Kristel's Reading 75 in 2023, 2nd quarter

Hi, I've been a part of 75 Books Challenge since 2018. I am a recent widow (15 months), recent retiree, and a lover of lists and books. I try to read 1001 books, Pulitzer, Booker, SFF, and horror. I participated in various challenges here and there. I am on GR and am a moderator for Reading 1001. I also am on Litsy and enjoy Bookspin, Double Spin and Bookspin Bingo. I spend time in Florida and Minnesota.

I also enjoy Wordle, Antiwordle, and Quordle.

2023

I am a bit over half way to 75 books for the year.

Booker
1. 1969: P. H. Newby, Something to Answer For - Own
2. 1970: Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member - Wishlist
3. 1970: J. G. Farrell, Troubles (awarded in 2010 as the Lost Man Booker Prize) -OWN
✔4. 1971: V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State
5. 1972: John Berger, G. - OWN-K
✔6. 1973: J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur - READ
7. 1974 ✔ The Conservationist and Holiday - Stanley Middleton
✅ 8. 1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust -
9. 1976: David Storey, Saville
✔10 . 1977: Paul Scott, Staying On read 2021
✔11. 1978: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea READ
12. 1979: Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore -
✔13. 1980: William Golding, Rites of Passage - READ
✔14. 1981: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children - READ
✔15. 1982: Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark - READ
✔16. 1983: J. M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K READ
17. 1984: Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac - OWN
18. 1985: Keri Hulme, The Bone People
19. 1986: Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils -
20. 1987: Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger -
✔21. 1988: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda OWN
✔22. 1989: Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day READ
✔23. 1990: A. S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance
24. 1991: Ben Okri, The Famished Road
✔25. 1992: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient READ
... and Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
26. 1993: Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha OWN
✔27. 1994: James Kelman, How late it was, how lateREAD 2021
28. 1995: Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
29. 1996: Graham Swift, Last Orders
✔30. 1997: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things READ
✔31. 1998: Ian McEwan, Amsterdam - READ
32. 1999: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace - OWN
✔33. 2000: Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin READ
34. 2001: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang-
✔35. 2002: Yann Martel, Life of Pi READ
36. 2003: DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little
✔37. 2004: Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty READ
✔38. 2005: John Banville, The Sea - READ
✔39. 2006: Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss OWN
✔40. 2007: Anne Enright, The Gathering - OWN COMPLETED 3/22
✔41. 2008: Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger - READ
✔42. 2009: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall - READ
43. 2010: Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question
✔44. 2011: Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending - READ
✔45. 2012: Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies - COMPLETED 3/2020
46. 2013: Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
✔47. 2014: Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North - READ
✔48. 2015: Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings - READ
✔49. 2016: Paul Beatty, The Sellout - READ
✔50. 2017: George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo READ
✔51. 2018: Anna Burns Milkman
✔52. 2019: Margaret Atwood, The Testaments, or Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
✔53. 2020. Shuggie Bain Douglas Stewart COMPLETED 3/24/22
54. 2021, The Promise by Damon Galgut
55. 2022, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilakaurns

Read in 2023
Heat and Dust (1975) - 2/27/23

Pulitzer
1. 1918 HIS FAMILY - Ernest Poole
✔2. 1919 THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS - Booth Tarkington Hoopla, 11/20/22
3. ✔1921 THE AGE OF INNOCENCE - Edith Wharton
4. 1922 ALICE ADAMS - Booth Tarkington
5. 1923 ONE OF OURS - Willa Cather
6. 1924 THE ABLE MCLAUGHLINS - Margaret Wilson
7. 1925 SO BIG - Edna Ferber
8. 1926 ARROWSMITH - Sinclair Lewis (Declined) library
9. 1927 EARLY AUTUMN - Louis Bromfield
10. ✔1928 THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY - Thornton Wilder
11. 1929 SCARLET SISTER MARY - Julia Peterkin
12. 1930 LAUGHING BOY - Oliver Lafarge Own
13. 1931 YEARS OF GRACE - Margaret Ayer Barnes
14. ✔1932 THE GOOD EARTH - Pearl Buck
15. 1933 THE STORE - Thomas Sigismund Stribling
16. 1934 LAMB IN HIS BOSOM - Caroline Miller
17. ✔1935 NOW IN NOVEMBER - Josephine Winslow Johnson 5/27/21
18. 1936 HONEY IN THE HORN - Harold L Davis
19. ✔1937 GONE WITH THE WIND - Margaret Mitchell
20. 1938 THE LATE GEORGE APLEY - John Phillips Marquand
21. 1939 THE YEARLING - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
22. ✔1940 THE GRAPES OF WRATH - John Steinbeck
23. 1942 IN THIS OUR LIFE - Ellen Glasgow
24. 1943 DRAGON'S TEETH - Upton Sinclair
25. 1944 JOURNEY IN THE DARK - Martin Flavin
26. 1945 A BELL FOR ADANO - John Hersey
27. 1947 ALL THE KING'S MEN - Robert Penn Warren
28. 1948 TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC - James Michener
29. 1949 GUARD OF HONOR - James Gould Cozzens
30. 1950 THE WAY WEST - A.B. Guthrie
31. 1951 THE TOWN - Conrad Richter
32. 1952 THE CAINE MUTINY - Herman Wouk
33. ✔1953 THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA - Ernest Hemingway
34. 1955 A FABLE - William Faulkner
35. 1956 ANDERSONVILLE - McKinlay Kantor
36. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY - James Agee
37. 1959 THE TRAVELS OF JAIMIE McPHEETERS - Robert Lewis Taylor
38. ✔1960 ADVISE AND CONSENT - Allen Drury 3/27/21
39. ✔1961 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - Harper Lee
40. 1962 THE EDGE OF SADNESS - Edwin O'Connor
41. 1963 THE REIVERS - William Faulkner
✅. 1965 THE KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE - Shirley Ann Grau OWN audible play 3/23
43. 1966 THE COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER - Katherine Anne Porter READ some
✔44. 1967 THE FIXER - Bernard Malamud
45. 1968 THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER - William Styron
46. 1969 HOUSE MADE OF DAWN - N Scott Momaday
47. 1970 THE COLLECTED STORIES OF JEAN STAFFORD - Jean Stafford
✅. 1972 ANGLE OF REPOSE - Wallace Stegner OWN 2/11/23
49. ✔1973 THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER - Eudora Welty
50. 1975 THE KILLER ANGELS - Jeff Shaara
51. ✔1976 HUMBOLDT'S GIFT - Saul Bellow
52. 1978 ELBOW ROOM - James Alan McPherson
53. 1979 THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER - John Cheever Read some
54. ✔1980 THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG - Norman Mailer
55. ✔1981 A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES - John Kennedy Toole
56. ✔1982 RABBIT IS RICH - John Updike
57. ✔1983 THE COLOR PURPLE - Alice Walker
58. 1984 IRONWEED - William Kennedy OWN
59. 1985 FOREIGN AFFAIRS - Alison Lurie
60. 1986 LONESOME DOVE - Larry McMurtry
61. 1987 A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS - Peter Taylor
62. ✔1988 BELOVED - Toni Morrison
67. 1989 BREATHING LESSONS - Anne Tyler OWN
68. 1990 THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE - Oscar Hijuelos70.
69. 1991 RABBIT AT REST - John Updike
✔70. 1992 A THOUSAND ACRES - Jane Smiley OWN 4/20/21
71. 1993 A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN - Robert Olen Butler
72. ✔1994 THE SHIPPING NEWS - E Annie Proulx
73. ✔1995 THE STONE DIARIES - Carol Shields
74. 1996 INDEPENDENCE DAY - Richard Ford
75. 1997 MARTIN DRESSLER - Steven Millhauser
76. ✔1998 AMERICAN PASTORAL - Philip Roth
77. ✔1999 THE HOURS - Michael Cunningham
78. 2000 INTERPRETER OF MALADIES - Jumpha Lahiri
79. ✔2001 THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY - Michael Chabon
80. 2002 EMPIRE FALLS - Richard Russo
81. ✔2003 MIDDLESEX - Jeffrey Eugenides
✔82. 2004 THE KNOWN WORLD - Edward P. Jones
83. ✔2005 GILEAD - Marilynne Robinson
84. ✔2006 MARCH - Geraldine Brooks
85. ✔2007 THE ROAD - Cormac McCarthy
86. ✔2008 THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO - Junot Diaz
87. ✔2009 OLIVE KITTERIDGE - Elizabeth Strout
88. 2010 TINKERS - Paul Harding
89. ✔2011 A VISIT FROM THE GOOD SQUAD - Jennifer Egan
90 ✔2013 ORPHAN MASTER'S SON - Adam Johnson OWN
91. ✔2014 THE GOLDFINCH - Donna Tartt
92. ✔2015 ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE - Anthony Doerr
✔93. 2016 THE SYMPATHIZER - Viet Thanh Nguyen
94. ✔2017 THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD - Colson Whitehead
95. ✔2018 LESS - Andrew Sean Greer READ 12/22/21
✅. 2019 THE OVERSTORY - Richard Powers OWN
97. 2020 THE NICKEL BOYS - Colson Whitehead OWN
✔98. 2021 The Night Watchman (hoopla, audio) COMPLETED 1/3/21
99. 2022 The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
100. 2023 Trust - Hernan Diaz & Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver.

