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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?
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
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)
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.
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
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
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)
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
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....
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.
I have a boyfriend and a cat, if that matters. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Lote-Tree
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?
Hah! I have a boyfriend. I've just always been a crazy reader.:pQuote:
Originally Posted by Lote-Tree
Hah. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lote-Tree
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...
Awwh Lote, a fellow Harry Potter nerd :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lote-Tree
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?Quote:
Originally Posted by LadyW
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by 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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
:)
I am in love with J K Rowling :DQuote:
Originally Posted by LadyW
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 :DQuote:
Which one is your favourite though?
A boyfreind? No. I have loads. Don't you? :DQuote:
I'm sure they do have girlfriends/boyfriends...
Do you have a boyfriend Lote? ;)
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
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?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lote-Tree
You are the extremist of bookworms and you still you have nothing to do! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Anastasija
Ah I see. But still thats a one looooooooooooong reading list. Even in my best years as student I could not have managed that :DQuote:
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...
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
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)
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/fictio...sp?fictionID=5 8
TOREADOR... D. Harlan Wilson http://www.bizarrocentral.com/fictio...sp?fictionID=7 8
THE MET ARE ALL FOR THIS Steve Aylett http://www.bizarrocentral.com/fictio...sp?fictionID=8 6
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
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Poor Jessica... You heartbreaker! :)Quote:
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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 :DQuote:
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Hahaha Lote, I never lose my friend and if I ever should I would accept it gracefully ;)
My love is like the Ocean... :DQuote:
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But where is your reading list? It's OK Mr. Men books can also be listed :D
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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)
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! :) )
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Good ones there LadyW I have read them all off course!
Naturally... :)Quote:
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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).
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
I probably missed one or two.
Forgot about Carrie by Stephen King.
I think this was my reading (other than poetry) for the year.
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“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
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"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
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.Quote:
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