Histoire de l'oeil (The story of the eye) - Georges Bataille
A grain of wheat - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Selected Poems – Arthur Rimbaud
The Idiot (volume 1) - Fiontor Dostoyefski
Les Ballades Nostalgiques - Racine Kane
Animal's People - Indra Sinha (just started)
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...As a moth mistakes a bulb
for the moon, and goes to hell...
-Tom Waits-
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
The Dante Club by Mattew Pearl
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Tunnels of Blood by Darran Shan
From Bluebeard's Egg and other stories by Margaret Atwood
Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother
Hurricane Hazel
Loulou or The Domestic Life of Language
Uglypuss
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
The God Delusion-Dawkins, The Journals of Captain James Cook
The Fall by Albert Camus
The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
The Land of Heart's Desire, William Butler Yeats
Verwoest Arcadië, Gerrit Komrij
Wedding Song, Naguib Mahfouz
Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
In the Penal Colony, Franz Kafka
Langs de Nijl, Marcellus Emants
That's about it, I think.
Money, Martin Amis
The Plague, Albert Camus
Seize the Day, Saul Bellow
The Drawing of the Dark, Tim Powers
Light In August, William Faulkner
The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh
The Gambler, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
On the Beach, Nevil Shute
The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
The Tragedy of Mariam, Elizabeth Cary
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
The Immortal Bartfuss, Aharon Appelfeld
Marxism and Literary Criticism & Essay, Terry Eagleton
This, and a couple hundred pages of theory criticism and nature writing.
Butterfly Burning by Yvonne Vera
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (reread)
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (reread)
Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
I also read the first part of Don Quixote by Cervantes translated by Charles Jervas, I've now gotten a different translation and have started reading it!
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
-W.Blake
Oh how you all have devoured books this past month! I'm just coming back to that thing called leisure time and filling that time with reading, so I have to catch up with you guys!
I read: Treasure of the Lake - Haggard, and Created to be His Help Meet - Pearl
"So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss, and my heart turns violently inside of my chest, I don't have time to maintain these regrets, when I think about, the way....He loves us..."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5xXowT4eJjY
Oh wow, I love Haggard - did you read "She"? How was "Treasure of the Lake"...I had never heard of it before. Sounds interesting.Originally Posted by grace86
I read very little during January; I think I read more articles online than books. I did manage to watch a few plays of Chekhov, does that count? I also read "The Little Prince"...I love that little book.
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Booth Tarkington 'Alice Adams'
Jane Austen 'Northanger Abbey'
Willa Cather 'one of ours' (still reading)
Oh, I love Exupery. It is my favorite too.
Theodroe Dreiser - Sister Carrie 4/5
D.H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers 5/5
Thomas Hardy - Return of the Native 5/5
Sinclair Lewis - Main Street 5/5
'Main Street' took me a while to get into (about half the book); and while I almost put it down, I am glad that I didn't.
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-Mariamosis
"You understand well enough what slavery is, but freedom you have never experienced, so you do not know if it tastes sweet or bitter. If you ever did come to experience it, you would advise us to fight for it not with spears only, but with axes too." - Herodotus
https://consolationofreading.wordpress.com/ - my book blog!
Feed the Hungry!
I read Perfume and finally got around to Tolkien. For non-fiction, I read about the Holocaust, Neo-Pagan religions and body modification.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
“The turn of the screw” – Henry James
“The Aspern papers” – Henry James
“East of Eden” – John Steinbeck
“The adventures of Sherlock Holmes” –Sir A C Doyle
“The crying of lot 49” – Thomas Pynchon
Through the darkness of future past
the magician longs to see
one chance out between two worlds
'Fire walk with me.'
Twin Peaks
Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman 10/10
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -0/10
The Art of War - Sun Tzu - 8/10
Flight - John Steinbeck 9/10
..and a couple of art books by Claude Monet, Andy Warhol and Hiroshige.
Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions!
the whole boatload of sensitive!
— Allen Ginsberg, Howl II.
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