem to remember your proposing an Asian authors challenge for 2022? I'd definitely join in on that if I know where the thread lives. I want to continue my goal of reading in translation, and that would be a fun way to explore some new-to-me authors.
Hope you have a good week!
I seem to remember your proposing an Asian authors challenge for 2022? I'd definitely join in on that if I know where the thread lives. I want to continue my goal of reading in translation, and that would be a fun way to explore some new-to-me authors.
Hope you have a good week!
102alcottacre
>97 PaulCranswick: I still need to read the first book in that series. Maybe next month I can squeeze it in. This one is pretty much booked.
>100 PaulCranswick: Cool challenge. I may take it up one of these days.
>100 PaulCranswick: Cool challenge. I may take it up one of these days.
103PaulCranswick
>101 bell7: I will put up the General Thread for the group this week, Mary and it will be great to get a few people interested in it!
My reading has tailed off slightly but I still have slight hopes of reaching 150.
>102 alcottacre: Worth it, Stasia, as I really like the plotting and characterisation of the series.
It is my third attempt at it and I came within a hair's breadth of completing it last time.
My reading has tailed off slightly but I still have slight hopes of reaching 150.
>102 alcottacre: Worth it, Stasia, as I really like the plotting and characterisation of the series.
It is my third attempt at it and I came within a hair's breadth of completing it last time.
104alcottacre
>103 PaulCranswick: I am betting that it would take me longer than a month to do it! I have done the same with board games, lol.
105PaulCranswick
>104 alcottacre: In terms of completion with only 4 books out of 26 in 14 days, it doesn't bode well, but I am doing quite a bit better than those completion stats by having a few on the go at the same time.
107PaulCranswick
>106 banjo123: Thanks Rhonda. I have just polished off another couple in my lunch break and will put up reviews later.
108quondame
Long ago on some lost thread we were talking fog and I'd thought I'd share a map that just came in from a friend dated day before yesterday:
The deadly Tule fog of California's central valley.
The deadly Tule fog of California's central valley.
109amanda4242
>108 quondame: Yep, we've had dense fog for the past few days. It clears some in the afternoon, but it's back with a vengeance once the sun sets.
110PaulCranswick
>108 quondame: That is pretty amazing, Susan. It almost looks like a deliberate action of nature!
>109 amanda4242: More reason to sit at home and read, I guess, Amanda.
There is a little bit of haze here from burning in Indonesia (guess the Climate Summit sort of passed them by) but it isn't too bad this year.
>109 amanda4242: More reason to sit at home and read, I guess, Amanda.
There is a little bit of haze here from burning in Indonesia (guess the Climate Summit sort of passed them by) but it isn't too bad this year.
111PaulCranswick
ASIAN BOOK CHALLENGE 2022
These will be the monthly jaunts for the ABC challenge.
JANUARY - Europe of Asia - Turkish Authors
FEBRUARY - The Holy Land - Israeli & Palestinian Authors
MARCH - The Arab World - Writers from the Arab world
APRIL - Persia - Iranian writers
MAY - The Stans - There are 7 states all in the same region all ending in "Stan"
JUNE - The Indian Sub-Continent - Essentially authors from India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
JULY - The Asian Superpower - Chinese Authors
AUGUST - Nippon - Japanese Authors
SEPTEMBER - Kimchi - Korean Authors
OCTOBER - INDO CHINE - Authors from Indo-China
NOVEMBER - The Malay Archipelago - Malaysian, Singaporean and Indonesian Authors
DECEMBER - The Asian Diaspora - Ethnic Asian writers from elsewhere
I was able just about to cover the whole of the continent and I didn't include one for Russia as most of the authors are decidedly European in their ethnicity and leaning.
These will be the monthly jaunts for the ABC challenge.
JANUARY - Europe of Asia - Turkish Authors
FEBRUARY - The Holy Land - Israeli & Palestinian Authors
MARCH - The Arab World - Writers from the Arab world
APRIL - Persia - Iranian writers
MAY - The Stans - There are 7 states all in the same region all ending in "Stan"
JUNE - The Indian Sub-Continent - Essentially authors from India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
JULY - The Asian Superpower - Chinese Authors
AUGUST - Nippon - Japanese Authors
SEPTEMBER - Kimchi - Korean Authors
OCTOBER - INDO CHINE - Authors from Indo-China
NOVEMBER - The Malay Archipelago - Malaysian, Singaporean and Indonesian Authors
DECEMBER - The Asian Diaspora - Ethnic Asian writers from elsewhere
I was able just about to cover the whole of the continent and I didn't include one for Russia as most of the authors are decidedly European in their ethnicity and leaning.
112PaulCranswick
ASIAN BOOK CHALLENGE
January 2022 - EUROPE OR ASIA / TURKISH WRITERS
Turkey is part of Europe. Well to be specific 3% of Turkey is considered to be in Europe whilst 97% of Turkey's land is Asian according to that "infallible" source wikipedia.
It's writers are very much influenced by Europe and a sense of identity often pervades the writing.
Turkish writers to consider :
Orhan Pamuk - who won the Nobel Prize and is easy to find
Elif Shafak - whose European-ness means she also writes often in English
Sabahattin Ali - whose Madonna in a Fur Coat is in print in English and not obscure
Yasar Kemal - most famously wrote Memed, My Hawk
Ayse Kulin - who has several books available in English including Farewell
Ahmet Altan - recently released from Prison who has about ten novels in Europa translations
Latife Tekin - influential modern realist.
Leyla Erbil - First Turkish author to be nominated for the Nobel Prize though she didn't win
Turkey issues something like 30,000 new titles per year and Istanbul (again according to Wikipedia) has almost 5,000 bookshops. I hope you can join me in exploring Turkey in January.
Our own Ursula is based in Istanbul and I am hopeful she can give some insights to Turkish life to accompany the January thread.
January 2022 - EUROPE OR ASIA / TURKISH WRITERS
Turkey is part of Europe. Well to be specific 3% of Turkey is considered to be in Europe whilst 97% of Turkey's land is Asian according to that "infallible" source wikipedia.
It's writers are very much influenced by Europe and a sense of identity often pervades the writing.
Turkish writers to consider :
Orhan Pamuk - who won the Nobel Prize and is easy to find
Elif Shafak - whose European-ness means she also writes often in English
Sabahattin Ali - whose Madonna in a Fur Coat is in print in English and not obscure
Yasar Kemal - most famously wrote Memed, My Hawk
Ayse Kulin - who has several books available in English including Farewell
Ahmet Altan - recently released from Prison who has about ten novels in Europa translations
Latife Tekin - influential modern realist.
Leyla Erbil - First Turkish author to be nominated for the Nobel Prize though she didn't win
Turkey issues something like 30,000 new titles per year and Istanbul (again according to Wikipedia) has almost 5,000 bookshops. I hope you can join me in exploring Turkey in January.
Our own Ursula is based in Istanbul and I am hopeful she can give some insights to Turkish life to accompany the January thread.
114amanda4242
>112 PaulCranswick: I have Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak and The Girl in the Tree by Sebnem Isigüzel on the shelves so I'll be able to join you for Turkey.
ETA: And apparently I also snagged an ebook of Kulin's Last Train to Istanbul during some Amazon promotion a few years ago.
ETA: And apparently I also snagged an ebook of Kulin's Last Train to Istanbul during some Amazon promotion a few years ago.
115PaulCranswick
>114 amanda4242: That is great, Amanda.
You know for sure that I will join you for the BAC whatever you choose!
You know for sure that I will join you for the BAC whatever you choose!
116amanda4242
>115 PaulCranswick: I'm going to start posting the BAC selections in another day or two, so stay tuned!
117PaulCranswick
>116 amanda4242: I would wait with bated breath were it not for my asthma!
118AnneDC
>111 PaulCranswick: Asian Book Challenge? Sign me up. Although, I can't think of anything I need less than a new book challenge.
I haven't been here for a while so I thought I'd drop by.
I haven't been here for a while so I thought I'd drop by.
119PaulCranswick
>118 AnneDC: Lovely to see you as always, Anne.
I realised I had nowhere near enough challenges already!!
I realised I had nowhere near enough challenges already!!
120PaulCranswick
ASIAN BOOK CHALLENGE
February 2022 - THE HOLY LAND / WRITERS FROM ISRAEL & PALESTINE
Writers from the Holy Land. Israel & Palestine. I'm not taking sides but they are currently separate states and this is one subject I really don't want to put my Size 9 shoes into.
Israeli Writers have long been a source of joy for many of us and here would be some suggestions:
Amos Oz
David Grossman
AB Yehoshua
Etgar Keret
Assaf Gavron
Yoram Kaniuk
SY Agnon
Yuval Noah Harari
Eshkol Nevo
Ruth Almog
Dalia Betolin-Sherman
Maayan Eitan
Lizzie Doron
Zeruya Shalev
Arab Israelis or Palestinians would include:
Sayed Kashua
Mahmoud Darwish
Edward Said
Susan Abulhawa
Mourid Barghouti
May seem a little daunting but many of these authors are quite readily available and all of these do have books that can be ordered on Book Depo. Oz, Grossman, Yehoshua and Keret in particular are very easy to find.
Writers from this region are great storytellers and memoirists.
February 2022 - THE HOLY LAND / WRITERS FROM ISRAEL & PALESTINE
Writers from the Holy Land. Israel & Palestine. I'm not taking sides but they are currently separate states and this is one subject I really don't want to put my Size 9 shoes into.
Israeli Writers have long been a source of joy for many of us and here would be some suggestions:
Amos Oz
David Grossman
AB Yehoshua
Etgar Keret
Assaf Gavron
Yoram Kaniuk
SY Agnon
Yuval Noah Harari
Eshkol Nevo
Ruth Almog
Dalia Betolin-Sherman
Maayan Eitan
Lizzie Doron
Zeruya Shalev
Arab Israelis or Palestinians would include:
Sayed Kashua
Mahmoud Darwish
Edward Said
Susan Abulhawa
Mourid Barghouti
May seem a little daunting but many of these authors are quite readily available and all of these do have books that can be ordered on Book Depo. Oz, Grossman, Yehoshua and Keret in particular are very easy to find.
Writers from this region are great storytellers and memoirists.
122elkiedee
>120 PaulCranswick: Susan Abulhawa is I think a Palestinian-American writer - I've come across another such writer recently but can't remember who, now.
Another Palestinian-American author in my TBR is Hala Alyan,, author of a novel called Salt Houses which I had wishlisted for ages, finally bought in Febstruary.
I have several books by Raja Shehadeh, a Palestinian lawyer and writer on my TBR, including Palestinian Walks
I would refer to Palestinian writers at least in the way they describe themselves but in general as "Palestinian", regardless of the state where they were born, hold citizenship or currently live. If a writer or anyone else identifies as an "Israeli Arab", that is his/her/their choice, but I'm not sure how common this is.
Another Palestinian-American author in my TBR is Hala Alyan,, author of a novel called Salt Houses which I had wishlisted for ages, finally bought in Febstruary.
