Christmas reading lists, anyone?

[aeroport]

I hope there isn't already a similar thread out there somewhere.

Here is mine...

Carry On, Jeeves - Wodehouse
Casino Royale - Fleming
The Wings of the Dove - James
The Turn of the Screw - James
Twelfth Night
The Taming of the Shrew
Antony and Cleopatra
Might be a little too ambtious...

[grace86]

Christmas reading:

Crime and Punishment (finishing it - not too christmas like though)
Allan Quatermain (if I find a nice copy somewhere)
Armour Wherin He Trusted (short so it seems more possible)

Not too ambitious, as long as I get C&P out of the way I will be happy. Been trying to finish that one for a while now.

(Jamesian, you are ambitious!)

[aeroport]

Which translation do you have? I found the Pevear and Volokhonsky to go rather quick.

[grace86]

You know, I am not quite sure. It isn't the translator though that I have had a problem with, it is just that I didn't have the time when the semester started, and now that it is going to end I will finally be able to get back to it. It has been haunting me so to speak.

[aeroport]

That one will do it. Not very Christmas-like indeed!!

[SleepyWitch]

*finish: East of Eden
*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
*finish some other books...

[Scheherazade]

- The Diary of a Nobody

- Twelth Night

- All Quiet on the Western Front

- The Colour of Magic

- The Clan Of The Cave Bear

Not sure if I will be able to get through all of these but will give it a try.

[TEND]

Finish One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Camus - The Fall
and than probably whatever I get for Christmas (which will probably be a lot).

[cuppajoe_9]

Middlemarch - George Elliot
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton (already read it, but will probably do so again)
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (ditto)
Adventures Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (ditto, but it's been a while)

All for school. I have two english courses next semester. Yay.

[grace86]

I completely forgot about the books I put down on my list for Christmas...among those are modern fiction:

The Thirteenth Tale

Book of Lost Things

The Ladies of Grace Adieu

But I might not get to all of these on Christmas break. After all, I only have about a month. Might save those for during the semester - they are easier than the classics.

[ShoutGrace]

I am going to finish "One day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch" tonight, hopefully, and from then on -

~~~ The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn.

~~~ Finish Plato's "Republic."

~~~ Finish "Crime and Punishment."

~~~ Morris' "Theodore Rex."


I'm also going to read "Skipping Christmas," just because I enjoyed it so much the first time I read it - besides which, it's a very, very short book.

This is addition to re-reading the four Gospels, and a few devotional books on Jesus.

[subterranean]

I assume the list is there because you'll have holiday soon. I don't have Christmast holiday for this year :(, but I'm planning to finish:

- Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
- Lord of The Flies by William Golding


Finish "Crime and Punishment."

Didn't you start reading it like few months ago?

[SleepyWitch]

how long is your Christmas break (in the UK and US, mainly)?
ours is only 2 weeks, so that's why my reading list is comparatively short

[toni]

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (pardon the spelling)
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
Salome - Oscar Wilde
Hard Times - Charles Dickens

[grace86]

I get out next Tuesday (19th) and won't return until January 16th.

It seems like I am not the only one trying to finish Crime and Punishment.

[vheissu]

My winter holidays will start in....20 hours! My last exam is tomorrow afternoon and then I'll be free to finally read anything I want, which has absolutely nothing to do with uni. :D

So...this Christmas....I'll have to choose "light" books, since I'll be travelling and can't carry much. That means Zadie Smith's "On beauty" will have to wait until I get back....again!:(


- Candide by Voltaire
- The rebel by Camus
- either Love in the time of cholera by G.G. Marquez
or
- A clockwork orange by Burgess (which is a lot smaller...)

And I think I've left an italian copy of Notes from the underground back at home....I could always start that one as well ;)

[Virgil]

My winter holidays will start in....20 hours! My last exam is tomorrow afternoon and then I'll be free to finally read anything I want, which has absolutely nothing to do with uni. :D

So...this Christmas....I'll have to choose "light" books, since I'll be travelling and can't carry much. That means Zadie Smith's "On beauty" will have to wait until I get back....again!:(


- Candide by Voltaire
- The rebel by Camus
- either Love in the time of cholera by G.G. Marquez
or
- A clockwork orange by Burgess (which is a lot smaller...)