Read in 2023
Angle of Repose
The Overstory
The Keeper's of the House

SFF and Horror
Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books August 11, 2011 https://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fant....

✔1. The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien, Read
✔2. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams read
✔3. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card READ
4. The Dune Chronicles By Frank Herbert, READ 1
5. A Song Of Ice And Fire Series by George R.R. Martin
✔6. 1984 A Novel y George Orwell READ
✔7. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury READ
8.The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov READ 2
✔9.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley READ
10. American Gods By Neil Gaiman
11. The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman
12.The Wheel Of Time Series by Robert Jordan, At 13 volumes and counting
✔13. Animal Farm by George Orwell READ
✔14. Neuromancer By William Gibson READ
✔15. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons READ
✔16. I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov READ
✔17. Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein READ
18. The Kingkiller Chronicles BY by Patrick Rothfuss READ
✔19. Slaughterhouse-Five By Kurt Vonnegut READ
✔20. Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley READ
✔21. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick READ
✔22. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood READ
23. The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King Book 1, 11/21
✔24. 2001: A Space Odyssey BY by Arthur C. Clarke
✔25. The Stand By Stephen King READ
✔26. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson READ
✔27. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury READ
✔28. Cat's Cradle By Kurt Vonnegut READ
29. The Sandman Series by Neil Gaiman 75-issue comic book series, now collected in ten trade volumes. READ VOL 1
✔30. A Clockwork Orange BY by Anthony Burgess READ
✔31. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein READ
✔32. Watership Down by Richard Adams READ
✔33. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey READ
✔34. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein READ
✔35. A Canticle For Leibowitz By Walter M. Miller Jr. READ
✔36. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells READ
✔37. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea By Jules Verne READ 8/20/21
✔38. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes READ
✔39. The War Of The Worlds by H.G. Wells READ
40. The Amber Chronicles by Roger Zelazny READ 1
✔41. The Belgariad By David Eddings 5 VOLUMES, READ
✔42. The Mists Of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley READ
43. Mistborn Trilogy Brandon Sanderson
✔44. Ringworld by LARRY NIVEN, READ
✔45. The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin READ
✔46. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien READ
✔47. The Once And Future King BY by T.H. White READ
✔48. Neverwhere by NEIL GAIMAN READ
✔49. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke READ
✔50. Contact by Carl Sagan READ
✔51. The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons READ
52. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
✔53. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson READ
54. World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
✔55. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle READ 1/24/21
✔56. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman READ
57. Small Gods A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
58. The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson
59. The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold. READ 4
60. Going Postal A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
61. The Mote In God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
62. The Sword Of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind
✔63. The Road BY by Cormac McCarthy READ
✔64. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke READ
✔65. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson READ
66. The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist
67. The Sword of Shannara Trilogy by Terry Brooks
68. The Conan The Barbarian Series by Robert E. Howard and Mark Schultz
69. The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb, read book #1 10/21 # 2 1/22
✔70. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger READ
71. The Way Of Kings y Brandon Sanderson
✔72. Journey To The Center Of The Earth by Jules Verne READ
73. The Legend Of Drizzt Series by R. A. Salvatore READ 1M https://www.goodreads.com/series/49134-the-legend-of-drizzt
74. Old Man's War by John Scalzi
75. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
✔76. Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke READ
77. The Kushiel's Legacy Series by Jacqueline Carey
✔78. The Dispossessed An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin READ
✔79. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury READ
✔80. Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire READ
81. The Malazan Book Of The Fallen series by Steven Erikson READ 1
✔82. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde READ
83. The Culture Series by Iain Banks READ 1,2
✔84. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart READ
✔85. Anathem by Neal Stephenson READ
86. The Codex Alera Series by Jim Butcher
87. The Book Of The New Sun by Gene Wolfe A SERIES
88. The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn
89. The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
90. The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock
✔91. The Illustrated Man By Ray Bradbury short works collection READ 5/5/21
92. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
✔93. A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge READ
94. The Caves Of Steel by Isaac Asimov
95. The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
96. Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
✔97. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis READ
98. Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
99. The Xanth Series by Piers Anthony
100. The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis

Horror100 Favorite Horror Stories https://www.npr.org/2018/08/16/632779706/click-if-you-dare-100-favorite-horror-s...
✔1. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley READ
✔2. Dracula by Bram Stoker READ
✔3. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne READ
✔4. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe READ
✔5.Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu READ
✔6. The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James READ
✔7.The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen READ
✔8. The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs READ 3/9/21
✔9. The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
✔10. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman READ
11. Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad by M. R. James and Darryl Jones
12.The Werewolf Of Paris By Guy Endore
✔13. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson READ
14. Let The Right One In By John Ajvide Lindqvist
✔15. The Vampire Chronicles (First Triology) by Anne Rice READ
16. Minion (Vampire Huntress Legend Series) by L. A. Banks
✔17. The Hunger by Alma Katsu READ 12/21
18. Those Across The River by Christopher Buehlman
✔19. Bird Box by Josh Malerman
20. Feed (Newsflesh Series) by Mira Grant
21. World War Z by Max Brooks
✔22. The Girl With All The Gifts by M. R. Carey
23. The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft
✔24.The Ballad Of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle
25. The Fisherman by John Langan
26. Laundry Files (Series) by Charles Stross READ 1
27.The Cipher By Kathe Koja
✔28. John Dies At The End by David Wong READ 12/21/21
✔29. At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft READ
30. All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts by Sonya Taaffe
31. Uzumaki by Junji Ito
32. Communion: A True Story by Whitley Strieber OR Majestic by Whitley Strieber
33. The Repairer Of Reputations by Robert W. Chambers
✔34. The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
35. The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
36. Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco
✔37. The Shining by Stephen King
38. House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
✔39.The Elementals by Michael McDowell READ
✔40. The Woman In Black by Susan Hill
41. Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
42. The Bone Key by Sarah Monette
43. Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
44. Infidel by Aaron Campbell, Jose Villarrubia, Pornsak Pichetshote and Jeff Powell comic
45. The Ruins by Scott Smith
✔46. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier READ
47. 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates
48. The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan
✔49. Swan Song by Robert McCammon READ
50. 'The Screwfly Solution' by James Tiptree Jr.n short story
51. 'Left Foot, Right' by Nalo Hopkinson
52. Come Closer by Sara Gran
53. Furnace by Livia Llewellyn
✔54. The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter READ
55. Through The Woods by Emily Carroll
56. Sandman by Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III and Sam Kieth graphic novel
57. Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado collection
58. White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
59. 'Goblin Market' by Christina Georgina Rossetti
60. Experimental Film by Gemma Files
61. 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson READ
✔62. The Collector by John Fowles READ
✔63. The Terror by Dan Simmons
64. Intensity by Dean R. Koontz
65. The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
66. Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
67. "Night They Missed the Horror Show" by Joe R. Lansdale
68. Penpal by Dathan Auerbach
69. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
70. 'Bloodchild' by Octavia E. Butler
✔71. Lord Of The Flies by William Golding READ
✔72. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood READ
✔73. Beloved by Toni Morrison
74. Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler, John Jennings and Damian Duffy
75. The Devil In America by Kai Ashante Wilson
✔76. 'I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream' by Harlan Ellison
77. Books Of Blood by Clive Barker anthology
78. The October Country: Stories by Ray Bradbury collection
79. The Weird: A Compendium Of Strange And Dark Stories by Ann Vandermeer and Jeff VanDermeer
80. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron
81. Alone With the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell, 1961-1991 by Ramsey Campbell
82. Things We Lost In The Fire by Mariana Enriquez collection
83. Shadowland by Peter Straub
✔84. A Head Full Of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
85. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
86. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
87. 'The Body' by Stephen King
88. 'It's A Good Life' by Jerome Bixby
89. The Other by Thomas Tryon
90. The Troop by Nick Cutter
91. Elizabeth by Ken Greenhall
92. Please, Momma by Chesya Burke
93. Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark by Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell - children
94. Goosebumps (Series) by R. L. Stine children
95. Rotters by Daniel Kraus children
96. ✔Jumbies
Rise Of The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste children
97. The House With A Clock In Its Walls by John Bellairs children
98. Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh children
99. Coraline by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean children
100. Down A Dark Hall by Lois Duncan children

First Q Summary

I've read 44 books in the first Quarter.

Happy new one Kristel. Have a splendid weekend.