I have several books by Raja Shehadeh, a Palestinian lawyer and writer on my TBR, including Palestinian Walks
I would refer to Palestinian writers at least in the way they describe themselves but in general as "Palestinian", regardless of the state where they were born, hold citizenship or currently live. If a writer or anyone else identifies as an "Israeli Arab", that is his/her/their choice, but I'm not sure how common this is.
123PaulCranswick
>122 elkiedee: Susan Abulhawa will also qualify for March, Luci, as though her parents were born in Jerusalem, she was actually born in Kuwait. She identifies as Palestinian as I understand and I don't enforce rules too rigorously.
Yes I am aware of the sensitivity of nationality labels amongst the Palestinians which is why I prefaced my preview that I wasn't making any political comments. I have a number of Palestinian friends and many Jewish friends and the Holy Land is a part of the world for which I certainly have no solutions!
Yes I am aware of the sensitivity of nationality labels amongst the Palestinians which is why I prefaced my preview that I wasn't making any political comments. I have a number of Palestinian friends and many Jewish friends and the Holy Land is a part of the world for which I certainly have no solutions!
124Caroline_McElwee
>112 PaulCranswick: I have an Elif Shafak in the tbr mountain, so I will slate that for January Paul.
125thornton37814
>111 PaulCranswick: I was a little disappointed the AsianCAT (or the one combined with Africa & Asia) didn't make it into the CATs this year. I can't promise I'll read something every month because I'm really focused more on whittling down my TBR piles and lists, but I will try to participate as much as possible. I'm guessing the Philippines go with the Malay Archipelago? or are you counting them with Indochina?
126PaulCranswick
>124 Caroline_McElwee: That is good to know, Caroline. I will probably read something by here to or by Ayse Kulin.
>125 thornton37814: Philippines will count under Malay Archipelago as they do dispute ownership of part of Borneo.
My challenges are always there to dip in and out of and it will be great to have you along for at least some of the time. I thought I should celebrate the continent that I have made a living from these 27 years especially as there is such a wealth and diversity of writing.
>125 thornton37814: Philippines will count under Malay Archipelago as they do dispute ownership of part of Borneo.
My challenges are always there to dip in and out of and it will be great to have you along for at least some of the time. I thought I should celebrate the continent that I have made a living from these 27 years especially as there is such a wealth and diversity of writing.
127kidzdoc
Thanks for letting me know about your Asian Book Challenge, Paul! I'm definitely in, and I'll try to read at least two books per month, starting with A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, and Other Colors: Essays and a Story by Orhan Pamuk.
I love Turkish cuisine, so I'll look for a recipe or two to try next month.
I love Turkish cuisine, so I'll look for a recipe or two to try next month.
128PaulCranswick
>127 kidzdoc: Thank you, Darryl. In the monthly threads I was thinking of looking at regional cuisine, landmarks and notable people & events to add "flavour" to the theme so to speak.
Any of your recipes would always be welcome!
Any of your recipes would always be welcome!
129kidzdoc
>128 PaulCranswick: I can only recall making one Turkish recipe, Imam bayildi, an eggplant casserole with tomatoes, so I may try that again.
130alcottacre
>120 PaulCranswick: I already have works by several of those authors in my personal library, so February is looking much better for me than January is.
Thanks again for hosting this challenge, Paul!
Thanks again for hosting this challenge, Paul!
131amanda4242
>120 PaulCranswick: Amazon's World Book Day offerings have provided me with a couple of Israeli writers, so I'll just have to dig around for some Palestinian authors.
132richardderus
Ooohhh, Turkish month definitely works...I have Like A Sword Wound on the Kindle for, like, ever, and I need to get it read.
...I *think* it'll be a first read, though now I think a minute I might just have failed to review it...
...I *think* it'll be a first read, though now I think a minute I might just have failed to review it...
133AMQS
Dear Paul, caught up... on THIS thread at least! I am intrigued by your Asian challenge for 2022. I have lots of books in my TBR that should fit the bill if only I can figure out how to empty nest properly and actually make some time!
Love to you and the family xx
Love to you and the family xx
134SandDune
Asian book challenge sounds like a great idea Paul. I will try and join in for some of that.
135PaulCranswick
>129 kidzdoc: Turkey is such a fusion of influences, Darryl, that it is bound to be interesting to explore.
>130 alcottacre: I also have lots of options for February, Stasia. xx
>130 alcottacre: I also have lots of options for February, Stasia. xx
136PaulCranswick
>131 amanda4242: I have read quite a bit of non-fiction by Palestinian writers, Amanda, but I don't recall having read any fiction to date.
>132 richardderus: You, me and Joe Biden are getting old, RD. It would be great to have you along for some of the months at least.
>132 richardderus: You, me and Joe Biden are getting old, RD. It would be great to have you along for some of the months at least.
137PaulCranswick
>133 AMQS: Lovely to see you, Anne. I will go into 2022 hoping that I can make plenty of time for my reading too.
>134 SandDune: You would be most welcome, Rhian. Interesting that - maybe China and Japan aside - I cannot think of much Science Fiction from Asia.
>134 SandDune: You would be most welcome, Rhian. Interesting that - maybe China and Japan aside - I cannot think of much Science Fiction from Asia.
138FAMeulstee
>112 PaulCranswick: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World is on my library wishlist, so I might join in January.
>120 PaulCranswick: No titles come up for that challenge right now.
Maybe you can add them as TIOLI challenges each month.
>120 PaulCranswick: No titles come up for that challenge right now.
Maybe you can add them as TIOLI challenges each month.
139m.belljackson
Patrick Leigh Fermor is not an Asian writer, yet Between the Woods and the Water
has an incredible description of a tiny outpost island of Turkish people he encountered.
has an incredible description of a tiny outpost island of Turkish people he encountered.
141PaulCranswick
>138 FAMeulstee: I'll be happy to see you when you are able, Anita. Israel in particular has produced many fine writers in the last 50 years or so.
>139 m.belljackson: Patrick Leigh Fermor was as much a poet and weaver of words as he was a traveller, Marianne and his books are wonderful experiences.
>139 m.belljackson: Patrick Leigh Fermor was as much a poet and weaver of words as he was a traveller, Marianne and his books are wonderful experiences.
142PaulCranswick
>140 amanda4242: Guess which thread, I am off to next?!
143PaulCranswick
For those interested in specifically concentrating on the Asian Book Challenge, there is a Planning Thread that I started here :
https://www.librarything.com/topic/336770#n7656137
https://www.librarything.com/topic/336770#n7656137
144amanda4242
>142 PaulCranswick: And I just stopped by the Asian Book Challenge!
145PaulCranswick
>144 amanda4242: Touche as they say!
146PaulCranswick
ASIAN BOOK CHALLENGE
March 2022 - THE ARAB WORLD
I have taken a very slight liberty and included the Levant here too as many Lebanese obviously consider themselves to be Arab.
Some less obscure options :
Lebanon
Amin Maalouf
Kahil Gibran
Elias Khoury
Hoda Barakat
Jordan
Jamal Naji
Saudi Arabia
Abdelrahman Munif
Raja Alem
Abdo Khal
Syria
Khaled Khalifa
Rafik Schami
Iraq
Dunya Mikhail
Ahmed Saadawi
Oman
Jokha Alharthi
Kuwait
Saud Alsanousi
March 2022 - THE ARAB WORLD
I have taken a very slight liberty and included the Levant here too as many Lebanese obviously consider themselves to be Arab.
Some less obscure options :
Lebanon
Amin Maalouf
Kahil Gibran
Elias Khoury
Hoda Barakat
Jordan
Jamal Naji
Saudi Arabia
Abdelrahman Munif
Raja Alem
Abdo Khal
Syria
Khaled Khalifa
Rafik Schami
Iraq
Dunya Mikhail
Ahmed Saadawi
Oman
Jokha Alharthi
Kuwait
Saud Alsanousi
148PaulCranswick
BOOK #118
Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrigue
Date of Publication : 2015
Origin of Author : Mexico
Pages : 263 pp
Challenges
Around the World Challenge : 45
An unimaginative cover hides an extremely imaginative piece of fiction and faction.
An imagined "duel" of tennis between a descendant of Hernan Cortes and the artist Caravaggio with siedlines and meanders aplenty. Reminds me a lot of Italo Calvino due both to the surreal plot twists as well as the habit of the author suddenly appearing in his own novel.
Not normally my cup of tea but actually thoroughly enjoyable.
Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrigue
Date of Publication : 2015
Origin of Author : Mexico
Pages : 263 pp
Challenges
Around the World Challenge : 45
An unimaginative cover hides an extremely imaginative piece of fiction and faction.
An imagined "duel" of tennis between a descendant of Hernan Cortes and the artist Caravaggio with siedlines and meanders aplenty. Reminds me a lot of Italo Calvino due both to the surreal plot twists as well as the habit of the author suddenly appearing in his own novel.
Not normally my cup of tea but actually thoroughly enjoyable.
149Whisper1
Paul, year after year, you amaze me at the sheer amount of books you read, and your ability to make so many lists.
150alcottacre
>146 PaulCranswick: I have a book, Where Pigeons Don't Fly, by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed who is from Saudi Arabia and I believe still lives there. He would qualify, wouldn't he?
>148 PaulCranswick: Adding that one to the BlackHole! Thanks for the comments, Paul.
>148 PaulCranswick: Adding that one to the BlackHole! Thanks for the comments, Paul.
151PaulCranswick
>149 Whisper1: Well, Linda, I am way behind many of our contemporaries in terms of sheer books read (you included if I am not mistaken) but I suppose I do have a lot on my plate at the same time and I certainly enjoy making the odd list or two!
>150 alcottacre: Yes it would certainly qualify, Stasia.
I have quite a number on my shelves actually but no idea what I will actually read yet.
I was in the right frame of mind to read Sudden Death and it is as diverting as it is scatter-brained.
>150 alcottacre: Yes it would certainly qualify, Stasia.
I have quite a number on my shelves actually but no idea what I will actually read yet.
I was in the right frame of mind to read Sudden Death and it is as diverting as it is scatter-brained.
152avatiakh
>146 PaulCranswick: Would like to mention The Shell: Memoirs of a Hidden Observer
by Mustafa Khalifa which I read about 4 years ago as a good read.
by Mustafa Khalifa which I read about 4 years ago as a good read.
153PaulCranswick
>152 avatiakh: I haven't seen that one before, Kerry, but there are lots and lots of great Arab writing around and thankfully it is slowly becoming more available in translation.
154thornton37814
>148 PaulCranswick: Our book club at work actually formed to read that book! It had such an unusual description. Loved the tennis balls made from Anne Boleyn's hair with which the match was played.
155msf59
Happy Mid-week, Paul. I am impressed with your various book challenges. I have been steering away from them for the most part. It is liberating, although I like doing a shared read now and then.
156PaulCranswick
>154 thornton37814: I did notice that you had read and reviewed it, Lori. I thought it would be just a little too bawdy for your taste but I did note that despite that the quirky book was able to hold your attention throughout.
>155 msf59: Thanks Mark. You are of course a pioneer of challenges having launched the AAC on us those years ago.