And I think I've left an italian copy of Notes from the underground back at home....I could always start that one as well ;)

Are you Italian, vheissu? Or do you just read italian? I see you're from both Greece and Scotland?

[Schokokeks]

Wow, you all seem to have a lot of vacation...I only have one week :(.
But so far I'm hoping for:
Twelfth Night by Willy Shakespeare
finish Vanity Fair by Willy Thackeray
and get started on some piece of French literature, but I'm not yet decided which...
Plus, I'm hoping to get a huuuuuge pile of new books for Christmas, I'll just see what jewels will be among them :D.

[vheissu]

Are you Italian, vheissu? Or do you just read italian? I see you're from both Greece and Scotland?

Not exactly Italian, I'm Greek/Irish, but I was born in Milan, lived there and when we moved to Greece I continued with an Italian education. So it's a big part of me still...even though now I study in Scotland.
It useful for not looking for translations for certain books...wish I knew a couple of more languages! :)

[SummerSolstice]

Yay! Christmas reading! And it's finally here... I've been gone for a few days due to finals, but I'm baaack and loving all my new reading/writing time already!

Here's what's I checked out from the university library with my lovely, lovely Honors College four month lending time:

Watership Down by Richard Adams (As per Litnet suggestion!)
The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas (The smallest one in my stack... by Dumas?? THIS I'm not used to.)
And a compendium of Miss Marple novels by Agatha Christie, including:
The Mirror Crack'd
A Caribbean Mystery
Nemesis
What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!
The Body in the Library

So far all I've read by Ms. Christie is Murder on the Orient Express, but that sent me into such raptures of readerly delight that I couldn't resist this one when I saw it.

[mir]

Oh man, i've got a pile of books in my room up to my waist that i've been wanting to read. (though i probably still won't have time to finish most of them! :p)

let's see . . .

a few:

Any Feynman (absolutely AMAZING Nobel-prize-winning physicist) book
Emily Dickinson's poems
Crime and Punishment (though i see i'm not original in this one! :D)
Michener's The Source
Ray Bradbury - Farewell Summer

and a bunch of others! :)

[kilted exile]

Whatever I end up being given - I have read all the books I have that interest me.

[Schokokeks]

Here's what's I checked out from the university library with my lovely, lovely Honors College four month lending time:

Four months ?? I'm so envious !!! It's 4 weeks for me, and I'm always paying overdue fees *chunters*

[Lily Adams]

I want to get through half-way of Bleak House, or maybe even possibly finish it over the Winter Break.

[SummerSolstice]

Non honors-college students get four weeks, but we get the same checkout period as graduate students. It roXXorz maximally.

I noticed you're from Mizzourah too, Jamesian--or just are there. Which college?

[SummerSolstice]

Oh, same here as far as the from/am. We've got tornados and BOTH of the only two venemous spiders in all of North America, but that's just to keep everyone from living here. Missouri is the perfect place. :D

MSU, formerly known as SMSU... after years of whining we got the guys in charge to ditch the "Southwest" because it sounded too provincial and was limiting our scope of possibility or some such hogwash. *rolls eyes* Even a year later people hiss at the beginning of "MSU" because their tongues still wanna say "SMS".

[Idril]

Middlemarch - George Elliot


If you finish that, I'll be really curious to hear what you thought of it...let us know.

Since I'm an old woman and don't have a break :p , I don't have a Christmas list but I do have a 'to-read' list and hopefully I'll be able to make a dent in it during the few days off. My first priority is to finish The Adolescent by Dostoevsky. It's been a slow start for me but I've finally hit the half way mark and the second half always goes faster than the first. After that, my list includes:

The Dream Life of Sukhanov ~ Olga Grushin

Black Snow ~ Mikhail Bulgakov

The Duke's Children ~ Anthony Trollope

and with that last one, I'll finally finish the Palliser series and I can move on to another one of his 50 series...that man was perhaps even more prolific than Steven King...well, that might be going a little far but still, he's up there. :rolleyes:

[Jean-Baptiste]

My break is from the 8th to the 8th. I was a little worried about not having enough to do, so I did my best to compile an ambitious list.