Second Q plan

I will continue reading
1001
Yearly read Clarissa or the history of a young lady by Samuel Richardson, at 37%, Vol 4 letter 24. I am behind, I should be at 50% for half the year has past.
First Circle - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn COMPLETED

1001
April 1001
botm Correction - Thomas Bernhard COMPLETED
Randomizer pick Wittgenstein's Nephew - Thomas Bernhard COMPLETED
TBR: The Enchanted Wanderer Completed
May
botm I'm Not Stiller - Max Frisch: Completed
Radomizer: Stechlin - Theodur Fontane Completed

June
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship COMPLETED
The Immoralist COMPLETED

ANC
Horn of Africa/Sudan, Ehiopia, Somali
All Our Names - Dinaw Mengestu COMPLETED
Beneath the Lion's Gaze - Maaza Mengiste
How to Read air - Dinaw Mengestu
The Shadow King - Maaza Mengiste
Black Mamba Boy - Nadifa Mohamed COMPLETED
Hiding in Plain Sight - Nuruddin Farah
Bird Summons - Leila Aboulela COMPLETED

May: African Nobel Prize
Disgrace - Coetzee

June
East Africa

AAC
Ursula Hegi
Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls Completed
The Worst Thing I've Ever Done

May
John Edgar Wideman

June
Mary Gordon Reading Jesus COMPLETED

BAC
Nonfiction, about Queens
Queens of the Crusades Alison Weir COMPLETED

May Delderfield and Jan Morris
The Avenue Goes to War - Delderfield

June: Time Travel & Alternate History

April Plans:
April 1001
botm Correction - Thomas Bernhard
Randomizer pick Wittgenstein's Nephew - Thomas Bernhard
TBR: The Enchanted Wanderer Leskov COMPLETED

Horn of Africa/Sudan, Ehiopia, Somali
All Our Names - Dinaw Mengestu
Beneath the Lion's Gaze - Maaza Mengiste
How to Read air - Dinaw Mengestu
The Shadow King - Maaza Mengiste
Black Mamba Boy - Nadifa Mohamed
Hiding in Plain Sight - Nuruddin Farah
Bird Summons - Leila Aboulela

Ursula Hegi
Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls
The Worst Thing I've Ever Done

Nonfiction, about Queens
Queens of the Crusades Alison Weir

TIOLI
Index of Challenges: April 2023

Challenges #1-6
1. Read a nonfiction book concerning a person about whom you want to learn more - msg #1 Theodore and Woodrow
2. Read a book with trees or flowers on the cover or with the name of a tree or flower in the title or author's name - msg #10
3. Read a book with a one word title - msg #3 Correction or Elatsoe
4. Read a book that has the word “bird” in the title - msg #4 Bird Summons
5. Read a NF book about either a specific ocean liner (Titanic, Lusitania, Empress of Ireland, Andrea Doria, for example) or ocean liners in general - msg #5 Dead Wake
6. Read a book having something to do with age or aging - msg #6 Momento Mori

Challenges #7-12
7. Read a book that shares at least one word with the first listed title - msg #8 The Book of Cold Cases
8. Read a book that involves sports - msg #12 As Fast As Her
9. Read a book with a word/phrase first used in the year you were born in the title, author's name, text, or tag - msg #13
10. Read a book by a female author with a female protagonist - msg #17
11. Read a book by an author of whose oeuvre you have already read 23% - msg #
12. - msg #19 His Majesty's Dragon

Challenges #13-16
13. Read a book with a 4 in the total number of page - msg #36
14. - msg #
15. - msg #
16. - msg #
17. - msg #
18. - msg #

The Daily Update
Happy April 1st

Wordle

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Currently Reading:
Correction - Thomas Bernhard
The Enchanted Wanderer
Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel @ 17%

Happy new thread!

Happy new thread, Kristel!

>10 drneutron: Thanks Jim
>11 FAMeulstee: Thanks Anita

>6 PaulCranswick: Maybe I was guilty of jumping onto your new thread too quickly, Kristel.

>9 Kristelh: That is some seriously heavy current reading.

HAppy new one!

>6 PaulCranswick:, and >13 PaulCranswick: I did miss that Paul, so I am glad you stopped by again. Yes, April is a bit heavy. A short month and I will be traveling part of it too if my plans hold together.

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Correction 5%
Clarissa - 17%
The Enchanted Wanderer 0%

Off to a very slow start. Finding Corrections to be slowwww. It is two paragraphs and multiple commas.

Daily update: April 3rd
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No progress on Correction
Small progress with Clarissa 18%
Started The Enchanted Wanderer, a Russian Candide.

45.
Book The Enchanted Wanderer - Nikolai Leskov
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1873
Acquisition date/place: 4/1/23
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: no luck, no plot, picaresque
Challenge(s): tbr takedown, reading 1001
American:
British:
Other Russian
List book: 1001
Genre Picaresque, novella
Liked: somewhat amusing
Disliked: cruelty

Daily update April 4th
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Correction 19%
Clarissa 19%
Bird Summon 13%

Books completed in April 1
Books completed in 2023 45.

Daily update April 5th.
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Clarissa 19%
Correction 21%
Bird Summons 53%

Daily update April 6th
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Clarissa - 19%, oh so slow
Correction - 25% corrections, opposites, illness and doctors, ex-convicts
Bird Summons 88 % (should finish this one today

46.
Book Bird Summons
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2020
Acquisition date/place: 4/4/23
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: Magic Carpet ride with Hoopoe
Challenge(s): ANC, Sudan, TIOLI Bird
American:
British: British Sudanese
List book: no
Genre fiction
Liked: liked reading about women's perspective
Disliked: some of the magical realism was meh

Daily update April 7th.

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Clarissa - 20%
Correction - 29% uproar becomes stillness
Bird Summons Completed yesterday
As Fast as Her - Kendall Coyne, nonfiction, memoir, hockey, Olympics.

Daily update April 8th
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Clarissa no notable change
Correction 34%
As Fast As Her: Dream Big, Break Barriers, Achieve Success Kendall Coyne 83%, should finish this one today.

47.
Book As Fast As Her - Kendall Coyne
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2022
Acquisition date/place: 2022 AudioFile Sync Summer program
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: what it takes
Challenge(s): TIOLI (#8), ROOT
American: yes
British:
List book: no
Genre autobiography, nonfiction, memoir, inspirational, sport
Liked: positive attitude against all odds
Disliked: inspirational statements could come across as trite.

Daily update: April 9th He is Risen, Happy Easter.
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Clarissa - 21% she is moving toward faulty decision
Correction - 37% suicide aftermath
Theodor and Woodrow - 50% hx of progressive “ism”
The Book of Cold Cases - not started yet

Daily update: April 10th
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Reading Progress;
Clarissa not much progress, a page or two
Corrections 40% Dangers
Theodor and Woodrow no progress
The Book of Cold Cases 37%

Daily update April 11th
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I read a bit of Clarissa which I read at bedtime. I did not read any of Corrections or Theodor and Woodrow. I did make it to 50% of The Book of Cold Cases.

48.
Book The Book of Cold Cases - Simone St. James
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2022
Acquisition date/place: 3/2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: ghosts are cold
Challenge(s): f2f, TIOLI #7
American: yes
British: no
List book: no
Genre
Liked: interesting somewhat
Disliked: not believable without the ghost

Daily update: April 12th, Wednesday
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Reading progress
No progress on Theodor and Woodrow
Finished The Book of cold Cases
Correction 43%, definitely this is slow reading but interesting
Clarissa 22%, made it to Part 3, Clarissa has made a regretful decision.

The Daily update, April 13
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Reading progress
I did not get much read in Clarissa. I was too tired because of poor sleep the night before.

I did not make much progress in Correction. The unnamed narrator is struggling to sleep in the garret.

I am about 75% done with Theodor and Woodrow. I wish I had a real book of this one and if I ever see one. I will buy it. But the reader does a good job.

49.
Book Theodore and Woodrow - Andrew P. Napolitano
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2012
Acquisition date/place: 11/20/2013, audible
Decimal/ Star rating: it started out strong but then it didn't hold so I will give it 4 stars I think
Book description/summary: It don't matter who you vote for
Challenge(s): read a nonfiction book about a person you want to know more, ROOT
American: yes
British:
List book: Libertarian Books
Genre nonfiction, politics, history
Liked: I found it very informative
Disliked: I wished I had the actual book

April 14th

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Finished Theodore and Woodrow by Andrew P. Neapolitan. 4 stars from me.

Clarissa or the History of Young Lady — no progress. Went to a concert of Casting Crowns and home late so not much reading before falling to sleep.

Correction by Bernhard; Got to the second paragraph. So a bit over have way, 53%. First paragraph ends with a bit of paranoia, anxiety over the job of being the executed for his friends literary notes. The backpack is dumped out. Second paragraph deals with the stuff - Sifting and Sorting.

April 15
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Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady Section 3, letter 4, not much progress yesterday.

Correction 58%, just starting into second paragraph, Sifting and Sorting.

Today will be a day on the computer posting on GR so limited opportunity to read.

Weather here in Florida has been good. On count down to return to Minnesota.

Edited to add.
All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu (Ethiopia). Started today.

