Your reading during the year 2007

[thelastmelon]

I have (for the past two years) written lists of every book that I read, just for fun.
And I am sure I am not the only one, so maybe some of you has as well? Or maybe you remember them all?

So what I'd like to know: What books did you manage to read during the year 2007?

[amanda_isabel]

sophie's world (yehey!)
the solitaire mystery
pride and prejudice
the phantom of the opera
one of those books by Amanda Browning (forgot the title :( )
got started on Les Miserables
got started on Girl With a Pearl Earring

[thelastmelon]

What I've read during the year 2007:

A
Albom, Mitch - Tisdagarna med Morrie (Tuesdays with Morrie)
Alvtegen, Karin - Skuld (Guilt)
Asimov, Isaac - Jag, robot (I, Robot)
Atwood, Margaret - Oryx & Crake
Austen, Jane - Pride and prejudice
- Emma
- Lady Susan

B
Björndal, Cato R.P. - Det värderande ögat

C
Coelho, Paulo - Alkemisten (The Alchemist)
Connelly, Michael - Skuggspel (Lost Light)
Coupland, Douglas - Girlfriend in a coma

D
Dirie, Waris - En blomma i Afrikas öken (Desert Flower)
- Ökenblomman återvänder (Desert Dawn)

E
Eddings, David - Sagan om Belgarion: Stenens väktare (The Belgariad: Pawn of Prophecy)
- Sagan om Belgarion: Profetians tid (The Belgariad: Queen of Sorcery)
- Sagan om Belgarion: Besvärjarnas kamp (The Belgariad: Magician's Gambit)
- Sagan om Belgarion: Rivas drottning (The Belgariad: Castle of Wizardry)
- Sagan om Belgarion: Ödets fullbordan (The Belgariad: Enchanters' End Game)
- Sagan om Mallorea: Belgarions son (The Malloreon: Guardians of the West)
- Sagan om Mallorea: Murgoernas konung (The Malloreon: King of the Murgos)
- Sagan om Mallorea: Demonen i Karanda (The Malloreon: Demon Lord of Karanda)
- Sagan om Mallorea: I Zandramas spår (The Malloreon: Sorceress of Darshiva)
- Sagan om Mallorea: Sierskan från Kell (The Malloreon: The Seeress of Kell)
Ehn, Billy & Löfgren, Orvar - Kulturanalyser
Ende, Michael - Den oändliga historien (The Neverending Story)

G
Gaiman, Neil - American Gods
Gavalda, Anna - Tillsammans är man mindre ensam (Hunting and Gathering)
- Jag älskade honom (Someone I loved)
Grahame, Kenneth - The Wind In The Willows
Gren, Jenny - Etik i pedagogiskt vardagsarbete
Gustafsson, Klas - Ett bluesliv: Berättelsen om Cornelis Vreeswijk.

H
Hansson, Bob - Här ligger jag och duger
Harris, Joanne - Gentlemen och spelare (Gentlemen and Players)
- Choklad (Chocolat)
- I virvlande dans (Jigs & Reels)
Hartman, Sven - Det pedagogiska kulturarvet
Hellberg, Björn - Paria
Hemingway, Ernest - The Old Man And The Sea
Herrström, Christina - Tusen gånger starkare
Hofmann, Corinne - Den vita massajen (The White Masai)
- Den vita massajens dotter
- Resan tillbaka till den vita massajen

J
Jacq, Christian - Konungarnas Dal (Nefer the Silent)
- Den visa kvinnan (The Wise Woman)
- Paneb den Ivrige (Paneb the Ardent)
- Sanningens Plats (The Place of Truth)

K
Khemiri, Jonas Hassen - Ett öga rött

L
Larsson, Stieg - Män som hatar kvinnor (Men who hate women (that's the translation, the English title will be "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", when it's released it English)
- Flickan som lekte med elden (The Girl Who Played With Fire)
Loe, Erlend - Volvo Lastvagnar

M
Martin, George R.R. - A Game of Thrones
McCall Smith, Alexander - Damernas Detektivbyrå (The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency)
- Giraffens tårar (Tears Of The Giraffe)
- Vackra flickors lott (Morality for Beautiful Girls)
- Kalaharis skrivmaskinsskola för män (The Kalahari Typing School for Men)
- Flickan som gifte sig med ett lejon (The Girl Who Married a Lion: And Other Tales from Africa)
Milne, A.A. - Nalle Puhs hörna (The House at Pooh Corner)

O
Olsson, Sören - Berts dagbok (Bert's diary)

R
Rignér Lundgren, Ester - Kvirre och Hoppsan
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Rushdie, Salman - Satansverserna (The Satanic Verses)

S
Safran Foer, Jonathan - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Sue, Chun - Beijing Doll
Süskind, Patrick - Parfymen (The Perfume)

T
Thornberg, Robert - Det sociala livet i skolan
Turgenjev, Ivan - Fäder och Söner (Fathers and Sons)

[aabbcc]

According to my reading journals, in 2007 I have read:

Literature
Nabokov, V. - Speak, Memory!
Makine, A. - The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme
Kavafis, K. - poetry
Vlavianos, H. - poetry
Kiš, D. - Encyclopaedia of the Dead
Stojanović, V. - Zaljubljena u Hessea
Kepelski, Flumac - Anthology of contemporary Macedonian poetry (in original)
Catullus - Carmina
Brković, J. - Starinska magla oko doma
"Jezik roda moga" - a selection from Croatian lyric of 19th and 20th century
Anthology of Yugoslav literature - Slovenian poetry 1
Makine, A. - Requiem for the East
Maksimović, D. - Reči stihom okovane
Penev, P. - poetry (in original)
Mandel'shtam, O. - selected poetry (in original)
Miljković, B. - selected poetry
Crnjanski, M. - Sumatra i druge pesme
Pamuk, O. - My Name is Red
Šenoa, A. - Prijan Lovro
Milićević, N. - selected translations of poetry
Zweig, S. - The World of Yesterday (re-read, adore that book)
Camus, A. - Summer
Dostoevsky, F. - Crime and Punishment (re-read)
Turgenev, I. - Fathers and Sons
Shakespeare, W. - Venus and Adonis
Rivas, M. - O lapis do carpinteiro (I don't know how it's translated into English)
Kundera, M. - Ignorance
Sagan, F. - Bonjour tristesse
Kundera, M. - Identity
Böll, H. - short stories, selection
Nabokov, V. - Transparent Things
Kundera, M. - Life is Elsewhere
Kundera, M. - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Selimović, M. - Death and the Dervish (I re-read this every year)
Makine, A. - Le Crime d'Olga Arbelina
Alighieri, D. - Paradiso
Mann, Th. - The Holy Sinner
Márai, S. - Föld, föld!
Tabucchi, A. - Tristano muore
Pirandello, L. - Uno, nessuno e centomila
Pirandello, L. - Il fu Mattia Pascal
LaRue, M. - Casiodor's Fame (or something like that, I think I did not finish it, I found it to be really bad)
Škrinjarić, S. - Kuća od riječi (selected prose works and novels)
Pasternak, B. - selected short stories
Kundera, M. - The Courtain
Mann, Th. - Doktor Faustus
Breton, A. - Nadja
Picoult, J. - My Sister's Keeper
Singer, I. B. - The Slave
Singer, I. B. - selected short stories
Mihalić, S. - selection from poetry
Brecht, B. - Mother Courage and Her Children
Pessoa, F. - Obra poética
Oz, A. - My Michael
Dis - Drowned Souls
LeFanu, S. - Carmilla
Nothomb, A. - Mercury
Dostoevsky, F. - The Idiot
Bellow, S. - Herzog
Ovid - Metamorphoses (re-read, in Italian this time)
Kundera, M. - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Kundera, M. - The Joke
Levi, P. - Se questo e un uomo
Baudelaire, Ch. - Les Fleurs du Mal (re-read)
Baudelaire, Ch. - Le Spleen du Paris
Baudelaire, Ch. - Fusées
Baudelaire, Ch. - Mon coeur mis a nu
Kazantzakis, N. - Bios kai politeia tou Aleksi Zormpa (still reading it, in fact)

Other
Jerzy Lec, S. - Unkempt Thoughts 2
Noël, B. - Journal du Regard
Havelock, E.A. - The Muse learns to write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present
Sen, A. - Identity and Violence
Jankélévitch, V. - La mort
Bettelheim, B. - The uses of enchantment - the meaning and importance of fairy tales
Standage, T. - A History of the World in Six Glasses
Solar, M. - Contemporary World Literature
Ward, K. - God - A Guide for the Perplexed (God, this sucked, I could not finish it)
Nikić, M. - The Image of God in New Religious Movements (this is doctorial thesis from some guy on Croatian Catholic University)
Stojanović, Z. (just collected) - Theory of Tragedy (works by various philosophers, from Schelling to Hegel and on... amazing)
Chomsky, N. - Imperial Ambitions
Chapman, C. - Whose Promised Land?
Chomsky, N. - Hegemony or Survival
Calinescu, M. - The Faces of Modernity: Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch
Harris, S. - The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason
Grlić, D. - Aesthetics
Popper, K. L. - The Open Society and its Enemies
Danto, A.C. - Transfiguration of the Commonplace
Jankélévitch, V. - Le Paradoxe de la Morale
Bruckner, P. - L'Euphorie Perpétuelle, essai sur le devoir de bonheur
Bense, M. - Aesthetics
Friedrich, H. - The Structure of Modern Lyric
A selection of essays by modernist authors
Scheler, M. - Gessamelte Werke
Foucault, M. - La volonte de savoir, L'ordre du discours, Microfisica del potere. Interventi politici, Le souci de la verite
Supek, R. - The Psychology of Modernist Lyric
Wittgenstein, L. - Tractatus logico-philosophicus
Auerbach, E. - Mimesis

I cannot find two of my reading journals (one of which is strictly for Italian, and I also use it for school-related readings), must have left them over at a friend, so the list is incomplete; still, it reflects pretty much well what I have been reading over the year.

