The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao of Junot Diaz (started in January)
The sleepwalkers: 1888, Pasenov or the Romantism of Hermann Broch
America by Allen Ginsberg
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao of Junot Diaz (started in January)
The sleepwalkers: 1888, Pasenov or the Romantism of Hermann Broch
America by Allen Ginsberg
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
...As a moth mistakes a bulb
for the moon, and goes to hell...
-Tom Waits-
Lavinia, by Ursula Le Guin
His Illegal Self, by Peter Carey
Mr Golightly's Holiday, by Salley Vickers
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
Not quite sure what happened but I only had time to read one book in Feb - The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Actually I know what happened, I had four assignments to write
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
The Shadow of the Wind- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Excellent novel
This is what I read in February:
Grass for His Pillow - Lian Hearn
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
Les arbres en parlent encore - Calixthe Beyala
Farfar var rasbiolog - Eva F. Dahlgren
The Long Sandy Road - P P Pasolini
Les Enfants Terribles - J Cocteau
Short Plays - J Cocteau
The Brothers Karamazov - F Dostoevsky
"And the worms, they will climb
The rugged ladder of your spine"
Breakfast at Tiffanys – Truman Capote
Tender is the night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The sin of my mother and other stories – George Vizyenos
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D. H. Lawrence
Through the darkness of future past
the magician longs to see
one chance out between two worlds
'Fire walk with me.'
Twin Peaks
The Man in the Dark - Paul Auster
In the Country of Last Things - Paul Auster
World Light - Halldor Laxness
The Cave - Jose Saramago
Also:
finished Prince Caspian and read Voyage of the Dawn Treader to my son
and
one of the Winnie the Pooh books to my daughter. Not sure which one. It was very funny.
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Evelyn Waugh: Scoop (v. funny)
Aldous Huxley: Island
quite a bit of P G Wodehouse and re- read Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis and Waugh's Brideshead Revisited
Andrei Makine-The crime of Olga Arbelina
Gabriel garcias Marquez-Of love and other demons
Knut Hamsun-In country of Tales
Robert van Gulik - The Phantom of the Temple
Steven Millhauser - Martin Dressler Tale of an American dreamer
Jacques spitz-the eye of purgatory
Mohamed Nedali-Morceaux de choix
Geaorge sand-the devil's pool --
Evelyn Waugh-Brideshead Revisited read by Jeremy Irons
Rainer Maria Rilke-Journal of Malte laurids Brigge (i think?)
Patrick Rambaud-The exile
Richard Stark - The Green Eagle Score
Honore de balzac-The country doctor
Yasunari Kawabata-Les servantes de l'auberge
Graham Green-Stambul train ++
Driss Craibi-The world beside
Witi Ihimaera - The Whale Rider
Ted Chiang - The Merchant and the Alchemists Gate
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Fishin' With Grandma Matchie by Steven Erikson
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
How Not to Write a Novel by Howard Mittelmark
The Devil Delivered by Steven Erikson
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Usable Field by Jane Mead
House of Poured-out Waters by Jane Mead
Cascadia by Brenda Hillman
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
Ararat by Louise Glück
Finished the Iliad and started the Aeneid. I wish I could read as fast as others here!
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
I read:
Cape Cod -- Thoreau
Buddha vols 1/2 -- Tezuka
More kids books than I care to count
All my magazines: National Geographic, Atlantic, Smithsonian, Wyoming Wildlife. . .
“Oh crap”
-- Hellboy
The Bridge of San Luis Rey -- Thornton Wilder
The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 -- Joyce Carol Oates, ed.
Je N'ai Pas Peur -- Niccolo Ammaniti
The Good Soldier -- Ford Madox Ford
Every Man for Himself -- Beryl Bainbridge
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
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