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Book All Our Names - Dinaw Mengestu
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2014
Acquisition date/place: hoopla Digital, 4/2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5
Book description/summary: friendship and war
Challenge(s): ANC (Ethiopian/American Author)
American: yes
British:
List book: no
Genre fiction
Liked: coming of age, self reidentification
Disliked: I think it was a bit hard to follow the story line and who was Isaac.

April 16, Sunday, getting some much needed rain here in SWFL.

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Currently reading:
Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady 23%
Correction 59%, Sifting and Sorting, oh so painful

I will start Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors Alison Weir.

April 17
Count down: 11 days

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Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady 23% read. Reading Letter 7 of the 3rd part. Hasty decisions, emotional decisions lead to regrets
Correction62%, sorting and sifting
The Queens of the Crusades Alison Weir, Another book that features Beckett. 13%

April 18
Count down 10 days, we got some good rain yesterday.

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Currently reading
Clarissa or History of a Young Lady 23%
Correction 66%
Queens of the Crusades 59%

51.
Book The Queens of the Crusades Alison Weir
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2021
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla Digital, 2023/4.
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: Queens and more Queens
Challenge(s): BAC
American: no
British: yes
List book: no
Genre nonfiction
Liked: honest depiction without using sensationalism, I did like that it was medieval times.
Disliked: its a lot of information to absorb

April 19th, 9 days to departure
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Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady year long read, at 23% Part 3, letter 8.
Correction 71%
Started Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed

April 20th, 8 days to departure. Yesterday had a lovely meal on the back waters with friends.

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Reading progress:
Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady 24%
Correction 73%
Black Mamba Boy 33%

Pending
Dead Wake
Kafka’s Last Trial
His Majesty’s Dragon
Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls

52.

Book Black Mamba Boy - Nadifa Mohamed
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2010
Acquisition date/place: April 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: Somali boy comes of age in the world
Challenge(s): ANC
American:
British: Somali-British author
List book: no
Genre fiction
Liked: historical perspective
Disliked: there is violence (to be expected)

April 21, Friday, 7 days to Departure
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Finished Black Mamba Boy yesterday and started
The Patron Saint of Pregnant Birls by Ursula Hegi. American Author Challenge. 26%.
Correction 81%, I need to finish this one as I am quite tired of 'so Roithamer'.
Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady soap opera of the 18th century.

53.
Book Correction by Thomas Bernhard
Format: dead tree
Original publication date: 1975
Acquisition date/place: 3/13/2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars (it might be higher but the 3 stars are because it was so, so miserable.
Book description/summary: Correcting the corrections and .... we did it all wrong.
Challenge(s): Reading 1001. TIOLI April, one word title
American:
British:
Other Austrian
List book: 1001
Genre novel/fiction
Liked: some interesting thoughts
Disliked: the lack of cohesiveness, the run-on sentences. Made my brain tired.

>44 Kristelh: I have so often had problems following the direction of travel in the highest of German language literature, Kristel. I want to be told a good story and oftentimes there isn't one.

>45 PaulCranswick:, Paul, I've enjoyed Mann and Böll. Schlink was readable but in general, they are not my favorite. I don't do well with most of the French authors either.

April 22, Saturday 6 days to departure

Currently reading
Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls by Ursula Hegi, 69%
Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady 25% done
Starting Wittgenstein's Nephew - it's short at least.

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Book The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls - Ursula Hegi
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2020
Acquisition date/place: April 2023, Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: grief can make you crazy
Challenge(s): AAC
American: German American Author
British: no
Genre fiction
Liked: grief
Disliked: could not connect with characters

April 23, Sunday, 5 days to departure.
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Currently reading:
Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady is at 25%, page 452.
Wittgenstein’s Nephew at 7%, much easier to read than Correction.
His Majesty’s Dragon 46%, this is a fun read which I badly needed.

April 24, Monday, 72 hours to departure

Currently reading
His Majesty's Dragon 46%, I will finish today, I suspect.
Wittgenstein's Nephew 30%, madness, lung disease.
Clarissa of the History of a Young Lady 26%. pg 470.

May books (1001)
I'm Not Stiller - Frisch
Stechlin - Theodor Fontane

June 1001 books
The Immoralist by Andre Gide
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship -Goethe

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Book His Majesty's Dragon - Naomi Novik
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2006
Acquisition date/place: April 2023, Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: dragon takes on Napoleon
Challenge(s): SFF-historical
American: yes
British:
List book: no
Genre fantasy, historical fantasy
Liked: liked the dragon
Disliked: minimal character development

April 25, 49 1/2 hour to departure. I did not get much reading done yesterday. Getting ready to move back north. Did finish His Majesty’s Dragon but no progress on the other two.

Started Dead Wake - Erik Larson.

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April 25, about 26 hours to departure. Last day to finish up the details. Last time for Wi-Fi. It’ll take about 4 days to get home. Taking it slower. I’ll need to load my phone with audiobooks before I am without WI-FI.

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Dead Wake 83%. I’ll finish today, I think.
Wittgenstein’s Nephew 42%
Clairissa or the History of a Young Lady still at 26%,

56. finished this on the 27th
Book Dead Wake - Erik Larson
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2015
Acquisition date/place: April 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars, it was good, I did not engage with it.
Book description/summary: the victims of wars
Challenge(s): read nonfiction about ocean liner
American: yes
British:
List book:
Genre nonfiction
Liked: always good to learn about history
Disliked: don’t like reading about tragedies

57. finished 5/1/23
Book Wittgenstein's Nephew Thomas Bernhard
Format: book
Original publication date: 1988
Acquisition date/place: 3/8/23
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: a memoir of a friendship; music, humor, madness
Challenge(s): botm Reading 1001
American:
British:
Other Austrian
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked: it's short for which I am thankful, I liked the description of city verses rural life though I think it is opinion only
Disliked: author is just hard to read

>55 Kristelh: Safe travels, Kristel!

>58 FAMeulstee: Thank you Anita

APRIL 27, a few hours now until we take off (Lucy my dog and travel companion). Weather is good so far.
Currently reading Dead Wake, 90%. Clarissa or the History of a Young Girl27% and Wittgenstein’s Nephew. 55%
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April 28, Thursday. Made it to our destination but had a bit of trouble. Storms in Northern Florida and lost my driver side wiper blade so had to try to get to a parts store in the rain without a wiper. But all turned out okay.

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Listening to First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. 14%
Clarissa or the History of a Young Girl 27%, No change with Wittgenstein’s Nephew.

Mostly driving at this point.

Good morning, April 29, Saturday. Made it to Nashville yesterday. Traffic was the only issue.

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The First Circle 35%
Wittgenstein’s Nephew 59%
Clarissa 27%

The plan is to get as far north as we can today. Temperatures are cooling from the 80/90s of Florida. Woke to 48 degrees today.

April 30, end of month, I hope to be home today and then I can take a look at the month.
In Illinois and expect to be back home today. Should be an easier day too. Less miles.
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End of April Summary
botm Correction - Thomas Bernhard COMPLETED
Randomizer pick Wittgenstein's Nephew - Thomas Bernhard In Progress, plan to finish today
TBR: The Enchanted Wanderer Leskov COMPLETED

Horn of Africa/Sudan, Ehiopia, Somali
All Our Names - Dinaw Mengestu
Black Mamba Boy- Nadifa Mohamed
Bird Summons - Leila Aboulela

Ursula Hegi
Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls

Nonfiction, about Queens
Queens of the Crusades Alison Weir

TIOLI
Challenges #1-6
1. Read a nonfiction book concerning a person about whom you want to learn more - msg #1 Theodore and Woodrow Completed
2. Read a book with trees or flowers on the cover or with the name of a tree or flower in the title or author's name - msg #10 Black Mamba Boy
3. Read a book with a one word title - msg #3
4. Read a book that has the word “bird” in the title - msg #4 Bird Summons
5. Read a NF book about either a specific ocean liner (Titanic, Lusitania, Empress of Ireland, Andrea Doria, for example) or ocean liners in general - msg #5 Dead Wake
7. Read a book that shares at least one word with the first listed title - msg #8 The Book of Cold Cases
8. Read a book that involves sports - msg #12 As Fast As Her
12. - msg #19 His Majesty's Dragon

12 books read in April.

Books Acquired:
1. The Immoralist
2. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship audiobook

May Plans; May 1st Monday
1001 Books
In The First Circle - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (this will fit TIOLI #10, 10 letters or more in author name.
I'm Not Stiller Max Frisch
Stechlin Theodor Fontane
Viper's Tangle Francois Mauriac

Jan Morris
Hong Kong
Heaven's Command

Delderfield
The Avenue Goes to War

John Edgar Wideman
Writing to Save a Life
Look for Me and I'll be Gone

Africa Nobel Prize Winner
Disgrace by Coetzee
The Golden Notebook

Others:
Sacred Hunger Barry Unsworth
Shadow-Line
Mississippi Trial
Castle of Water
Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
What to do About the Solomon's
The Nature of Fragile Things
The Marrow Thieves
The Spear Cuts Through Water

Finish up Wittgenstein's Nephew 73%
Continue to Read Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady year long read from 1001.