>155 msf59: Thanks Mark. You are of course a pioneer of challenges having launched the AAC on us those years ago.
157PaulCranswick
ASIAN BOOK CHALLENGE
April 2022 - PERSIA / WRITERS FROM IRAN
You must never mistake a Persian (Iranian) for an Arab so I wouldn't have dared mix up their literature. For all that the country may be associated these days with fundamentalism it does tend to produce a proportionately high number of female writers who are generally marked by their free expression and feminism.
I have a number of dear Iranian/Persian friends and I will use the labels interchangeably (although most of my friends seem to prefer the older name) technically as I understand it Persians are the majority ethnic group in Iran so it would probably depend which Iranian you were talking too. Most of my friends are filled with fun and joy and the love of wonderful food and drink. Dinner in an Iranian household is quite the experience.
Some options (all my selections born in Iran)
Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
Sadegh Hedayat
Marjane Satrapi
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Azar Nafisi
Laleh Khadivi
Reza Aslan
Shahrnoush Parsipour
April 2022 - PERSIA / WRITERS FROM IRAN
You must never mistake a Persian (Iranian) for an Arab so I wouldn't have dared mix up their literature. For all that the country may be associated these days with fundamentalism it does tend to produce a proportionately high number of female writers who are generally marked by their free expression and feminism.
I have a number of dear Iranian/Persian friends and I will use the labels interchangeably (although most of my friends seem to prefer the older name) technically as I understand it Persians are the majority ethnic group in Iran so it would probably depend which Iranian you were talking too. Most of my friends are filled with fun and joy and the love of wonderful food and drink. Dinner in an Iranian household is quite the experience.
Some options (all my selections born in Iran)
Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
Sadegh Hedayat
Marjane Satrapi
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Azar Nafisi
Laleh Khadivi
Reza Aslan
Shahrnoush Parsipour
159elkiedee
I actually first heard of Marjane Satrapi through a picture book for kids - after I bought a Kindle in 2011 I started trying to find books for the kids and particularly picture books (boys were 2 and 4 in summer 2011) and I bought a story called Monsters Are Afraid of the Moon which totally captured Conor's imagination. He used to take it to his childminders and ask them to read it to him. Sadly it seems to be out of print now as I would have loved to buy copies for more recent arrivals in the family.
160PaulCranswick
>159 elkiedee: I rarely read graphic novels, Luci, but I really did enjoy Persepolis.
161avatiakh
I created an LT list a few years back of Middle East & Maghreb graphic novels, many are based on real events and worth reading. I should update it.
https://www.librarything.com/list/9484/all/Middle-East-and-Maghreb-Graphic-Novel...
Zahra's Paradise is worth looking for, based round Iran's 2009 elections. It's written by an Iranian expat so I presume fits the criteria.
An Iranian Metamorphosis by Mana Neyestani is another worthwhile read.
https://www.librarything.com/list/9484/all/Middle-East-and-Maghreb-Graphic-Novel...
Zahra's Paradise is worth looking for, based round Iran's 2009 elections. It's written by an Iranian expat so I presume fits the criteria.
An Iranian Metamorphosis by Mana Neyestani is another worthwhile read.
162quondame
>157 PaulCranswick: Our next door neighbors called themselves Irani(i) and we did have dinner they prepared once where I was introduced to that crusty rice. Crusty rice hasn't yet charmed me, though the soups, stews and picked vegetables have. They had a daughter a month after ours was born, and cuter and smarter than ours, alas, probably smarter that most people I've met, though Becky is cute and smart enough.
163alcottacre
>157 PaulCranswick: I have already read both of Satrapi's Persepolis books, so I was hoping that I could find books by other Iranian authors at my local library and I lucked out there. I found books by Afisi, including one that I own, and Aslan. Only 3 all tolled, but 3 is better than nothing!
164PaulCranswick
>161 avatiakh: That is an interesting list, Kerry. Of the thirty-nine books, I am familiar with less than half of them. Iran is a country I do want to visit fairly soon and I have very good friends from Esfahan who have invited Hani and I to go and have an extended stay with them.
>162 quondame: Yes I must admit I am not a huge fan of crusty rice but they do prepare a rice with barberry rice which is delicious (they also called it Jewelled Rice)
>162 quondame: Yes I must admit I am not a huge fan of crusty rice but they do prepare a rice with barberry rice which is delicious (they also called it Jewelled Rice)
165PaulCranswick
>163 alcottacre: I have also read the complete Persepolis books, Stasia and at the moment plan to read :
The Saddlebag by Bayiyyih Nakhjavani and The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, the former being on the shelves and the latter I had spotted in Kino and hopefully will add to my shelves tomorrow.
The Saddlebag by Bayiyyih Nakhjavani and The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, the former being on the shelves and the latter I had spotted in Kino and hopefully will add to my shelves tomorrow.
166quondame
>164 PaulCranswick: My favorite is fava bean rice with dill. I'm a dill fan anyway and when I can find the dill sauerkraut I'm very happy.
167PaulCranswick
>166 quondame: Hani loves dill too, Susan. I am a coriander or cilantro kind of guy and would happily put it with most things. She has a more discerning palate than me obviously.
168PaulCranswick
On a sad note, I am not without my spine and succour for a few months at least!
Took Hani to the airport last night and she is currently en route to Manchester (eventually Sheffield) via Doha. Belle and I will miss her a lot (even the scoldings we both received on a daily basis - usually in my case, justified) and I will admit to a tear or two when nobody was looking yesterday.
Hani will sort of prepare the way for our eventual return to the UK and keep an eye on Kyran at the same time.
Took Hani to the airport last night and she is currently en route to Manchester (eventually Sheffield) via Doha. Belle and I will miss her a lot (even the scoldings we both received on a daily basis - usually in my case, justified) and I will admit to a tear or two when nobody was looking yesterday.
Hani will sort of prepare the way for our eventual return to the UK and keep an eye on Kyran at the same time.
169quondame
>167 PaulCranswick: Both, both are good. Maybe not together. Then there's basil. That's the best. Sometimes, well, mostly. But don't leave out mint either.. sage.. tarragon is absolutely necessary on occasion, and who, well I can name names, can do without rosemary. We won't speak of parsley.
>168 PaulCranswick: Smooth flight and happy landing for Hani.
>168 PaulCranswick: Smooth flight and happy landing for Hani.
170PaulCranswick
>169 quondame: I certainly like basil, Susan and Thailand has a particularly sweet version that is divine especially helping to flavour their salads. I do like most herbs actually but am not particularly skilled at knowing which ones should be paired with which food. Hani has a couple of oregano plants in the house and they give off a lovely aroma.
I am hoping for a quick update from her from Qatar but I think they have some fairly ridiculous rules about blocking whatsApp messages/calls.
I am hoping for a quick update from her from Qatar but I think they have some fairly ridiculous rules about blocking whatsApp messages/calls.
171PaulCranswick
>170 PaulCranswick: Funny I just posted my post and got a message from Hani explaining that she was safely in Doha and had had a nice flight from KL. Half empty planes may not be great news for the airlines but they are pretty great news for coach customers! Apparently they allow whatsApp messages but not whatsApp calls.
172PaulCranswick
Very interested to see that Hell of a Book by Jason Mott has just won the National Book Award for fiction in perhaps a slight surprise beating out Anthony Doerr, Lauren Groff, Robert Jones Jr and Laird Hunt in winning the prize.
I do want to eventually read all of the shortlisted books but the Groff, the Hunt and the Jones Jr books caught my eye the most from the field to be honest.
Non-Fiction was won by Tiya Miles for All That She Carried, Poetry by Martin Espada for Floaters, YA was won by Malinda Lo for Last Night at the Telegraph Club and the Translated work of Fiction was won by Elisa Shua Dusapin for Winter in Sokcho.
The National Book Awards is doing its best to be inclusive and in fact the main fiction prize has been won by a writer from an ethnic minority every year since 2015. I have to hasten to add that generally the winning picks have been pretty solid choices too - Charles Yu's win last year was certainly left field but his novel has been almost universally acclaimed in this group an elsewhere and I hope to read it this month.
I am a great believer in equality of opportunity and it is wonderful that given that opportunity we are all being exposed to some simply brilliant writing. Well done to the National Book Awards.
I do want to eventually read all of the shortlisted books but the Groff, the Hunt and the Jones Jr books caught my eye the most from the field to be honest.
Non-Fiction was won by Tiya Miles for All That She Carried, Poetry by Martin Espada for Floaters, YA was won by Malinda Lo for Last Night at the Telegraph Club and the Translated work of Fiction was won by Elisa Shua Dusapin for Winter in Sokcho.
The National Book Awards is doing its best to be inclusive and in fact the main fiction prize has been won by a writer from an ethnic minority every year since 2015. I have to hasten to add that generally the winning picks have been pretty solid choices too - Charles Yu's win last year was certainly left field but his novel has been almost universally acclaimed in this group an elsewhere and I hope to read it this month.
I am a great believer in equality of opportunity and it is wonderful that given that opportunity we are all being exposed to some simply brilliant writing. Well done to the National Book Awards.
173quondame
>170 PaulCranswick: Oh dear where would we be without oregano and I'm fond of it's cousin marjoram as well. I love Thai basil, it's one of the only ones I can distinguish in food from the standard big leafy green stuff I make pesto from. At the fancy Mexican/Oxochan place near us they used an herb that was between basil and mint and utterly fragrant, but though I asked what it was I'd forgotten before I could record it. Then the menu changed and while I love their chili rellenos I miss the classier dishes.
As for when to use what I just go with a recipe or what I'm familiar with.
As for when to use what I just go with a recipe or what I'm familiar with.
174PaulCranswick
>173 quondame: Your talk has served to make me hungry as a wolf, Susan as well as helped me to realise how much I will miss SWMBOs cooking until I next see her in December (God willing).
175quondame
>174 PaulCranswick: Yeah, I was making my self hungry too. It's too late for me to order Thai salad, but that's a thought for Friday.
176PaulCranswick
>175 quondame: I will have a Korean dinner this evening with my colleagues here. Plenty of garlic and chili but not so much cilantro!
177humouress
>173 quondame: Lemon balm? Thai basil? Neither of which is native to Mexico though.
>167 PaulCranswick: I like coriander but not cilantro; it's got that taste that celery can get when it's a bit older. The other day I bought coriander but discovered it was actually mislabeled cilantro. Very disappointing.
>167 PaulCranswick: I like coriander but not cilantro; it's got that taste that celery can get when it's a bit older. The other day I bought coriander but discovered it was actually mislabeled cilantro. Very disappointing.
178roundballnz
Loving this Asian book challenge for 2022 ....
179quondame
>177 humouress: I'm not sure it was native to Mexico, the restaurant served European influenced dishes at that time possibly French or Spanish, and the dish was an incredible mix of Mexican and Mediterranean. There are a lot of herbs in the basil mint family and and it wouldn't surprise me to find I hadn't tried half of them.
180amanda4242
>177 humouress: Aren't coriander and cilantro the same thing?