[papayahed]

The City of Falling Angels - Berendt, John
In Cold Blood - Capote, Truman
The Grass Harp - Capote, Truman
The Haunting of Hill House - Jackson, Shirley
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera, Milan
Women in Love - Lawrence, D.H.
Gates of Fire - Pressfield, Steven
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows - Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire - Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince - Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix - Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban - Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Rowling, J.K.
Shalimar the Clown - Rushdie, Salman
The Taming of The Shrew - Shakespeare, William
Perfume - Suskind, Patrick
In Her Shoes - Weiner, Jennifer
Ethan Frome - Wharton, Edith
I Am Charlotte Simmons - Wolfe, Tom
American Gods - Gaiman, Neil
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - Gaiman, Neil and Pratchett, Terry
Fathers and Sons - Turgenev, Ivan
Junky - Burroughs, William S

[Idril]

The Duke's Children ~ Anthony Trollope
Henry and June ~ Anais Nin
No Ordinary Summer Pt 2 ~ Konstantin Fedin
The White Guard ~ Mikhail Bulgakov
The Conflagration ~ Konstantin Fedin
The Golovlyov Family ~ Mikhail Saltykov
Life is Elsewhere ~ Milan Kundera
He Knew He Was Right ~ Anthony Trollope
First Love ~ Ivan Turgenev
Thank You, Jeeves ~ P.G. Wodehouse
Oblamov ~ Ivan Goncharov
The Unbearable Light of Being ~ Milan Kundera
The Loved One ~ Evelyn Waugh
Oman Ra ~ Viktor Pelevin
The Tin Drum ~ Gunter Grass
Swan's Way ~ Marcel Proust
On The Eve ~ Ivan Turgenev
Autumn of the Patriarch ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Children of Hurin ~ JRR Tolkien
Lolita ~ Vladimir Nabokov
A Prayer For Owen Meany ~ John Irving
Decline and Fall ~ Evelyn Waugh
Call of the Toad ~ Gunter Grass
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories ~ Anton Chekhov
Caravan ~ John Galsworthy
Seeds of Tomorrow ~ Mikhail Sholokhov
The Warden ~ Anthony Trollope
Babylon ~ Viktor Pelevin
Farewell Waltz ~ Milan Kundera
Buddenbrooks ~ Thomas Mann
Norwegian Wood ~ Haruki Murakami
Harvest on the Don ~ Mikhail Sholokhov
The Painted Bird ~ Jerzy Kosinski
Spring Torrents ~ Ivan Turgenev
The Kellys and O'Kellys ~ Anthony Trollope
A Life Under Russian Serfdom: The Memoirs of Saava Dmitrievich Purkevskii ~ translated and edited by Boris B. Gorshka
The Magic Mountain ~ Thomas Mann
Independent People ~ Halldor Laxness
Envy ~ Yuri Olesha
Three Novels-Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnameable ~ Samuel Beckett
Under The Glacier ~ Halldor Laxness
Death and the Penguin ~ Andrey Kurkov
Iceland's Bell ~ Halldor Laxness
Those Who Seek ~ Daniil Granin
The Charterhouse of Parma ~ Stendhal
The Rat ~ Gunter Grass
Dr. Thorne ~ Anthony Trollope
The Yellow Arrow ~ Viktor Pelevin
World Light ~ Halldor Laxness
Penguin Lost ~ Andrey Kurkov
The Boat Of Longing ~ O.E. Rolvaag
Kolyma Tales ~ Varlam Shalamov
Framely Parsonage ~ Anthony Trollope
Jerusalem ~ Selma Lagerlof
Buddha's Little Finger ~ Viktor Pelevin
Dog Years ~ Gunter Grass
Home of the Gentry ~ Ivan Turgenev
The Wanting Seed ~ Anthony Burgess
Generations of Winter ~ Vassily Askyonov

[Nossa]

Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Silas Marner - George Eliot
North and South - Mrs. Gaskell
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Atonement - Ian Mcewan
Rescuing Rose - Isabell Wolff
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Dubliners - James Joyce
Parts of the Iliad - Homer
Untill I Find You - John Irving
1984 - George Orwell
Monsieur Ibrahim et le fleurs du Quran - Eric- Emmanuel Schmitt
Waiting For Godot - Samuel Beckett
A Woman Of No Importance - Oscar Wilde
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
A short story book by O.Henry and another by D.H.Lawrence.

I know it's not a lot (at least not as many as the ones mentioned by you guys. But I'm kind of still getting used to a regular reading routine :D wish me luck)

[metal134]

Hmm, not sure I can remember exactly as the lines can kind've blur (as in, did I read that last year, or this year?) but here are some of the books I read this year:

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

Paradise Lost John Milton

Blood Meridian, Child of God, The Road, No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy

White Noise - Don DeLillo

As I Lay Dying, Absalom! Absalom! - William Faulkner

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

The Scarlet Letter - Nathanial Hawthorne

Robinson Crusoe, A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietschze

Carmilla - J.S. Le Fanu


I am currently working my way through Ulysess

[Niamh]

Paolini-eldest
Ross o'carroll, kelly- Should have got off at sydney Parade
Cecilia Dart Thornton- The ill made mute (twice)
Cecilia Dart Thornton-The Lady of Sorrows (twice)
Cecilia Dart Thornton-The Battle of Evernight (twice)
Cecilia Dart Thornton- The Iron Tree
Mag Cabot- After Eight
Austen- Persuasion (twice)
Wynnes-Jones- Howls Moving Castle
MaCall Smith- Blue Shoes and Happiness
MaCall Smith-The Good Husband Of Zebra Drive
Sue Townsend- The Queen and I
Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories
Flaubert- MAdame Bovery
Garth Nix- Sabriel
Garth Nix-Lirael
Garth Nix-Abhorsen
Flann O'Brian- The Third Policeman
Joseph Conrad- Heart of Darkness
KAtherine Patterson- Bridge to Terrabithia
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Philosophers Stone
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Camber of Secrets
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Order of the Pheonix
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
Eoin Colfer- Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer- Artemis Fowl and the Artic Incedent
Eoin Colfer- Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code
Eoin Colfer- Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception
Eoin Colfer- Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony
Dominic Barker- Blart II
Salaman Rushdie- Started Shalimar the Clown
Henry James- Started What Maisie Knew
Ian Mac Ewan- Attonement
Trudi Canavan- The Magicians Guild
Trudi Canavan- The Novice
Trudi Canavan- The High Lord
Trudi Canavan- The Voice of The Gods
Patrick Kavanagh- Selected Poems
Yeats- The Countess Cathleen
J.M.Synge- The Playboy Of the Western World
Neil Gaiman- Fragile Things
John Connelly- The Book Of Lost Things
O'Henry- The Last Leaf
John Donne- Complete English Poems
David Wells- Developing your Psychic ability

More but i cant think of them. I havent read as much as last year though....

[Lote-Tree]

My sweet lord! Quite a few extereme book worms here! :D

Do you not have boy friends and girlfriends chaps and chapeses?

I only managed this:

J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Philosophers Stone
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Camber of Secrets
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Order of the Pheonix
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows

And Haruki Murakami Books.

[thelastmelon]

My sweet lord! Quite a few extereme book worms here! :D

Do you not have boy friends and girlfriends chaps and chapeses?

I have a boyfriend and a cat, if that matters. :p
Plus I study full-time and work hours at two places when I can. I can't stay away from books anyway, or so it seems, doesn't it?

[Niamh]

My sweet lord! Quite a few extereme book worms here! :D

Do you not have boy friends and girlfriends chaps and chapeses?



Hah! I have a boyfriend. I've just always been a crazy reader.:p

[aabbcc]

My sweet lord! Quite a few extereme book worms here! :D

Do you not have boy friends and girlfriends chaps and chapeses?
Hah. :D
I have boyfriend and friends, I go out and that going out is not limited to weekends (au contraire... ;)), I attend one of the supposedly better lycées in the city, in addition to which I play piano and have theoretical subjects in music.
Even though when all written down this sounds like I am busy, I constantly have a feeling of dolce far niente in my life, and of spending too much time essentially doing nothing and hanging in pubs with my friends. Life is good.

But then again, I never study, and I bring books to read to school instead of listening to lectures, so that might be the reason why I manage to read a lot. :D And I do cut school once in a while, to be honest...

[LadyW]

My sweet lord! Quite a few extereme book worms here! :D

Do you not have boy friends and girlfriends chaps and chapeses?

I only managed this:

J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Philosophers Stone
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Camber of Secrets
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Order of the Pheonix
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince
J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows

And Haruki Murakami Books.

Awwh Lote, a fellow Harry Potter nerd :D
Which one is your favourite though?
I'm sure they do have girlfriends/boyfriends...
Do you have a boyfriend Lote? ;)
(Can just imagine you now gripping on tightly to that lance of yours, so eager to strike)

[Niamh]

Awwh Lote, a fellow Harry Potter nerd :D
Which one is your favourite though?
I'm sure they do have girlfriends/boyfriends...
Do you have a boyfriend Lote? ;)
(Can just imagine you now gripping on tightly to that lance of yours, so eager to strike)

Should it not be Doe he have a girlfriend?
you know he'll give you a lotish rely to that question. ie a question in return....

[LadyW]

Should it not be Doe he have a girlfriend?
you know he'll give you a lotish rely to that question. ie a question in return....
Indeed, but I shall stick to my original question for I would love to hear his reply... :D his witty banter amuses me a great deal.

[Niamh]

Oh i've heard it before.:p
Went something along the lines of how do you know i'm not a woman yada yada yada.... He'll then try to convince you he is but it wont work. Just mention Madhuri Dixit.

[LadyW]

Oh i've heard it before.:p
Went something along the lines of how do you know i'm not a woman yada yada yada.... He'll then try to convince you he is but it wont work. Just mention Madhuri Dixit.
Hahaha he won't be quite so pathetic as to use that argument again, specially now he has met his match when it comes to online-war :D hehe. Although according to him... I have learnt from "my tutor", who that could be? I do not know.
:)

[Lote-Tree]

Awwh Lote, a fellow Harry Potter nerd :D


I am in love with J K Rowling :D



Which one is your favourite though?


Deathly Hallows - Snape's Redemption through unrequited love I think is very touching but I love them all just as I love J K Rowling :D



I'm sure they do have girlfriends/boyfriends...
Do you have a boyfriend Lote? ;)


A boyfreind? No. I have loads. Don't you? :D

With your "Book Whacking Syndrome" perhaps not I guess? ;-)

But I love women. You can argue with them and they will not rip your head off! Then again perhaps I have found one that whacks you with a book when she loses :D

[TheFifthElement]

And Haruki Murakami Books.

Hey Lote, which Murakami books have you read so far? I got book tokens off my Mum for my birthday and am finally going to purchase Sputnik Sweetheart (grr, it's never in the library!) which is one of the few Murakami books I haven't yet read. I know you've read this one - have you worked your way through any of the others yet?

[Lote-Tree]

Hah. :D
I have boyfriend and friends, I go out and that going out is not limited to weekends (au contraire... ;)), I attend one of the supposedly better lycées in the city, in addition to which I play piano and have theoretical subjects in music.
Even though when all written down this sounds like I am busy, I constantly have a feeling of dolce far niente in my life, and of spending too much time essentially doing nothing and hanging in pubs with my friends. Life is good.


You are the extremist of bookworms and you still you have nothing to do! :D



But then again, I never study, and I bring books to read to school instead of listening to lectures, so that might be the reason why I manage to read a lot. :D And I do cut school once in a while, to be honest...

Ah I see. But still thats a one looooooooooooong reading list. Even in my best years as student I could not have managed that :D

[Virgil]

I'll post my reading of this past year later when I can dig ouot my list, but I must say I'm in awe of the extent of the reading some of you have listed above. And so far all ladies. My list will be quite humble. Great reading ladies. :thumbs_up

[Annamariah]

This year I didn't read as many books as usually, but then I had my matriculation examinations last spring and in the autumn I started my studies in university and moved to another town, so I've had pretty much to do besides reading books.'

