Your reading during the year 2007

[thelastmelon]

Are you enjoying Kafka on the Shore so far?

I am. I just got through the part you were talking about, and even though that part was disturbing and the book is a bit different from other books, I am enjoying it. It's the first book I've read by him, and maybe I'll try something else later this year if the book continues to be as good as it's been so far.

[Dori]

Good list, Dori!

I only read these, but not this past year:
The Hobbit & The Fellowship of the Ring, probably the next one (can't recall for sure) J.R.R. Tolkien
The Agony and the Ecstacy by Irving Stone (loved that novel, I should read it again)
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (loved the book and the older movie)
Candide by Voltaire
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (wonderful, great book!)

Have you read any of Irving Stone's other books? I think I will this year. My friend's mom owns a lot of his books, so I can just borrow them.


Oh, and welcome Lain and The E in M.E.

[Nossa]

I am. I just got through the part you were talking about, and even though that part was disturbing and the book is a bit different from other books, I am enjoying it. It's the first book I've read by him, and maybe I'll try something else later this year if the book continues to be as good as it's been so far.

I have three of his books on my list, Hard Boiled Wonderland, Dance Dance Dance and Sputnik Sweetheart. I guess I'm gonna add Kafka on The Shore to them.
So if I'm to start reading one of his books, which should I start with?!

[Virgil]

Ikes, I just remembered I read Slaughterhouse Five as well. I'll have to go an add it in.

[grace86]

Virgil you are so funny!! I know you read so much this past year! Didn't you read most of the Lawrence short stories as well? At least you are still remembering which books you read in 07....I know I read more books and for the life of me I cannot recall which ones I have forgotten to add!

[Nossa]

Ikes, I just remembered I read Slaughterhouse Five as well. I'll have to go an add it in.

I've been remembering more books and adding them to the list for the past couple of days

[Virgil]

Virgil you are so funny!! I know you read so much this past year! Didn't you read most of the Lawrence short stories as well? At least you are still remembering which books you read in 07....I know I read more books and for the life of me I cannot recall which ones I have forgotten to add!

Yes, and I listed the Lawrence short stories.

[Gracewings]

I'm afraid I've been away twice before really become regular around here -- difficult year but I did manage to read some.



Fannie Flagg, Redbird Christmas

Adriana Trigiani, Home to Big Stone Gap

Thornton Wilder, Our Town

Alexander McCall Smith, The Kalahari Typing School for Men
The Careful Use of Compliments
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
Morality for Beautiful Girls
Portuguese Irregular Verbs
Tears of the Giraffe
The Sunday Philosophy Club
#1 Ladies' Detective Agency

James Michener, Hawaii

Lori Copeland , Stranded in Paradise

Lisa Samson, Club Sandwich

Anne Tyler, Digging to America

Debbie Macomber, Susannah's Garden

[Janine]

I can't recall if I read them this year or both last year and this year combined. That list I could easily make up. Can I list two years worth? When you get old you really can't keep track of these things....hummm

[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.

Edit: I forgot to mention thses:

You still forgot one short story - 'The White Stocking'....

[TheFifthElement]

I have three of his books on my list, Hard Boiled Wonderland, Dance Dance Dance and Sputnik Sweetheart. I guess I'm gonna add Kafka on The Shore to them.
So if I'm to start reading one of his books, which should I start with?!

I love Murakami! Hard-Boiled Wonderland is my favourite, Dance Dance Dance is a sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase so you might want to read that first (I didn't, I read Dance Dance Dance then A Wild Sheep Chase afterwards and thought 'ah!'). Dance Dance Dance is very good, perhaps my second favourite, but I haven't read Sputnik Sweetheart yet (buying it today with my birthday book vouchers - yippee!). Lote has though, Lote said Sputnik Sweetheart was very good. They're all good. Murakami is good (in case I hadn't made that clear, phew!)

[Virgil]

You still forgot one short story - 'The White Stocking'....

Oh you're right. Thanks.

[Nossa]

I love Murakami! Hard-Boiled Wonderland is my favourite, Dance Dance Dance is a sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase so you might want to read that first (I didn't, I read Dance Dance Dance then A Wild Sheep Chase afterwards and thought 'ah!'). Dance Dance Dance is very good, perhaps my second favourite, but I haven't read Sputnik Sweetheart yet (buying it today with my birthday book vouchers - yippee!). Lote has though, Lote said Sputnik Sweetheart was very good. They're all good. Murakami is good (in case I hadn't made that clear, phew!)

Thankies I guess I'll start with the book I can find, it's kinda hard to find books in here, wish me luck

[Lain]

I agree with TheFifthElement there on Haruki Murakami. I read Dance Dance Dance first too and it didn't really make sense, it was kind of hard to get through. But I loved it anyway. And I want to buy A Wild Sheep Chase, for the 'ah' factor you're talking about. Was it good? Was it as weird as Dance Dance Dance?

My friend says Sputnik Sweetheart is amazing, but haven't had the chance to read it yet. I really want to now!

[Schokokeks]

It's so inspiring to read all your lists, picked up a few titles by Murakami for 2008

Here's what I remember reading in 2007:

Poetics by Aristotle
Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique by Michel Foucault (excellent historical/philosophical reading !)
Great Expectations by Dickens
The Cenci by Percy B. Shelley
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Lady Wintermere's Fan by Wilde
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Woman of no Importance by Wilde
An Ideal Husband by Wilde
Dubliners by Joyce
Julius Caesar by Willy S.
The Remains of the Day by Ishiguro (very very good !)
Volpone by Jonson
The Jew of Malta by Marlowe
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas DeQuincey (who could resist the title ? )
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Dr. Faustus by Marlowe
Major Barbara by Georgie Bernie Shaw
Edward the Second by Marlowe
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Heroides by Ovid
Beowulf in Seamus Heaney's translation
The Robbers by Schiller
Heart of Darkness by Conrad
Slaughterhouse 5 by Vonnegut
The Tempest by Willy S.
Richard II. by Willy S.
The Odyssee by Homer
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (nice to compare with Homer)
Pride and Prejudice by Austen
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
The Merchant of Venice by Willy S.
King Lear by Willy S.
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
Emma by Austen
The Monk by Matthew Lewis (a bit overrated, methinks...)
King Oedipus by Sophocles
Oedipus on Kolonos by Sophocles
Seven against Thebes by Aischylos
Macbeth by Willy S.
The Satanic Verses by Rushdie
Nora by Henrik Ibsen
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Othello by Willy S.
King Henry IV, 1st part by Willy S.

and a couple of German lit. books, and way too much college non-fiction reading..