181humouress
>180 amanda4242: *shudder* No. They look identical but taste quite different.
182amanda4242
>181 humouress: Literally everything I've looked at says they are different names for the same plant. *shrugs* It all tastes like soap to me.
183humouress
>182 amanda4242: I'm guessing you've been tasting cilantro :0)
Maybe they are the same plant but, like basil or mint, different versions. At least they taste very different to me.
Maybe they are the same plant but, like basil or mint, different versions. At least they taste very different to me.
184amanda4242
>183 humouress: Maybe it's the age of the plant? I've tasted leaves from a friend's cilantro plant once and there was a subtle difference between the taste of the younger leaves and the older.
185PaulCranswick
>177 humouress: Then I am completely showing off my ignorance of herbs and spices in admitting that I had no idea that there was a difference between coriander and cilantro, Nina.
To be fair Susan stated she got the stuff at a Mexican place she didn't quite say it was Mexican.
>178 roundballnz: I am enjoying putting it together too, Alex.
To be fair Susan stated she got the stuff at a Mexican place she didn't quite say it was Mexican.
>178 roundballnz: I am enjoying putting it together too, Alex.
186PaulCranswick
>179 quondame: I suppose it must be possible to cross plants and mix mint with coriander somehow but I wouldn't have the foggiest idea of where to start with it. I just know what stuff I like and then oftentimes I need Hani to tell me what I am supposed to call it.
>180 amanda4242: et tu, Amanda. I also thought that they were the same thing and that the English call it coriander but Americans use the word cilantro.
>180 amanda4242: et tu, Amanda. I also thought that they were the same thing and that the English call it coriander but Americans use the word cilantro.
187PaulCranswick
>181 humouress: Fascinating Nina. I am going to go off after this and look at the difference. Hopefully my Commercial Meeting won't intrude too much! We just got permanent power established to the building yesterday.
>182 amanda4242: Hahaha I remember you saying that before but, on this occasion, we do differ as I adore coriander.
>182 amanda4242: Hahaha I remember you saying that before but, on this occasion, we do differ as I adore coriander.
188PaulCranswick
>183 humouress: I want to know now whether I like coriander or cilantro. I guess it is the former and whether I like one but not the other!
>184 amanda4242: Going off to research.
>184 amanda4242: Going off to research.
189quondame
>180 amanda4242: >181 humouress: >182 amanda4242: >183 humouress: Coriander is the seed, cilantro is the leaf. So same and different.
Mint and Basil are related, but there are lots of varieties of both.
And Thyme! I make and oil infused with thyme that I useall the time a lot. I make one from basil, but only use it occasionally. But the oil doesn't go bad.
Mint and Basil are related, but there are lots of varieties of both.
And Thyme! I make and oil infused with thyme that I use
190PaulCranswick
Based on a speed read of three or four sites there does seem to be some consensus.
In North America - cilantro and coriander are different parts of the same plant. The leaf and stems are cilantro. The seeds are coriander.
In Europe and most other places - there is no differentiation between the different parts of the plant it is all coriander.
Where it gets a bit more confusing is that there clearly are variants of the plant which would result in different tastes and, in fact, in Asia some of the slightly different plants get called Chinese parsley.
Whilst a thumbnail speed research cannot be definitive it seems that it is possible both were right and both were wrong.
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/cilantro-vs-coriander-whats-the-difference-...
In North America - cilantro and coriander are different parts of the same plant. The leaf and stems are cilantro. The seeds are coriander.
In Europe and most other places - there is no differentiation between the different parts of the plant it is all coriander.
Where it gets a bit more confusing is that there clearly are variants of the plant which would result in different tastes and, in fact, in Asia some of the slightly different plants get called Chinese parsley.
Whilst a thumbnail speed research cannot be definitive it seems that it is possible both were right and both were wrong.
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/cilantro-vs-coriander-whats-the-difference-...
191PaulCranswick
>189 quondame: We were posting at the same time but with pretty much the same answer. In the UK and most of the rest of the world no differentiation is made between leaf and seed; both are coriander.
Infused oils?!! I really am getting hungry.
Infused oils?!! I really am getting hungry.
192quondame
>191 PaulCranswick: I've only ever seen the seeds sold as coriander, while the leaves are sold mostly as cilantro but sometimes as coriander.
I was off looking up the basil family tree on Wikipedia. It's got lots of branches and includes many of the herbs, including lavender and thyme, and have species on all continents but Antarctica.
I was off looking up the basil family tree on Wikipedia. It's got lots of branches and includes many of the herbs, including lavender and thyme, and have species on all continents but Antarctica.
193humouress
>190 PaulCranswick: Well, I'm no expert; I'm just going by what I've tasted. I'm sure they're all closely related (as >192 quondame: points out). Chinese parsley tastes, to me, like what I've eaten that's labelled 'cilantro' which has that soapy flavour. When I see 'coriander' I think (of the leaves) of something that may be an Asian variety which has a distinctive ... hmm ... how to describe a taste?... tang? spiciness (not heat)?
194SandDune
>192 quondame: In the U.K. definitely we don’t get anything labelled ‘cilantro’. We have coriander seeds or coriander leaves. In my opinion you can’t get too much coriander!
Going back, I do like the Iranian crusty rice. Mr SandDune’s brother-in-law is Iranian and he’s cooked it for us on occasion.
Going back, I do like the Iranian crusty rice. Mr SandDune’s brother-in-law is Iranian and he’s cooked it for us on occasion.
195PaulCranswick
>192 quondame: I do love lavender and thyme too but the former more for its look and smell than its taste.
>193 humouress: I know what you mean, Nina, and I have admitted to a little bit of ignorance on the topic but there is definitely a difference here between coriander leaves/stems and Chinese parsley and does have a slightly unpleasant after-taste.
>193 humouress: I know what you mean, Nina, and I have admitted to a little bit of ignorance on the topic but there is definitely a difference here between coriander leaves/stems and Chinese parsley and does have a slightly unpleasant after-taste.
196PaulCranswick
>194 SandDune: Another coriander lover too then Rhian. You are right of course in the UK I have never seen anything in the stores labelled as cilantro.
My absolute favourite Iranian/Persian dish is a meat stew called "Gormeh Sabze". It is often made with beef or with lamb and is rich in herbs and has beans too. To die for:
My absolute favourite Iranian/Persian dish is a meat stew called "Gormeh Sabze". It is often made with beef or with lamb and is rich in herbs and has beans too. To die for:
197FAMeulstee
>171 PaulCranswick: Glad to read Hani has safely arrived in Qatar, Paul.
When is her flight to the UK? Wishing her safe travels.
When is her flight to the UK? Wishing her safe travels.
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199PaulCranswick
>197 FAMeulstee: She should be landing in Manchester about now, Anita!
I took slight advantage of my slightly enforced freedom to stop off at the bookstore....more later.
>198 SorenEos: It would be more polite to introduce yourself first.
I took slight advantage of my slightly enforced freedom to stop off at the bookstore....more later.
>198 SorenEos: It would be more polite to introduce yourself first.
200PaulCranswick
Here is what I bought and I think you'll see a theme
283. Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
284. The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon
285. The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
286. The Colonel by Mahmood Dowlatabadi
287. Disquiet by Zulfu Livaneli
288. The Italian by Shukri Mabkhout
289. The Tunnel by AB Yehoshua
Susan Abulhawa is a Palastinian author, Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi poet and novelist, Shokoofeh Azar is a rising star of Iranian writing safely in Australia since 2011, Mahmood Dowlatabadi is famous for his promotion of social and artistic freedoms in Iran, Zulfu Livaneli is a leading contemporary Turkish author, Shukri Mabkhout is a Tunisian winner of the International Prize for Arabic fiction and AB Yehoshua is a veteran Israeli author and the only one for whom I have another book already in my collection.
283. Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
284. The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon
285. The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
286. The Colonel by Mahmood Dowlatabadi
287. Disquiet by Zulfu Livaneli
288. The Italian by Shukri Mabkhout
289. The Tunnel by AB Yehoshua
Susan Abulhawa is a Palastinian author, Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi poet and novelist, Shokoofeh Azar is a rising star of Iranian writing safely in Australia since 2011, Mahmood Dowlatabadi is famous for his promotion of social and artistic freedoms in Iran, Zulfu Livaneli is a leading contemporary Turkish author, Shukri Mabkhout is a Tunisian winner of the International Prize for Arabic fiction and AB Yehoshua is a veteran Israeli author and the only one for whom I have another book already in my collection.
201kidzdoc
>200 PaulCranswick: Nice book haul. I can highly recommend The Colonel, and I own but haven't yet read The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree and The Tunnel, so I might read one or both of them alongside you.
202PaulCranswick
>201 kidzdoc: I look forward to that, Darryl. I was reasonably pleased with the selection of books available today in Kino.
204alcottacre
>165 PaulCranswick: My choices for the Iranian writers are extremely limited so I will be reading Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan and Reading Lolita in Tehran (this will be a re-read for me) and Things I've Been Silent About both by Azar Nafisi.
>168 PaulCranswick: Safe travels for Hani! I know you will miss her while she is gone, Paul.
>172 PaulCranswick: I have The Prophets slated to read in December. I hope to get to the others on the list shortly. My local library seems to have them all. Wonders will never cease!
>200 PaulCranswick: Nice haul!
>168 PaulCranswick: Safe travels for Hani! I know you will miss her while she is gone, Paul.
>172 PaulCranswick: I have The Prophets slated to read in December. I hope to get to the others on the list shortly. My local library seems to have them all. Wonders will never cease!
>200 PaulCranswick: Nice haul!
205Caroline_McElwee
>168 PaulCranswick: Sorry you are going to be without Hani for a while Paul, but for a good cause in the long run perhaps.
206PaulCranswick
>204 alcottacre: I have a number of options, Stasia in addition to the books I bought today.
I will certainly miss Hani and this evening has dragged somewhat without her presence.
>205 Caroline_McElwee: She is safely in Sheffield and over the moon at the survival of her cacti!
I will certainly miss Hani and this evening has dragged somewhat without her presence.
>205 Caroline_McElwee: She is safely in Sheffield and over the moon at the survival of her cacti!
207quondame
I'm glad to hear Hani is on the ground in the UK and that her cacti are there for her.
My favorite Persian stew is Khoresh Karafs, made with celery and dried limes. It's on the tart side.
My favorite Persian stew is Khoresh Karafs, made with celery and dried limes. It's on the tart side.
208richardderus
>200 PaulCranswick:, >203 PaulCranswick: Disquiet sounds like I need to get it. They're all a lovely haul of good, interesting reads.
I've just finished Chouette which I recommend. It's...so weird. So very weird. And yet it kept me reading until 4a.
I've just finished Chouette which I recommend. It's...so weird. So very weird. And yet it kept me reading until 4a.
209SilverWolf28
Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/336835
210PaulCranswick
>207 quondame: Thanks Susan. Dried limes are something of a staple of some of their best dishes, I think.
>208 richardderus: Chouette goes onto the hitlist then RD. 4 am reading time denotes a seriously good read.
