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Very tired today so will rest, I think

I will be doing my usual, ignoring it and going to bed at my usual time. New year is important here in Scotland but I just can't be bothered.

Now reading The Mourner, Richard Stark on e-book

Hard-boiled Crime - Richard Stark Parker Novels, Stephen King has written a couple Gothic Fiction - The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpol Horror - This is actually a wider genre than it would appear - Interview With The Vampire: Number 1 in series Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice Classic - All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque (Author), Brian Murdoch (Translator) Poetry - Also a wide topic - The Luckiest Guy Alive, John Cooper Clarke Biography - American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin Stream of Consciousness - The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner

I've resorted to Cliff's Notes and online notes many times. It just depends on how much effort a reader is willing to put in. I bought The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata and will see how I get on with that. It's translated by the same translator though so it seems to be take it or leave it.

1 Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut - completed (paperback) 2 The Stranger from the Sea, Winston Graham - completed (paperback) 3 Kew Gardens, Virginia Woolf - completed (e-book, short story) 4 The Bone Collector, Jeffery Deaver - completed (paperback) 5 Society, Virginia Woolf - completed (e-book, short story) 6 Interim, Dorothy Richardson - completed (e-book) 7 The Whispering Muse, Laura Purcell - completed (e-book) 8 Maigret's Memoirs, Georges Simenon - completed (e-book) 9 The Astonomer and the Witch, Ulinka Rublack - completed (e-book) 10 The Owl and the Nightingale, Simon Armitage - completed (hardback) 11 Plunder Squad (Parker 15), Richard Stark - completed (paperback) 12 The Hamlet, William Faulkner - completed (hardback) 13 Mary Ann Cotton, Britain's First Serial Killer, David Wilson - completed (e-book) 14 Fair Helen, Andrew Greig - completed (e-book) 15 Hard Times, Charles Dickens - completed (e-book) 16 Pietr the Latvian, Georges Simenon - completed (e-book) 17 The Man in Black, Lynn Shepherd - completed (paperback) 18 Hear No Evil, Sarah Smith - completed (e-book) 19 An Unwritten Novel, Virginia Woolf - completed (short story, e-book) 20 The String Quartet, Virginia Woolf - completed (short story, e-book) 21 The Glucose Goddess Method, Jesse Inschauspe - completed (e-book) 22 Humanly Possible, Sarah Bakewell - completed (hardback) 23 Take My Hand, Dolen Perkins-Valdez - completed (e-book) 24 The Watcher, Charles McLean - completed (e-book) 25 A Haunted House, Virginia Woolf - completed (short story, e-book) 26 The Mark On the Wall, Virginia Woolf - completed (short story, e-book) 27 The Karamazov Brothers, Fyodor Dostoevsky - completed (paperback and e-book) 28 The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep, H G Parry - completed (e-book) 29 The Rime of the Ancient Marriner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - completed (e-book) 30 The Devil and the Dark Water, Stuart Turton - completed (e-book) 31 Pet, Catherine Chidgey - completed (e-book) 32 Helter-Skelter, The True Story of The Manson Murders, Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry - completed (e-book) 33 From the Depths and other Strange Tales of the Sea, British Library Tales of the Weird - completed (e-book) 34 Amras, Thomas Bernhard (novella) - completed (hardback part 1 of Three Novellas collection) 35 Playing Watten,Thomas Bernhard (novella) - completed (hardback part 2 of Three Novellas collection) 36 Walking, Thomas Bernhard (novella) - completed (hardback part 3 of Three Novellas collection) 37 Maigret Takes A Room, Georges Simenon - completed (e-book) 38 Nightshade, E S Thomson - completed (e-book) 39 Sea fever, Meg Clothier and Chris Clothier - completed (e-book) 40 The Ladies of Grace Adieu, Susanna Clarke - completed (e-book) 41 The Revels, Stacy Thomson - completed (e-book) 42 Talking To the Wild, Becky Hemsley - completed (paperback) 43 De Profundis, Oscar Wilde - completed (e-book) 44 Letters From Life, Becky Hemsley - completed (paperback) 45 Under Ground, E S Thomson - completed (paperback) 46 The Woman In Me, Britney Spears - completed (e-book) 47 The London Vampire, Lynn Shepherd - completed (e-book) 48 Nathan Dylan Goodwin, Hiding in the Past - completed (e-book) 49 Lee Child, 61 Hours - completed (paperback) 50 Ronnie O’Sullivan, Unbreakable - completed (e-book)

I hope it goes well. We haven't seen a doctor face to face for years either. Our practice had stopped doing face to face consultations long before the Covid out break.