Books I read in 2007 in the order I read them:

Anu Jaantila - Jenkkivuosi
Anu Jaantila - Dear Sanna
Anu Jaantila - Love, Sam
L. M. Montgomery - The Blue Castle
Jane Austen - Kasvattitytön tarina (Mansfield Park)
Astrid Lindgren - Peppi Pitkätossu (Pippi Långstrump, Pippi Longstocking)
Louisa M. Alcott - Naamion takana - Kootut kertomukset (short stories)
Rhian Tracey - Neljän tytön kirjakimppa
Max Barry - Jennifer Valtiovalta (Jennifer Government)
Marilyn Kaye - Kloonisota (War of the Clones)
Marilyn Kaye - Amyn Kohtalo (Amy on Her Own)
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sergeanne Golon - Kreivitär Angelika (Angélique et le nouveau monde, The Countess Angélique)
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter och Fenixorden (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)
Michelle Magorian - A Spoonful of Jam
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter ja puoliverinen prinssi (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)
Anya Seton - Green Darkness
William Golding - Kärpästen herra (The Lord of the Flies)
Tracy Chevalier - Pudonneet enkelit (Falling Angels)
Patrick Süskind - Parfyymi - Erään murhaajan tarina (Das Parfum - Die Geschichte eines Mörders, Perfume - The Story of a Murderer)
Tuija Lehtinen - Laura, sua kaipaan
Jane Austen - Neito vanhassa linnassa (Northanger Abbey)
Tuija Lehtinen - Siivet varpaiden välissä
Caroline Courtney - Päävoittona rakkaus (A Wager for Love)
Paula Havaste - Kymmenen onnen Anna
Paula Havaste - Kotasavun Marja
Lewis Carrol - Liisa ihmemaassa (Alice in Wonderland)
Dan Brown - Enkelit ja demonit (Angels and Demons)
Donna Woolfolk Cross - Paavi Johanna (Pope Joan)
Daniel Defoe - Ruttovuosi (A Journal of the Plague Year)
Paula Havaste - Lapinmaan Nilla
Isabel Allende - Zorron tarina (El Zorro, comienza la leyenda, Zorro)
Sergeanne Golon - Angelikan kiusaus (La tentation d'Angélique, The Temptation of Angélique)
L. M. Montgomery - Sininen linna (The Blue Castle)
Torey Hayden - Hiljaisuuden lapset (Twilight Children)
Jane Austen - Uskolliset ystävänne - Kootut kertomukset (short stories)
Paulo Coelho - Zahir (O Zahir, The Zahir)
William Shakespeare - Macbeth
John Fischer - Tule takaisin, Ben (Saint Ben)
Ann Brashares - Girls in Pants
Ann Turnbull - No Shame, No Fear
Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony
William Shakespeare - Mitta mitasta (Measure for Measure)
Torey Hayden - Auringonkukkametsä (The Sunflower Forest)
Madeleine Brent - Tuulentavoittelijan morsian (Moonraker's Bride)
Ilmari Kelo - Tulta ja tuulta
James Houston - Aavekettu (Ghost Fox)
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Michelle Magorian - Hemlängtan (Back Home)
Jane Austen - Järki ja tunteet (Sense and Sensibility)
Caroline Courtney - Naamioitu rakastettu (Love Unmasked)
Sophia Kinsella - The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic
Ann Brashares - Neljä tyttöä - Ikuisesti ystäviä (Forever in Blue - The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood)
Sophia Kinsella - Shopaholic Abroad
Anni Polva - Kelpaanko sinulle?
L. M. Montgomery - Tiedän salaisuuden (short stories)
Tuija Lehtinen - Ikkunaprinsessa
Anni Polva - Älähän pyristele, kultaseni
Tuija Lehtinen - Ruusunnuppu
Ted Dekker & Frank Peretti - House
Anni Polva - Odotahan, mokoma!
Roald Dahl - Helppo nakki (short stories)
Frances Hodgson Burnett - Den hemlighetsfulla Trädgården (The Secret Garden)

[jlb4tlb]

Greetings

The following are the works I read in Dec. For some odd reason this site will not let me post in the same format as my index.

jeff
December Reading

Novels

TITLE AUTHOR WHERE READ RATING

Out of Their Minds Clifford D. Simak HC, LB 8

The Accidental Time Machine Joe Haldelman HC, LB 9

Mount Dragon Preston/Child SC, LB 8

Go Tell It On The Mountain James Baldwin HC, LB 9

Nine Princes in Amber Roger Zelazny HC, LB 8




SHORT FICTION

Split Cherry Tree Jesse Stuart OL, SSOTD 8

Bliss Katherine Mansfield OL, SSOTD 5

The Gift of the Magi O. Henry OL, SSOTD 9

The Devil and Tom Walker Washington Irving OL, SSOTD 8

To Build a Fire Jack London OL, SSOTD 9

The Man Who Loved Islands D. H. Lawrence The Complete Short Stories Volume 3, SC 8

Delivered with Feeling Lawrence A Perkins Analog, July 1965 7

Forest Of Evil John Murray Reynolds Weird Tales, April 1938 8

The Mockingbird Ambrose Bierce OL, SSOTD 9

How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar Bret Harte OL, SSOTD 8

The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe OL, SSOTD 9

The Outcasts of Poker Flat Bret Harte http://www.americanliterature.com. 8

Charley's Partner Murray Leinster Short Stories, Dec.10th 1935 7

The King Of The Sharks Captain J. M. Ellrich Short Stories, Dec.10th 1935 7

A Burglar's Christmas Willa Sibert Cather OL, SSOTD 7

Was it Heaven? Or Hell? Mark Twain http://www.americanliterature.com. 8

A Burlesque Biography Mark Twain http://www.americanliterature.com. 8

Rocking-Horse Winner D.H. Lawrence OL, SSOTD 9

The Toys of Peace H.H. Munro (SAKI) OL, SSOTD 8

The Living Eyes Justin Dowling Weird Tales, May 1953 7

The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allen Poe OL, SSOTD 9

Regret Kate Chopin OL, SSOTD 9

soupstone Gordon R. Dickson Analog, July 1965 8

The Piece Of String Guy De Maupassant OL, SSOTD 9

Ethan Brand Nathaniel Hawthorne OL, SSOTD 7

The First Christmas Tree Henry Van Dyke OL, SSOTD 8

Thank You, M'am Langston Hughes OL, SSOTD 9

The Beggar Anton Chekhov OL, SSOTD 7

Shooting an Elephant George Orwell OL, SSOTD 10

In The Light Of Further Data Christopher Anvil Analog, July 1965 8

Though A Sparrow Fell Schott Nichols Analog, July 1965 6

The Gay Old Dog Edna Ferber OL, SSOTD 10

The Ransom of Red Chief O. Henry http://www.americanliterature.com. 10

The Hiding Of Black Bill O. Henry http://www.americanliterature.com. 8

The Higher Abdication O. henry http://www.americanliterature.com. 8

The Christmas Wreck Frank Stockton OL, SSOTD 7

The Knocker Zane Grey http://www.americanliterature.com. 7

The White People Arthur Machen http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/whtpeopl.htm 7

The Shadow Out of Time H.P. Lovecraft http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600031h.html#10 8

Bertie's Christmas Eve H.H. Munro (SAKI) OL, SSOTD 7

Job Security Joe Haldeman None So Blind, HC LB 8

The Unnamable H.P. Lovecraft The Lurking Fear And Other Stories PB 8

The Outsider H.P. Lovecraft The Lurking Fear And Other Stories PB 9

The Phoenix On The sword Robert E. Howard King Conan HC 9

Reginald's Christmas Revel H.H. Munro (SAKI) OL, SSOTD 9

A Troublesome Visitor Anton Chekhov OL, SSOTD 7

The Story of a Poker Steer Andy Adams OL, SSOTD 7

The Egg Sherwood Anderson OL, SSOTD 7

Prize Money W. W. Jacobs OL, SSOTD 7

THE SCREAMING OF THE FISH Vincent W. Sakowski http://www.bizarrocentral.com/fiction_detail.asp?fictionID=5 8

TOREADOR... D. Harlan Wilson http://www.bizarrocentral.com/fiction_detail.asp?fictionID=7 8

THE MET ARE ALL FOR THIS Steve Aylett http://www.bizarrocentral.com/fiction_detail.asp?fictionID=8 6

[jlb4tlb]

Greetings

It came out better then I thought It woukd it woud be.

SSOTD=Short Story Of the Day, this is a great service, a story a day via email or home page. To check it out visit the following.

http://www.amlit.com/

Enjoy the new year.

Jeff






Greetings

The following are the works I read in Dec. For some odd reason this site will not let me post in the same format as my index.

jeff
December Reading

Novels

TITLE AUTHOR WHERE READ RATING

Out of Their Minds Clifford D. Simak HC, LB 8

The Accidental Time Machine Joe Haldelman HC, LB 9

Mount Dragon Preston/Child SC, LB 8

Go Tell It On The Mountain James Baldwin HC, LB 9

Nine Princes in Amber Roger Zelazny HC, LB 8




SHORT FICTION

Split Cherry Tree Jesse Stuart OL, SSOTD 8

Bliss Katherine Mansfield OL, SSOTD 5

The Gift of the Magi O. Henry OL, SSOTD 9

The Devil and Tom Walker Washington Irving OL, SSOTD 8

To Build a Fire Jack London OL, SSOTD 9

The Man Who Loved Islands D. H. Lawrence The Complete Short Stories Volume 3, SC 8

Delivered with Feeling Lawrence A Perkins Analog, July 1965 7

Forest Of Evil John Murray Reynolds Weird Tales, April 1938 8

The Mockingbird Ambrose Bierce OL, SSOTD 9

How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar Bret Harte OL, SSOTD 8

The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe OL, SSOTD 9

The Outcasts of Poker Flat Bret Harte http://www.americanliterature.com. 8

Charley's Partner Murray Leinster Short Stories, Dec.10th 1935 7

The King Of The Sharks Captain J. M. Ellrich Short Stories, Dec.10th 1935 7

A Burglar's Christmas Willa Sibert Cather OL, SSOTD 7

Was it Heaven? Or Hell? Mark Twain http://www.americanliterature.com. 8

A Burlesque Biography Mark Twain http://www.americanliterature.com. 8

Rocking-Horse Winner D.H. Lawrence OL, SSOTD 9

The Toys of Peace H.H. Munro (SAKI) OL, SSOTD 8

The Living Eyes Justin Dowling Weird Tales, May 1953 7

The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allen Poe OL, SSOTD 9

Regret Kate Chopin OL, SSOTD 9

soupstone Gordon R. Dickson Analog, July 1965 8

The Piece Of String Guy De Maupassant OL, SSOTD 9

Ethan Brand Nathaniel Hawthorne OL, SSOTD 7

The First Christmas Tree Henry Van Dyke OL, SSOTD 8

Thank You, M'am Langston Hughes OL, SSOTD 9

The Beggar Anton Chekhov OL, SSOTD 7

Shooting an Elephant George Orwell OL, SSOTD 10

In The Light Of Further Data Christopher Anvil Analog, July 1965 8

Though A Sparrow Fell Schott Nichols Analog, July 1965 6

The Gay Old Dog Edna Ferber OL, SSOTD 10

The Ransom of Red Chief O. Henry http://www.americanliterature.com. 10

The Hiding Of Black Bill O. Henry http://www.americanliterature.com. 8

The Higher Abdication O. henry http://www.americanliterature.com. 8

The Christmas Wreck Frank Stockton OL, SSOTD 7

The Knocker Zane Grey http://www.americanliterature.com. 7

The White People Arthur Machen http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/whtpeopl.htm 7