>208 richardderus: Chouette goes onto the hitlist then RD. 4 am reading time denotes a seriously good read.
211PaulCranswick
>209 SilverWolf28: Thank you, Silver!
212Berly
Glad Hanni has arrived safe and sound (with her cacti) but sorry you will be apart for a while.
>196 PaulCranswick: Recipe please?
>203 PaulCranswick: So whilst she's away, Paul will play? : )
>196 PaulCranswick: Recipe please?
>203 PaulCranswick: So whilst she's away, Paul will play? : )
213PaulCranswick
>212 Berly: Since Hani is able to cook that one authentically I shall get it for you, Kimmers.
>213 PaulCranswick: Erm, well, let's just say two days away and two visits to the bookstore already see very soon!
>213 PaulCranswick: Erm, well, let's just say two days away and two visits to the bookstore already see very soon!
214PaulCranswick
As Kimmers suspected; whilst the cat is away........
290. The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr
291. Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
292. Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
293. The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam
294. Mehmed, my Hawk by Yasar Kemal
295. Endgame by Ahmet Altan
Again the themes of my shopping are obvious. Altan, Kemal and Ali are all Turkish writers vying for my January attention. Mott has just won the National Book Award and some predicted it would in fact be Jones Jr. Arudpragasam is the debut novel of the Book shortlisted Sri Lankan author.
290. The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr
291. Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
292. Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
293. The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam
294. Mehmed, my Hawk by Yasar Kemal
295. Endgame by Ahmet Altan
Again the themes of my shopping are obvious. Altan, Kemal and Ali are all Turkish writers vying for my January attention. Mott has just won the National Book Award and some predicted it would in fact be Jones Jr. Arudpragasam is the debut novel of the Book shortlisted Sri Lankan author.
216PaulCranswick
ASIAN BOOK CHALLENGE
May 2022 - THE "STANS" / WRITERS FROM THE SEVEN NATIONS ENDING IN "STAN"
Geographically close (I cannot use the word "compact" given the sprawling and often forbidding geography they collectively contain) Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan is a collection of countries replete with remote spaces and intensity of conflict, belief, ideology and poverty. Out of these conditions comes a very strikingly mixed bag of writing. The previous Soviet "stans" are still opening up and therefore not too many of their number have too much exposure to Western readers. A few that have:
Hamid Ismailov - Uzbeki but Kyrgyz born and possibly the most well known outside that region
Chinghiz Aitmatov - from Kyrgyzstan
Ak Welsapar - Turkmenistani but now having Dual nationality with the other being Swedish.
Afghanistan
Khaled Hosseini of course
Fatima Bhutto
Atiq Rahimi
Pakistan
Mohsin Hamid
Kamila Shamsie
Khushwant Singh
Nadeem Aslam
Bapsi Sidhwa
May 2022 - THE "STANS" / WRITERS FROM THE SEVEN NATIONS ENDING IN "STAN"
Geographically close (I cannot use the word "compact" given the sprawling and often forbidding geography they collectively contain) Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan is a collection of countries replete with remote spaces and intensity of conflict, belief, ideology and poverty. Out of these conditions comes a very strikingly mixed bag of writing. The previous Soviet "stans" are still opening up and therefore not too many of their number have too much exposure to Western readers. A few that have:
Hamid Ismailov - Uzbeki but Kyrgyz born and possibly the most well known outside that region
Chinghiz Aitmatov - from Kyrgyzstan
Ak Welsapar - Turkmenistani but now having Dual nationality with the other being Swedish.
Afghanistan
Khaled Hosseini of course
Fatima Bhutto
Atiq Rahimi
Pakistan
Mohsin Hamid
Kamila Shamsie
Khushwant Singh
Nadeem Aslam
Bapsi Sidhwa
217karenmarie
Hi Paul!
I'm drawing a line in the sand and moving forward on the threads...
I'm sorry for you that Hani is in the UK, but also happy she's there as she's paving the way for your return and keeping an eye on Kyran.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
I'm drawing a line in the sand and moving forward on the threads...
I'm sorry for you that Hani is in the UK, but also happy she's there as she's paving the way for your return and keeping an eye on Kyran.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
218PaulCranswick
>217 karenmarie: I cannot win, Linda. I just called her and told her I was a bit tired and was going to bed as I am now. Hani wondered why I was "never tired" when she was home! Ah well.......
Lovely to see you. xx
Lovely to see you. xx
219amanda4242
>216 PaulCranswick: For Kazakhstan:
The Silent Steppe by Mukhamet Shayakhmetov--available on openlibrary.com
Nomads by Ilyas Esenberlin--It appears only the first book of the trilogy has been translated, but it can be downloaded in English for free from http://www.kazakhstanets.narod.ru/texts.html or, if your browser can't translate the Russian, at https://www.scribd.com/document/103170586/Eng-Nomads1 with a 30 day free trial subscription.
The Silent Steppe by Mukhamet Shayakhmetov--available on openlibrary.com
Nomads by Ilyas Esenberlin--It appears only the first book of the trilogy has been translated, but it can be downloaded in English for free from http://www.kazakhstanets.narod.ru/texts.html or, if your browser can't translate the Russian, at https://www.scribd.com/document/103170586/Eng-Nomads1 with a 30 day free trial subscription.
220richardderus
>216 PaulCranswick: Hamid Ismailov liked my review of Gaia, Queen of Ants, and it'd be a *great* group-read book for Stans Month. Really fascinating.
>215 PaulCranswick:, >214 PaulCranswick: The Prophets deserved the win. Hell of a Book is...decent. Nothing special, really. He's got wordsmithing deficits in comparison with Jones, Jr. The story's ordinary, does nothing new or all that interesting with its jumping around.
>215 PaulCranswick:, >214 PaulCranswick: The Prophets deserved the win. Hell of a Book is...decent. Nothing special, really. He's got wordsmithing deficits in comparison with Jones, Jr. The story's ordinary, does nothing new or all that interesting with its jumping around.
221PaulCranswick
>219 amanda4242: Thanks for that Amanda. I am not familiar with either of those but I will see whether I can get them on Book Depo.
>220 richardderus: I have some books by Ismailov and I'm pretty sure that he will be one of my reads next May.
I well recall your enthusiastic review of The Prophets and I did expect it to be more likely to win the National Book Awards than Mott's book. Modern satires have tended to be too heavy handed such as The Sellout by Paul Beatty which somehow won the Booker.
>220 richardderus: I have some books by Ismailov and I'm pretty sure that he will be one of my reads next May.
I well recall your enthusiastic review of The Prophets and I did expect it to be more likely to win the National Book Awards than Mott's book. Modern satires have tended to be too heavy handed such as The Sellout by Paul Beatty which somehow won the Booker.
222johnsimpson
Hi Paul, a belated happy new thread mate. What with our overnight stay and real life getting in the way of me coming on here, then everything explodes at our beloved Yorkshire.I think that the floodgates will now open after Rafiq's appearance at the DCMS committee meeting.
The days of the ECB look numbered and Andy Nash from Somerset is predicting three bodies to oversee distinct parts of our National game, i tend to agree with him as Harrison looked like a rabbit in the headlights when questioned by the DCMS.
On the Ashes, Paine has got his comeuppance after making digs about being at the Gabba on the 8th whether or not Root would be there. As i said to an Aussie friend on the BFB group, he was spouting yet as part of the Tasmania team that scuttled back home from Queensland after four, (four) cases were found somewhere in the state. I gather he remains in the squad for the time being but i don't think that state of affairs will last long as there are better keeper/batsmen awaiting their turn at international level.
I hope that Hani manages to pave the way for your eventual return to the mother country mate and hope that you and Belle don't pine away too much.
All the best for the weekend from both of us mate.
The days of the ECB look numbered and Andy Nash from Somerset is predicting three bodies to oversee distinct parts of our National game, i tend to agree with him as Harrison looked like a rabbit in the headlights when questioned by the DCMS.
On the Ashes, Paine has got his comeuppance after making digs about being at the Gabba on the 8th whether or not Root would be there. As i said to an Aussie friend on the BFB group, he was spouting yet as part of the Tasmania team that scuttled back home from Queensland after four, (four) cases were found somewhere in the state. I gather he remains in the squad for the time being but i don't think that state of affairs will last long as there are better keeper/batsmen awaiting their turn at international level.
I hope that Hani manages to pave the way for your eventual return to the mother country mate and hope that you and Belle don't pine away too much.
All the best for the weekend from both of us mate.
223amanda4242
>221 PaulCranswick: You might be able to find The Silent Steppe, but I think the only English translation of Nomads is that ebook.
224PaulCranswick
>222 johnsimpson: There has to be changes in the organisation of Yorkshire CCC, John, which is clear. That this is a wider issue that needs some revision to more counties and especially the ECB is equally clear to me and this shouldn't be a smug witch hunt of the game's leading County. I hope it also leads to players from all walks of life treating each other better as there were wrongs on all side here exposed.
I am actually disappointed that Paine has lost the captaincy as I think he was the only active Test captain with less tactical nous that Joe Root. Paine is a pain and his text messages are clearly going to see him in hot water.
>223 amanda4242: The Silent Steppe is unavailable but its follow up A Kazakh Teacher's Story is available. It can be bought however of the Used book affiliate of Book Depo; Abe Books.
I am actually disappointed that Paine has lost the captaincy as I think he was the only active Test captain with less tactical nous that Joe Root. Paine is a pain and his text messages are clearly going to see him in hot water.
>223 amanda4242: The Silent Steppe is unavailable but its follow up A Kazakh Teacher's Story is available. It can be bought however of the Used book affiliate of Book Depo; Abe Books.
225jessibud2
Hi Paul. I just thought you might be interested in a brand new audiobook-as-podcast that I just purchased. It's called Miracle and Wonder and it is over 30 hours of author Malcolm Gladwell talking to Paul Simon. Talk, stories, music, etc. More details on my thread. I am very excited about this one!
226ursula
>112 PaulCranswick: Oh hey, imagine my surprise to be (finally) scrolling through here and see this!
I would love to add what I can to a thread about Turkey and Turkish writers. Unfortunately I haven't read a ton of them, mostly just Pamuk and I've tried to read some Shafak but didn't get through it.
I would love to add what I can to a thread about Turkey and Turkish writers. Unfortunately I haven't read a ton of them, mostly just Pamuk and I've tried to read some Shafak but didn't get through it.
227PaulCranswick
>225 jessibud2: You know, Shelley, that you have my attention when it is anything to do with Paul Simon!
228PaulCranswick
>226 ursula: Certainly you have helped prompt my idea to do this challenge next year and to start it in Turkey too. I am sure we will all be asking you about your favourite nooks and crannies there and restaurants, food and drink etc.
229Crazymamie
All caught up with you, Paul. Sorry it has taken me so long. Your Asian reading challenge is definitely of interest to me, so I'm in.
Glad that Hani has had safe journeys but sorry that you are missing her. I remember when Craig was living in Georgia and the kids and I were in Indiana - tough going to be parted from the one you have built a life with.
Hoping that the weekend is behaving itself.