This could simply be the translator. I have found that on occasion I can't understand a translated book (The Count of Monte Cristo as it turned out) and it was the translator that was the problem. I put two versions of the book together (in Waterstones at the time) and read the first pages and discovered that I understood one translator better than another. Having had a quick internet search it looks like there is only one translator for that particular book. There is also a study guide, depending on how far you want to go into it - online explanation found here, if it's of use Snow Country Study Guide

Today I'll be wrestling with my knitting - I learned to knit when I was four and have knitted baby clothes and a soft toy, but I have now embarked on a shawl and it's riddled with errors that I will have to bodge to see if I can make it look OK. As a learning curve though, it's priceless - and finishing off my reading. I also have a lot of Christmas TV that I recorded that I would like to see. ETA I also have a workshop (video tutorial and PDFs) on knitting that I paid for and would like to see.

Currently reading The Family Corleone, Will Corona Pilgrim. This comes with a set of Tarot cards, an explanation of which is at the back of the book

What a great idea!

Yes, Merry Christmas everyone

Just bought this. Thanks for posting

The title of the one that isn't a travel book is the key to that. That's obscure. The man looks like the author and the clothes he is wearing are tie dyed.

Started The Ruin of all Witches, Malcolm Gaskell

Yes, you did post the Unread Shelf Project, I remember now. Great idea, I hope it works. As for binge reading authors, I read on the now defunct Book Group Online that I could read one book from that author's canon a year. This has had varying results insofaras I read all of the Oscar de Muriel's Frey and McGray books and pretty much all of the Ann Cleeves Vera books in the one year but manage, more or less, Thomas Bernhard, William Faulkner and Winston Graham one book a year. TG, WF and WG are all dead which may have made a difference. As for shelf space, I made a big difference with that when I used some gift certificates to buy a Kindle. Restraint is a great thing but ............. reading is good for you so that's really the only challenge imho.

Oh. I have no idea.

It's raining here and absolutely lethal as the black ice that you can't see is melting and like glass.

My goal is always to read more than I did the year before. I also want to read as diversly as possible. I liek to mix short with long, old with new, classics with contemporary and fiction with factual. I do have a page per day target but don't always achieve that (it depends on the book) but this year I decided to set a fairly easy to achieve number of books for the year and exceeded that very well. I also read some very long books this year. Not much in the way of non-fiction this year but I'm happy with the overall breadth that I read. I'll set the same reading goal for next year and carry on as I am. What were/are your goals, Kudz?

Right then. The Christmas Challenge : A Christmas Mystery A Christmas Children's Story A Book with Snow on the Cover or in the Title A Christmas Mystery A Maigret Christmas, Georges Simenon and The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, Arthur Conan Doyle A Christmas Children's Story The Rose and the Ring, William Makepeace Thackery A Book with Snow on the Cover or in the Title The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey Challenge complete. Georges Simenon is one of my favourite authors so it's always a pleasure reading him at any time of the year. Surprisingly not read that many Holmes stories but do enjoy that. Never read William Makepeace Thackery before although I do have Vanity Fair (to look forward to now) and I loved The Rose and the Ring. Not really good with satire as a rule but once I got into this I thoroughly enjoyed it so will be also looking for some satire to widen my experience. The Snow Child was delightful from beginning to end and I savoured it thoroughly. Not heard of Eowyn Ivey before but will be exploring her other work. I'm taking this as a success. I am on this forum to find authors that I would not usually come across and Eowyn Ivey is one such. I also had no idea of The Rose and the Ring so am very glad that I came across this. Thank you all for your suggestions. My ambition is to be as well and broadly read as possible.

Hello and welcome to the forum. Intruder in the Dust demonstrates that the threat of violence against black people is a constant reality that affects all of their actions. A few people in the novel, both black and white, step up and take responsibility for helping achieve justice in the town. You can get a summary of the book online if you put the title into a search engine. As for value? I'm not sure what you mean by that but William Faulkner is one of my favourite authors so I'd say that it was worth reading.

We are exactly the same