(In order of intended importance.)
finish Zadie Smith's White Teeth
Pico's Oration on the Dignity of Man
Kant's Prolegomena
Vico's The New Science
Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front
Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
Erskine Caldwell's Georgia Boy
finish Voltaire's Candide
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
finish Kate Chopin's The Awakening

And there are a few chapters of Ulysses that I've been meaning to read again.

I know I won't get through all of this, but it's always nice to have a full plate.

[TEND]

Well, I was bored the other day, so I went looking for presents :D . I found what books I'm getting (from my mom at least) so, I'll be reading at least a couple of these over the break....
Hesse - Steppenwolf
Nietszche - Thus Spake Zarathustra
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
Beckett - Waiting for Godot
I'm sure I'll get more from other's, but I know I'm getting these, and I'll probably reread Godot for about the millionth time and probably try reading Zarathustra.

[subterranean]

I'm going to add Japanese comic books in my list. It's always fun to re-read those silly yet very funny comics. :D

[toni]

To add to my already ambitious list:

The Green Mile - Stephen King
The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Little Men - Louisa May Alcott

[SleepyWitch]

add The French Lieutenant's Woman to my list

[Pensive]

add The French Lieutenant's Woman to my list

If you like it, and then get a chance of reading The Magus, you must avail it. :)

The Magus is a good though very deep and hard to follow (most of the times) read. But it is worth a try, especially reading it in holidays can be really good. :)

I am in the middle of it, ain't getting time to read it because of exams, and it is not that kind of book which you can hold for a second and then leave it. It needs full concentration. After completing it, I am thinking of getting my hands on The French Lieutenant's Woman somehow. :D

[Miss Darcy]

Hmm, I finished Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf a few days ago and am now almost half-way through Aldous Huxley's Those Barren Leaves. (In passing I'd like to note that I am a great fan of Huxley.)

Otherwise I plan:

Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley (Didn't I say...? ;))
Ulysses - James Joyce
Monkey - Wu Cheng'en
Hunger - Knut Hamsun

And a few odd poems...maybe an Aristophanes play or two.

That's all I have planned so far.

[Scheherazade]

- The Diary of a Nobody

- Twelfth Night

- All Quiet on the Western Front

- The Colour of Magic

- The Clan Of The Cave Bear
Done with The Diary of a Nobody; was a very funny read. Can think of couple of people who are rather similar to Charles Pooter very easily (and unfortunately! ;).

Now reading AQOTWF, which I had read some 20 years ago. Thought it would be a quick read but the subject matter of the book has really touched me. Humanity is really the greatest enemy of humanity... Maybe this was not the best choice of book for this time of the year and at this particular point in my life. But a gal's gotta read what she's gotta read, right?

I will start Twelfth Night asap as well and keep two books going at the same time.
add The French Lieutenant's Woman to my listA great story, great story telling. Would like to hear what you think of it, Sleepy. You can find a discussion thread on it in the BC.

[Virgil]

Now reading AQOTWF, which I had read some 20 years ago. Thought it would be a quick read but the subject matter of the book has really touched me. Humanity is really the greatest enemy of humanity... Maybe this was not the best choice of book for this time of the year and at this particular point in my life. But a gal's gotta read what she's gotta read, right?

It is a sad story, but well written. I have meant to re-read that myself.



will start Twelfth Night asap as well
Well, this will offset some of the sadness from the other. Did it win Christmas read?

[Scheherazade]

It is a sad story, but well written. I have meant to re-read that myself.Yes, sad and very thougth provoking...
Did it win Christmas read?When was the last time you visited the BC? ;)

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