I made it home to Minnesota yesterday. It is cold and windy. The grass is green but trees still need to leaf out.

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>65 Kristelh: Glad to see you are back home, Kristel.

>67 FAMeulstee:, Thank Anita, the trip went fairly well. Good to be home but it is sure cold compared to Florida.

May 2, Tuesday.
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Elatsoe 53%, this one is not really working for me but there is a mystery so
The First Circle about 35%
Clarissa or the History of a Young lady

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Book Kafka's Last Trial by Benjamin Balint
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2018
Acquisition date/place: April 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: ethical look at literary legacies
Challenge(s): Jewish Book Club
American: American/Israeli author
British:
List book:
Genre nonfiction
Liked: interesting ethical look at literary legacy
Disliked: it was sometimes hard to keep things straight

May 3rd, Wednesday.
Currently reading
1. Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady
2. The First Circle
3. I’m Not Stiller

Finished; Elatsoe a strange book, YA, I did not engage with it.

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59. read 5/22/23
Book Elatsoe
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2020
Acquisition date/place: 4/2023, Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.5 C-
Book description/summary: ya na seeks revenge
Challenge(s): TIOLI book about childhood freinds.
American: yes , Native American
British:
List book: no
Genre paranormal, young adult
Liked: the friendship and parent relationships
Disliked: the werewolves

May 4th, Thursday, Sun and warmer days. Senior speeches and lunch with friends on the agenda.
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Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady year long read
I’m Not Stiller botm 1001
First Circle quarterly read 1001

May 5th. Friday. Not sure if the Fourth was with me yesterday but listened to my granddaughter give her senior speech and was blessed. So proud of that girl. Then spent some lovely time with lady friends and evening meal with daughter and family. Weather was delightful.
Not much reading getting done.
I’m Not Stiller 55%

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You have been reading some great books! Glad you had a safe trip home and are settling back in.

Thank you, Anita. I am glad the trip went as well as it did. Now to acclimate to Minnesota.

May 6th
Cloudy here today, possible rain. A good reading day?
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Minimal progress with the other two.

May 7, Sunday My anniversary and the second year since his passing.

Remembering us today. Scars in Heaven, Casting Crowns.

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Clarissa or History of a Young Lady, 28%, 500 pages.

60.
Book I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch
Format: audiobook read by Jonathan Davis, translated by Michael Bullock
Original publication date: 1954
Acquisition date/place: 3/2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: identity, are you who you say you are or who others say you are.
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 botm
American:
British:
Other Switzerland
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked: identity. it started out kind of interesting but then just went on and on. It also looks at marriage. Lists many books and explores whether are identity isn't affected by what we read.
Disliked: sometimes just plain boring

61.
Book Viper's Tangle by Francois Mauriac
Format: audiobook, read by Geoffrey Howard
Original publication date: 1932
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla May 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 or C+
Book description/summary: Family is a nest of vipers
Challenge(s): TBR takedown
American:
British:
Other France
List book: 1001, Nobel Prize winner author
Genre fiction, family drama, epistolary
Liked: unreliable narrator feels excluded from family
Disliked: it was so full of bitterness

May 8th, Monday, Minnesota is warming up. We got about 1/2 inch of rain on Saturday here and yesterday was sunny and today has started out sunny. A day to get some chores done.

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I finished Viper’s Tangle yesterday. A novella about family drama. 1001 book, French.

Not sure but I might listen to The First Circle today while I get some chores done.

May 9th, Tuesday. Sun is shining this morning.
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Started The Stechlin by Fontane. I do like his riding. This is not a short book and I do hope I can get it read this month.

Pulitzer Winners
Fiction
Trust - Hernan Diaz
Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
I’ve read books by both authors but have not read these, yet.

May 10th, Wednesday.
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The First Circle 66%

May 11th.

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Listened to David Knight podcast from May 1st. Very Good. Quote from Solzhenitsyn “Speciality of government is not to obey but to force obedience”. See Cate Institute. Libertarian web site. CBDC. Transactional freedom.

Currently trying to finish First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It’s very good but a long book.

May 11th.

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Listened to David Knight podcast from May 1st. Very Good. Quote from Solzhenitsyn “Speciality of government is not to obey but to force obedience”. See Cate Institute. Libertarian web site.

May 12, Friday
Cloudy today, probably rain.
Jillian and Greta have Nationals starting today. Will go to Chanhassen.

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Stechlin 6%

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Book The First Circle - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Format: book and audio
Original publication date: 1968, (was censored)
Acquisition date/place: 10/22/18
Decimal/ Star rating: 5 stars
Book description/summary: Dumas did not know what prison is like
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 Quarterly
American:
British:
Other Russian
List book: 1001
Genre fiction, semi autobiographical
Liked: this should be mandatory reading, it plainly explains why progressive agendas do not work and do not help people.
Disliked: nothing, sad that this is not mandatory reading in our curriculum.

MAY 13, Saturday. Cloudy. In Chanhassen for NIETOC. Jillian (granddaughter) and partner are doing their duet interpretation of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Great job.

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No reading as of finishing The First Circle. Currently reading The Stechlin.

May 14, Sunday. Happy Mother’s Day today. For some it will be a sad day but still a day to remember our mother’s. Those that chose to give us life.

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Currently reading Castle of Water - Dane Huckelbridge. I cannot recommend this one. I am not far and already I find this to be poorly written.
Reading this one for bookclub group.

Good morning, May 15, Sun is shining. Yard work is on the agenda today. Cleaned garage yesterday. Getting ready for granddaughter’s HS graduation.

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Reading progress
Clarissa (no progress)
Stechlin 10%
Castle of Water - Dane Huckelbridge 60%. Survival romance.

63.
Book Castle of Water - Dane Huckelbridge
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2017
Acquisition date/place: May 2023, Hoopla
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.6 (C-)
Book description/summary: unbelievable, uneven, poor sentences and language.
Challenge(s): TKABW
American: American, living in France
British:
List book: noooo
Genre Romance
Liked: very little to like
Disliked: the use of profanity, over trying

May 16, Tuesday. Another nice day here, will wash clothes I think and continue to do yard work and getting ready for graduation party for granddaughter.

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Starting Hong Kong by Jan Morris (British Author challenge)
Continue to try to read Stechlin which is good but I am just too busy and then too tired.

May 17, Happy Norwegian Constitution Day. Syttende Mai.

I read a bit of Hong Kong, 32%
Stechlin 11 %.

Continue to be busy with yard work that there is little time for reading.

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May 18, Thursday. Drizzle at the moment. Last of senior speeches today.

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Hong Kong, 50%
Stechlin 13%

May 19, cold today.
Done with painting garage. Flowers that were planted are looking good. One week to graduation and two weeks to graduation party. How did this happen to my grand baby?

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Book Hong Kong - Jan Morris
Format: audio, read by Wanda McCaddon
Original publication date: 1988
Acquisition date/place: May 16, 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars, C
Book description/summary: history and culture of Hong Kong
Challenge(s): Read BAC, Jan Morris
American:
British: yes
List book: no
Genre nonfiction, history, culture
Liked: always good to learn
Disliked: it was hard to stay engaged

May 20th, Saturday. Cool but the sun is shining and deer in the meadow this morning.

I made some headway in Stechlin - 24%.

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Book What to Do About the Solomons - Bethany Ball
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2017
Acquisition date/place: May 2023, Hoopla
Decimal/ Star rating: C-
Book description/summary: family saga with too much
Challenge(s): JBC
American: yes
British:
List book: no
Genre fiction/family saga
Liked: I liked the idea of the book but...
Disliked: too much drugs, too much foul language, too much sexual content

Sunday, May 21, another day of sun. Hope the smoke from the Canadian fires stay away.

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I’m at 28% in The Stechlin. I read all of What to Do About the Solomons by Bethany Ball yesterday. The last 3 books have been C- reads. I am liking The Stechlin.

May 22, Monday
Not much reading was done yesterday. Church, lunch with church friends, then home to family time. Was nice weather.

Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez. 8%
Stechlin 29%.

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I just could not read Spear Cuts Through Water. Can’t abide it. So it is a DNF. What I read I would rate it a 1 at best to acknowledge my distaste.
I got to 35% of Stecklin. It’s easy to read so just need to find time to sit and read. Busy time of the year.

Wednesday, May 24. Awards Day at CCS

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The Nature of Fragile Things 57%
The Stechlin 38%

66.
Book The Nature of Fragile Things - Susan Meissner
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2021
Acquisition date/place: Libby Electronic Books
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.75 or B-
Book description/summary: friendship, mother's love, solidarity among women
Challenge(s): LHBC
American: yes
British:
List book:
Genre historical fiction
Liked: liked the story of female friendship
Disliked: may be a bit unbelievable but mostly okay

Thursday, May 25. Gym, face to face book club today for Castle of Water. Finished The Nature of Fragile Things for my other book club.

