I did not see this thread had been started yet, so I figured I would post it up,
So what did we all read in April?
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Thirteenth Night by Alan Gordon
Elysiana by Chris Knopf
and I am almost finished with Lolita
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
I've bought Twilight but I didn't have a chance to read it yet. I will take it with me on the plane after two weeks. I hope it will be interesting.
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Manifesto of Surrealism by Andre Breton
Not much, but I'm slowly getting back into the habit of actually finishing books.
Hmm...
The Professor's House by Willa Cather
The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
The Luzhin Defense by Nabokov
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein (egh, hated it)
Great Expectations by Dickens
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My word I'm such a blonde! I posted something totally wrong here, ahahahahaha! That is what happens when you decide what is written in the original post instead of actually reading it
Okay, so I read Agatha Christie's 'And Then There Were None'. I also read two P&P sequels, 'A Match For Mary Bennet' and 'Pemberley Shades'. They were both very good, but quite different.
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Jules Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 5/5
Kobo Abe - The Kangaroo Notebook 4/5
George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London 5/5
Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders 5/5
Charles Dickens - Hard Times 5/5
Jack London - The Sea-Wolf 5/5
Upton Sinclair - King Coal 5/5
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary 5/5
Upton Sinclair - They Call Me Carpenter 4/5
-Mariamosis
Death in Venice and Stories, Thomas Mann
Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow
A Humument, Tom Phillips
Iconology, W.J.T. Mitchell
Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner
The Innkeeper’s Song, Peter S. Beagle
Robin Hood, Paul Creswick
Arden of Ferversham, Anonymous
The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
Baghdad Diaries, Nuha Al-Radi
The Wind-up Bird Chronicles, Haruki Murakami
The Tragic Reign of Selimus, Robert Greene
Tamburlaine Part 1, Christopher Marlowe
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John Le Carre
Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
The Renagado, Philip Massinger
The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers
American Earth, Assorted Authors
Norton Book of Nature Writing, Assorted Authors
The Mann short stories I finished in April but started in March. The nature anthologies I started in January...
Still Notre Dame de Paris by Hugo...But my hubby was on holiday and then we don't go to bed so early...
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
The Famished Road - Ben Okri (started in March)
Book of Longing - Leonard Cohen
Clea (Alexandrian Quartet IV) - Lawrence Durrell
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
Alabama Song - Gilles Leroy
...As a moth mistakes a bulb
for the moon, and goes to hell...
-Tom Waits-
Not too much
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
Macbeth
Anthem - Ayn Rand
Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Keeping Faith - Jodi Picoult
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
Of love...daroga, I am dying...of love...
When you sing, I live in the heavens, and when you do not, down below... (Charles Dance ~ Phantom of the Opera)
The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare
Malone Dies by Beckett
The Unnamable by Beckett
If on a winter's night a traveler by Calvino
Invisible Cities by Calvino
Introducing Linguistics by R.L. Trask
The Aleph & other stories by Borges
just started Ada by Nabokov and close to finising Foucault's History of Sexuality, part one.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
-W.Blake
The Hill Bachelors - William Trevor
Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
Rape: A Love Story - Joyce Carol Oates
The Caretaker - Harold Pinter
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
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