shelbel Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 I am having a very productive year so far. Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera Anne Enright - The Gathering Jon Krakauer - Into the Wild Nelson Mandela - Long Walk to Freedom Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird Arundhati Roy - God of Small Things Thrity Umrigar - The Space Between Us Ann Patchett - Bel Canto Tracy Chevalier - Burning Bright Phillippa Gregory - The Other boleyn Girl H.F.M. Prescott - Mary Tudor Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex Sarah Hall - Electric Michelangelo Steve Toltz - A Fraction of the Whole Peter Carey - His Illegal Self Tim Winton - Breath Ian McEwan - Atonement Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's J.M. Barrie - Peter Pan Jack London - Call of the Wild Louis de Bernieres - Captain Corelli's Mandolin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kate Posted June 19, 2008 Share Posted June 19, 2008 You have read a lot. I'm impressed you can keep track! I have no idea what I read at the beginning of the year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelbel Posted June 20, 2008 Author Share Posted June 20, 2008 You have read a lot. I'm impressed you can keep track! I have no idea what I read at the beginning of the year! This is the first year in many that I've actually had the time to devote to reading for me, so I guess I've been a little manic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelbel Posted June 23, 2008 Author Share Posted June 23, 2008 These are the books that I'm hoping to read this year: Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - I am half way through this one. Madame Bovary - Gustav Flauber Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak Middlemarch - George Eliot Alice in Wonerland - Lewis Carroll Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood A prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving A Son fo the Circus - John Irving Another Country - James Baldwin It's a bit ambitious, so I'll see how I go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kate Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 I'd like to read Alice in Wonderland, Crime and Punishment and Treasure Island. I look forward to reading your reviews Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supergran71 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 These are the books that I'm hoping to read this year: Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - I am half way through this one. Madame Bovary - Gustav Flauber Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak Middlemarch - George Eliot Alice in Wonerland - Lewis Carroll Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood A prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving A Son fo the Circus - John Irving Another Country - James Baldwin It's a bit ambitious, so I'll see how I go. Middlemarch is a great read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Lolita - Vladimir NabokovCrime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky Alice in Wonerland - Lewis Carroll The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood I loved all of the above books. I found Crime and Punishment a bit of a hard slog but it was well-worth the effort in the end. Lolita is sheer brilliance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelbel Posted June 24, 2008 Author Share Posted June 24, 2008 Middlemarch is a great read. I'm ashamed to say, (particularly on this forum were the Enlish Classic's are so popular) that I've not read alot of the English Classic's. I can only recall reading Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice in high school, and Sons and Lovers at uni. So I'm really looking forward to reading Middlemarch when I get to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simone_Sharp Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 (edited) wow! wow! You are a very quick reader, I am trying to read most of those books but your always one step ahead Edited July 14, 2008 by Kell Just merged the two posts. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 I was interested to read your review of On the Road. I've taken a break from it right now. I'm enjoying it, but I also find it to be overwhelmingly masculine in its viewpoint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 I agree. The only other book of Kerouac's that I've read is The Town and the City and that is exactly the same ('overwhelmingly masculine'). It follows the lives of a large family, but the women are almost completely ignored and instead the story focuses on the men. In fact, I mentioned this in my review. I loved both books though, even in spite of this 'problem'. I hope you'll enjoy the rest of the book when you get around to it again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelbel Posted October 10, 2008 Author Share Posted October 10, 2008 (edited) Recently Read Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy Crime and Punishment - Fydor Dostovesky On the Road - Jack Kerouac (reread) Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood A Son of the Circus - John Irving Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie Desert Flower - Waris Dirie The Secret Garden - Francis Hodgson Burnett The Wizard of OZ - L.F. Baum Lolita - Vladimer Nabokov The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje The Book Thief - Markus Zusak The Boy in Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne Another Country - James Baldwin Orlando - Virginia Woolf My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell New Books Small Island - Andrea Levy One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami Cloudstreet - Tim Winton Going Solo - Roald Dahl Emma - Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen Orlando - Virginia Woolf The Waves - Virginia Woolf My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell Moby - Dick - Herman Melville Edited October 12, 2008 by shelbel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 How did you find The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas? I've been debating whether or not to get it. And I'll also be interested in your thoughts on Cloudstreet, which I've had on my TBR pile for a while now. I loved Going Solo. It was such an interesting read and very entertaining. Roald Dahl certainly lived an amazing life! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelbel Posted October 16, 2008 Author Share Posted October 16, 2008 I quite enjoyed The Boy in Stripped Pajamas, it was an easy read; I think I read it in one sitting on a Sunday afternoon, a very touching, thought provoking story about the holocaust. A nice complimentry read to the Book Theif, stylistically their very different, but they both deal with a similar genre. I finished Cloudstreet by Tim Winton last night, it's a wonderful book Kylie, I think you will enjoy it immensely; a real post-war Australian saga, beautifully written with an Aussie flavour to it. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed Going Solo, my nine year old son picked this one out as a birthday present, he's a big fan of Roald Dahl and he thought he would introduce me to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 Thanks for the reviews - I think I'll definitely have to read The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. And now I'm looking forward to Cloudstreet even more! Aw, that's really sweet of your son. I think he made an excellent choice! (Although you can't really go wrong with any Roald Dahl book in my opinion ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelbel Posted October 24, 2008 Author Share Posted October 24, 2008 (edited) I am still plodding along with Moby Dick by Herman Melville, it's a wonderful book, but it seems to be taking forever to wade through all the detail. Edited October 24, 2008 by shelbel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 I'm very intimidated by Moby Dick. It sounds like quite a daunting read but I'd like to try it one day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelbel Posted October 27, 2008 Author Share Posted October 27, 2008 Moby Dick is proving to be a real challenge for me Kylie, I am enjoying the writing and it's a wonderful adventure story, but I have found myself at times incredibly bogged down in Melville's extremely detailed background information about whale anatomy and whaling. I'm hoping to finish this book sometime this week, so that I can move onto something a little lighter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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