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Book Mississippi Trial, 1955 - Chris Crowe
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2003
Acquisition date/place: July 2022
Decimal/ Star rating: 5 star
Book description/summary: Jim Crow power over lives white and black
Challenge(s): alpha, ROOT
American: yes
British:
List book:
Genre historical fiction
Liked: showed how difficult it could be to grow up white under Jim Crow laws
Disliked: written by white so its going to get flack

Friday, May 26, the beginning of a long weekend with graduation of my granddaughter on Saturday.
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The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing 7%
The Stechlin 48%

Saturday, May 27. Another sunny, not too hot day! Oldest granddaughter graduates from high school today.

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Reading; The Stechlin 55%, The Golden Notebook 22%.
I will struggle to get these finished this month.

Sunday, May 28.

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The Stechlin 57%

Hope I can get some reading time today and the last days of the month. Such a busy month.

May 29, Memorial Day. Remembering those who gave their lives serving our country. Also remembering those in my family; husband, parents.

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The Stechlin 63%

Tuesday, May 30th. Woke to rain. Dental today.
Slight progress with reading yesterday.

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May 31, Wednesday

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Book The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Format: book/audio
Original publication date: 1962
Acquisition date/place: 11/16/2013 Goodwill used book
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.5 stars
Book description/summary: Fragmentation
Challenge(s): read African Nobel Prize winner.
American:
British: Rhodesia/British author
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked: many of the comments on communism
Disliked: the female/male relationships

69.
Book The Stechlin - Theodor Fontane
Format: Kindle
Original publication date: 1898
Acquisition date/place: March 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars, it's worth more if I could have studied it rather than force my self to read through it. I think there is stuff here I simply could not pay attention to
Book description/summary: end of an era
Challenge(s): reading 1001 botm
American:
British:
Other German
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked: the writing is nice
Disliked: so so easy to fall asleep, no plot

End of May Summary
Reading 1001: 5 books read
botm I'm Not Stiller Max Frisch COMPLETED
The Stechlin Theodor Fontane COMPLETED
TBR: The Viper's Tangle Francois Mauriac
2nd Q: The First Circle Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Other: The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing

F2F Bookclub reads
Castle of Water 2.8 stars, C-
The Nature of Fragile Things, B+ 3.8 stars

Other Books Read
Elatsoe - SFF, Indigenous author

BAC
Hong Kong - Jan Morris C-

Jewish Book Club
What to do About the Solomons Bethany Ball, C

ROOT
Mississippi Trial, 1955 Chris Crowe

DNF (Rejected)
The Spear Cuts Through the Water Simen Jimenez

Total Books Read - 12

June 1st, Currently reading I have some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai. I still haven't figured out June. Hope I get time later today to work on it.

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Reading plans for June
1001 Books
botm: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
The Immoralist random selection
Martin Eden tbr takedown
Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady Year long.
Vineland radomizer list
Dispatches randomizer list
Journey to the End of Night

Pulitzer
Dinner at the Homesick Resturant

Jewish Book Club
The Matchmaker's Gift

Bookclub reads
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Once we Were Brothers

American Author - Mary Gordon
Reading Jesus or

British Author Challenge - time travel/alternate history

African Novel Challenge: East Africa

Other Possibilities
Exit Strategy
The Vor Game
The Lacuna
I have Some Questions For You, currently reading
Leom
Mr. Mercedes
The Voyage of the Morning Light

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I am currently reading I Have Some Questions for You. Not sure why I am reading this. Really, I mean I don’t know why I had put a hold on it but I must have wanted to read it.

I also read briefly in Clarissa or the History of Young Girl. It had been a long time since I picked it up.

Soon life should be back to its normal pace. Granddaughter graduation party tomorrow and then put everything back in its place.

Saturday, the big day. Jillian’s grad party. Right now the day is quiet, its 6 am but soon things will be going a mile a minutes. Drinking my coffee and preparing for the day ahead.

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I have Some Questions For You Rebecca Makkai and trying to make up some lost progress on Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady

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Book I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2023
Acquisition date/place: May 31, 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: B+
Book description/summary: whodonit, boarding school
Challenge(s): ?
American: yes
British:
List book:
Genre who done it
Liked: it was interesting, I did like how it showed the harm that social media can do to people
Disliked: maybe trying too much to get all the political correctness issues.

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Reading:
Martin Eden - Jack London 21%
Clarissa - 30%

71.

Book Martin Eden
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1909
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla 6/23
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: the making of a writer
Challenge(s): TBR takedown Reading 1001
American: yes
British:
List book: 1001
Genre Künstlerroman
Liked: That in making himself he lost himself
Disliked: he was "better than everyone"

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Currently Reading
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (botm, 1001)
And trying to catch up on Clarissa.

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About 31% on Clarissa.

Rain again today, will need to mow when it dries up.

Friday, Sun is shining, will have to mow.

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And of course Clarissa. This truly is a soap opera.

Saturday. Not much scheduled for today. Had a big day yesterday with yard work. Maybe rain later.

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Book Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Format: book and audiobook
Original publication date: 1795, 1796
Acquisition date/place: 2/10/23
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: German takes on Shakespeare
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, June botm
American:
British:
Other German
List book: 1001
Genre novel, coming of age. considered to be the first bildungsroman by some.
Liked: it was readable
Disliked: disjointed

I've been reading a bunch of German language books lately that just haven't been that much fun. It got me thinking.

Here's a list of my top (5 Star) 1001 books.
1. To Kill a Mockingbird (USA)
2. Les Miserables (France)
3. The Poisonwood Bible (USA)
4. Jane Eyre (UK)
5. Gone with the Wind (USA)
5. The Handmaid's Tale (Canada)
6. The Sea (Ireland)
7. Never Let Me Go (Japanese/England)
8. Of Human Bondage (UK)
9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (USA)
10. The Reader (German)
11. Lolita (Russian/USA)
12. The Leopard (Italian)
13. Amongst Women (Irish)
14. The God of Small Things (India)
15. Things Fall Apart (Nigeria)
16. The Elegance of the Hedgehog (France)
17. Wild Swans (China)
18. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (UK)
19. Silas Marner (UK)
20. Atonement (UK)
21. The Things They Carried (USA)
22. Anna Karenina (Russia)
23. Midnight's Children (India)
24. The Twilight Years (Japan)
25. Thousand Cranes (Japan)
26. The Secret History (USA)
27. Vanity Fair (UK)
28. Of Love and Shadows (Chili)
29. Growth of Soil (Norway)
30. Alias Grace (Canada)
31. Old Wives' Tale (UK)
32. The Plague (Algeria/French)
33. Cryptonomicon (USA)
34. Half a Yellow Sun (Nigeria)
35. Absalom, Absalom! (USA)
36. The Roots of Heaven (French)
37. Invisible Man (USA)
38. Smilla's Sense of Snow (Denmark)
39. Ragtime (USA)
40. Cry, the Beloved Country (South Africa)
41. Middlemarch (UK)
42. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Scottish)
43. Candide (French)
44. The Color Purple (USA)
45. The Blind Assassin (Canada)
46. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (USA)
47. A Fine Balance (Indian/Canada)
48. The Stone Diaries (American/Canada)
49. Amsterdam (UK)
50. The Day of the Triffids (UK)
51. The House of Mirth (USA)
52. Catch-22 (USA)
53. Rebecca (UK)
54. The Three Musketeers (French)
55. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (UK)
56. The Fellowship of the Ring (UK)
57. The House of the Spirit (Chile)
58. On Beauty (UK)
59. The History of Love (USA)
60. The Marriage Plot (USA)
61. The Moonstone (UK)
62. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Russia)
63. The Godfather (USA)
64. The Heretic (Spanish)
65. A Visit from the Goon Squad (USA)
66. The Mill on the Floss (UK)
67. A Modest Proposal (Irish)
68. The Bell (Irish /British)
69. Regeneration (British)
70. Alamut ( Slovene/Italian)
71. Krisin Lavransdatter (Nordic)
72. Cancer Ward (Russian)
73. The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman (Polish)
74. The Idiot (Russian)
75. On the Black Hill (UK)
76. Pale Fire (Russian/USA)
77. Schindler's List (Australian)
78. The Dark Child (Guinea)
79. Paradise of the Blind (Vietnamese)
80. First Circle (Russian)
81. Bonfire of the Vanities (USA)
82. The Old Man and the Sea (USA)
83. The Brothers Karamazov (Russia)
84. Cat's Eye (Canada)
85. The Return of the soldier (UK)
86. Broken April (Albania)
87. That They May Face the Rising Sun, (Irish)
88. The Player of Games (Irish)
89. In a Free State (Trinidad/British)
90. Survival in Aushwitz (Jew/Italy)
91. Remembering Babylon (Australian)
92. The Mayor of Casterbridge (UK)
93. Buddenbrooks (German)
94. Empire of the Sun (UK)
95. Woman at Point Zero (Egypt)
96. The Siege of Krishnapur (UK)
97. Sula (US)
98. Moll Flanders (UK)
99. Born in Exile (UK)
100. Brave New World (UK)

So only 2 German books made my top 100. Definately heavy for USA and UK authors. My ratings have changed over time. I probably rate differently now than I did when I first started the 1001 list.

What are your top 100, 1001 books?

