Why not be ambitious? So I failed my 50-book challenge last year (which commenced sometime in February, I'd remind everyone). What better reason to renew my reading vows with vigour?
I have quite a few half-read books to get through, as well as stacks and stacks of beautiful, completely unread books beckoning from their crowded shelves. If nothing else, this is an exercise in good intentions meant (partly) to give books proper elbow, err spine, room. Okay, so as soon as a space is emptied it will be twice refilled, etc, but I suffer from logorrhea as I am sure must a good many other people on this site.
And I apologise to anyone who has actually bothered to read all this nonsense!
So, on with the 100 BOOK CHALLENGE!
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So I've started. I am reading what will probably be the first completed book of 2009. I thought that would be Gerald's Party by Robert Coover, however I left that book at work and will now pobably be book number 2.
So...
1: (will probably be)
The Point and Other Stories by Charles D'Ambrosio
2: (will probably be)
Gerald's Party by Robert Coover
Watch this space to find out how prescient I really am!
Now:
1: The Point and Other Stories by Charles D'Ambrosio
2:
Gerald's Party by Robert Coover
Wow, I'm already behind schedule! I'm must read some very short books now in order to catch up!
In the works: Lieutenant Nun: Memoirs of a Basque Transvestite in the New World
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Wow, keep it up! These are some really interesting books--esp. #3, which is going on my wishlist. Did you like R.U.R.? I bought
War With the Newts a little while back, but haven't read it yet (it's in my stacks and stacks of beautiful, completely unread books :).
Thanks for your comment.
Yes, I did enjoy
R. U. R., although if critiqued according to present-day standards, it would come up short, which I don't think is really fair.
And I also have
War with the Newtsamong my stacks and stacks of beautiful unread books....
It's funny, but when I saw you refer to RUR, I was thinking of ROUS (Rodents of Unusual Size) from the Princess Bride. I am sure this book is totally different. I guess I have seen that movie one too many times! (Now I will check the book out and see what it is really all about.) :)
--BJ
Ho ho, you made me laugh! Thanks for that. Now I'll go back to my biography of a manic depressive who committed suicide Medea style....
What did you think of
The Gathering? It looks pretty interesting. Have a great weekend!
--BJ
Hi anisoara. I have
The Gathering gathering dust in my TBR pile. Did you enjoy it?
Billiejean and Janetaileen --
I did enjoy The Gathering. I've read several other books by Anne Enright. She is a superb stylist, and in this book, I think she has written more intimately. Not just the diamond flash of the stylist but the pulsing blood of warm-blooded people. It's stuck with me and I've been thinking back on the book since reading it.
How was waiting for Godot?
--BJ
JB -
Darkly comic, provocative, and its influence on modern theatre is pretty much immediately apparent. Glad I read it.
Thanks for the comments. I wonder if I have that book around here somewhere? I have heard so much about it, so after your comments, I really want to read it! :) Have a great day!
--BJ
Do read it - you'll enjoy it!
I am adding this one to the wishlist as well. My older daughter is a Spanish major, so I am always looking for Latin American titles. :)
--BJ
It's very very good. I read another of his books earlier in the year called The Moldavian Pimp, and will keep an eye out for anything else available in English. Your lucky daughter can read his work that is, as yet, untranslated into English. Not me!
I added that one, too! She is lucky and hardworking! Have a super day!
--BJ
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Falling badly behind, but I am badly distracted...
39:
No Word from Gurb by Eduardo Mendoza ... This is utterly hilarious.
43:
Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry
44:
Silk by Alessandro Baricco
45:
Venus in Furs by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
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52:
The Wine-Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia
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55:
Quicksand by Junichiro Tanizaki
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Your reading list is of such quality!
Reading through the whole thread I kept thinking I must ask about this book. But in the end I would be asking about most of them....
So I will have to satisfy myself with asking which books of those read this year stand out most for you?
Zeno ...
Thanks! I will answer you, because I'd like to think about this myself. Unfortunately I have little internet access at the moment. First my laptop upped and quit, now my mobile together with its web browsing functions, so .... Anyway, I'll let you know.
70:
Mary by Vladimir Nabokov
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