The Shadow Out of Time H.P. Lovecraft http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600031h.html#10 8

Bertie's Christmas Eve H.H. Munro (SAKI) OL, SSOTD 7

Job Security Joe Haldeman None So Blind, HC LB 8

The Unnamable H.P. Lovecraft The Lurking Fear And Other Stories PB 8

The Outsider H.P. Lovecraft The Lurking Fear And Other Stories PB 9

The Phoenix On The sword Robert E. Howard King Conan HC 9

Reginald's Christmas Revel H.H. Munro (SAKI) OL, SSOTD 9

A Troublesome Visitor Anton Chekhov OL, SSOTD 7

The Story of a Poker Steer Andy Adams OL, SSOTD 7

The Egg Sherwood Anderson OL, SSOTD 7

Prize Money W. W. Jacobs OL, SSOTD 7

THE SCREAMING OF THE FISH Vincent W. Sakowski http://www.bizarrocentral.com/fiction_detail.asp?fictionID=5 8

TOREADOR... D. Harlan Wilson http://www.bizarrocentral.com/fiction_detail.asp?fictionID=7 8

THE MET ARE ALL FOR THIS Steve Aylett http://www.bizarrocentral.com/fiction_detail.asp?fictionID=8 6

[LadyW]

I am in love with J K Rowling :D
Poor Jessica... You heartbreaker! :)



Deathly Hallows - Snape's Redemption through unrequited love I think is very touching but I love them all just as I love J K Rowling :D
I totally agree, I loved reading about Snape's past and really felt for him - unrequited love is hard. Plus Neville became the herbology teacher :D



A boyfreind? No. I have loads. Don't you? :D

With your "Book Whacking Syndrome" perhaps not I guess? ;-)

But I love women. You can argue with them and they will not rip your head off! Then again perhaps I have found one that whacks you with a book when she loses :D
They will not rip your head off? Hmm... an interesting concept.
Hahaha Lote, I never lose my friend and if I ever should I would accept it gracefully ;)

[Lote-Tree]

Poor Jessica... You heartbreaker! :)


My love is like the Ocean... :D


But where is your reading list? It's OK Mr. Men books can also be listed :D

[LadyW]

But where is your reading list? It's OK Mr. Men books can also be listed :D

Hahahaha! Very funny :lol:
Okay I shall post my reading list just to satisfy you...

Julia Quinn
The Bridgerton Series
The Duke and I
The Viscount Who Loved Me
An Offer From A Gentleman (x2)
Romancing Mister Bridgerton
To Sir Phillip, With Love
When He Was Wicked
It's In His Kiss
On the Way to the Wedding
The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever

J.K Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (x3)

Ian Mcewen
Atonement
On Chesil Beach

Cecilia Ahern
P.S. I love you

Suzanna Phillips
Miss America

Mary Shelly
Frankenstein

Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Northanger Abbey

William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet

Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (well it was Christmas...)

Alexandra Potter
Me and Mr. Darcy

Currently Reading...
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights

(That is from what I can remember anyway :S)

[vheissu]

Where do you people find the time?!!! I'm really impressed by some of the lists I've looked at (which is excellent, because I can now get titles from to add to my ever expanding 'to-read' list! :) )

[Lote-Tree]

Hahahaha! Very funny :lol:
Okay I shall post my reading list just to satisfy you...

Mary Shelly
Frankenstein

Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice

William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet

Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (well it was Christmas...)

Currently Reading...
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights

(That is from what I can remember anyway :S)


Good ones there LadyW I have read them all off course!

[LadyW]

Good ones there LadyW I have read them all off course!

Naturally... :)
What did you make of Wuthering Heights?
I am only about 30 pages into it so far (bearing in mind I purchased the book yesterday).

[grace86]

Okay this is what I can remember reading in 2007. I am sure there are a couple more.

The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Pygmalion - G.B. Shaw
Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
Two short stories by D.H. Lawrence (can't remember their names)
Like Glass - Novel from our fellow Litnetter MCory1
The Ivory Child - Henry Rider Haggard
Hills Like White Elephants - Ernest Hemingway
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
Don Quixote - Cervantes
Fathers and Sons - Turgenev
Eight Theories of Religion - Daniel L. Pals (very good anthro textbook)
Richard II - Shakespeare (class)
Titus Andronicus - Shakespeare (class)
Hamlet - Shakespeare (class)
Othello - Shakespeare (class)
King Lear - Shakespeare (class)
Macbeth - Shakespeare (class)
Timon of Athens - Shakespeare (class)
Coriolanus - Shakespeare (class)

Hehehe I thought the list would be a lot shorter. And I know I am forgetting a couple of books.

[Etienne]

Dostoevsky - The Idiot
- The Gambler
- The Brothers Karamazov
- Short Stories
Cervantes - Don Quixote
Goethe - Faust pt.1 and pt 2
- The Sorrows of the Young Werther
Rimbaud - Complete Works
Apollinaire - Les onze milles verges
Gogol - Dead Souls
- Petersburg Tales
- Ukrainian Tales
Tolstoy - Resurrection
- Short Stories
- Confessions and Other Religious Writings
A book with a lot of short stories from russian writers of the 19th
Aldous Huxley - The Devils of Loudun
Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel books 1 and 2
Voltaire - Tales
Emille Nelligan - Complete Poetry
Nabokov - Lolita
- The Luzhin Defense
- Lectures on Russian Literature
- Short Stories
Bulgakov - Master and Margarita
Sholokhov - And Quiet Flows the Don
- The mediocre second part of which i don't remember the name
Hubert Aquin - Neige noire
Gombrowicz - Ferdydurke
- Bakakai
Albert Camus - La peste
Hesse - Steppenwolfe
Victor-Levy Beaulieu - Don Quichotte de la démanche
Gide - Les nourritures terrestres
Borges - El libro de arena
Flaubert - The temptations of Saint-Anthony
- Three Tales
An history of Russia
An history of Rome
Chekhov - Short Stories
Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- Philosophical Investigations
De Libera - La philosophie médiévale
Aristotle - Nichomachean Ethics
- Organon
- De Anima
- Physic
- Metaphysic
- Protreptics
Turgenev - Fathers and Sons
- Clara Millitch
Bronte - Wuthering Heights
More - Utopia
Calvino - The Baron in the Trees
Sun Tzu - The Art of War
Bely - Petersburg
Gontcharov - Oblomov
Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Coelho - The Alchemist
Kipling - Life's Handicap (or was it Plain Tales from the Hills?)
Krishnamurti - Can't remember the title
Garcia Marquez - A Hundred Years of Solitude
Saint-Exupery - Night Flight
Swift - Gulliver's Travels
Baudelaire - Artificial Paradises
Dickens - David Copperfield
Pushkin - Short Stories
Dante - Inferno
Kafka - The Metamorphosis
- Short Stories

Err damn it... nice memory exercise...

[grace86]

Etienne what did you think of Thomas More's Utopia? I've been wanting to read it, is it very dense reading?? If it's really involved I will wait until the summer to read it.

[Orpheus]

Orson Scot Card
Ender's Game
Speaker For the Dead

C.S Lewis
The Magician's Nephew
The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe
The Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of Dawn Tredder
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle

J.R.R Tolkien
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The Silmarillion

J.K Rowling
The Sorcerer's Stone
The Chamber of Secrets
The Prisoner of Azkaban
The Goblet of Fire
The Order of the Phoenix
The Half Blood Prince
The Deathly Hallows

Khaled Housenni
The Kite Runner

Donald Miller
Blue Like Jazz
Searching For God Knows What
Through Painted Deserts
To Own a Dragon

Tim O'Brian
The Things They Carried

Chuck Pahluniuk
Fight Club

The True Life of J.S. Bach

The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Roots of Wisdom

Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

H.G Wells
The Time Machine
War of the Worlds

Voltaire
Candide

Kurt Vonegut
Cat's Cradle
Slaughterhouse Five

Elie Wiesel
Night

Jostein Gaarder
Sophie's World

Mayhal
On Buber
On Plotinus

Utopia

Zen Guitar

This is Your Brain on Music

The Bible

Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the end of the Universe
Life the Universe and Everything
So Long and Thanks For all the Fish
Mostly Harmless

Lewis Carol
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alexander Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo

Golding
Lord of the Flies

Herman Hesse
Siddhartha

Aldous Huxley
Brave New World

George Orwell
1984
Animal Farm

Poe
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
The Raven and other Writings

J.D Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye

Currently reading The Brothers Karamazov.

[Shea]

It took me a little while to think about what I'd read this past year, because it had been so crazy.

Obviously, I read all 7 Harry Potter books.

Survivor- by Chuck Palahniuk. Hated it, but it was lent to me by a co-worker. When I said that I didn't like it, he lent me...

Lullaby- also by Chuck Palahniuk. Not as bad as Survivor, but I had to look up the titles for both these books because I'd forgotten what they were. Goes to show....

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown. Also given to me by a co-worker. Also hated it. He needs to research his facts before he claims them to be accurate.

Angels and Demons - Dan Brown. Am I a glutton for punishment or something? My co-workers keep telling me how great these books are because they know I was an English teacher. I hope I've learned my lesson about trusting computer guys' opionions in literature.

What To Expect When You're Expecting - Excellent for this stage in my life. :D Haven't finished yet though.

Cross Creek - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Eldest - Christpher Paolini

The Dragon Quartet The Book of Earth - Marjorie Kellog (not finished)

The last two, I just needed some light reading. Not really wild about either one.

[Shea]

I probably missed one or two.

[Shea]

Forgot about Carrie by Stephen King.

[Virgil]

I think this was my reading (other than poetry) for the year.


2007 Reads

“Pygmalion” a play by George Bernard Shaw
The Lover a novel by Marguerite Duras
“Waiting for Godot” a play by Samuel Beckett
“The Taming of the Shrew” a play by William Shakespeare
“Things” a short story by D.H. Lawrence
“The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” a short story by D.H. Lawrence
The Grass Harp a short novel by Truman Capote
“Major Barbara” a play by George Bernard Shaw
Exile On Main St. an account of the making of the album, by Bill Janovitz
A Prayer For Owen Meany, a novel by John Irving
Ethan Frome, a novel by Edith Wharton
“The Prussian Officer” a short story by D.H. Lawrence
Women In Love, a novel by D.H. Lawrence
To The Lighthouse, a novel by Virginia Woolf
“Titus Andronicus” a play by William Shakespeare
“Sun” a short story by D.H. Lawrence
The Old Man and the Sea, a novella by Ernest Hemingway
Don Quixote of La Mancha, a novel by Miguel de Cervantes

No biographies or works of history this past year I notice. I will have to change that in the upcoming year.

Edit: I forgot to mention thses:


"The Shades of Spring," a short story by DH Lawrence
"The White Stocking," a short story by DH Lawrence
"Odour of Chrysanthenmums," a short story by DH Lawrence
The Metamorphosis, a novella by Franz Kafka
Slaughterhouse Five, a novel by Kurt Vonnegutt

[Etienne]

Etienne what did you think of Thomas More's Utopia? I've been wanting to read it, is it very dense reading?? If it's really involved I will wait until the summer to read it.