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>128 Kristelh: I am going to have to go and have a think about that one. I will do it from the last edition I bought (there has been one more since I think).

I can say that at least 35 of your list will be on mine.

>130 PaulCranswick: Hi Paul. Looking forward to your list. Admittedly you were the inspiration that made me look at my top 1001 and also the fact that German authors are not that inviting.

>128 Kristelh: It will take some time to make my list, Kristel, working on it. I think I have a few less than 100 with 5 and 4.5 star ratings, and only about 10 books in common with you.

>132 FAMeulstee:, Anita, I think that our language and culture probably influence our 5 star reads. I am curious how German language books come out on your list.

Also very curious about the 10 books we share.

>133 Kristelh: First 35 got 5 stars, the others 4.5 stars.
The order is just how I felt today, could be different next week :-)
I read from the English, Dutch and Swedish 1001 lists. If a book isn't listed in the English 1001, I have added where it is listed.

1 Uwe Johnson - Anniversaries (Germany)
2 J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings (UK)
3 António Lobo Antunes - Fado Alexandrino (Portugal)
4 John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath (USA)
5 Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front (Gemany)
6 Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago (Russia)
7 Günter Grass - The Tin Drum (Germany)
8 Homer - The Odyssey (Greece; Swedish 1001)
9 Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks (Germany)
10 George Orwell - Hommage to Catalonia (UK; Swedish 1001)
11 Albert Camus - The Plague (France)
12 Multatuli - Max Havelaar (Netherlands)
13 Herman Melville - Moby Dick (USA)
14 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - The Adventures of Don Quixote (Spain)
15 Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy (India)
16 Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita (Russia/USA)
17 Pat Barker - Regeneration (UK)
18 Orhan Pamuk - Snow (Turkey)
19 Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending (UK)
20 Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte-Cristo (France)
21 Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain (Germany)
22 John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men (USA)
23 Terence H. White - The Once and Future King (UK)
24 George Orwell - 1984 (UK)
25 Desiderius Erasmus - In Praise of Folly (Netherlands; Swedish 1001)
26 Alfred Döblin - Berlin Alexanderplatz (Germany)
27 Harry Mulisch - The Discovery of Heaven (Netherlands)
28 Charles Darwin - On the Origin of Species (UK; Swedish 1001)
29 Publius Ovidius - Metamorphoses (Italy)
30 Astrid Lindgren - The Brothers Lionheart (Sweden; Swedish 1001)
31 J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit (UK)
32 Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (USA)
33 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince (France)
34 Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (UK)
35 Unknown - The Epic of Gilgamesh (Mesopotamia; Swedish 1001)
36 Giorgio Bassani - The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles (Italy; Swedish 1001)
37 Alan Hollinghurst - The Swimming-Pool Library (UK)
38 Halldor Laxness - Independent People (Iceland)
39 Carlo Levi - Christ Stopped at Eboli (Italy)
40 I.A. Gontsjarow - Oblomov (Russia)
41 Siegfried Lenz - The German Lesson (Germany)
42 Upton Sinclair - The Jungle (USA)
43 Maxim Gorki - The Mother (Russia)
44 André Malraux - Man's Fate (France)
45 Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - The Leopard (Italy)
46 Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (Russia)
47 Sigrid Undset - Kristin Lavransdatter (Norway)
48 Henri Barbusse - Under Fire (France)
49 Stefan Zweig - Chess Story (Austria)
50 Orhan Pamuk - My Name is Red (Turkey; Swedish 1001)
51 Simon Vestdijk - The Garden Where the Brass Band Played (Netherlands)
52 Theodor Fontane - Effi Briest (Germany)
53 Robert Graves - I, Claudius (UK; Swedish 1001)
54 Elena Ferrante - The Story of the Lost Child (Italy)
55 Pat Barker - The Ghost Road (UK)
56 Dino Buzzati - The Tartar Steppe (Italy)
57 Cao Xueqin - Dream of the Red Chamber (China)
58 Henry David Thoreau - Walden (USA)
59 Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore (Japan)
60 Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Dangerous Liaisons (France)
61 George Orwell - Animal Farm (UK)
62 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah (Nigeria)
63 Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty (UK)
64 Virgil - The Aeneid (Italy; Swedish 1001)
65 Väinö Linna - The Unknown Soldier (Finland)
66 Giovanni Boccaccio - The Decameron (Italy; Swedish 1001)
67 Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five (USA)
68 Sjöwall & Walöö - The Abominable Man (Sweden; Swedish 1001)
69 Murasaki Shikibu - The Tale of Genji (Japan)
70 Tarjei Vesaas - The Birds (Norway)
71 Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (UK)
72 J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (UK; Swedish 1001)
73 Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose (Italy)
74 Ryûnosuke Akutagawa - Rashomon (Japan)
75 Julian Barnes - Arthur & George (UK; Swedish 1001)
76 Frank Martinus Arion - Double play (Netherlands Antilles; Dutch 1001)
77 Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited (UK)
78 Bernhard Schlink - The Reader (Germany)
79 Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (France; Swedish 1001)
80 Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar (USA)
81 Astrid Lindgren - Ronia, the Robber's Daughter (Sweden; Swedish 1001)
82 Homer - The Iliad (Greece; Swedish 1001)
83 Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin (USA)
84 Thomas Mann - Doctor Faustus (Germany)
85 John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany (USA)
86 Wolfgang Koeppen - Death in Rome (Germany)
87 Ford Madox Ford - The Good Soldier (UK)
88 Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Longstocking (Sweden)
89 A.A. Milne - Winnie the Pooh (UK; Swedish 1001)

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UK: 20
Germany and USA: 10
Italy: 9
France: 7
Netherlands and Russia: 5
Sweden: 4
Japan: 3
Greece, Norway and Turkey: 2
Austria, China, Finland, Iceland, India, Mesopotamia, Nigeria, Portugal and Spain: 1

>134 FAMeulstee: Anita, I have read 53 of yours. Some are not on my lists but I really like Arthur & George and wished that it had been on my list because I like it better than some of his others. Some of yours I still have to read and maybe they would displace some on my current list. You definately liked more German than me but I did like All Quiet on the Western Front. I must not have rated that one high enough. And I really like The Birds, too.

73.
Book Dispatches - Michael Herr
Format: audiobook read by Ray Porter
Original publication date: 1977
Acquisition date/place: June 2023 Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: memoirs of a war corespondent
Challenge(s): Randomizer 1001
American: yes
British:
List book: 1001, Guardian nonfiction
Genre nonfiction novel
Liked: even in the 70s reporters didn't report accurately if in would upset their favorite agencies
Disliked: horrible behaviors of war

>135 Kristelh: My total is now 296 books read of the various 1001 lists, Kristel.
Turns out 11 books are on both our lists. I have read 34 of your 100, and of course the others are on mount TBR.

>137 FAMeulstee: I’ve read 682 of the combined list (according to GR) which is different than my LT count. My counts are off but unable to find how to correct them. Of course I will never finish as I cannot read any language besides English and the Dutch ones and others are not translated.

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And of course continuing the year long read of Clarissa.

>138 Kristelh: Many of the Dutch list are translated (or original in English), as it leans heavy on the original. The trouble with it is that 139 books on the Dutch 1001 list are not translated in Dutch!
Seven books of the Dutch list are not available in English, so that is way less.
All lists combined AND available in Dutch translation gives me a list of 1147 books.

74.
Book Dinner at the Homesick Restuarant - Anne Tyler
Format: book and audio
Original publication date: 1982
Acquisition date/place: 9/28/2014
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.5 stars, C+
Book description/summary: Pure dysfunction
Challenge(s): Pulitzer Prize reading group
American: yes
British:
List book: not really, like a bridemaid, never a bride
Genre fiction
Liked: struggling to find anything
Disliked: these are a bunch of sorry characters and probably my least favorite Tyler book.

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Currently reading The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold, part of a series.
LT says I won’t like it??? I wonder why.

75.
Book The Vor Game
Format: book and audio
Original publication date: 1990
Acquisition date/place: 3/25/2022
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.4 or B+
Book description/summary: Ensign, Admiral, Lieutenant.
Challenge(s): TIOLI #3
American: yes
British:
List book: NPR top 100 SFF
Genre SF, Military, Space Operra
Liked: cover art
Disliked: very mild sexual content, so not much to dislike

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I finished The Vor Game yesterday and it was my 75th book for the year. Currently reading The Immoralist and the Dance of the Jakaranda.

>143 Kristelh: Congratulations on reaching 75, Kristel!

>145 FAMeulstee: Thank you Anita

Thursday. Mid month. Time to think of what I will be reading in July and August.

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I am 50% into The Dance of the Jakaranda by Peter Kimani. I am enjoying it.
And 40% into The Immoralist.

Another list!!! Walter Scott Prize (Historical Fiction)
READ 2010 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
2011 The Long Song by Andrea Levy
2012 On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry(Libby)
READ 2013 The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
READ 2014 An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris READ
2015 Ten Thousand Thing by John Spurling
2016 Tightrope by Simon Mawer e-b, Hoopla
2017 Days Without End by Sebastian Barry e-b Hoopla
2018 The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers e-b
2019 The Long Take by Robin Robertson
2020 The Narrow Land by Christine Dwyer Hickey e-b
2021 The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel -Libby’s
2022 News of the Dead by James Robertson
2023 These Days, Ludy Caldwell

Congratulations on passing 75 already, Kristel!!!