Glad that Hani has had safe journeys but sorry that you are missing her. I remember when Craig was living in Georgia and the kids and I were in Indiana - tough going to be parted from the one you have built a life with.
Hoping that the weekend is behaving itself.
230PaulCranswick
>229 Crazymamie: Always a pleasure having my friend from the Pecan Paradisio stop by. x
I well remember the time before you relocated and in our case I can feel the pull of home increasing. Hani being there obviously makes that more acute but I have to stop and finish a project I am very invested in plus Belle is here with me and awaiting exam results in January.
I am not sleeping too well the last couple of days despite being tired and the empty space which would normally be occupied by SWMBO is a telling one on me at the moment.
Really pleased that the Asian Book Challenge is meeting with quite a bit of enthusiasm.
I well remember the time before you relocated and in our case I can feel the pull of home increasing. Hani being there obviously makes that more acute but I have to stop and finish a project I am very invested in plus Belle is here with me and awaiting exam results in January.
I am not sleeping too well the last couple of days despite being tired and the empty space which would normally be occupied by SWMBO is a telling one on me at the moment.
Really pleased that the Asian Book Challenge is meeting with quite a bit of enthusiasm.
231PaulCranswick
ASIAN BOOK CHALLENGE
JUNE 2022 - THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT / WRITERS FROM INDIA, SRI LANKA AND BANGLADESH
I will let you into a secret. I love Indian fiction. Favourite novel of my lifetime if I had to choose one I would take A Fine Balance. Best Booker Winner would quite possibly be Midnight's Children and I got hours of enjoyment reading and re-reading the books of RK Narayan.
India really ought to get its own month but I had a whole continent to fit into the year! Some of the authors you could choose (I don't mind if you take Rushdie or Mistry in this month or in December as part of the Diaspora as both were born in India but moved overseas at an early age)
Vikram Seth
Anita Desai
Vikram Chandra
Kiran Desai
Chetan Bhagat
Arundhati Roy
Amitav Ghosh
Gita Mehta
Aravind Adiga
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Amit Chaudhuri
Neel Mukherjee
Raja Rao
Jeet Thayil
Tishani Doshi
Kishwar Desai
Mulk Raj Anand
Amrita Pritam
and the list could go on and on.
Sri Lanka is also developing a fine storytelling tradition:
Anuk Arudpragasam
Shehan Karunatilaka
Ru Freeman
Romesh Gunasekera
and Michael Ondaatje could be counted here or in December as he was born in Sri Lanka but moved very early on to Canada.
Similarly Monica Ali and Tahmima Anam would fit both months as both were born in Bangladesh but have spent most of their lives in England.
JUNE 2022 - THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT / WRITERS FROM INDIA, SRI LANKA AND BANGLADESH
I will let you into a secret. I love Indian fiction. Favourite novel of my lifetime if I had to choose one I would take A Fine Balance. Best Booker Winner would quite possibly be Midnight's Children and I got hours of enjoyment reading and re-reading the books of RK Narayan.
India really ought to get its own month but I had a whole continent to fit into the year! Some of the authors you could choose (I don't mind if you take Rushdie or Mistry in this month or in December as part of the Diaspora as both were born in India but moved overseas at an early age)
Vikram Seth
Anita Desai
Vikram Chandra
Kiran Desai
Chetan Bhagat
Arundhati Roy
Amitav Ghosh
Gita Mehta
Aravind Adiga
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Amit Chaudhuri
Neel Mukherjee
Raja Rao
Jeet Thayil
Tishani Doshi
Kishwar Desai
Mulk Raj Anand
Amrita Pritam
and the list could go on and on.
Sri Lanka is also developing a fine storytelling tradition:
Anuk Arudpragasam
Shehan Karunatilaka
Ru Freeman
Romesh Gunasekera
and Michael Ondaatje could be counted here or in December as he was born in Sri Lanka but moved very early on to Canada.
Similarly Monica Ali and Tahmima Anam would fit both months as both were born in Bangladesh but have spent most of their lives in England.
232amanda4242
>231 PaulCranswick: In a bizarre coincidence I was just sent a children's picture book yesterday by a Sri Lankan author. I won it in some contest I don't really remember entering.
I only own one book by a Bangladeshi author, The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain, but it's an excellent one and there's a sequel coming out next March.
I only own one book by a Bangladeshi author, The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain, but it's an excellent one and there's a sequel coming out next March.
233PaulCranswick
>232 amanda4242: Interesting Amanda. I hadn't heard of that one before.
234jessibud2
It seems I have several books on my shelves that would fit for this challenge so once you post the month by month list, I will try to partake. Or have you already posted it? If so, please direct me to it!
235PaulCranswick
>234 jessibud2: My post >143 PaulCranswick: above did give the link to the Challenge planning thread, Shelley but I guess it is easy to lose it in all the detail. x
Here it is again for ease of reference:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/336770#n7656137
Here it is again for ease of reference:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/336770#n7656137
236brenzi
I have Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin moved to my "Read Soonish" bookcase Paul. Of course it's been there for months now but I'm determined to read more from my shelves. As for the National Book Award, I was hoping for Zorrie or Matrix because I loved them both but I will read Hell of a Book at some point I'm sure.
237banjo123
Hi Paul! I have been avoiding challenges, but I think I will try to join in the Asian Challenge; I have been wanting to read more globally.
And I just love Persian rice!
And I just love Persian rice!
238PaulCranswick
>236 brenzi: I have seen such glowing reviews for Hunt, Groff and Jones Jr and I am generally skeptical of "modern satire" but Jason Mott won the prize so I will try it too despite some fairly mixed reviews.
I hope you can shoehorn, Abulhawa into the early part of next year Bonnie. xx
>237 banjo123: I do plan to mix a few facts and figures and food into the Asian threads next year to give flavour to our reading! I would love to have you along for some of the tasting sessions. x
I hope you can shoehorn, Abulhawa into the early part of next year Bonnie. xx
>237 banjo123: I do plan to mix a few facts and figures and food into the Asian threads next year to give flavour to our reading! I would love to have you along for some of the tasting sessions. x
239PaulCranswick
ASIAN BOOK CHALLENGE
JULY 2022 - THE NEW SUPERPOWER / WRITERS FROM CHINA
The world's most populated nation and one of the first sufficiently civilised to publish works by Confucius etc. The choice of writing available in English is largely from the dissident tradition but still has an enormous variety to choose from. In all honesty it is one of the Asian literatures that I am least familiar with. Some of the writers will also fit into December.
You have the option to go back a "few" years.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guangzhong
Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en
The Water Margin by Shi Nai'An
Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Or nearer to today through the works of:
Eileen Chang
Gao Xingjian
Mo Yan
Ha Jin
Yan Lianke
Mai Jia
Li Yiyun
Guo Xiaolu
Liu Cixin
Yu Hua
Jung Chang
Han Suyin
and many more
JULY 2022 - THE NEW SUPERPOWER / WRITERS FROM CHINA
The world's most populated nation and one of the first sufficiently civilised to publish works by Confucius etc. The choice of writing available in English is largely from the dissident tradition but still has an enormous variety to choose from. In all honesty it is one of the Asian literatures that I am least familiar with. Some of the writers will also fit into December.
You have the option to go back a "few" years.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guangzhong
Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en
The Water Margin by Shi Nai'An
Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Or nearer to today through the works of:
Eileen Chang
Gao Xingjian
Mo Yan
Ha Jin
Yan Lianke
Mai Jia
Li Yiyun
Guo Xiaolu
Liu Cixin
Yu Hua
Jung Chang
Han Suyin
and many more
240PaulCranswick
ASIAN BOOK CHALLENGE JUNE POSSIBILITIES
242PaulCranswick
ASIAN BOOK CHALLENGE JULY POSSIBILITIES
243PaulCranswick
>241 quondame: Indeed Susan. I suspect though that it may be double the first book's 1500 pages as we all know that ladies are far more complicated than gents.
244avatiakh
>242 PaulCranswick: I think reading Three Kingdoms in one month would be an achievement.
I just came across mention of Decoded today - The 20 best spy novels of all time
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/the-best-spy-novels-of-all-time/
I just came across mention of Decoded today - The 20 best spy novels of all time
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/the-best-spy-novels-of-all-time/
245jessibud2
>235 PaulCranswick: - Thanks Paul. Starred now.
A Suitable Boy is currently playing on Canadian tv as a miniseries, I believe. Since I haven't read it and I only discovered this part way through the broadcast, I am not watching it. Maybe one day, in reruns
A Suitable Boy is currently playing on Canadian tv as a miniseries, I believe. Since I haven't read it and I only discovered this part way through the broadcast, I am not watching it. Maybe one day, in reruns
246Crazymamie
My Sunday is beginning as yours in ending, Paul. I was telling Birdy and Abby about your Asian Book Challenge, and they are very excited about it - I think they will join in at least for some of it.
247PaulCranswick
>244 avatiakh: I think you are right about Three Kingdoms, Kerry, although I am sure some of our number would be able to manage it. Mai Jia is regarded as the Chinese Le Carre.
>245 jessibud2: I would suspect that the series wouldn't be such a "mini" Shelley to fully give justice to that book!
>245 jessibud2: I would suspect that the series wouldn't be such a "mini" Shelley to fully give justice to that book!
248PaulCranswick
>246 Crazymamie: It would be such a pleasure to have Birdy and Abby join in with the Asian Book Challenge. It should be good fun. Ordered Korean food for Belle, Erni and myself and it was really good although I am left with the ubiquitous taste of garlic now.
249Crazymamie
Yum to the Korean food. And I adore garlic, but I know what you mean. It does so love to linger.
250PaulCranswick
>249 Crazymamie: Plenty of water and I'm now just remembering how tasty the food was. :D
251elkiedee
>231 PaulCranswick: What about Pakistan, or are you dealing with that bit of south Asia separately? The first two Pakistani authors I can think of have settled in the UK - Tariq Ali and Kamila Shamsie. Kamila Shamsie has also written about pre-partition India in at least one of her novels, A God in Every Stone.
252PaulCranswick
>251 elkiedee: See post >216 PaulCranswick: Luci. Pakistan is included as one of the seven "Stans".
253elkiedee
>252 PaulCranswick: i can see some connections particularly between Afghanistan and Pakistan, but it does seem slightly strange historically to have India and Bangladesh in one challenge and Pakistan in another.
What if a book's setting predates the creation of the state where that setting now is? Can a book be read in either category on that basis?
What if a book's setting predates the creation of the state where that setting now is? Can a book be read in either category on that basis?
255quondame
>248 PaulCranswick: >249 Crazymamie: On Friday I did our family's version of Korean - Trader Joe's Korean short ribs and bool kogi with Japanese pickled vegetables in the banchan rolls, with rice. But I forgot the kimchi, bad me.
256alcottacre
Paul, would Ma Jian qualify for China? He was born there although he is now a British citizen.
Happy whatever!
Happy whatever!
257PaulCranswick
>253 elkiedee: Luci there were a few reasons that I paired them as I did.