It's actually a very easy read. Let's say that it's an interesting read, but first you should read about the political and civil context of the time to perhaps appreciate more the content, because it's this contrast that is the most interesting to observe through it, I found.

[grace86]

It's actually a very easy read. Let's say that it's an interesting read, but first you should read about the political and civil context of the time to perhaps appreciate more the content, because it's this contrast that is the most interesting to observe through it, I found.

Thanks for the advice Etienne. It will definitely be good to know a little of the history before getting into it. Hmm..I have a feeling I am going to have to make a more structured reading list for this year to get it all in though. Thanks again.

Virgil I didn't know (or maybe I did hear it from somewhere) that you had read Titus Andronicus! It'd be interesting to hear your thoughts on that.

[Virgil]

Thanks for the advice Etienne. It will definitely be good to know a little of the history before getting into it. Hmm..I have a feeling I am going to have to make a more structured reading list for this year to get it all in though. Thanks again.

Virgil I didn't know (or maybe I did hear it from somewhere) that you had read Titus Andronicus! It'd be interesting to hear your thoughts on that.

Grace, there is a Shakespeare discussion thread where I put my thoughts on it. You can quote from there and I'll respond. It was an average work I'm afraid, so one of Shakespeare's lesser plays. But it had it's moments and I bet some of it could be really dramatic on stage.

[Janine]

I think this was my reading (other than poetry) for the year.



No biographies or works of history this past year I notice. I will have to change that in the upcoming year.

Virgil, didn't you do "Sons and Lovers" too?.... and a few more of the Lawrence short stories such as: "The Shades of Spring" and "Odour of Chrysanthenmums"? At least I thought you did all those short stories.

Wow, I can't wait to make up my list, too. I read some books independently from the forum, as well. It is fun to look back and see just what one read.

[Janine]

Okay this is what I can remember reading in 2007. I am sure there are a couple more.

The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Pygmalion - G.B. Shaw
Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
Two short stories by D.H. Lawrence (can't remember their names)
The Ivory Child - Henry Rider Haggard
Hills Like White Elephants - Ernest Hemingway
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
Don Quixote - Cervantes
Fathers and Sons - Turgenev
Eight Theories of Religion - Daniel L. Pals (very good anthro textbook)
Richard II - Shakespeare (class)
Titus Andronicus - Shakespeare (class)
Hamlet - Shakespeare (class)
Othello - Shakespeare (class)
King Lear - Shakespeare (class)
Macbeth - Shakespeare (class)
Timon of Athens - Shakespeare (class)
Coriolanus - Shakespeare (class)

Hehehe I thought the list would be a lot shorter. And I know I am forgetting a couple of books.

Grace, impressive! and especially all those fine Shakespeare plays!;) Good for you!!!:thumbs_up

[LadyWentworth]

Oh, I just deleted my post! :brickwall Not that it really matters because I didn't read as many as the others here. So it won't take too long to list again. I am somewhat embaressed to list them for that reason, but I am using the fact that 2007 was a "down" year for me all around as an excuse. :) That and the fact that I did watch a lot of TV this year! :blush:


*The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
*The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Jay Fowler :sick: (disliked it even more the second time reading it)
*The Crimes of Charlotte Bronte - James Tully :sick: :sick: :sick: (hideous book!)
*My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
*Drowning Ruth - Christina Schwarz
*Where Are the Children - Mary Higgins Clark
*The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing - Melissa Bank (I think you can guess as to which are the ones from the book club that I belong to!)
*The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
*The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
*The Awakening - Kate Chopin
*Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
*Persuasion - Jane Austen
*Ghost Writer - John Harwood

[grace86]

Virgil I might wander into the discussion and quote your comments. I'll have to check it out when I have more time. It was a horribly gruesome play.

Janine, I was rather surprised myself!! After listing everything that I have read and by looking at everyone else's list, I am actually currently underway in trying to form some sort of list for this new year. I've got three Lawrence novels in it already (S&L first, then either The Rainbow or Lady Chatterly...whichever comes first). I think I might also pursue more Shakespeare outside of a classroom setting...since I have the entire collection and all!!

Be prepared Janine for more Lawrence tutoring (as well as for your expertise in Shakespeare!) ;)

[Dori]

I have recorded everything from Jan '07 to July 6, '07. My list includes:

LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Imperium by Robert Harris
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay
Medicus by Ruth Downie
Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
The Agony and the Ecstacy by Irving Stone
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Candide by Voltaire
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Along with that I've read a fair amount of American and Russian literature (the former for school and the latter for pleasure).

One of my resolutions for 2008 is to record everything I read. Hopefully I wont stop half-way through like I did last year.

[Janine]

Virgil I might wander into the discussion and quote your comments. I'll have to check it out when I have more time. It was a horribly gruesome play.

Janine, I was rather surprised myself!! After listing everything that I have read and by looking at everyone else's list, I am actually currently underway in trying to form some sort of list for this new year. I've got three Lawrence novels in it already (S&L first, then either The Rainbow or Lady Chatterly...whichever comes first). I think I might also pursue more Shakespeare outside of a classroom setting...since I have the entire collection and all!!

Be prepared Janine for more Lawrence tutoring (as well as for your expertise in Shakespeare!) ;)

That is a good idea to quote Virgil. He wrote some good observations in that thread...I did not participate but I did read some of the posts. I refused to read that play...too gruesome for me! I also read it was questionable, as to whether Shakespeare even wrote it or all of it; many of people will dispute that fact, though.

Grace, I have been fully prepared... that I would continue with my Lawrence tutoring....:lol:... and you know, I will always help you with Shakespeare ;) - although I have not read all the plays, myself....just ask. How nice that you own them all. Actually, I do also in a very large book. I wish I have a more up-to-date set with notes on the side.
Funny you should mention Shakespeare, tonight I have been watching the early classic b/w adaptation film of 'Midsummer Night's Dream" - I am really enjoying it, although my worn-out player just quit on me :bawling: It heats up and then I have to watch in half-hour installments, so will have to see more tomorrow night.

I would recommend "The Rainbow" second, since that would complete the first 3 novels of Lawrence's (asside from The White Peacock" - his first novel). That would round things out for you nicely. Also, "The Rainbow" is actually the prequel to "WIL", but it matters little which book one reads first. I plan a reading of "The Rainbow" early in the year, after I finish listening to "WIL" on audio CD - I am halfway through, and then I want to read "Kangaroo", which is not too long...then "The Rainbow" will be next on my list. "Lady Chatterly's Lover" was Lawrence's last fiction novel. I was hoping to read that in the late spring.

[iloveoscar]

After looking at these lists, I'm very disappointed in myself =( oh, well, This is what I've managed to read this year:
rereading the Harry Potter series (yes, I'm one of those nerds and proud of it)
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
On The Road - Jack Keroauc
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Emma - Jane Austen
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Antigone - Sophocles
King Lear - Shakespeare
Hamlet - Shakespeare
The Dharma Bums - Jack Keroauc
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
My Antonia - Willa Cather
Trainsong - Jan Keroauc

[Dori]

After looking at these lists, I'm very disappointed in myself =( oh, well, This is what I've managed to read this year:
rereading the Harry Potter series (yes, I'm one of those nerds and proud of it)
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
On The Road - Jack Keroauc
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Emma - Jane Austen
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Antigone - Sophocles
King Lear - Shakespeare
Hamlet - Shakespeare
The Dharma Bums - Jack Keroauc
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
My Antonia - Willa Cather
Trainsong - Jan Keroauc

Welcome, iloveoscar. I think there are several of us who feel disappointed in ourselves when it comes to what we've read in the past year. Or, perhaps, I am speaking for myself. :D

[Janine]

Good list, Dori!

I only read these, but not this past year:
The Hobbit & The Fellowship of the Ring, probably the next one (can't recall for sure) J.R.R. Tolkien
The Agony and the Ecstacy by Irving Stone (loved that novel, I should read it again)
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (loved the book and the older movie)
Candide by Voltaire
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (wonderful, great book!)

iloveoscar, Welcome to the forum! I have read these of your fine list:

The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Emma - Jane Austen
Antigone - Sophocles
King Lear - Shakespeare
Hamlet - Shakespeare
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
My Antonia - Willa Cather (also recommend, if you have not already read these - Death Comes to the Archbishop -[great read!] and O'Pioneers!

I am impressed - you both read really fine literature!:thumbs_up


I think there are several of us who feel disappointed in ourselves when it comes to what we've read in the past year. Or, perhaps, I am speaking for myself.

I can't imagine why. Some of us read more slowly and absorb more so we don't read as many books or we don't have the time. I think both of your read a good amount of good books last year.

[grace86]

Grace, I have been fully prepared... that I would continue with my Lawrence tutoring....:lol:... and you know, I will always help you with Shakespeare ;) - although I have not read all the plays, myself....just ask. How nice that you own them all. Actually, I do also in a very large book. I wish I have a more up-to-date set with notes on the side.
Funny you should mention Shakespeare, tonight I have been watching the early classic b/w adaptation film of 'Midsummer Night's Dream" - I am really enjoying it, although my worn-out player just quit on me :bawling: It heats up and then I have to watch in half-hour installments, so will have to see more tomorrow night.

I would recommend "The Rainbow" second, since that would complete the first 3 novels of Lawrence's (asside from The White Peacock" - his first novel). That would round things out for you nicely. Also, "The Rainbow" is actually the prequel to "WIL", but it matters little which book one reads first. I plan a reading of "The Rainbow" early in the year, after I finish listening to "WIL" on audio CD - I am halfway through, and then I want to read "Kangaroo", which is not too long...then "The Rainbow" will be next on my list. "Lady Chatterly's Lover" was Lawrence's last fiction novel. I was hoping to read that in the late spring.

Janine I was thinking of reading Much Ado About Nothing - you mentioned it online yesterday when I was speaking to you. But I've definitely had plenty of Shakespeare's tragedies to last me awhile, so I think I will try one, two or three comedies this year.

I had forgotten about The White Peacock and Kangaroo. Guess I have more Lawrence novels to purchase!!

Other than that I was planning to get through more book club choices and a couple here on my shelf that need to be put in the "read" stack!

[Janine]

Janine I was thinking of reading Much Ado About Nothing - you mentioned it online yesterday when I was speaking to you. But I've definitely had plenty of Shakespeare's tragedies to last me awhile, so I think I will try one, two or three comedies this year.

I had forgotten about The White Peacock and Kangaroo. Guess I have more Lawrence novels to purchase!!

"Much Ado About Nothing" is great and so is "Love's Labour Lost"..."Midsummer Night's Dream" is a must! You might, also try "Twelfth Night"...I like that one, too. I think they all have movies you can watch too to aid in your understanding.


Grace, Both books are hard to obtain; I think they are out of print now...I had to get used ones. I liked the first book, but many say it is his first novel, not exactly immature, but one has to say not quite polished as his others and not totally formed or developed, in meaning or concept. I think it has some very beautiful passages and it got the attention of publishers at the time, but one has to place it into L's biography...he was only 21 when he began that novel. Kangaroo is also hard to find. It is one of his more obscure novels. I think you have to know a little about his biography at the time he and his wife resided in Australia, to be interested in that one. I will talk to you later online about these two. Instead, I would recommend Lawrence novellas such as "Love Among the Haystacks" or "The Fox" - I loved both of them. I also liked another book by L, that is a little obscure called "The Lost Girl".

