February 2010
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2010 Book Progression!
Here is my list of books which I hope to read this year…
Struck out = finished; Bold = currently reading.
Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal - J.R. Ackerley
Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
Six Memos for the Next Millenium - Italo Calvino
The Plague - Albert Camus
Tokyo Cancelled - Rana Dasgupta
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran...
January 2010
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2010 Book Progression!!!
So, I have just finished reading my first book… except it is not one from the list. Which kind of defeats the point of making a list, but hey! Hence, I am starting a list for books I have read which aren’t from The List: 1. The Glass Demon - Helen Grant. This book isn’t actually released until May 2010. I managed to get a review copy while I was working at Puffin Books....
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2009 / 2010
I can’t work out if I won or failed in 2009. I’ll go for winning. Here’s how it turned out:
A list for 2009:
In bold, are the ones I have started reading but then stopped for whatever reason. (I tend to read many books at the same time, as you can see…) The struck out are those I have finished.
A list of books I plan to read in 2009:
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
...
Ahem.
I mostly failed at this. Thanks to Vanessa for trying to get the ball rolling though. Here’s to 2010!
magicrob
November 2009
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October 2009
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September 2009
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“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
– P. J. O’Rourke (via blogossauro)
iainbroome:
Claire Armitstead, literary editor of...
Summer Reading
Perhaps unconventionally, these books are listed in the order read. That is, from right to left (bottom-to-top): Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, Book 3) by Richelle Mead, Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress, Book 1) by Jeaniene Frost, The Dead Girls’ Dance (Morganville Vampires, Book 2) by Rachel Caine, Succubus Blues (Georgina Kincaid, Book 1) by Richelle Mead, Storm Born (Dark Swan, Book...
August 2009
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sputnik sweetheart
Like other contributors to this blog I too have fallen (way) behind on my reading targets for this year, but what I have read I have thoroughly enjoyed and considered more than if I’d gone nuts and drank more coffee and read more just to tick the books off my list.
I also like pictures of books because they are simply nice.
I enjoyed reading Murakami’s ‘Sputnik...
July 2009
9 posts
61 essential postmodern reads: an annotated list |... →
brilliantlydisruptive:
(vai fluffynotes)
My Progress So Far
So here’s my progress on my book list a little more than halfway through the year. Strikeouts are the ones I’ve finished; bold are the ones I’m currently reading; italics are the ones I tried and had to abandon for various reasons (e.g., subject matter was too upsetting, just didn’t care for it, ran out of time and it was due at the library, whatever). It’s pretty lame how few I’ve...
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Progress...
A list for 2009:
This is list of books I drew up, which I definitely want to read this year. I am rubbish; I thought I’d be amazing but so far, I have only read six out of my list of twenty. I keep reading lots of other stuff in between though… Distractions!
In bold, are the ones I have started reading but then stopped for whatever reason. (I tend to read many books at the same time,...
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the...”
– Descartes (via bookshelves) (via french-moi)
June 2009
8 posts
An Alphanumerically Ordered List Of Recommended...
thenotes:
19Q4 /// Haruki Murakami
2666 /// Roberto Bolaño
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland /// Lewis Carroll
Bend Sinister /// Vladimir Nabokov
Cosmopolis /// Don DeLillo
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency /// Douglas Adams
East Of Eden /// John Steinbeck
Forty Stories /// Donald Barthelme
Grendel /// John Gardner
Hell’s Angels /// Hunter S. Thompson
Infinite...
Infinite Summer →
davidfosterwallace:
You haven’t read Infinite Jest yet? Now that summer is here and this group exists, you have no excuses. The project begins 21 June (11 days from now!) so get ready. They’re on Facebook and Twitter, too.
I own this book, read the first 70 pages or so last December and gave up. Perhaps a reading group is just what is needed…
May 2009
20 posts
'Privacy'
I came across Molly Young on Tumblr. I can’t remember if it was a reblog on someone else’s page, a recommendation or through the ‘Tumblrettes’ directory. Either way, I thought her writing was just great.
Molly Young released her (2nd I think) published work recently so I got a copy. I tweeted to ask her about international shipping (I’m in the UK) and she graciously...
I finished the Sookie Stackhouse series
If anyone knows the author Charlaine Harris or heard about the HBO True Blood series then you know about the Sookie Stackhouse series. Mainly geared towards girls, an easy quick read.
"Nothing ever ends"
Watchmen - Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
As a detour and a supposedly ‘light’ addition to my list I threw in a graphic novel. Having missed Watchmen at the cinema I took the opportunity to consider the source before the DVD appears. I say ‘light’ just because it has pictures; the subject is as intense as any.
It threw me around. With the exception of Jonathan Lethem books I...
I am not going to even attempt to look for that list i made yesteryear, because it would only disapoint me greatly. I honestly dont think i have read one single book on it. Now dont get me wrong, i havent given up the ghost. My reading hours have been productive nonetheless. I have read Vonnegut, who i dont think is on the list, Bukowski, who isnt either, and espiecially Hunter Thompson. I...