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1wi_jessamine
Hello all,
You can count me in on the 50 Book Challenge for 2009. I don't really think I'll be able to read 50 books in the coming year (ahhh....if only I were retired), but it will be fun to try. Reading these posts has inspired me!
I'll list a few items to start, will add from my collection and new titles as they strike my fancy. I hope I can make a dent in my unread book piles.
I love books about books and reading:
A Universal History of the Destruction of Books by Fernando Baez
Every Book Its Reader by Nicholas A. Basbanes
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
Some classics (and books about the classics, lol):
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Tea with Jane Austen by Kim Wilson
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
Books to feed my recent interest in the Middle Ages:
The Making of the Middle Ages by R. W. Southern
A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester
2 Pulitzer Prize winners:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
March by Geraldine Brooks
With a Wisconsin connection:
Driftless by David Rhodes
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
My only Murakami started and never finished:
Kafka on the Shore
And etcetera...
Regeneration by Pat Barker
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew Bacevich
Happy reading!
Wi_Jessamine
You can count me in on the 50 Book Challenge for 2009. I don't really think I'll be able to read 50 books in the coming year (ahhh....if only I were retired), but it will be fun to try. Reading these posts has inspired me!
I'll list a few items to start, will add from my collection and new titles as they strike my fancy. I hope I can make a dent in my unread book piles.
I love books about books and reading:
A Universal History of the Destruction of Books by Fernando Baez
Every Book Its Reader by Nicholas A. Basbanes
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
Some classics (and books about the classics, lol):
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Tea with Jane Austen by Kim Wilson
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
Books to feed my recent interest in the Middle Ages:
The Making of the Middle Ages by R. W. Southern
A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester
2 Pulitzer Prize winners:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
March by Geraldine Brooks
With a Wisconsin connection:
Driftless by David Rhodes
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
My only Murakami started and never finished:
Kafka on the Shore
And etcetera...
Regeneration by Pat Barker
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew Bacevich
Happy reading!
Wi_Jessamine
