What did-we read in January ?

[lupe]

Histoire de l'oeil (The story of the eye) - Georges Bataille
A grain of wheat - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Selected Poems – Arthur Rimbaud
The Idiot (volume 1) - Fiontor Dostoyefski
Les Ballades Nostalgiques - Racine Kane
Animal's People - Indra Sinha (just started)

[Dark Muse]

Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
The Dante Club by Mattew Pearl
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Tunnels of Blood by Darran Shan

From Bluebeard's Egg and other stories by Margaret Atwood

Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother

Hurricane Hazel

Loulou or The Domestic Life of Language

Uglypuss

[Boo Radley]

The God Delusion-Dawkins, The Journals of Captain James Cook

[Desolation]

The Fall by Albert Camus

[Amoxcalli]

The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
The Land of Heart's Desire, William Butler Yeats
Verwoest Arcadië, Gerrit Komrij
Wedding Song, Naguib Mahfouz
Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
In the Penal Colony, Franz Kafka
Langs de Nijl, Marcellus Emants

That's about it, I think.

[Modest Proposal]

Money, Martin Amis
The Plague, Albert Camus
Seize the Day, Saul Bellow
The Drawing of the Dark, Tim Powers
Light In August, William Faulkner
The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh
The Gambler, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
On the Beach, Nevil Shute
The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
The Tragedy of Mariam, Elizabeth Cary
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
The Immortal Bartfuss, Aharon Appelfeld
Marxism and Literary Criticism & Essay, Terry Eagleton

This, and a couple hundred pages of theory criticism and nature writing.

[Barbarous]

Butterfly Burning by Yvonne Vera
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (reread)
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (reread)
Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
I also read the first part of Don Quixote by Cervantes translated by Charles Jervas, I've now gotten a different translation and have started reading it!

[grace86]

Oh how you all have devoured books this past month! I'm just coming back to that thing called leisure time and filling that time with reading, so I have to catch up with you guys!

I read: Treasure of the Lake - Haggard, and Created to be His Help Meet - Pearl

[Janine]

Oh how you all have devoured books this past month! I'm just coming back to that thing called leisure time and filling that time with reading, so I have to catch up with you guys!

I read: Treasure of the Lake - Haggard, and Created to be His Help Meet - Pearl

Oh wow, I love Haggard - did you read "She"? How was "Treasure of the Lake"...I had never heard of it before. Sounds interesting.


I read very little during January; I think I read more articles online than books. I did manage to watch a few plays of Chekhov, does that count? I also read "The Little Prince"...I love that little book.

[caspian]

Booth Tarkington 'Alice Adams'
Jane Austen 'Northanger Abbey'
Willa Cather 'one of ours' (still reading)


I also read "The Little Prince"...I love that little book.

Oh, I love Exupery. It is my favorite too.

[Mariamosis]

Theodroe Dreiser - Sister Carrie 4/5
D.H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers 5/5
Thomas Hardy - Return of the Native 5/5
Sinclair Lewis - Main Street 5/5

'Main Street' took me a while to get into (about half the book); and while I almost put it down, I am glad that I didn't.

[Drkshadow03]

Four books for January. All links go to my write-up of the book on my blog.

Howl's Moving Castle (link (http://beyondassumptions.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/booklist-2010-1-howls-moving-castle-by-diana-wynne-jones/))

On the Nature of the Universe by Lucretius (link (http://beyondassumptions.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/booklist-2010-2-on-the-nature-of-the-universe-by-lucretius/))

Egyptian Mythology: A Short Introduction by Geraldine Pinch (link (http://beyondassumptions.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/booklist-2010-3-egyptian-mythology-by-geraldine-pinch/))

The Early History of Rome by Livy (link (http://beyondassumptions.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/booklist-2010-4-the-early-history-of-rome-by-livy-trans-aubrey-de-selincourt/))

[JuniperWoolf]

I read Perfume and finally got around to Tolkien. For non-fiction, I read about the Holocaust, Neo-Pagan religions and body modification.

[manolia]

“The turn of the screw” – Henry James
“The Aspern papers” – Henry James
“East of Eden” – John Steinbeck
“The adventures of Sherlock Holmes” –Sir A C Doyle
“The crying of lot 49” – Thomas Pynchon

[toni]

Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman 10/10
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -0/10
The Art of War - Sun Tzu - 8/10
Flight - John Steinbeck 9/10

..and a couple of art books by Claude Monet, Andy Warhol and Hiroshige.

[grace86]

Oh wow, I love Haggard - did you read "She"? How was "Treasure of the Lake"...I had never heard of it before. Sounds interesting.


I read very little during January; I think I read more articles online than books. I did manage to watch a few plays of Chekhov, does that count? I also read "The Little Prince"...I love that little book.

I've read She...a long time ago though. Treasure of the Lake is fantastic, I still have just a little bit left to finish - I just haven't been able to pick it up to finish it!

[bouquin]

Carry On, Jeeves -- P.G. Wodehouse
Chronicle of a Death Foretold -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
An Obedient Father -- Akhil Sharma
All Aunt Hagar's Children -- Edward P. Jones
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie -- Muriel Spark
Scum -- Isaac Bashevis Singer

[blp]

The Divided Self by RD Laing
The Politics of Experience by RD Laing
An Outline of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Was also reading War and Peace, and still am.

[Kafka's Crow]

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wolf-Hall-Hilary-Mantel/dp/0007230184/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266944272&sr=1-2

Hannibal: One Man Against Rome by Harold Lamb
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/l/harold-lamb/hannibal.htm

[Page Turner]

Botchan~Soseki Natsume
Duma Key~Stephen King
Black Rain~Masuji Ibuse
The Help~Kathryn Stockett

[janesmith]

"La Terre" - Zola
"The Children's Book" - A.S.Byatt
"Marie Antoinette: The Journey" - Antonia Fraser
"Three men in a Boat" - Jerome K. Jerome