sirinrob Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 (edited) Decided to keep a reading list this year, which will hopefully contain books that others find inspiring. When I've read a book, I'll post a review in the appropriate section with a link from this list. Decided I'd be strict on myself, so If I start a book, I'll finish it ( unless its dire) then review, onto next. Didn't see the need for a TBR list as thats fluid, and i reread alot as well. Edited January 3, 2010 by sirinrob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirinrob Posted December 31, 2009 Author Share Posted December 31, 2009 (edited) Fiction This list will roll-up all of the fiction I've read in 2010. Where I have reread a book it will be marked with an 'R' 'Something Rotten' Jasper Fforde review 'Cousin Bette' Honor Edited April 29, 2010 by sirinrob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirinrob Posted December 31, 2009 Author Share Posted December 31, 2009 (edited) Non-Fiction since I have quite a few to read , this could get busy 'Iron Kingdom: The rise and downfall of Prussia 1600 - 1947' Christopher Clark 'With Their Backs to the World' Ǻsne Seierstad review 'The Rebel' Albert Camus review 'The Mercurial Emperor - The Magic Circle of Rudolf II in Renaissance Prague' Peter Marshell review 'Northern Shores - A History of the Baltic Sea and its Peoples' Alan Palmer review Edited March 5, 2010 by sirinrob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirinrob Posted January 1, 2010 Author Share Posted January 1, 2010 (edited) Reading Circle January 'Fahrenheit 451' Ray Bradbury February 'Macbeth' William Shakespeare March 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' Khaled Hosseini Edited February 11, 2010 by sirinrob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirinrob Posted January 3, 2010 Author Share Posted January 3, 2010 (edited) Poetry, Plays, Essays,Short Stories 'A Winter Book' Tove Jansson review 'Midsummer Days and other tales' August Strindberg review 'Best European Fiction 2010' edited by Aleksander Hemon Edited April 1, 2010 by sirinrob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirinrob Posted January 21, 2010 Author Share Posted January 21, 2010 Decided this year to leave my Classics challenge as a background activity as I'm reading more books that do not fit into the pre-First World War category Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirinrob Posted February 2, 2010 Author Share Posted February 2, 2010 This year started in great style - discovered some authors that I really like and others to maintain as 'keepers'. the new ones I met were Thomas Wharton, Markus Zusak, Steve Toltz, Peter Hoeg, Tove Jansson and continued with Jasper FForde. There were a couple of disappointments - Junot Daiz - debut novel should never have been debuted and Abraham Vergheze - tedious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirinrob Posted March 2, 2010 Author Share Posted March 2, 2010 February proved to be a productive reading month- 24 books read . mostly fiction, but did manage to read one nonfiction book; 'The Rebel' Albert Camus. Discovered some more authors that I like: Roberto Bola Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 This year started in great style - discovered some authors that I really like and others to maintain as 'keepers'. the new ones I met were Thomas Wharton, Markus Zusak, Steve Toltz, Peter Hoeg, Tove Jansson and continued with Jasper FForde. There were a couple of disappointments - Junot Daiz - debut novel should never have been debuted and Abraham Vergheze - tedious Was that 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'? .. I was really disappointed with it, I thought I was going to love it from the blurb on the back and initially I quite liked it but it went downhill quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirinrob Posted March 2, 2010 Author Share Posted March 2, 2010 no -'The Shadow of the Wind, but i disliked the Diaz effort as much, if that makes any sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucybird Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Laura Esquivel She wrote Like Water for Chocolate, right? I enjoyed that but haven't read anything else by her Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirinrob Posted March 5, 2010 Author Share Posted March 5, 2010 Yes, 'Like Water for Chocolate' is the book I read and really enjoyed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirinrob Posted April 1, 2010 Author Share Posted April 1, 2010 some new authors I enjoyed this month: Marcio Antonio Flores, Naguib Mahfouz and Samuel Beckett William Heinsen proved to be a slight disappointment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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