>149 PaulCranswick:, Thank you, Paul

Friday; smoke from Canada still present here in Minnesota. Finished The Dance of Jakaranda by Peter Kimani.

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The Immoralist by Gide and Reading Jesus by Mary Gordon

76.
Book The Dance of the Jakaranda by Peter Kimani
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2017
Acquisition date/place: 6/14/23
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.4 stars, B+
Book description/summary: brown man in a black world run by white
Challenge(s): ANC
American:
British:
other Kenyan
List book:
Genre historical fiction
Liked: I liked the story, it was a serious subject but done in a fun manner
Disliked: a little too much sexual content and demeaning to women but isn't that a reality?

77.
Book Reading Jesus, a writer's encounter with the Gospels - Mary Gordon
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2009
Acquisition date/place: 6/16/23
Decimal/ Star rating: B
Book description/summary: as it says; a writer encounters Jesus
Challenge(s): American Author Challenge
American: yes
British:
List book: no
Genre nonfiction
Liked: I liked that she was willing to read and study this as a writer
Disliked: of course I did not fully agree

Sunday, rain today, very light so far and much needed.
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78.
Book The Immoralist - André Gide
Format: book
Original publication date: 1902
Acquisition date/place: 5/2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.2 stars or C
Book description/summary: self absorbed man throws it all away
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 Nobel Prize Winner 1947
American:
British:
Other French author
List book: 1001
Genre existential
Liked: I liked that debauchery was tastefully explored
Disliked: it's so hard to read 124 pages about a man you cannot like

Monday, woke to fog which should burn off sometime this morning with the sun. Hope to mow grass today.

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Reading
The Lacuna 38%
Clarissa 32%

Will start Once We Were Brothers - Richard H. Balson.

I'm a fan of Ann Tyler and have read most of the books, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. I like your review on Reading Jesus and have put the book on my wishlist. Congratulations on hitting 75 books.

>157 vancouverdeb:, Thank you, Deb. I like Ann Tyler’s writing too. Hope you find things to appreciate about Reading Jesus. Thanks for stopping by.

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79.

Book The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver
Format: kindle/audio
Original publication date: 2009
Acquisition date/place: 10/2/2012
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.5 stars A-
Book description/summary: ask no questions
Challenge(s): alpha BK, ROOT
American: yes
British:
List book: Winner of Orange Prize
Genre historical fiction
Liked: I liked the parts about Mexico, Frida, Trotsky
Disliked: Sprawling story

Wednesday, another warm day. High of 90 and dry.
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Book Once We Were Brothers by Richard H. Balson
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2010
Acquisition date/place: 6/19/2023, Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.8 or B
Book description/summary: Wicked Web of Lies entangles
Challenge(s): LHBC
American: yes
British:
List book: no
Genre legal literary
Liked: I liked the story and the character of Ben
Disliked: it was so slow getting the ground work laid

Friday, and it already feels like the days are a bit shorter.
Currently reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. The other bookclub read this month.

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January - NORTH AFRICA https://www.librarything.com/topic/347131
The Thief and the Dogs Naguib Mahfouz
The Golden Ass Apuleius

February - LUSOPHONE LIT
https://www.librarything.com/topic/348039
A General Theory of Oblivion = José Eduardo Agualusa

March - ADICHIE or EMECHETA
https://www.librarything.com/topic/348955#n8081025
Purple Hibiscus
April - THE HORN OF AFRICA https://www.librarything.com/topic/349799 All Our Names - Dinaw Mengestu
Black Mamba Boy Nadifa Mohamed

May - AFRICAN NOBEL WINNERS https://www.librarything.com/topic/350564
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing (South Africa)

June - EAST AFRICA - https://www.librarything.com/topic/351192 The Dance of the Jakaranda Peter Kimani

July - ACHEBE or Okri
Plans The Arrow of God - Achebe
Plans The Famished Road Ben Okri

August - FRANCOPHONE AFRICA
September - SOUTHERN AFRICA
October - MUKASONGA / NGUGI WA THIONG'O
November - AFRICAN THRILLERS / CRIME WRITERS
December - WEST AFRICA

British Author Challenge
January -
Rosemary Sutcliff - The Eagle of the Ninth
Fred D'Aguiar - Year of Plagues: memoir of 2020

February - Novellas & Short Stories -
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

March -
Vita Sackville-West - The Land
Tariq Ali

April -
British Queens - Queens of the Crusades

May -
Jan Morris - Hong Kong

June - Time Travel/Alternate History

American Author Challenge
January - Children Classics

February - Richard Powers
The Overstory

March - Poetry -
Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg

April - Ursula Hegi -
The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls

May - JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN

June - Mary Gordon
Reading Jesus

JULY: US Presidents as authors

AUGUST: Percival Everett

SEPT: American Ladies of Crime

OCT,: Dorothy Canfield Fisher

NOV.: Canadian authors

DEC.: Benjamin Alire Saenz

WILD CARD: AAC 2014 REDUX

81.
Book Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2022
Acquisition date/place: 6/22/23
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: life is a game, beginning, middle, end
Challenge(s): f2f
American: yes
British:
List book: no
Genre contemporary fiction
Liked: I liked how the author handled current issues without condescension or black and white thinking
Disliked: I thought there were some secondary characters that were not relevant

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Finished #81. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. Solid B to B+ book.
Made it to 34% of Clarissa. Volume 4, letter 5.

Thanks for the summaries of your progress on the various challenges. Our numbers in that sense are similar to be fair.

Have a lovely weekend, Kristel.

>170 PaulCranswick: I admit that I stole (cut and paste) the idea from you. So thanks for sharing. I get a lot of inspiration from your thread.

Sunday, rain predicted again. Got only 0.1 inch yesterday so we need it.

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The Voyage of the Morning Light by Marina Endicott
and of course Clarissa, Volume 4, Letter 11. 35%.

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Book The Voyage of the Morning Light by Marina Endicott
Format: audio/book
Original publication date: 2020
Acquisition date/place: May 2020
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: Micronesia event becomes major.
Challenge(s): TIOLI #6 ROOT
American:
British:
Other Canadian
List book: no
Genre historical fiction, maybe ???
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Tuesday, some sun, some clouds. Temps in the low 80s. A good day. Will lunch with a friend today.

Currently reading
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, winner of the Booker International. I am liking it. Like the exploration of time, old age, dementia.

Trying to put together my 20 books for July bingo (Litsy) challenge. Frustrated also with GR problems. But part of me feels like Amazon deserves it whatever the issue.

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Thursday, should be mostly sunny today. Some light fog this morning. A day spent with my youngest granddaughter. We are shopping and putting together a lunch and Bible study for grandmas and granddaughters.

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Finished Time Shelter - by Georgi Gospodinov. I would like to own this book. An A in my opinion for this book.

83.
Book Time Shelter - Georgi Gospodinov
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2020
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla, June 26,2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 5 stars
Book description/summary: time, memory, aging
Challenge(s):
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Other Bulgarian
List book: Booker International
Genre fiction, philosophy
Liked: so much to like
Disliked: the swearing was jarring at times but it was not excessive.

Another list to follow
Booker International
✔ 2016- The Vegetarian - Han Kang South Korea, Read
✔ 2017- A Horse Walks Into a Bar - David Grossman - Israel Read
2018 - Flights - Olga Tokarczuk - Poland
2019 - Celestial Bodies - Jokha al-Harthi - Oman
2020 - The Discomfort of Evening - Marieke Lucas Rijneveld - Netherlands
2021 - At Night All Blood is Black - David Diop - France
2022 - Tomb of Sand - Geetanjali Shree - India
✔2023- Time Shelter - Georgi Gospodinov - Bulgaria READ
3 of 8 books read

>178 Kristelh: Glad to see you also loved Time Shelter, Kristel. I am looking around for a paper copy too.

>179 Kristelh: Read them all, except the 2019 and 2022 winners, as they are not available in Dutch translation.

>180 FAMeulstee: It is probably going to be my #1 read for 2023. A great book.

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Friday, a longish weekend for many with Fourth of July on Tuesday.

Reading; Duma Key and Arrow of God and Clarissa of course. I should be further than I am.

Putting together my reading plans for July, summarizing June.

The end of the 2nd Quarter.
I returned from Florida to Minnesota. My oldest granddaughter graduated from her high school. It was a whirlwind of stuff happening.

Books Read: 39 books this quarter
1st Quarter I read 44 books.

1001 books: 13
BOOKER 0
BOOKER International 1
Pulitzer 0

Authors
US 19
German language 5 (Austria, Germany, Switzerland)
British 3
African/and 4
Russian 2
France 2
Israel 1
Native American 1
Canada 1
Bulgaria 1

Fiction: 31
Nonfiction: 8