So What did we read in June?

[Kafka's Crow]

Confession:
I did not read anything at all! Times of severe emotional turmoil, I could not read a single page in the whole of the last month. What a shame.

I did some writing and would love to know what other forummers read in June 2008. So what did we read last month?

[sofia82]

On the contrary it was great month as I read some of Shakespeare's plays and some of The Norton Anthologies of the world's literatures

Henry VI (3 parts)
Romeo and Juliet
Richard III
Titus Andronicus
Two gentlemen of verona
Winter's Tale

and some minor reading from Donne's and Jonson's poetry collection!
Unfortunatly, this month I cannot read so as it seems.

[thelastmelon]

I managed to read a lot, not having school during the summer. So this is what I read in June:

Dead Famous - Ben Elton
The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
The Vanished Man - Jeffery Deaver
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Scarlet Song - Mariama Ba
The Horse and His Boy - C.S. Lewis
The Sea - John Banville
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies - Alexander McCall Smith

[blackbird_9]

Lots of Milan Kundera

[NickAdams]

Homer's The Odyssey
Mario Pei's The Story of Language
Jorge Luis Borges' Seven Nights
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's Civilization and Transcendence

[Dark Muse]

The Altar of the Dead-Henry James
Sleepy - Chekhov

Poe:

The Gold Bug
The Angel of the Odd
The Devil in the Belfry

And these I did not start in June, but finnished since I was finally able to return to my own reading:

Madame Bovary - Flaubert
The Witch of Cologne - Tobsha Learner
The Book of Shadows - James Reese
Treasure Island - Stevenson

[Dori]

Off the top of my head:

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Some poetry of Langston Hughes.
About 200 pages of Dostoevsky's The Idiot.

[Akeldama]

For whatever reason I just could not bring myself to read for nearly all of June until the end of the month, where I couldn't bring myself to stop reading.

In the space of about a week I read:

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Awakening Spirits - Tom Brown, Jr.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

...and nearly all of 1984. In fact, I finished the last forty pages or so on the first of this month. July is going to be a much more productive reading time for me, considering the long car rides I'm going to be taking and the fact that I actually want to read again.

[Dark Muse]

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson


Funny, I am reading that right now

[KyleBennett]

Ah Things Fall Apart is an amazing story.

I read Anna Karenina.. which I've been reading since May, or was it april... and just finished Popular Music in Vitulla by Mikael Niemi. I'd definately recommend it. Short but witty, an easy going book but with a few dark bits which you'd expect from a story about the coming of age.

May start on Crime and Punishment but I think I'll have to start on the work on my uni course... first stop Utopia by Mr. More

[Kafka's Crow]

I can see, Henry James is reigning supreme. You folks are so lucky. Wuthering Heights has sort of blocked my system. I have to finish that book and I can't bring myself to pick it up again. I must get rid of this 'reader's block' and I will!

[kiki1982]

Waw, you are all so fast!!

I only read
(finished) Dumas' Vingt Ans Après, Twenty Years Later
(started) Saramago's The Siege of Lisbon
(read totally) Byron's Manfred. A dramatic poem
(idem) Dickens' The Censorious Young Gentleman
(idem) Perrault's version of Bluebeard

Made a study of Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre which Byron, Dickens and Perrault were connected with.

I read farely slow, then, but everything sinks in properly...

[Mark F.]

The Gambler by Dostoevsky
Journey to the End of the Night by Céline

[Niamh]

was very busy last month. think i only read one manuscript.

[LadyWentworth]

I re-read Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. That ended up the only thing that I read. It really shouldn't have taken me as long as it did either. June really was such a crazy month that this novel was the only reading that I could've gotten accomplished.

[Pecksie]

Hmmm... I may be confusing June with May, and I'm sure I'm forgetting things, but essentially I:

* Started reading Clarice Lispector's correspondence with her sisters.
* Started reading the 2008 issue of the Legal Studies Forum, a wonderful magazine featuring literature (poetry, short stories and memoirs) written by lawyers.
* Read some of Uruguayan writer Francisco Espínola's short stories.
* Read some of the juvenilia of Jane Austen.
* Finished Fanny Burney's "Cecilia" (almost 1000 pages, but fun!).

[rachel_bookworm]

I read P.S, I love you in 3 days.

Have started Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman.

[Nossa]

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Dreams of the Rehabilitation Period - Naguib Mahfouz
I was sick most of this month, esp with my eye infection, and so I didn't read for at least half of the month. Hopefully I'll make it up in July.

[Tersely]

*The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
*Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
*Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
*Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

I see a pattern emerging.

[Loike]

Have started Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman.

Oh, my gosh! *Screaming on the inside*. I love this novel so much! Argh, now that you've mentioned it I just want to pick it up and read it again and again and again and again and...

Okay, so now that I've stopped having spasms over Fowles, I read in preparation for my A-level finals in June:

The Homecoming (Harold Pinter)
The Birthday Party (Harold Pinter)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Edward Albee)
Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller).


And for leisure (*sigh*) I read:

Thinks... (David Lodge)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
The Magus (John Fowles)
The Professor (Charlotte Bronte).

xx

[Hank Stamper]

the ginger man
hamlet
perfume
the sun also rises
the wasp factory

[andave_ya]

started: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ~ James Joyce
read: Don Quixote ~ Miguel Cervantes