[Virgil]

Virgil, didn't you do "Sons and Lovers" too?.... and a few more of the Lawrence short stories such as: "The Shades of Spring" and "Odour of Chrysanthenmums"? At least I thought you did all those short stories.


Actually you're right. I forgot to write those down. Thanks. :)

I went back and edited my post to include those and another I had forgotten. Plus I created a blog of my 2007 reads. So you can check my blog if you're interested.

[manolia]

Books i've read in 2007

“Jane Eyre” – Charlotte Bronte
“Madame Bovary”- Gustave Flaubert
“The Count of Monte Cristo” – Alexandre Dumas
“Oliver Twist”- Charles Dickens
“Emma” – Jane Austen
“Frankestein” – Mary Shelley
“A Christmas Carol and other ghost stories”– Charles Dickens
“Women in love” – D. H Lawrence
“The name of the rose” – Umberto Eco
«To the Lighthouse» - Virginia Woolf
“Jitterbug perfume» - Tom Robbins
“Vanity Fair” – William Makepeace Thackeray
“The great Gatsby” – F Scott Fitzgerald
“Crime and punishment» - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“The Dubliners” – James Joyce
“Sons and lovers” – D. H. Lawrence
“The old curiosity shop” – Charles Dickens
“1984” – George Orwell
“Peter Pan” – J. M. Barrie
“Master and Margarita» - Mikhail Bulgakov
"The Catcher in the Rye”- J.D Salinger
“The trial” – Frantz Kafka

[Lain]

New here, first post. :)

So, I've read 30 books in 2007, 10,863 pages in total. There aren't many classics in my list, and at the end of the year I was feeling more like reading chick lit, but there are definitely a lot of classics I want to read and those lists of yours are being useful. I'll add some of your recs to my 'to read' list of 2008.

February:
01. Cell, Stephen King.
02. The second summer of the Sisterhood, Ann Brashares.
03. South of the border, west of the sun, Haruki Murakami.

March:
04. Caperucita en Manhattan, Carmen Martín Gaite.
05. The girl who loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King.
06. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer.

April:
07. La noche que quemaron a la mendiga, Arturo San Agustín.

May:
08. Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami.
09. Travels in the Scriptorium, Paul Auster.
10. To kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee.

July:
11. Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling. (Re-read)
12. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling.

August:
13. L'origen perdut, Matilde Asensi.
14. Dance Dance Dance, Haruki Murakami.
15. Northern Lights, Phillip Pullman.
16. Eragon, Christopher Paolini.

September
17. The Subtle Knife, Phillip Pullman.

October:
18. Kafka on the shore, Haruki Murakami.
19. An inconvenient truth, Al Gore.
20. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby.

November:
21. No Plot? No problem, Chris Baty.
22. Un riu d'esperança, Kim Manresa.
23. Stardust, Neil Gaiman.
24. The Amber Spyglass, Phillip Pullman.
25. Third summer of the Sisterhood, Ann Brashares.
26. Gossip Girl vol. 1, Cecily von Ziegesar.

December:
27. Forever in blue: the fourth summer of the Sisterhood, Ann Brashares.
28. The boy next door, Meg Cabot.
29. Gossip Girl vol. 2: You know you love me, Cecily von Ziegesar.
30. Boy meets girl, Meg Cabot.

[Nossa]

Welcome Lain...nice list of books..I see you're a fan of Haruki Murakami :D

[thelastmelon]

October:
18. Kafka on the shore, Haruki Murakami.

I'm actually reading Kafka on the Shore right now. I'm on page 200, or so.
How did you like it?

[Lain]

Thank you! :) Yes, I am a Haruki Murakami fan.

I enjoyed Kafka on the Shore immensely. At first, I thought nothing made sense and I was tempted to put the book down when that incident with the cats happened (I can't stand when animals are tortured), but then I remembered that I love Murakami, so I kept reading. And at the end, it didn't disappoint me, and I ended up loving the book just as much as I loved his other novels.

My favorite is Norwegian Wood, but I'll start reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle so maybe that changes, since I've heard so many good things about the latter.

Are you enjoying Kafka on the Shore so far?

[The E in M.E.]

The lists so far are amazing... way to go!
For the past few years I have kept lists of books I have read, but always from August to August, rather than January to January.
Here's my list for 2007, as far as I can make out.

Jane Austen:
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Northanger Abbey

J.K.Rowling
All seven, I'm afraid :)

C.S. Lewis:
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of Dawn Treader

Charles Dickens:
Bleak House
The Cricket on the Hearth

Charlotte Bronte:
Jane Eyre
Villette

Anne Bronte:
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Christopher Paolini:
Eragon
Eldest

Brian Jaques:
Castaways of the Flying Dutchman
The Angel's Command
Voyage of Slaves

Eloise Jarvis McGraw:
Mara, Daughter of the Nile
The Golden Goblet
The Moorchild
The Seventeenth Swap
Pharaoh
The Money Room

Agatha Christie:
So Many Steps to Death
The Secret of Chimneys
Parker Pyne Investigates
The Secret Adversary
Partners in Crime
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Postern of Fate

Mary Shelley:
Frankenstein

Claire Tomalin:
Jane Austen: A life

George Eliot:
Silas Marner

Maria Trapp:
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:
The Hound of the Baskervilles
A Study in Scarlet

Elizabeth Goudge:
Pilgrim's Inn

J.R.R. Tolkien:
The Hobbit
Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
Return of the King

Janet and Geoff Benge:
Cameron Townsend: Good News in Every Language

And I believe that's about it. Good luck on your reading this year, everyone!

[thelastmelon]

Are you enjoying Kafka on the Shore so far?

I am. I just got through the part you were talking about, and even though that part was disturbing and the book is a bit different from other books, I am enjoying it. It's the first book I've read by him, and maybe I'll try something else later this year if the book continues to be as good as it's been so far. :)

[Dori]

Good list, Dori!

I only read these, but not this past year:
The Hobbit & The Fellowship of the Ring, probably the next one (can't recall for sure) J.R.R. Tolkien
The Agony and the Ecstacy by Irving Stone (loved that novel, I should read it again)
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (loved the book and the older movie)
Candide by Voltaire
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (wonderful, great book!)

Have you read any of Irving Stone's other books? I think I will this year. My friend's mom owns a lot of his books, so I can just borrow them.


Oh, and welcome Lain and The E in M.E. :)

[Nossa]

I am. I just got through the part you were talking about, and even though that part was disturbing and the book is a bit different from other books, I am enjoying it. It's the first book I've read by him, and maybe I'll try something else later this year if the book continues to be as good as it's been so far. :)

I have three of his books on my list, Hard Boiled Wonderland, Dance Dance Dance and Sputnik Sweetheart. I guess I'm gonna add Kafka on The Shore to them.
So if I'm to start reading one of his books, which should I start with?!

[Virgil]

Ikes, I just remembered I read Slaughterhouse Five as well. I'll have to go an add it in.

[grace86]

Virgil you are so funny!! I know you read so much this past year! Didn't you read most of the Lawrence short stories as well? At least you are still remembering which books you read in 07....I know I read more books and for the life of me I cannot recall which ones I have forgotten to add!

[Nossa]

Ikes, I just remembered I read Slaughterhouse Five as well. I'll have to go an add it in.

I've been remembering more books and adding them to the list for the past couple of days :lol:

[Virgil]

Virgil you are so funny!! I know you read so much this past year! Didn't you read most of the Lawrence short stories as well? At least you are still remembering which books you read in 07....I know I read more books and for the life of me I cannot recall which ones I have forgotten to add!

:lol: Yes, and I listed the Lawrence short stories.

[Gracewings]

I'm afraid I've been away twice before really become regular around here -- difficult year but I did manage to read some. :)



Fannie Flagg, Redbird Christmas

Adriana Trigiani, Home to Big Stone Gap

Thornton Wilder, Our Town

Alexander McCall Smith, The Kalahari Typing School for Men
The Careful Use of Compliments
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
Morality for Beautiful Girls
Portuguese Irregular Verbs
Tears of the Giraffe
The Sunday Philosophy Club
#1 Ladies' Detective Agency

James Michener, Hawaii

Lori Copeland , Stranded in Paradise

Lisa Samson, Club Sandwich

Anne Tyler, Digging to America

Debbie Macomber, Susannah's Garden

[Janine]

I can't recall if I read them this year or both last year and this year combined. That list I could easily make up. Can I list two years worth? When you get old you really can't keep track of these things....hummm

[Janine]

I think this was my reading (other than poetry) for the year.



No biographies or works of history this past year I notice. I will have to change that in the upcoming year.

Edit: I forgot to mention thses:

You still forgot one short story - 'The White Stocking'....:)

[TheFifthElement]

I have three of his books on my list, Hard Boiled Wonderland, Dance Dance Dance and Sputnik Sweetheart. I guess I'm gonna add Kafka on The Shore to them.
So if I'm to start reading one of his books, which should I start with?!

I love Murakami! Hard-Boiled Wonderland is my favourite, Dance Dance Dance is a sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase so you might want to read that first (I didn't, I read Dance Dance Dance then A Wild Sheep Chase afterwards and thought 'ah!'). Dance Dance Dance is very good, perhaps my second favourite, but I haven't read Sputnik Sweetheart yet (buying it today with my birthday book vouchers - yippee!). Lote has though, Lote said Sputnik Sweetheart was very good. They're all good. Murakami is good (in case I hadn't made that clear, phew!)

[Virgil]

You still forgot one short story - 'The White Stocking'....:)

Oh you're right. Thanks.

[Nossa]

I love Murakami! Hard-Boiled Wonderland is my favourite, Dance Dance Dance is a sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase so you might want to read that first (I didn't, I read Dance Dance Dance then A Wild Sheep Chase afterwards and thought 'ah!'). Dance Dance Dance is very good, perhaps my second favourite, but I haven't read Sputnik Sweetheart yet (buying it today with my birthday book vouchers - yippee!). Lote has though, Lote said Sputnik Sweetheart was very good. They're all good. Murakami is good (in case I hadn't made that clear, phew!)

Thankies :D I guess I'll start with the book I can find, it's kinda hard to find books in here, wish me luck :D

[Lain]

I agree with TheFifthElement there on Haruki Murakami. I read Dance Dance Dance first too and it didn't really make sense, it was kind of hard to get through. But I loved it anyway. And I want to buy A Wild Sheep Chase, for the 'ah' factor you're talking about. :) Was it good? Was it as weird as Dance Dance Dance?

My friend says Sputnik Sweetheart is amazing, but haven't had the chance to read it yet. I really want to now!

