What did-we read in December ?

[lupe]

Jim Crace – Quarantine (started in November)
Keats – Selected Poems
Dambisa Moyo - Dead Aid
Kenzaburo Oe - Gannen no foot ball
Roberto Bolano - 2666
Georges Baraille - Histoire de l'oeil (The story of the eye) (just started)

[dfloyd]

autobiographical work, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth. A bit tedious at times but a good read nontheless. Also read the short stories of Chekov. His subject matter is a little out of date, but he really is a good writer. Listened to Two Cormak McCarthy books on cd: No Country for Old Men and The Road. Enough has been said on other posts about Cormac Just started listening to Blood Meridian. Bloody but interesting. On the shelf, but up next is Tolstoy's Resurrection.

[9 Bean Rows]

Bible - II Samuel; II Chronicles
James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a young Man
Wall Street Journal

Next read - Calvin by Gordon

[Dinkleberry2010]

In December I read The Double and The Gambler by Dostoevsky, and Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte.

[OrphanPip]

Hotel de Dream - Edmund White
If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino

[Akeldama]

Dracula - Bram Stoker
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Watchmen and Philosophy - William Irwin (Series Editor), Mark D. White (Editor)

[Hank Stamper]

^^ also read dracula and a christmas carol (both re-reads)
plus doctor sax by kerouac and the happy isles of oceania by paul theroux and a bunch of m r james's ghost stories and a bunch of hunter s thompson articles
just about finished the island of dr moreau as well (another re-read).. not bad going given that i've been hungover most of the month!

[Blanket Heist]

Keep the Aspidistra Flying by Orwell
Island by Huxley
Commodify Your Dissent by Thomas Frank & Matt Weiland
No Logo by Naomi Klein

[Dark Muse]

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
A Christmas Carol and other Christmas Wirtings by Charles Dickens
Stunt Road by Gergory Mose
The Vampire's Assistant by Darren Shan
Dreamseller the memoir of Brandon Novak
Collected short stories by varrious authors.

And just at the epilogue of Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky

[Idril]

Keep the Aspidistra Flying by Orwell


I just read that last month...meaning November...and really enjoyed it.

This month was a slow month and for that, I blame Thomas Mann. :p I started off with Cancer Ward by Solzhenitsyn then moved on to the Kalevala and then started Doctor Faustus by Mann and have been stuck there for almost 2 weeks which is a crazy long time for me for one book and I'm only just over half-way through. :rolleyes:

[kiki1982]

I finishd The Mill on the Floss of Eliot. What a conquest!

In between I read The Dead of Joyce and Kew Gardens of Woolf to see what modernism was about.

Then I started La Tulipe Noire (The Black Tulip) of Dumas. Waw,so cute.

And I started Defoe's Moll Fanders. It amazes me how easy that is, given that Austen is more difficult, but closer to our times.

[littlewoman]

George Orwell- down and out in Paris and London
Womens slave narratives
Khal Kal
and a few more which I can't remember.
XOXO

[Dimitra]

In December I read:
Hamlet
Fathers and Children
The Story of the Eye :roll:
The Hitchhicker's Guide Trilogy
Interview with the Vampire
Selected Stories by Chekhov
Travelling by Nikos Kazantzakis
and Steppenwolf.

[papayahed]

One for the money

[wlz]

The Goetia
The Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley
Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn, (Students Manual, 1968 edition).
The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe
Collected Poems of Ezra Pound

[Mariamosis]

I only managed to read Dicken's 'A Christmas Carol', however it was a great story for December!

[JackieGinger]

I've read Dickens' Hard Times - quite a treat- and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Stevenson. I knew its topic from previous courses, which made the reading a bit unpleasant, but I have only myself to blame - should have read it earlier...much earlier....

[billl]

Finally finished Eoin Colfer's And Another Thing...
(fantastic :thumbs_up, I was quite relieved and amused. Much better than re-reading a beloved Douglas Adams book for the third time or whatever).

I also read Promtheus Bound by Aeschylus.
(Interesting! Wish I could read the first and last parts of the trilogy.)

[Page Turner]

After Dark~Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood~Haruki Murakami
Under the Dome~Stephen King.

[bouquin]

American Short Story Masterpieces - Raymond Carver & Tom Jenks (editors)
The Story of Lucy Gault - by William Trevor
Death in Venice & Other Stories - by Thomas Mann
The Good Doctor - by Damon Galgut
England, My England & Other Stories - by D.H. Lawrence
Jean de Florette - by Marcel Pagnol
The Body Artist - by Don DeLillo