1Lamplighter01
Hello world! I'm new to the 75ers club.
I enjoy literary fiction, some sci-fi, books of essays; lately i've taken an interest in some classic Japanese novels as well.
While I enjoy reading very much and try to reserve plenty of time for it, I feel like I'm pretty easily distracted these days by personal matters, by the state of the world, perhaps simply by having a cloudy and superficial mind. For each book I finish, it seems like there are one or two that lay around incomplete. Hopefully having this place to report to (with a loose "goal" in mind) will prompt a bit more consistency. Perhaps I'll start writing a bit more as I proceed as well.
Books I enjoyed in 2025:
Chance by Joseph Conrad
Offshore by Penelope Firzgerald
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Bostonians by Henry James
Henry James Comes Home by Peter Brooks
François le champi by George Sand
Le Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac
Mort by Terry Pratchett
Neuromancer by William Gibson
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Naomi by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
Books read so far in 2026:
On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Lolita by Vladimir Nabovov
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Ferragus by Honoré de Balzac
I enjoy literary fiction, some sci-fi, books of essays; lately i've taken an interest in some classic Japanese novels as well.
While I enjoy reading very much and try to reserve plenty of time for it, I feel like I'm pretty easily distracted these days by personal matters, by the state of the world, perhaps simply by having a cloudy and superficial mind. For each book I finish, it seems like there are one or two that lay around incomplete. Hopefully having this place to report to (with a loose "goal" in mind) will prompt a bit more consistency. Perhaps I'll start writing a bit more as I proceed as well.
Books I enjoyed in 2025:
Chance by Joseph Conrad
Offshore by Penelope Firzgerald
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Bostonians by Henry James
Henry James Comes Home by Peter Brooks
François le champi by George Sand
Le Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac
Mort by Terry Pratchett
Neuromancer by William Gibson
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Naomi by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
Books read so far in 2026:
On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Lolita by Vladimir Nabovov
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Ferragus by Honoré de Balzac
2alcottacre
Welcome to the group, Lamplighter! It looks like your reading year is off to a good start!