[Schokokeks]

It's so inspiring to read all your lists, picked up a few titles by Murakami for 2008 ;)

Here's what I remember reading in 2007:

Poetics by Aristotle
Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique by Michel Foucault (excellent historical/philosophical reading !)
Great Expectations by Dickens
The Cenci by Percy B. Shelley
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Lady Wintermere's Fan by Wilde
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Woman of no Importance by Wilde
An Ideal Husband by Wilde
Dubliners by Joyce
Julius Caesar by Willy S.
The Remains of the Day by Ishiguro (very very good !)
Volpone by Jonson
The Jew of Malta by Marlowe
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas DeQuincey (who could resist the title ? ;) )
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Dr. Faustus by Marlowe
Major Barbara by Georgie Bernie Shaw
Edward the Second by Marlowe
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Heroides by Ovid
Beowulf in Seamus Heaney's translation
The Robbers by Schiller
Heart of Darkness by Conrad
Slaughterhouse 5 by Vonnegut
The Tempest by Willy S.
Richard II. by Willy S.
The Odyssee by Homer
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (nice to compare with Homer)
Pride and Prejudice by Austen
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
The Merchant of Venice by Willy S.
King Lear by Willy S.
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
Emma by Austen
The Monk by Matthew Lewis (a bit overrated, methinks...)
King Oedipus by Sophocles
Oedipus on Kolonos by Sophocles
Seven against Thebes by Aischylos
Macbeth by Willy S.
The Satanic Verses by Rushdie
Nora by Henrik Ibsen
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Othello by Willy S.
King Henry IV, 1st part by Willy S.

and a couple of German lit. books, and way too much college non-fiction reading..

[TheFifthElement]

I agree with TheFifthElement there on Haruki Murakami. I read Dance Dance Dance first too and it didn't really make sense, it was kind of hard to get through. But I loved it anyway. And I want to buy A Wild Sheep Chase, for the 'ah' factor you're talking about. :) Was it good? Was it as weird as Dance Dance Dance?

My friend says Sputnik Sweetheart is amazing, but haven't had the chance to read it yet. I really want to now!

A Wild Sheep Chase is excellent, yes, and weird too!

Sputnik Sweetheart is now sitting patiently on my shelf waiting for me to finish my current book so I can read it.

Nossa - good luck! Hope you enjoy whichever one you find :)

[Tosca]

Okay, in 2007...

The Canterbury Tales
The Count of Monte Cristo
White Fang
Kidnapped
The Notebook
Little Men
The Guardian
Message in a Bottle
A Bend in the Road
The Scarlett Letter
A Walk to Remember
A Tale of Two Cities
Moby Dick
To Kill A Mockingbird
Gone With the Wind
Northanger Abbey
Emma
Pride and Prejudice

There were 14 others but they were smaller novels, not classics.

[Lain]

Okay, in 2007...

The Canterbury Tales
The Count of Monte Cristo
White Fang
Kidnapped
The Notebook
Little Men
The Guardian
Message in a Bottle
A Bend in the Road
The Scarlett Letter
A Walk to Remember
A Tale of Two Cities
Moby Dick
To Kill A Mockingbird
Gone With the Wind
Northanger Abbey
Emma
Pride and Prejudice

There were 14 others but they were smaller novels, not classics.

Love those books you've read, Tosca! What can you tell me about Emma and Northanger Abbey? Did you like them? I've only read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (and loved it) but I really want to check out her other novels, and I've heard many people complain about Emma.

I think my next will be Sense and Sensibility though. :)

[Tosca]

Hello! I really loved Emma and Northanger Abbey!

"Emma" was about a young woman (Emma) and her love for match-making. There are a lot of characters to keep track of, but it is great. There is a lot of comedy as well as romance. A lot of mysterious characters/secrets as well! It does tend to get picked on by some while others love it; but I guess it really depends on the reader and his/her interests.

"Northanger Abbey" was about a young woman, Catherine, who goes to stay with friends/family in Bath. There, she meets a young man and ends up visiting his home at Northanger Abbey. She is a big gothic/mystery novel reader and so she sort of lets her imagination run wild. The consequences of this are both good and bad. It was also a great book. The novel itself was gothic.

You will have to let me know how you like "Sense and Sensibility"! Jane Austen is great! I'm glad you liked "Pride and Prejudice"! That was such a romantic novel! Have you seen the movie?

Hope this helped!

[Weisinheimer]

Persuasion ~ Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice ~ Jane Austen
A Tale of Two Cities ~ Charles Dickens
Great Expectations ~ Charles Dickens
The Grapes of Wrath ~ John Steinbeck
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest ~ Ken Kesey
Wuthering Heights ~ Emily Bronte
Wide Sargasso Sea ~ Jean Rhys
Major Barbara ~ G B Shaw
Too True to be Good ~ G B Shaw
Much Ado about Nothing ~ Shakespeare
The Great Divorce ~ C S Lewis

This list doesn't include
books I've read for the 2nd or more time,
books I'm ashamed to say I read , and
the books I've forgotten about (this year I'm going to write down all the books I read).

[Tosca]

Persuassion ~ Jane Austen
Pride and Predjudice ~ Jane Austen
A Tale of Two Cities ~ Charles Dickens
Great Expectations ~ Charles Dickens
The Grapes of Wrath ~ John Steinbeck
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest ~ Ken Kesey
Wuthering Heights ~ Emily Bronte
Wide sargasso Sea ~ Jean Rhys
Major Barbara ~ G B Shaw
Too True to be Good ~ G B Shaw
Much Ado about Nothing ~ Shakespear
The Great Divorce ~ C S Lewis

This list doesn't include
books I've read for the 2nd or more time,
books I'm ashamed to say I read , and
the books I've forgotten about (this year I'm going to write down all the books I read).


Wow! Those are great books! What did you think of "Much Ado About Nothing"? Would you reccommend it? I'm a Shakespeare fan, but haven't read that yet... :)

[Weisinheimer]

Much Ado is the only Shakespeare I've ever read, so I can't compare it to any of his other stuff. I found it enjoyable, but it didn't do anything spectacular for me. Hopefully, I'll get to read some more Shakespeare this year.

[Lily Adams]

I read (in order, more or less)

Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
Beowulf
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antoinia Fraser
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Odyssey
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Candide by Voltaire
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
Introducing Philosophy by Dave Robinson
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (re-read)

My favorites were Candide and Frankenstein. I also appreciated Fahrenheit 451 much, much more than the last time I read it.

[Mark Anthony]

Blooomin eckers!!! Errr...

Saturday
Robinson Cruso
Peter and Wendy
A Christmas Carol
Goblin Market
Wuthering Heights

I also read 'The Beano' comic.

[Dori]

I read (in order, more or less)

Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
Beowulf
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antoinia Fraser
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Odyssey
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Candide by Voltaire
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
Introducing Philosophy by Dave Robinson
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (re-read)

My favorites were Candide and Frankenstein. I also appreciated Fahrenheit 451 much, much more than the last time I read it.

I also read Candide and enjoyed it considerably. What did you think of The Crucible by Arthur Miller?

[Lily Adams]

I also read Candide and enjoyed it considerably. What did you think of The Crucible by Arthur Miller?

I loved it when John Proctor spanked those little girls. He was so fed up. I loved how the insanity was portrayed in that play. Very good. :thumbs_up

[Janine]

Janine's Reading List 2007 (for now, need to add a few things more tomorrow)

D.H.Lawrence - Novels

The White Peacock
The Lost Girl
Apocalypse
Twilight in Italy
Sea and Sardina
Etruscan Places
Women in Love
Sons and Lovers
The Plumed Serpent
Lady Chatterly’s Lover

Biographies of Lawrence

Brenda Maddox
D.H.Lawrence
Story of a Marriage D.H.Lawrence

Geoffrey Trease
The Phoenix and the Flame: D.H. Lawrence; a biography

D.H.Lawrence - Short Stories

Things
The Shades of Spring
The White Stocking
The Horse-Dealer’s Daughter
The Prussian Officer
Sun
Odour of Chrysanthemums

Commentary books on Lawrence

Michael Black
The Short Fiction of D.H.Lawrence (read partically)
Various other commentary books, online commentary about D.H.L and his work

Shakespeare

Hamlet
Twelfth Night
Richard III
Othello
King Lear
Romeo and Juliet
As You like It
Henry IV
Henry V
Henry VI
Richard I
King John
Merchant of Venice
Love’s Labours Lost
Taming of the Shrew
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles
The Winter’s Tale

Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Brave New World Revisited

E.M.Forester
Passage to India
Room With a View

Evelyn Waugh
Bridehead Revisited

Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights

Mary Shelley
Frankenstein

Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome

Truman Capote
The Grass Harp


John Irving
A Prayer for Owen Meany

Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca

Ayn Rand
Anthem

J.L.Carr
A Month in the Country

Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea

Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Sons

Nicholas Evans
The Loop

Chekhov - Short Stories
Rothchild’s Violin
The Lady and The Lapdog

Oscar Wilde - Plays
Lady Windemere’s Fan
The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde - Fairytales
The Selfish Giant
The Happy Prince

[LadyWentworth]

Evelyn Waugh

Bridehead Revisited

How did you like this one? Have you read any other works of his?


Daphne du Maurier

Rebecca

How about this one?

[Janine]

How did you like this one? Have you read any other works of his?

LW,I liked the book very much so. I also really loved the miniseries. All the characters and acting is superb. If you have not seen it I would highly recommend it to you. The book is a very good read. I would like to read more books by Waugh in the future.



How about this one?

I think I read "Rebecca" twice so far...ages ago and just recently. Some of my list I have read twice, such as many of the Lawrence novels and some of the short stories, Frankenstein, Fathers and Sons and Ethan Frome, Oscar Wilde fairytales. When you are older, like me, you have a chance to do so. But back to "Rebecca", I saw your post, LW, saying you could never get into the book and you thought it silly. I personally, love the book and I like very much Daphne du Maurier's writing. I loved the Hitchcock film (it is a classic of suspense), but recently on my second reading of the book, I found there is another adaptation of the book - a BBC miniseries film which seemed to more closely fit the book, especially the characters. It stars Charles Dance, as Maxim, and a young woman (don't recall her name) as the second wife of Mrs. Dewinter. I didn't think I would like this adaptation, because the cover of the DVD never enticed me, but then I gave it a go and I was pleasantly surprised to find it a very good production. I will definitely watch that film again soon. I loved the book and the story. I think you have to give it a chance. It is a very psychological plot and more character driven then plot driven, I believe.

I plan on reading "Jamaica Inn", which I picked up recently for free at my library. I also have a biography book about du Maurier, that I desire greatly to read. I believe she had a very interesting life.

[LadyWentworth]

LW,I liked the book very much so. I also really loved the miniseries. All the characters and acting is superb. If you have not seen it I would highly recommend it to you. The book is a very good read. I would like to read more books by Waugh in the future.

Oh, wasn't Jeremy Irons just dishy in it?!? :p You should read The Loved One next. For me, the next on my list of his (if I ever get around to it!) is Black Mischief.


I think I read "Rebecca" twice so far...ages ago and just recently. Some of my list I have read twice, such as many of the Lawrence novels and some of the short stories, Frankenstein, Fathers and Sons and Ethan Frome, Oscar Wilde fairytales. When you are older, like me, you have a chance to do so. But back to "Rebecca", I saw your post, LW, saying you could never get into the book and you thought it silly. I personally, love the book and I like very much Daphne du Maurier's writing. I loved the Hitchcock film (it is a classic of suspense), but recently on my second reading of the book, I found there is another adaptation of the book - a BBC miniseries film which seemed to more closely fit the book, especially the characters. It stars Charles Dance, as Maxim, and a young woman (don't recall her name) as the second wife of Mrs. Dewinter. I didn't think I would like this adaptation, because the cover of the DVD never enticed me, but then I gave it a go and I was pleasantly surprised to find it a very good production. I will definitely watch that film again soon. I loved the book and the story. I think you have to give it a chance. It is a very psychological plot and more character driven then plot driven, I believe.