Firstly and foremostly geographically there are seven nations in the world with the suffix "stan" and they are all clustered together on the globe there.
Secondly Indian literature is so rich that without splitting out Pakistani writers from there they would take even less pride of place. Because of time constraints (12 months in a year) I already needed to place Sri Lanka and Bangladesh together with them.
Thirdly there would not have been enough choices for May if I hadn't kept Pakistan with the Stans.
Finally Pakistan and India have a degree of enmity that justifies not putting them together!
On changing geographical boundaries I would generally go with where that place is today, but I don't overly care as the challenge is meant to be fun not restrictive and you can make your own judgement on it.
>254 torontoc: Do I get pulled into reading it? Maybe, Cyrel because I do have it on the shelves.
Firstly and foremostly geographically there are seven nations in the world with the suffix "stan" and they are all clustered together on the globe there.
Secondly Indian literature is so rich that without splitting out Pakistani writers from there they would take even less pride of place. Because of time constraints (12 months in a year) I already needed to place Sri Lanka and Bangladesh together with them.
Thirdly there would not have been enough choices for May if I hadn't kept Pakistan with the Stans.
Finally Pakistan and India have a degree of enmity that justifies not putting them together!
On changing geographical boundaries I would generally go with where that place is today, but I don't overly care as the challenge is meant to be fun not restrictive and you can make your own judgement on it.
>254 torontoc: Do I get pulled into reading it? Maybe, Cyrel because I do have it on the shelves.
258PaulCranswick
>255 quondame: Hahaha Susan - Korean food without kimchi is akin to Thanksgiving without turkey! I'm sure that your short ribs bulgogi was excellent. x
>256 alcottacre: Definitely qualifies, Stasia. I also have no qualms about putting him in the December category although I guess the China month is the best fit for him.
>256 alcottacre: Definitely qualifies, Stasia. I also have no qualms about putting him in the December category although I guess the China month is the best fit for him.
259alcottacre
>258 PaulCranswick: Thanks, Paul. He is one of the few Chinese authors that I have in my personal library.
260Crazymamie
>255 quondame: I have never been to Trader Joe's, and it's on my bucket list. Funnily enough, Daniel's wife Kaitlyn loves markets as much as I do, and when he asked her what she wanted to do for her birthday, she said road trip to Trader Joes! They are going to bring me back a prize. The closest one to us is in Tallahassee, Florida, so...
261quondame
>258 PaulCranswick: I did notice a lack of garlic breath yesterday. The Japanese pickles don't pack the same punch. Mike and Becky asked me what they were - I really don't know, beyond cucumbers and turnip, but they taste just fine.
262quondame
>260 Crazymamie: Lebkuchen, you want Lebkuchen from TJs if they are going between now and Christmas. I just picked up mumble mumble packages and they are disappearing rapidly. A newer offering, Persian cucumber sauerkraut wasn't in stock when I last went, but if I see it I'll get it.
263Crazymamie
>262 quondame: Oh! I looked those up, and they look most yum, but I am allergic to walnuts. Very allergic. So maybe not. *sob*
264PaulCranswick
>259 alcottacre: I have quite a number, Stasia, but have failed to read so many of them!
>260 Crazymamie: We don't have Trader Joes here or in the UK, Mamie, but I think I get the idea. Some of our bigger supermarkets are almost worth a day out!
>260 Crazymamie: We don't have Trader Joes here or in the UK, Mamie, but I think I get the idea. Some of our bigger supermarkets are almost worth a day out!
265PaulCranswick
>261 quondame: I am a real sucker for pickled cucumber, Susan. I could sit and munch on it most of the day.
>262 quondame: Sent me straight off to google Trader Joes and look at some of the images. 530 locations across the USA seems plenty - pictures make it seem quite inviting too. In the UK we have a number of similar supermarket chains - Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, Morrisons, Waitrose and from Germany Lidl and Aldi.
>262 quondame: Sent me straight off to google Trader Joes and look at some of the images. 530 locations across the USA seems plenty - pictures make it seem quite inviting too. In the UK we have a number of similar supermarket chains - Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, Morrisons, Waitrose and from Germany Lidl and Aldi.
266PaulCranswick
>263 Crazymamie: At least it is walnuts, Mamie and not pecans! All types of nut allergies scare me as, for some, the consequences of eating them by mistake is so dire.
This did catch my eye though:
This did catch my eye though:
267PaulCranswick
Sometimes I'll never understand how things work. Weekend was set up perfectly for me to read up a storm......Hani away, no demands on my time, Belle who always prefers to stay at home, Erni providing constant supplies of best arabica and PLENTY of books to go at.
So why did I only manage 150 pages in the whole weekend?
Pining for my better half? Listless sleeplessness? Too much surfing the internet. Long calls with brother and said better half? No excuses.
So why did I only manage 150 pages in the whole weekend?
Pining for my better half? Listless sleeplessness? Too much surfing the internet. Long calls with brother and said better half? No excuses.
268quondame
>266 PaulCranswick: That's pretty good. I eat it on kosher hot dogs with mustard. I think Aldi and TJ's are the same company.
269m.belljackson
>267 PaulCranswick: Paul -
Lucky you not to be now living in the United States or your reason for not reading a lot would be Kyle Rittenhouse.
Lucky you not to be now living in the United States or your reason for not reading a lot would be Kyle Rittenhouse.
270thornton37814
>267 PaulCranswick: I had long drives so I listened to audiobooks. I read a little bit of an ebook, but not that much of one. I need to break out a book for which a review is due December 1. It's nonfiction and will probably read quickly. I've also got a print book from the library (fiction) that I'll start when I finish the ebook I'm reading.
271PaulCranswick
>268 quondame: Just checked that and you are right, Susan. Trader Joes is a subsidiary of Aldi. I thought the shop frontages looked familiar.
>269 m.belljackson: Don't really want to jump in on this one, Marianne. As a lawyer (albeit that my specialty is construction/contract law) I of course have an opinion but I am a believer in the Jury system and they appear to have done their jobs despite intense pressure upon them. This wasn't a case about racial justice or 2nd amendment issues (although clearly reform there is necessary), but rather one on the extent to the right of self-defence on the given facts and law.
I don't know the first thing about the victims in this case and I don't know the first thing about Rittenhouse other than he was extremely ill-advised to go to Kenosha armed as he was. Biden similarly knew nothing about the young man and to have labelled him before the trial as a "white supremacist" is incendiary language and seeks to undermine the presumption of innocence - the same incendiary type of language from Trump and some on the left that put people on the streets and which went so badly wrong.
>269 m.belljackson: Don't really want to jump in on this one, Marianne. As a lawyer (albeit that my specialty is construction/contract law) I of course have an opinion but I am a believer in the Jury system and they appear to have done their jobs despite intense pressure upon them. This wasn't a case about racial justice or 2nd amendment issues (although clearly reform there is necessary), but rather one on the extent to the right of self-defence on the given facts and law.
I don't know the first thing about the victims in this case and I don't know the first thing about Rittenhouse other than he was extremely ill-advised to go to Kenosha armed as he was. Biden similarly knew nothing about the young man and to have labelled him before the trial as a "white supremacist" is incendiary language and seeks to undermine the presumption of innocence - the same incendiary type of language from Trump and some on the left that put people on the streets and which went so badly wrong.
272PaulCranswick
>270 thornton37814: I cannot explain my lack of pages, Lori, other than I suppose I am a bit down with Hani, Yasmyne and Kyran all in a different country. Belle is the least communicative of all of us but in fairness she was fairly nice to me this weekend.
273m.belljackson
Sorry, Paul, I live near Kenosha in a state with concealed carry, saw a White Supremacist judge allow the accused to pick his jury from a lottery, to support the "acting in self-defense" lies for the jury, watched the rise of even more armed Nazis outside the courthouse and have endured January 6th with Democrats and Progressives STILL NOT TAKING ACTION after nearly one year to prevent the destruction of Democracy.
As well, Obama and Biden would not release the CIA documents on the Kennedy Assassination.
Reality, not paranoia when we have ALL become Rittenhouse targets.
As double-well, the congressman who showed himself killing a woman on twitter is not in jail.
As well, Obama and Biden would not release the CIA documents on the Kennedy Assassination.
Reality, not paranoia when we have ALL become Rittenhouse targets.
As double-well, the congressman who showed himself killing a woman on twitter is not in jail.
274PaulCranswick
>273 m.belljackson: As I said, Marianne, I didn't really want to comment on it. Politicians and the media have a lot to answer for in my opinion for dividing people more than bringing them together.
275elkiedee
I live in the UK and I can't see a case like the one in Kenosha getting near a jury. I don't think that the guy who drove from Wales to London (possibly a slightly longer journey than the 4 hour drive into the city) hoping to go and find either Jeremy Corbyn (then leader of the Labour Party and Opposition to the government) or John McDonnell (another left wing Labour politician and MP) who then attacked people outside a mosque in Finsbury Park got a jury trial, did he?
276PaulCranswick
>275 elkiedee: We don't have the same gun laws for a start, Luci.
Darren Osbourne was convicted by a Jury at Woolwich Crown Court on 1 February 2018 for the Finsbury Mosque killing and he is presently serving a life sentence with a minimum tariff of 43 years.
Darren Osbourne was convicted by a Jury at Woolwich Crown Court on 1 February 2018 for the Finsbury Mosque killing and he is presently serving a life sentence with a minimum tariff of 43 years.
277amanda4242
>239 PaulCranswick: Maybe next year I will finally get around to reading Dream of the Red Chamber.
278PaulCranswick
>277 amanda4242: I am genuinely undecided at this time what I want to read for the Chinese element of the challenge, Amanda.
279elkiedee
>276 PaulCranswick: Good point. I stand corrected re Darren Osborne facing a jury trial. ALso, I do think that the gun laws, and even more, the belief in the right to bear arms in the US, are important differences.
280Familyhistorian
Sorry to see that Hani being away is effecting your reading, Paul, if it is that. Seems like you’re spending a fair amount of time setting up your new challenge.
281PaulCranswick
>279 elkiedee: With so many guns already in circulation over there and the intransigence on both sides of the argument, Luci, I don't see an easy resolution to Second Amendment issues and interpretations. I really don't see why the right to bear certain types of weapons over there cannot be curtailed and still retain the vestiges of their constitution.
>280 Familyhistorian: That is a good point, Meg, as I am spending time pondering different writer options to recommend for next year. Still I am not putting in the hours I normally enjoy putting in with a book in my hands.
>280 Familyhistorian: That is a good point, Meg, as I am spending time pondering different writer options to recommend for next year. Still I am not putting in the hours I normally enjoy putting in with a book in my hands.
282alcottacre
It is amazing, isn't it, how our families affect what we do? I know that when Kerry is away, I feel at odds with everything. I do hope that you get back on track soon, Paul.
Have a great week!
Have a great week!
283PaulCranswick
>282 alcottacre: Thanks Stasia. For various reasons this is the most affected I have been by one of her extended trips. My evenings - especially my late evenings seem devoid of meaning.
284m.belljackson
>281 PaulCranswick: That's an easy one, Paul, which we may agree on - none of us has the money to buy off the NRA.
