A World Cup month, so not so much....
Michel Houellebecq - The possibility of an island
Dave Pelzer - A child called "it"
Ryű Murakami - Almost Transparent Blue
Jean-Pierre Ruffin - Asmara et les causes perdues (Lost Causes)
A World Cup month, so not so much....
Michel Houellebecq - The possibility of an island
Dave Pelzer - A child called "it"
Ryű Murakami - Almost Transparent Blue
Jean-Pierre Ruffin - Asmara et les causes perdues (Lost Causes)
...As a moth mistakes a bulb
for the moon, and goes to hell...
-Tom Waits-
The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
The House of the Dead by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Ministarstvo boli (The Ministry of Pain) by Dubravka Ugrešić
Pop Ćira i pop Spira (Priest Ćira and Priest Spira) by Stevan Sremac
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Silence by Shusaku Endo
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago
Le Pčre Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Prokleta avlija (The Damned Yard) by Ivo Andrić
The Broken Commandment by Tōson Shimazaki
The Sirens of Baghdad by Yasmina Khadra
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatima Mernissi
The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. Oscar Wilde
"What a carve-up" by J Coe
“The Road” by Cormac Mc Carthy
“North and South” by Elizabeth Gaskell
Through the darkness of future past
the magician longs to see
one chance out between two worlds
'Fire walk with me.'
Twin Peaks
Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (Abridged Audio version)
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Cranford by Mrs. Gaskell
I also read various works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, including all the Sonnets from the Portuguese; and the first 'book' in a large four volume history series, begun at an earlier date.
Pushkin - The Queen Of Spades and other stories
Started Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon
Started Dead Souls by Gogol
The Iliad - Homer
"'You scratch my foot and you're vaunting all the same--but who cares? A woman or idiot boy could wound me so. The shaft of a good-for-nothing coward's got no point but mine's got heft and edge. Let it graze a man--my weapon works in a flash and drops him dead. And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself--more birds than women flocking round his body!'"
-Iliad 11. 452-465, Diomedes to Paris
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
Madame Bovary by Flaubert (reread)
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
-W.Blake
The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby by Scot Fitzerald
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Elements of Style by Strunk and E.B. White
Book of the American Short Story edited by Richard Ford
22 Jamaican Short Stories
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (re-read)
Cosmocomics by Italo Calvino
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (re-read)
Master and Man/The Death of Ivan Illych by Leo Tolstoy
Count of Monte Cristo
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
A Farewell To Arms
most of Mountains Beyond Mountains
"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult."
~E.B. White
I just finished Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.