So what did we read in April then?

[Niamh]

I spent my April without internet, TV and other distractions in the middle of nowhere, so I had lots of time to read. This is the result:

El alcalde de Zalamea by P. Calderon de la Barca
Morenga by U. Timm (a novel about the war 1904 - 07 in German-Southwestafrica (today's Namibia), quite interesting)
Нос by N. Gogol (I really wonder why I haven't read this little story earlier...)
La locandiera by C. Goldoni (great comedy, I intend to read much more Goldoni)
Обломов by I. Gontscharow (re-read)
Leopardens öga by H. Mankell (my first Mankell, I'm not interested in his crime novels, but I might pick up another of his African novels)
Germinal by E. Zola (re-read)
El hablador by M. Vargas Llosa (great novel!)
Die Spoorsnyer by P. van Rooyen (ugh, that was bad)
Le scaphandre et le papillon by J.-D. Bauby (they filmed it lately, so I wanted to know the book before I watch the film)
Haru no Yuki by Y. Mishima (the first Japanese novel I've ever read, I quite liked it)
Die Hermannsschlacht by H. von Kleist (so far I only knew the version by Klopstock, but I liked this one even more)
Diamantenfieber by G. W. Hoffmann (bad historical novel)
Бедная Лиза by N. Karamsin (somehow I never read Karamsin before)
Матрёнин двор by A. I. Solschenyzin


A great reading month for me!

wow thats a lot of reading!

[tscherff]

candide by voltaire---i can't believe i am the 4th person on this thread to have read this!
the black swan by who knows---everyone needs light reading once in awhile
the captive by proust---5 down and only 2 to go

[Dark Muse]

Well I have been doing a lot of reading for school, so here is what I have read for the month of April:

From The Dubliners:

The Sisters
Araby
Eveline
The Boarding House
The Dead

To the Lighthouse ~ Virgina Woolf

The Blithedale Romance ~ Hawthrone

From Melville:

Bartleby
Billy Budd
Benito Cereno

The Turn of the Screw ~ Henry James

And acutally got one thing from my own personal reading finnished

Anna Karenine ~ Tolstoy

[DapperDrake]

What did you think of To the Lighthouse? I confess I love Woolf

[Dark Muse]

It was interesting, overall, I enjoyed the story.

[KyleBennett]

This thread has just made me realise that I didn't read anything in April... I bought lots of books, but never read any. 100 pages of Anna Karenin and that's about it. Been playing the dreaded PS3 games. Oops

[hard times]

hi every one
i read in April only two works
they are Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
and Oliver Twist by Dickens

[kasie]

You people read such serious books....

Like KyleBennett, the thread has made me realise that I have read very little in April - worked my way through a pile of Michael Connelly Harry Bosch books that a friend gave me to recycle to a charity shop (I usually read the recycles before passing them on) and that was about it. So I asked myself what had I been doing, for goodness sake and realised I've spent most of my spare time organising my trip to South Africa for later in the year and have been reading a lot about SA in the process, I've had visitors, I've been to the opera - referred to the Pushkin thread here for background to Eugene Onegin, thanks to everyone who contributed, it helped my understanding of the opera considerably - did some background reading for a future visit to Stratford to see The Taming of the Shrew - again, thanks to everyone who contributed to the thread - I've been to visit a friend, been to the theatre to see Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas, (a Local No-Good Boyo) and struggled with my Welsh homework.

So, on the reading front - Must Do Better in May.

[Mark F.]

Malone Dies by Beckett
First Love by Turgenev
Macbett by Ionesco
Green Hills of Africa by Hemingway
and just finishing The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov

[Castalian Girl]

The translation is actually The Damned Yard,but it's pretty much the same A great book by a great author,how come you know about him(I mean,how come you've read this),Castalian Girl?Are you from the Balkans perhaps?

Yes, from Croatia. And your signature quote caught my attention, too As for great Andrić works, I liked The Bridge over the Drina better. I do know that people in Europe know about Andric and read his works (well, people with interest in good literature, certainly not Big Brother die hard fans) in England and Italy, for example. After all, he DID win a Nobel prize.

[johann cruyff]

Yes, from Croatia. And your signature quote caught my attention, too As for great Andrić works, I liked The Bridge over the Drina better. I do know that people in Europe know about Andric and read his works (well, people with interest in good literature, certainly not Big Brother die hard fans) in England and Italy, for example. After all, he DID win a Nobel prize.

Very,very few,unfortunately.And only because he won the prize.Chances are that the same people won't know about Selimović,Krleža,Matoš etc.,let alone reading their works.

[Kafka's Crow]

Malone Dies by Beckett
First Love by Turgenev
Macbett by Ionesco
Green Hills of Africa by Hemingway
and just finishing The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov

Wow! Now that's an impressive reading list. You had a very productive month indeed!

[Kafka's Crow]

This thread has just made me realise that I didn't read anything in April... I bought lots of books, but never read any. 100 pages of Anna Karenin and that's about it. Been playing the dreaded PS3 games. Oops

That is the point and purpose of these monthly threads, a little review of last month's, how should I put it....., effort just to keep us going and improving our future performance. I didn't have a good month either.