Faust, translation by David Luke, The Folio Society, gorgeous book, it's frickin hyooge, and Goethe is the man.
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Faust, translation by David Luke, The Folio Society, gorgeous book, it's frickin hyooge, and Goethe is the man.
Burnt shadows by Kamila Shamsie.
As to the why, I really love reading about war. Plus I liked the title.
I'm also very much looking forward to reading the Wolf of wall street by Jordan belfort. I'm not sure if I'd be interested in reading a biography but still I want to read the book before I watch the movie. <and if anyone knows where I can find its ebook version, please let me know> :D
The Heat of the Day (Elizabeth Bowen)
The Monk (Matthew Lewis)
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Currently reading: La Maison aux Esprits (Isabel Allende)
L'Automne du Patriarche (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Le Chagrin des Belges (Hugo Claus)
Les Particules Elémentaires (Michel Houellebecq)
La Bête Humaine (Emile Zola)
L'Abbé C. (Georges Bataille)
La Marche de Radetzky (Joseph Roth)
Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy)
The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois Reader. Bought it at my local half-price books in near fine condition.
I am interested in the writings of intelligent black men that have had a positive influence in literature and on the education of black people and people in general. Du Bois, Ellison, Wright, and Baldwin are a few whose works I want to read. It never hurts to have greater awareness.
A Sentimental Journey (Laurence Sterne)
The Devils (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers)
Arrow of God (Chinua Achebe)
Moon Palace (Paul Auster)
Great Apes (Will Self)
Papillon (Henri Charrière)
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Currently reading: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is really good. I liked it anyway.
Helen and Troy's Epic Road Quest by A. Lee Martinez
Two reasons:
1. Give the author another chance.
2. I enjoy road quests.
Le Procès (Franz Kafka)
Cat and Mouse (Günter Grass)
The Master of Ballantrae (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Sula (Toni Morrison)
Against the Grain (J. K. Huysmans)
Freedom (Jonathan Franzen)
The Counterfeiters (André Gide)
The Judge and His Hangman (Friedrich Dürrenmatt)
The Roots of Heaven (Romain Gary)
A Bend in the River (V. S. Naipaul)
Get Shorty (Elmore Leonard)
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Currently reading: The Last September (Elizabeth Bowen)
The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry. I loved the first part of his autobiography (Moab is my Washpot), so thought I'd give this a go!
Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle 2
Bought because it's a autobiographical novel in kind of a modern Proustian style.
Sally Kempton, Awakening Shakti.
I wanted to know more about Hindu goddesses.