Your reading during the year 2007

[LadyW]

Good ones there LadyW I have read them all off course!

Naturally...
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).

[grace86]

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.

[Etienne]

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...

[grace86]

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.

[Orpheus]

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.

[Shea]

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. 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.

[Shea]

I probably missed one or two.

[Shea]

Forgot about Carrie by Stephen King.

[Virgil]

I think this was my reading (other than poetry) for the year.

2007 Reads

“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

No biographies or works of history this past year I notice. I will have to change that in the upcoming year.

Edit: I forgot to mention thses:

"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

[Etienne]

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.

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.

[grace86]

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.

Thanks for the advice Etienne. It will definitely be good to know a little of the history before getting into it. Hmm..I have a feeling I am going to have to make a more structured reading list for this year to get it all in though. Thanks again.

Virgil I didn't know (or maybe I did hear it from somewhere) that you had read Titus Andronicus! It'd be interesting to hear your thoughts on that.

[Virgil]

Thanks for the advice Etienne. It will definitely be good to know a little of the history before getting into it. Hmm..I have a feeling I am going to have to make a more structured reading list for this year to get it all in though. Thanks again.

Virgil I didn't know (or maybe I did hear it from somewhere) that you had read Titus Andronicus! It'd be interesting to hear your thoughts on that.

Grace, there is a Shakespeare discussion thread where I put my thoughts on it. You can quote from there and I'll respond. It was an average work I'm afraid, so one of Shakespeare's lesser plays. But it had it's moments and I bet some of it could be really dramatic on stage.

[Janine]

I think this was my reading (other than poetry) for the year.



No biographies or works of history this past year I notice. I will have to change that in the upcoming year.

Virgil, didn't you do "Sons and Lovers" too?.... and a few more of the Lawrence short stories such as: "The Shades of Spring" and "Odour of Chrysanthenmums"? At least I thought you did all those short stories.

Wow, I can't wait to make up my list, too. I read some books independently from the forum, as well. It is fun to look back and see just what one read.

[Janine]

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
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
Two short stories by D.H. Lawrence (can't remember their names)
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.

Grace, impressive! and especially all those fine Shakespeare plays! Good for you!!!

[LadyWentworth]

Oh, I just deleted my post! Not that it really matters because I didn't read as many as the others here. So it won't take too long to list again. I am somewhat embaressed to list them for that reason, but I am using the fact that 2007 was a "down" year for me all around as an excuse. That and the fact that I did watch a lot of TV this year!

*The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
*The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Jay Fowler (disliked it even more the second time reading it)
*The Crimes of Charlotte Bronte - James Tully (hideous book!)
*My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
*Drowning Ruth - Christina Schwarz
*Where Are the Children - Mary Higgins Clark
*The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing - Melissa Bank (I think you can guess as to which are the ones from the book club that I belong to!)
*The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
*The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
*The Awakening - Kate Chopin
*Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
*Persuasion - Jane Austen
*Ghost Writer - John Harwood