285PaulCranswick
>284 m.belljackson: It is alien to the British psyche that humankind is to be imbued with the right to bear arms. I am firmly against the prevalence of guns in society. The problems faced by the USA are that that right is said by some to be part of the constitutional settlement and as a result literally millions of guns are in circulation. Practically I don't know where you start to remove them all even if the constitution could be amended or re-interpreted. A start may surely be to concentrate on the removal of certain types of guns which will at least keep some of the more destructive weapons off the street.
286Berly
Paul--I am sorry to hear that you didn't manage to fit in a lot of reading this weekend. I know you are missing Hani. Hugs to you my friend.
288alcottacre
>287 PaulCranswick: I sure hope so! I mean, how am I going to fill up the BlackHole without your contributions, Paul :)
289PaulCranswick
ASIAN BOOK CHALLENGE
AUGUST 2022 - NIPPON / WRITERS FROM JAPAN
I don't understand much about Japanese literature but I do keep trying. Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize and is hailed as one Britain's finest but he was born in Japan and his early work bear the influence of his upbringing. He can be counted here or in December as part of the Asian diaspora.
Twenty Japanese Authors to try with an example of their work.
Kobe Abe - The Woman in the Dunes
Haruki Murakami - Sweetheart Sputnik
Ryu Murakami - In the Miso Soup
Yasunari Kawabata - The Master of Go
Yukio Mishima - Runaway Horses
Masuji Ibuse - Black Rain
Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen
Miyuki Miyabe - All She Was Worth
Yuko Tsushima - Territory of Light
Kenzaburo Oe - A Personal Matter
Shusaku Endo - Silence
Hiromi Kawakami - Strange Weather in Tokyo
Soseki Natsume - I am a Cat
Junichiro Tanizaki - Some Prefer Nettles
Natsuo Kirino - Grotesque
Keigo Higashino - The Devotion of Suspect X
Yoko Ogawa - Hotel Iris
Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman
Mieko Kawakami - Breasts and Eggs
Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
AUGUST 2022 - NIPPON / WRITERS FROM JAPAN
I don't understand much about Japanese literature but I do keep trying. Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize and is hailed as one Britain's finest but he was born in Japan and his early work bear the influence of his upbringing. He can be counted here or in December as part of the Asian diaspora.
Twenty Japanese Authors to try with an example of their work.
Kobe Abe - The Woman in the Dunes
Haruki Murakami - Sweetheart Sputnik
Ryu Murakami - In the Miso Soup
Yasunari Kawabata - The Master of Go
Yukio Mishima - Runaway Horses
Masuji Ibuse - Black Rain
Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen
Miyuki Miyabe - All She Was Worth
Yuko Tsushima - Territory of Light
Kenzaburo Oe - A Personal Matter
Shusaku Endo - Silence
Hiromi Kawakami - Strange Weather in Tokyo
Soseki Natsume - I am a Cat
Junichiro Tanizaki - Some Prefer Nettles
Natsuo Kirino - Grotesque
Keigo Higashino - The Devotion of Suspect X
Yoko Ogawa - Hotel Iris
Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman
Mieko Kawakami - Breasts and Eggs
Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
290PaulCranswick
>288 alcottacre: As one of the strangest choices for Californian Governor used to say, "I'll be Back" xx
291amanda4242
>289 PaulCranswick: I'm a fan of Yukio Mishima. I don't always understand his work, but I do admire it.
>290 PaulCranswick: That was one of the stranger periods of California history. Although it did render a scene in Last Action Hero absolutely hilarious: one character says they're waiting for the governor to show up as Arnold walks through the scene.
>290 PaulCranswick: That was one of the stranger periods of California history. Although it did render a scene in Last Action Hero absolutely hilarious: one character says they're waiting for the governor to show up as Arnold walks through the scene.
292Berly
>288 alcottacre: Your BlackHole is full, woman!!! LOL currently at 2,455...
>289 PaulCranswick: Okay, I'd be up for August's read. There are several on there I'd like. : )
>289 PaulCranswick: Okay, I'd be up for August's read. There are several on there I'd like. : )
293PaulCranswick
>291 amanda4242: Wasn't the chap far more liberal than most people expected him to be?
I have several books by Mishima but I don't think I have read any. I usually feel stupid reading Japanese books because I often don't understand half of it.
>292 Berly: My bought TBR is edging ever closer to 5,000 books, Kimmers!
I have several books by Mishima but I don't think I have read any. I usually feel stupid reading Japanese books because I often don't understand half of it.
>292 Berly: My bought TBR is edging ever closer to 5,000 books, Kimmers!
294PaulCranswick
Books for August's Asian Book Challenge
295PaulCranswick
If I don't get the wife back I'm gonna run out of cash. Another trip to the bookstore after work!
28 books in 6 days. Here are the additions tonight and you may see a theme again:
296. What to Read Next by Stig Abell
297. The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam
298. The Runaways by Fatima Bhutto
299. The Most Precious of Cargoes by Jean-Claude Grumberg
300. Sunlight On a Broken Column by Attia Hosain
301. Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
302. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
303. The Plotters by Kim Un Su
304. Lemon by Kwon Yeo Sun
305. Endless Blue Sky by Lee Hyoseok
306. The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian
307. Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
308. The Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson
309. There's No Such Thing as An Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura
310. Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
Three Korean novels, Four Japanese novels, a Chinese novel, a Afghani novel, a Bangladeshi novel, an Indian novel, a holocaust fable, a BAC author, an Irish novel and a book about books.
28 books in 6 days. Here are the additions tonight and you may see a theme again:
296. What to Read Next by Stig Abell
297. The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam
298. The Runaways by Fatima Bhutto
299. The Most Precious of Cargoes by Jean-Claude Grumberg
300. Sunlight On a Broken Column by Attia Hosain
301. Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
302. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
303. The Plotters by Kim Un Su
304. Lemon by Kwon Yeo Sun
305. Endless Blue Sky by Lee Hyoseok
306. The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian
307. Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
308. The Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson
309. There's No Such Thing as An Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura
310. Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
Three Korean novels, Four Japanese novels, a Chinese novel, a Afghani novel, a Bangladeshi novel, an Indian novel, a holocaust fable, a BAC author, an Irish novel and a book about books.
297Crazymamie
Evening, Paul! Your latest round of authors for The Asian Book Challenge has the most that I have read so far. I loved The Remains of the Day and enjoyed The Devotion of Suspect X. Kitchen I did not care for. I have to be in the right mood for Haruki Murakami, but I have read quite a bit of his stuff - my favorites are IQ84 and A Wild Sheep Chase. I have Convenience Store Woman, Sputnik Sweetheart and Strange Weather in Tokyo (which I guess is also titled The Briefcase?). I also have several authors that would fit in my Pushkin Vertigo collection.
Nice haul! I have not read any of these.
Nice haul! I have not read any of these.
298PaulCranswick
>296 PaulCranswick: I have promised myself, Mamie, that I will stay away from the bookstore for the rest of the week month year.
Don't hold your breath.
Don't hold your breath.
299Crazymamie
>298 PaulCranswick: Right. *blinks*
300PaulCranswick
>299 Crazymamie: 300 books added to the pile this year is steady for me but I am still adding much more than I am reading.
301elkiedee
Also a Pakistani novel (by Fatima Bhutto). Tahmima Amam is Bangladeshi but unlike her trilogy about Bangladesh, The Startup Wife is a great read and features a young Bangladeshi-American woman but it's set in the US. It feels very topical right now.
302Crazymamie
>300 PaulCranswick: This is the story of my life, Paul.
303PaulCranswick
>301 elkiedee: Fatima Bhutto was born in Afghanistan, Luci, obviously because of the exigencies of Pakistani politics and her Uncle in prison (soon to be executed). She grew up largely in Syria and latterly Pakistan before moving to England. You are certainly right though that she is Pakistani but qualifies for both Afghanistan (by birth) and Pakistan by nationality and parentally.
304PaulCranswick
>302 Crazymamie: The chances of me finishing all my owned books in my lifetime gets remoter by the day, Mamie, but at least I will never be stuck for something to read. :D
305Crazymamie
>304 PaulCranswick: Exactly.
306richardderus
>300 PaulCranswick: ...there's another way...?
308SilverWolf28
Here's the Thanksgiving readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/336954
309PaulCranswick
>305 Crazymamie: Slept like a top thankfully today and managed five completely uninterrupted hours sleep. Now to finish off my first book since the boss headed West!
>306 richardderus: If there is RD, I haven't stumbled upon it!
>306 richardderus: If there is RD, I haven't stumbled upon it!
310PaulCranswick
>307 mdoris: Actually Mary I have managed at least that number every year for the last nine years and my "best" was just over 1,200 in a year of absolute madness!
>308 SilverWolf28: And I shall give thanksgiving, Silver, for your efforts to keep us all reading throughout this difficult year. Thank you!
>308 SilverWolf28: And I shall give thanksgiving, Silver, for your efforts to keep us all reading throughout this difficult year. Thank you!
311SilverWolf28
>310 PaulCranswick: You're welcome!
313PaulCranswick
BOOK #119
The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You by Paul Farley
Date of Publication : 1998
Origin of Author : UK
Pages : 49 pp
Challenges :
BAC : 54
Queen Betty Challenge : 42
I expected great things from this collection, having enjoyed his later book The Dark Film but I was a little disappointed in it to be quite honesty.
Farley is a poet famed now for his musicality and his profound take on the mundane but it is at is most formative here. Although this was a Forward winning first collection, I would suggest to start a review of his work elsewhere.
The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You by Paul Farley
Date of Publication : 1998
Origin of Author : UK
Pages : 49 pp
Challenges :
BAC : 54
Queen Betty Challenge : 42
I expected great things from this collection, having enjoyed his later book The Dark Film but I was a little disappointed in it to be quite honesty.
Farley is a poet famed now for his musicality and his profound take on the mundane but it is at is most formative here. Although this was a Forward winning first collection, I would suggest to start a review of his work elsewhere.
314PaulCranswick
I realised that I had somehow miscounted the books added this year and it is 310 and not 300! I have corrected the offending posts and updated the master list above.
315humouress
Skimming through before going to look for your new thread. Two things:
1. (re >295 PaulCranswick:) Library. And Overdrive
2. I hear that Mexico is planning to take gun manufacturers to court over the large number of illegal fire arms entering their country. Apparently there is only one legal shop in the country. (Excuse me if the details are wrong; I'm going by my memory of what I heard on the radio sometime last week.)
1. (re >295 PaulCranswick:) Library. And Overdrive
2. I hear that Mexico is planning to take gun manufacturers to court over the large number of illegal fire arms entering their country. Apparently there is only one legal shop in the country. (Excuse me if the details are wrong; I'm going by my memory of what I heard on the radio sometime last week.)
316PaulCranswick
>315 humouress: Well I have slowed down a little since then. Not added a book for a week!
Looks like cross border trade is both ways.
Looks like cross border trade is both ways.
This topic was continued by PAUL C'S SECOND HOME - PART 23.