You're crazy! Horrible book! ***ducks from Janine as she throws a gigantic hardcover version of Rebecca at my head*** :p ;) Maybe, sometime in my life, I will give in and try it again. We'll see. I have 130+ books to get through first! Just to avoid this one, I will keep buying more books so that I can always say "Oh, I would like to give it another try, but I have "x" number of books to read first". :D


I plan on reading "Jamaica Inn", which I picked up recently for free at my library. I also have a biography book about du Maurier, that I desire greatly to read. I believe she had a very interesting life.

I have her biography of Branwell Bronte. At some point I have to read that, too. Mainly because my grandmother bought it for me years ago when she first saw it. I think I might be more interested in her version of a real person's life rather than a fictional life.

[Janine]

Oh, wasn't Jeremy Irons just dishy in it?!? :p You should read The Loved One next. For me, the next on my list of his (if I ever get around to it!) is Black Mischief.

LW, what are you doing up this late?...oh yeah, little earlier there, I guess.;) I getting really tired out, sleepy; I should go to bed. The real question is what am I doing up, considering I just watched a movie that was very odd, poor acting, way below par; what a waste of my time:( .

Well yes, of course, Jeremy Irons was dishy; I love Jeremy Irons; so was Anthony Andrews. You know years back I saw him in "Ivanhoe" and I am dying to find that film again. I haven't yet. I just loved that film! He was adorable in it, more appealing than in 'Brideshead'. When the miniseries was on TV, I missed it, and so I finally requested it at my library and they got it for me from another library. This reminds me that I looked at your library site. I never order books or videos, from my home computer or phone, to be held for me. I just take my chances, when I got in there - it is not there I will get it next time, no big deal. I did not quite understand why you were so upset except to say my library is really close to my house so I can make frequent trips there.
Did you know that "Fortunes of War" ran the same time as "Brideshead"? They were competing. I really love "Fortunes of War", that may be because of 'you know who'! ;) :lol:
I will keep those other Waugh books in-mind. Thanks for suggesting them.


You're crazy! Horrible book! ***ducks from Janine as she throws a gigantic hardcover version of Rebecca at my head*** :p ;) Maybe, sometime in my life, I will give in and try it again. We'll see. I have 130+ books to get through first! Just to avoid this one, I will keep buying more books so that I can always say "Oh, I would like to give it another try, but I have "x" number of books to read first". :D

Crazy!??? You are awful!!!:flare: Many people feel that the Hitchcock film is a masterpiece of cinema. The book is a 'gothic' atmospheric classic! I can't believe you - what don't you like about it? Granted it is not the heaviest or most complex read in the world, but even my mother loved the book and I can't get her interested in many books these days. Unfortunately, I don't have a hardcover version to throw at you!:lol:

I know about that lineup of books to read; I have piles and piles and I can't seem to get to them all, and one keeps adding on more, at least mentally. Instead, in order to discuss several of the books on my booklist, I had to re-read them for review, this year. I like to re-read a good book though. I usually get more out of it, the second time around. I don't care if I consume, all the world's literature in my lifetime, but let me sample at least something from many of the classic authors. Some authors I have read extensively, such as Thomas Hardy, D.H.Lawrence, and Shakespeare....I guess my list is pretty decent, considering.


I have her biography of Branwell Bronte. At some point I have to read that, too. Mainly because my grandmother bought it for me years ago when she first saw it. I think I might be more interested in her version of a real person's life rather than a fictional life.

I don't have that book, but it sounds interesting; I think I picked up a biography about du Maurier, at my library in the give-away shelf. It was a hardcover, too....maybe I should throw that one at you!!! :flare: :lol:

[LadyWentworth]

LW, what are you doing up this late?...oh yeah, little earlier there, I guess.;) I getting really tired out, sleepy; I should go to bed. The real question is what am I doing up, considering I just watched a movie that was very odd, poor acting, way below par; what a waste of my time:( .

I don't know why I am up! I actually should go to bed now because I have to get up for the job thing with my sister-in-law. :sick: I will find out my "duties" tomorrow.


This reminds me that I looked at your library site. I never order books or videos, from my home computer or phone, to be held for me. I just take my chances, when I got in there - it is not there I will get it next time, no big deal. I did not quite understand why you were so upset except to say my library is really close to my house so I can make frequent trips there.

I am upset because most of the stuff that I request are located in libraries nowhere near my house. So, I really don't want to waste the gas money to go across town just to check out a CD. Besides, there are a lot of people who can't/don't drive. This isn't a nice thing to do to them! I just don't accept lame excuses for things that companies/businesses/corporations/organizations/et.c. always tend to use.


Did you know that "Fortunes of War" ran the same time as "Brideshead"? They were competing. I really love "Fortunes of War", that may be because of 'you know who'! ;) :lol:

Why do you know this? How did you know that they competed against each other? I think you have officially out-done me with "useless" information! :p Of course, I always find information like that to be useful to me! So, thanks for telling me that! Every little bit more makes me that much more informed on things in life! :D


Many people feel that the Hitchcock film is a masterpiece of cinema. The book is a 'gothic' atmospheric classic! I can't believe you - what don't you like about it? Granted it is not the heaviest or most complex read in the world, but even my mother loved the book and I can't get her interested in many books these days. Unfortunately, I don't have a hardcover version to throw at you!:lol:

I can't bring myself to ever watch the film either even though I like Hitchcock. I also am not a fan of Joan Fontaine. It takes a lot for me to ignore her! Anyway, I have seen clips of it. I am more apt to sit through that rather than read the book. Next time it is on TV. If it is on when I have NOTHING else to do! :D

What don't I like? It is dull and boring. It just drags on. Like I said, though, I tried to read it years ago. Maybe I wouldn't feel that way now.


I don't have that book, but it sounds interesting; I think I picked up a biography about du Maurier, at my library in the give-away shelf. It was a hardcover, too....maybe I should throw that one at you!!! :flare: :lol:

I'll loan the Bronte biography to you so you can have that to throw at my head. That is a nice hardcover one for you to use to knock some sense into it! :p

[Lain]

Hello! I really loved Emma and Northanger Abbey!

"Emma" was about a young woman (Emma) and her love for match-making. There are a lot of characters to keep track of, but it is great. There is a lot of comedy as well as romance. A lot of mysterious characters/secrets as well! It does tend to get picked on by some while others love it; but I guess it really depends on the reader and his/her interests.

"Northanger Abbey" was about a young woman, Catherine, who goes to stay with friends/family in Bath. There, she meets a young man and ends up visiting his home at Northanger Abbey. She is a big gothic/mystery novel reader and so she sort of lets her imagination run wild. The consequences of this are both good and bad. It was also a great book. The novel itself was gothic.

You will have to let me know how you like "Sense and Sensibility"! Jane Austen is great! I'm glad you liked "Pride and Prejudice"! That was such a romantic novel! Have you seen the movie?

Hope this helped!

Thank you! This was great, it did help. :) Now I just have to go to the library and see what I can find. I'm really in the mood for Jane Austen. :D

[Janine]

I don't know why I am up! I actually should go to bed now because I have to get up for the job thing with my sister-in-law. :sick: I will find out my "duties" tomorrow.

LW, good day to you! I guess you finally called it quits and went to bed last night. I did too, but at an ungodly hour as usual. I really need to reform! I hope 'duties' and 'job thing' turns out to be a good thing for you. You must keep me informed.;)


I am upset because most of the stuff that I request are located in libraries nowhere near my house. So, I really don't want to waste the gas money to go across town just to check out a CD. Besides, there are a lot of people who can't/don't drive. This isn't a nice thing to do to them! I just don't accept lame excuses for things that companies/businesses/corporations/organizations/et.c. always tend to use.

I can see your point entirely. So sorry.:( I can go to my library a dozen times a day to check, well if I wanted to, and I can also check the listing of availability on their website and call them and they would, most likely, hold it for me. I only occasionally request films from other libraries in the system. Sorry you can't do that anymore. Full availability might not last here either, the way the economy is going. Then I will be :bawling:


Why do you know this? How did you know that they competed against each other? I think you have officially out-done me with "useless" information! :p Of course, I always find information like that to be useful to me! So, thanks for telling me that! Every little bit more makes me that much more informed on things in life! :D

Good question. I really don't recall the exact source, so I can't back it up, until I locate that source; statement. I just stashed that info away in my own cluttered brain one day, a brain which also files countless bits of 'useless' information like you pointed out. It was suppose to be one network's answer to the other's, or something like that. I don't recall what networks they ran on do you? One definitely was the BBC. I may have read it on the KB Compendium site, or maybe just online when researching the film to buy. It may have been on Amazon. Or it might not have said 'compete' but that they ran simulaneously and so one overshadowed the other. I will try to find my source. In doing so, no doubt I will gather more 'useless' information to add to my brain file!

;) Anyway, I am sure we could both outdo each other with tons of 'useless' information like this. :lol:



I can't bring myself to ever watch the film either even though I like Hitchcock. I also am not a fan of Joan Fontaine. It takes a lot for me to ignore her! Anyway, I have seen clips of it. I am more apt to sit through that rather than read the book. Next time it is on TV. If it is on when I have NOTHING else to do! :D

Well, I liked the old film and it is very classic Hitchcock in presentation but I did not particularly love Fontaine either. She was ok and now that I have thought about it and read some commentary, truly she was too old for the part. This is suppose to be a fairly innocent inexperienced young woman, who is quite taken by an older charming man. This is why I said the newer version of the film fits the story more closely. I guess the big draw for the Hitchcock film was Olivier as Maxim. I am not even sure he fit the role entirely now that I read the book several times. But hey, to each his own. Maybe you won't like the film. The person who stole the show was the villianous housekeeper - can't recall her name now or the actress who played her. It is worth seeing the film just for her performance. The woman in the new production was good, a British well known actress, but the classic Hitchcock character can never be paralleled. She is completely scary and ominous.


What don't I like? It is dull and boring. It just drags on. Like I said, though, I tried to read it years ago. Maybe I wouldn't feel that way now.

Well, odd because my mother's attention span these days has greatly diminished and she read it fine and did not find it at all boring. I guess if you did not get past the beginning parts, when the woman (who by the way, is never named in the novel or the films) meets up with Maxim and they fall in love, then I guess it would appear to be a boring book. Who knows, maybe my mother skimmed the first part. She reads more rapidly than I do, but often goes back to review. I have not heard of many people being bored by "Rebecca", so maybe it was just the time period in your life when you tried to read it and your mood then; now it may interest more. I find this true. When I first attempted "Sons and Lovers", I could not get past chapter 1, but now I just love the book and have read it twice. It is one of my favorites.




I'll loan the Bronte biography to you so you can have that to throw at my head. That is a nice hardcover one for you to use to knock some sense into it! :p

:lol: That's quite alright! I have enough to read already and also enough hardcover books I can heave at you!:lol: