iff Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 1. bicycle diaries - david byrne ***** 2. story of a shipwrecked sailor - gabriel garcia marquez **** 3. The Holy City - Patrick McCabe * 4. Superfreakonomics - Stephen Levitt & Steven Dubner ** 5. The Irish (and Other Foreigners) - Shane Hegarty **** 6. A very short introduction to the Celts - Barry Cuniffe*** 7. The complete poems - Emily Dickinson **** 8. Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons *** 9. Invisible - Paul Auster **** 10. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck **** 11. Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce *** 12. Solar - Ian McEwen **** 13. Ship of Fools - Fintan O'Toole **** 14. Singing From The Well - Reinaldo Arenas **** 15. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie ***** 16. Island Beneath The Sea - Isabel Allende **** 17. The Three Emperors - Miranda Carter **** 18. The Kite Runner - khaled Hosseini ***** 19. I am Not Sidney Poitier - Percivel Everett ***** 20. Made with 90% Recycled Art - Scott Meyer **** 21. The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano ***** 22. Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth *** 23. Books Burn Badly - Manuel Rivas **** you know, i don't think i'll reach 50 somehow. ;) 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
green pumpkin Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 23. Books Burn Badly - Manuel Rivas **** If I may, how did you come into that one? ... I'm curious being that I recall being forced to read some small book by Rivas for our Galician class and then watching as he became ever more famous, but I wouldn't have thought that he would make it out of Galicia let alone Spain at all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iff Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 23. Books Burn Badly - Manuel Rivas **** If I may, how did you come into that one? ... I'm curious being that I recall being forced to read some small book by Rivas for our Galician class and then watching as he became ever more famous, but I wouldn't have think that he would made out of Galicia let alone Spain at all. it was reviewed in the irish times on the book pages on saturday in april and sounded interesting and the reviewer was right :) http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2010/0417/1224268509115.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
drnick Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 1. 'Trawl' by B.S. Johnson 2. 'The Unfortunates' by B.S. Johnson 3. 'Stephen Hero' by James Joyce 4. 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' by James Joyce 5. 'Christie Malry's Own Double Entry' by B.S. Johnson 6. 'Ulysses' by James Joyce 7. 'Resistance' by Owen Sheers 8. 'As I Lay Dying' by William Faulkner 9. 'Electra' by Sophocles 10. 'The Possibility of An Island' by Michel Houellebecq 11. 'The Sound and the Fury' by William Faulkner 12. 'Northanger Abbey' by Jane Austen 13. 'So Long, Hector Bebb' by Ron Berry 14. 'Tales of the Five Towns' by Arnold Bennett 15. 'Down and Out in Paris and London' by George Orwell 16. 'Billy Liar on the Moon' by Keith Waterhouse 17. 'Twenty Year a-Growing' by Maurice O'Sullivan 18. 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte 19. 'Pilgrim's Progress' by John Bunyan 20. 'Death of the Hind Legs and other stories' by John Wain 21. 'Dead Souls' by Nikolai Gogol 22. 'The Grim Smile of the Five Towns' by Arnold Bennett 23. 'Washington Square' by Henry James 24. 'The Aran Islands' by John Millington Synge 25. 'The Dalkey Archive' by Flann O'Brien 26. 'Riders to the Sea' by John Millington Synge 27. 'The Playboy of the Western World' by John Millington Synge 28. 'A Sentimental Journey' by Laurence Sterne 29. 'The Idiot' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 30. 'Less Than Zero' by Bret Easton Ellis 31. 'The Informers' by Bret Easton Ellis 32. 'Imperial Bedrooms' by Bret Easton Ellis 33. 'The Rules of Attraction' by Bret Easton Ellis 34. 'American Psycho' by Bret Easton Ellis 35. 'We Were Young and Carefree' by Laurent Fignon 36. 'Notes from Underground' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 37. 'Never Let Me Go' by Kazuo Ishiguro 38. 'A Chancer' by James Kelman 39. 'If This is a Man' by Primo Levi 40. 'Tales from the Don' by Mikhail Sholokhov 41. 'The Truce' by Primo Levi 42. 'The Immoralist' by Andre Gide 43. 'Bad Vibes: Britpop and my part in its downfall' by Luke Haines 44. 'The Drowned and the Saved' by Primo Levi 45. 'The Counterfeiters' by Andre Gide 46. 'The Loved One' by Evelyn Waugh 47. 'Doctor in the House' by Richard Gordon 48. 'Beowulf: A Verse Translation' by Michael Alexander 49. 'The Card' by Arnold Bennett 50. 'We Never Make Mistakes' by Alexander Solzhenitsyn 51. 'The First Men in the Moon' by HG Wells 52. 'Strait is the Gate' by Andre Gide 53. 'Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them' by Al Franken 54. 'The Sweetshop Owner' by Graham Swift 55. 'And Their Children After Them' by Dale Maharidge & Michael Williamson 56. 'The Unvanquished' by William Faulkner 57. 'Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction' by William L. Rowe 58. 'Birthday Letters' by Ted Hughes 59. 'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins 60. 'After Theory' by Terry Eagleton 61. 'Anna Karenina' by Leo Tolstoy 62. 'The Sea of Faith' by Don Cupitt 63. 'Our Man in Havana' by Graham Greene Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nico-Nico Friendo Posted December 24, 2010 Share Posted December 24, 2010 I've already read 100 books in 2 years. I have done this twice (2002-2003 and 2009-2010). Does this count? Do I win? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LonePiper Posted December 26, 2010 Share Posted December 26, 2010 1. After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC - Steven Mithen 2. Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris 3. A Brief History of Time - Steven Hawking 4. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien 5. The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind 6. Bad Astronomy - Philip Plait 7. The Ring Sets Out - J.R.R. Tolkien 8. The Real Middle Earth - Brian Bates 9. The Ring goes South - J.R.R. Tolkien 10. The Black Pearl - Scott O'Dell 11. He Died with a Felafel in his Hand - John Birmingham 12. Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City - Gwendolyn Leick 13. The Treason of Isengard - J.R.R. Tolkien 14. Spacewreck: Ghostships and Derelicts of Space - Stewart Cowley 15. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin Abbott Abbott 16. The Ring goes East - J.R.R. Tolkien 17. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 18. So You're Going to Wear the Kilt! - J. Charles Thompson 19. The War of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien 20. The End of the Third Age - J.R.R. Tolkien 21. A Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne 22. Egypt and the Egyptians - Douglas J. Brewer and Emily Teeter 23. The Mask of Dimitrios - Eric Ambler 24. Triple your Reading Speed - Wade E. Cutler 25. Who? - Algis Budrys 26. The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene 27. Nineteen eighty-four - George Orwell 28. The Field Guide to Geology - David Lambert and the Diagram Group 29. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde 30. The Greatest Show on Earth: the Evidence for Evolution - Richard Dawkins 31. Making Money - Terry Pratchett 32. The Complete Far Side - Gary Larson 33. The Ancestors's Tale - Richard Dawkins 34. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess 35. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon 36. The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett 37. Nation - Terry Pratchett 38. Life in Ancient Rome - F.R. Cowell 39. Contact - Carl Sagan 40. Last Orders - Graham Swift 41. The Mouse and his Child - Russell Hoban 42. The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Göthe 43. The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster - Bobby Henderson 44. The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett 45. The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett 46. The Science of Discworld - Terry Pratchett, Ian Steward and Jack Cohen Okay, hopefully now that Christmas is over I can cram four more books in! *Sits on internet instead of reading* Quote Link to post Share on other sites
drnick Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 1. 'Trawl' by B.S. Johnson 2. 'The Unfortunates' by B.S. Johnson 3. 'Stephen Hero' by James Joyce 4. 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' by James Joyce 5. 'Christie Malry's Own Double Entry' by B.S. Johnson 6. 'Ulysses' by James Joyce 7. 'Resistance' by Owen Sheers 8. 'As I Lay Dying' by William Faulkner 9. 'Electra' by Sophocles 10. 'The Possibility of An Island' by Michel Houellebecq 11. 'The Sound and the Fury' by William Faulkner 12. 'Northanger Abbey' by Jane Austen 13. 'So Long, Hector Bebb' by Ron Berry 14. 'Tales of the Five Towns' by Arnold Bennett 15. 'Down and Out in Paris and London' by George Orwell 16. 'Billy Liar on the Moon' by Keith Waterhouse 17. 'Twenty Year a-Growing' by Maurice O'Sullivan 18. 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte 19. 'Pilgrim's Progress' by John Bunyan 20. 'Death of the Hind Legs and other stories' by John Wain 21. 'Dead Souls' by Nikolai Gogol 22. 'The Grim Smile of the Five Towns' by Arnold Bennett 23. 'Washington Square' by Henry James 24. 'The Aran Islands' by John Millington Synge 25. 'The Dalkey Archive' by Flann O'Brien 26. 'Riders to the Sea' by John Millington Synge 27. 'The Playboy of the Western World' by John Millington Synge 28. 'A Sentimental Journey' by Laurence Sterne 29. 'The Idiot' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 30. 'Less Than Zero' by Bret Easton Ellis 31. 'The Informers' by Bret Easton Ellis 32. 'Imperial Bedrooms' by Bret Easton Ellis 33. 'The Rules of Attraction' by Bret Easton Ellis 34. 'American Psycho' by Bret Easton Ellis 35. 'We Were Young and Carefree' by Laurent Fignon 36. 'Notes from Underground' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 37. 'Never Let Me Go' by Kazuo Ishiguro 38. 'A Chancer' by James Kelman 39. 'If This is a Man' by Primo Levi 40. 'Tales from the Don' by Mikhail Sholokhov 41. 'The Truce' by Primo Levi 42. 'The Immoralist' by Andre Gide 43. 'Bad Vibes: Britpop and my part in its downfall' by Luke Haines 44. 'The Drowned and the Saved' by Primo Levi 45. 'The Counterfeiters' by Andre Gide 46. 'The Loved One' by Evelyn Waugh 47. 'Doctor in the House' by Richard Gordon 48. 'Beowulf: A Verse Translation' by Michael Alexander 49. 'The Card' by Arnold Bennett 50. 'We Never Make Mistakes' by Alexander Solzhenitsyn 51. 'The First Men in the Moon' by HG Wells 52. 'Strait is the Gate' by Andre Gide 53. 'Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them' by Al Franken 54. 'The Sweetshop Owner' by Graham Swift 55. 'And Their Children After Them' by Dale Maharidge & Michael Williamson 56. 'The Unvanquished' by William Faulkner 57. 'Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction' by William L. Rowe 58. 'Birthday Letters' by Ted Hughes 59. 'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins 60. 'After Theory' by Terry Eagleton 61. 'Anna Karenina' by Leo Tolstoy 62. 'The Sea of Faith' by Don Cupitt 63. 'Our Man in Havana' by Graham Greene 64. 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens 65. 'Reason, Faith and Revolution: Reflection on the God Debate' by Terry Eagleton 66. 'Freedom' by Jonathan Franzen That makes 64 as my final score for the year; I've put 'Anna Karenina' (to return to soon) and I have about 180 pages of 'Freedom' to go, which I am unlikely to complete before midnight. I'm really impressed with it so far (it pretty much lives up to the hype, amazingly) but I have been reading it all day and my eyes now hurt. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iff Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 1. bicycle diaries - david byrne ***** 2. story of a shipwrecked sailor - gabriel garcia marquez **** 3. The Holy City - Patrick McCabe * 4. Superfreakonomics - Stephen Levitt & Steven Dubner ** 5. The Irish (and Other Foreigners) - Shane Hegarty **** 6. A very short introduction to the Celts - Barry Cuniffe*** 7. The complete poems - Emily Dickinson **** 8. Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons *** 9. Invisible - Paul Auster **** 10. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck **** 11. Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce *** 12. Solar - Ian McEwen **** 13. Ship of Fools - Fintan O'Toole **** 14. Singing From The Well - Reinaldo Arenas **** 15. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie ***** 16. Island Beneath The Sea - Isabel Allende **** 17. The Three Emperors - Miranda Carter **** 18. The Kite Runner - khaled Hosseini ***** 19. I am Not Sidney Poitier - Percivel Everett ***** 20. Made with 90% Recycled Art - Scott Meyer **** 21. The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano ***** 22. Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth *** 23. Books Burn Badly - Manuel Rivas **** 24. Emma - Jane Austen *** 25. Skippy Dies - Paul Murray ***** Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Philip Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Here are books I have read this year (a few I started reading last year). 1. My gender workbook: how to become a real man, a real woman, the real you - Kate Bornstein 2. A history of modern Palestine: one land, two peoples - Ilan Pappe 3. Voices against war: a century of protest - edited by Lyn Smith 4. One voice - pacifist writings from the Second World War - Vera Brittain 5. Disobedience - Naomi Alderman 6. The lessons - Naomi Alderman 7. Women of the Gospels: meeting the women who followed Jesus - Mary Ellen Ashcroft 8. Maurice - E. M. Forster 9. The Irish Revolution 1913-1923 - edited by Joost Augusteijn 10. Schizophrenia and related syndromes - R. J. McKenna 11. The ice queen - Alice Hoffman 12. The gravedigger's daughter - Joyce Carol Oates 13. A Sylvia Pankhurst reader - Sylvia Pankhurst, edited by Kathryn Dodd 14. The pain and the privilege: the women in Lloyd George's life - Ffion Hague 15. The battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 - Antony Beevor 16. The case for God: what religion really means - Karen Armstrong 17. The British general election of 2005 - Dennis Kavanagh and David Butler 18. Testimony - Anita Shreve 19. Brideshead revisited: the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder - Evelyn Waugh 20. Gays and grays: the story of the inclusion of the gay community at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic parish in San Francisco - Donal Godfrey 21. The last supper according to Martha and Mary - Tina Beattie 22. Guerra! living in the shadows of the Spanish Civil War - Jason Webster 23. Faith within reason - Herbert McCabe 24. Best Gay love stories 2010 - edited by Brad Nichols 25. Why go to church? the drama of the eucharist - Timothy Radcliffe 26. The thirties: an intimate history: Juliet Gardiner 27. The mystery of faith: reflections on the encyclical Eccelesia de Eucharistia 28. Novel about my wife - Emily Perkins 29. Pius XII: the hound of Hitler - Gerard Noel 30. Catholics: Britain's largest minority - Dennis Sewell 31. The man who disappeared - Clare Morrall 32. The lion and the unicorn: Gladstone v. Disraeli - Richard Aldous 33. The origins of Christmas - Joseph F. Kelly 34. Chamberlain and the lost peace - John Charmley 35. A class divided: appeasement and the road to Munich, 1938 - Robert Shepherd 36. Michael Foot: a portrait - Simon Hoggart and David Leigh 37. Beside ourselves: our hidden personality in everyday life - Naomi Quenk 38. Labour and the Left in the 1930s - Ben Pimlott 39. The age of alignment: electoral politics in Britain 1922-1929 - Chris Cook 40. Found wanting: women, Christianity and sexuality - Alison R. Webster 41. Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell 42. The lord of the rings: the mythology of power - Jane Chance 43. The two Irelands, 1912-1939 - David Fitzpatrick 44. War from a Quaker point of view - John W. Graham 45. What's left? Labour Britain and the socialist tradition - David Powell 46. Rooted in Christianity, open to new light: Quaker spiritual diversity - Timothy Newell and Alex Wildwood 47. How to be idle - Tom Hodgkinson 48. Wartime dissent in America: a history and anthology 49. Instances of the number 3 - Sally Vickers 50. The prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark 51. The downfall of the Liberal Party 1914-1935 - Trevor Wilson More to follow. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iff Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 15. The battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 - Antony Beevor 22. Guerra! living in the shadows of the Spanish Civil War - Jason Webster what were your thoughts on these two books? thre spanish civil war is something i'd like to read more about Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nalle Neversure Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 1. Memoirs of A Geisha - Arthur Golden 2. Someone Special - Sheila O'Flanagan 3. The Tiger's Child - Torey Hayden 4. I'll Scream Later - Marlee Matlin 5. Vielä on toivoa - Marian Keyes 6. The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson 7. Beautiful Child - Torey Hayden 8. Alastonkuvia - Virpi Hämeen-Anttila 9. Mallitoimisto Pandora - Tuija Lehtinen 10. And I Don't Want to Live This Life - Deborah Spungen 11. Hiljaisuuden lapsi - Thomas S. Spradley and James P. Spradley 12. Linda McCartney - Danny Fields 13. Hunting and Gathering - Anna Gavalda 14. The Summoning - Kelley Armstrong 15. The Awakening - Kelley Armstrong 16. The Reckoning - Kelley Armstrong 17. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Seems like I failed the challenge, 7 hours of 2010 left. :lol: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LonePiper Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 1. After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC - Steven Mithen 2. Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris 3. A Brief History of Time - Steven Hawking 4. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien 5. The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind 6. Bad Astronomy - Philip Plait 7. The Ring Sets Out - J.R.R. Tolkien 8. The Real Middle Earth - Brian Bates 9. The Ring goes South - J.R.R. Tolkien 10. The Black Pearl - Scott O'Dell 11. He Died with a Felafel in his Hand - John Birmingham 12. Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City - Gwendolyn Leick 13. The Treason of Isengard - J.R.R. Tolkien 14. Spacewreck: Ghostships and Derelicts of Space - Stewart Cowley 15. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin Abbott Abbott 16. The Ring goes East - J.R.R. Tolkien 17. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 18. So You're Going to Wear the Kilt! - J. Charles Thompson 19. The War of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien 20. The End of the Third Age - J.R.R. Tolkien 21. A Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne 22. Egypt and the Egyptians - Douglas J. Brewer and Emily Teeter 23. The Mask of Dimitrios - Eric Ambler 24. Triple your Reading Speed - Wade E. Cutler 25. Who? - Algis Budrys 26. The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene 27. Nineteen eighty-four - George Orwell 28. The Field Guide to Geology - David Lambert and the Diagram Group 29. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde 30. The Greatest Show on Earth: the Evidence for Evolution - Richard Dawkins 31. Making Money - Terry Pratchett 32. The Complete Far Side - Gary Larson 33. The Ancestors's Tale - Richard Dawkins 34. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess 35. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon 36. The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett 37. Nation - Terry Pratchett 38. Life in Ancient Rome - F.R. Cowell 39. Contact - Carl Sagan 40. Last Orders - Graham Swift 41. The Mouse and his Child - Russell Hoban 42. The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Göthe 43. The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster - Bobby Henderson 44. The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett 45. The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett 46. The Science of Discworld - Terry Pratchett, Ian Steward and Jack Cohen 47. Sourcery - Terry Pratchett Yeah, that was predictable. I didn't make it. Well, I figure I didn't pick up the challenge until a few weeks into the year so I'm going to award myself a bit of extra time to get those last three books done! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ame Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Okay, so this year for sure I will do this and keep extreme track. I'm including the books I am reading now, and I will edit/update this post as I add more. 1. A New History of Shinto - John Breen/Mark Teeuen **** 2. The Earth Path - Starhawk ** 3. The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How it has Undermined Women - Susan Douglas/Meredith Michaels *** 4. Full Frontal Feminism - Jessica Valenti ** 5. White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture - Chrys Ingraham **** 6. Cult of Power: Sex Discrimination in Corporate America and What Can Be Done About It - Martha Burk ***** 7. Shakti Woman: The New Female Shamanism - Vicki Noble *** 8. Zen Women: Beyond Tea Ladies, Iron Maidens, and Macho Masters - Grace Schireson **** 9. Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation - Veronica Chambers **** 10. The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Workship - Karen A. Smyers ***** 11. The Gnostic Bible: Revised and Expanded - edited by Willis Barnstone/Marvin Meyer The ones without stars are in-progress, the ones with ratings are finished. Last edit: January 15 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
drnick Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 As mooted somewhere above I am tempted now to read all the very long books I have not read in the last year. First I need to finish 'Anna Karenina', then I might tackle 'Don Quixote'. Then perhaps the whole of 'The Forsyte Saga', or maybe 'A Dance to the Music of Time'. I will also continue on my reading the entire Bible project. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayleen Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Yay, I find this topic great and am entering my 2011 reading with 1. Thomas Brezina: Katie Cat (Yes, I realise it's a childern's comic but it was great, reminded me what sort of books I loved when younger, besides it's a lovely story about being different. Yay for cross dressing characters in youth literature!) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Philip Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 iff, on 31 December 2010 - 8.50 AM, said Philip, on 31 December 2010 - 8.36 AM, said 15. The battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 - Antony Beevor 22. Guerra! living in the shadows of the Spanish Civil War - Jason Webster What were your thoughts on these two books? The battle for Spain is an excellent comprehensive and detailed history of the Spanish Civil War. It is a very good introduction to that vicious and tragic conflict. Guerra! is a mixture of history, biography and travelogue. Jason Webster writes about his Spanish friends and adventures in Spain, interspersed with a history of the Spanish Civil War. I enjoyed both books very much. Sometime before November I lost the notebooks in which I had listed the books I was reading, so I had to reconstruct my list of books from library catalogues and my memory of the books I have at home which I read last year. Another book I read last year was Chopin 2010. I don't remember if I read Party of one: the loners' manifesto by Anneli Rufus last year or 2009. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LonePiper Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 1. After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC - Steven Mithen 2. Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris 3. A Brief History of Time - Steven Hawking 4. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien 5. The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind 6. Bad Astronomy - Philip Plait 7. The Ring Sets Out - J.R.R. Tolkien 8. The Real Middle Earth - Brian Bates 9. The Ring goes South - J.R.R. Tolkien 10. The Black Pearl - Scott O'Dell 11. He Died with a Felafel in his Hand - John Birmingham 12. Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City - Gwendolyn Leick 13. The Treason of Isengard - J.R.R. Tolkien 14. Spacewreck: Ghostships and Derelicts of Space - Stewart Cowley 15. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin Abbott Abbott 16. The Ring goes East - J.R.R. Tolkien 17. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 18. So You're Going to Wear the Kilt! - J. Charles Thompson 19. The War of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien 20. The End of the Third Age - J.R.R. Tolkien 21. A Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne 22. Egypt and the Egyptians - Douglas J. Brewer and Emily Teeter 23. The Mask of Dimitrios - Eric Ambler 24. Triple your Reading Speed - Wade E. Cutler 25. Who? - Algis Budrys 26. The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene 27. Nineteen eighty-four - George Orwell 28. The Field Guide to Geology - David Lambert and the Diagram Group 29. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde 30. The Greatest Show on Earth: the Evidence for Evolution - Richard Dawkins 31. Making Money - Terry Pratchett 32. The Complete Far Side - Gary Larson 33. The Ancestors's Tale - Richard Dawkins 34. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess 35. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon 36. The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett 37. Nation - Terry Pratchett 38. Life in Ancient Rome - F.R. Cowell 39. Contact - Carl Sagan 40. Last Orders - Graham Swift 41. The Mouse and his Child - Russell Hoban 42. The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Göthe 43. The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster - Bobby Henderson 44. The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett 45. The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett 46. The Science of Discworld - Terry Pratchett, Ian Steward and Jack Cohen 47. Sourcery - Terry Pratchett 48. The War of the Worlds - H G Wells Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Larissa Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 I read a lot in December however that was 2010 so fff ;p 1) Stages of Mediation - Dalai Lama 2) The Best of Buddhist Writing 2008 3) Zen and the Art of Happiness 4) By The River Piedra, I Sat Down and Wept Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Damaris Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 Last of 2010 List: 52. The Straw Men - Michael Marshall - serial/mass killer thriller 53. The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino - detective suspense So that finishes off last year's reading. And I haven't finished any new ones yet, but I'm currently reading... 1. The Upright Man - Michael Marshall 2. The Secret Soldier - Alex Berenson 3. Dark Masques - [anthology] So they should be among the first of my 2011 List. :) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iff Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 iff, on 31 December 2010 - 8.50 AM, said Philip, on 31 December 2010 - 8.36 AM, said 15. The battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 - Antony Beevor 22. Guerra! living in the shadows of the Spanish Civil War - Jason Webster What were your thoughts on these two books? The battle for Spain is an excellent comprehensive and detailed history of the Spanish Civil War. It is a very good introduction to that vicious and tragic conflict. Guerra! is a mixture of history, biography and travelogue. Jason Webster writes about his Spanish friends and adventures in Spain, interspersed with a history of the Spanish Civil War. I enjoyed both books very much. Sometime before November I lost the notebooks in which I had listed the books I was reading, so I had to reconstruct my list of books from library catalogues and my memory of the books I have at home which I read last year. Another book I read last year was Chopin 2010. I don't remember if I read Party of one: the loners' manifesto by Anneli Rufus last year or 2009. thanks. Guerra sounds similar to "Ghosts of Spain" by Giles Tremlett (which i found excellent) if i read one of them, it'll be battle for spain :) cheers Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Philip Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 First book I've finished reading this year, though I started it last year, is Making the difference: Essays in honour of Shirley Williams. Edited by Andrew Duff. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Damaris Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Woohoo! Numero Uno for 2011... The Secret Soldier - Alex Berenson - CIA semi-rogue op in Arabia Hopefully the first of many... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
drnick Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 I was thinking about this, and the problem that reading 50 books in a year doesn't take into account the varying lengths of different works. So I propose the target for 2011 should be to read 15,000 pages. This means reading a long book will count for more than a short one. In which case, I'm so far on 471. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Damaris Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 I propose the target for 2011 should be to read 15,000 pages. In which case, I'm so far on 471. Well, that would equal 300 pages per book if you divide it up so I think that's an admirable goal. I think I'll keep track of both, and shoot for both goals; according to my Goodreads account, last year I read 53 books with a total of 18,983 pages. I might not outdo (or even match) that this year but it'll be a good foundation for comparison. 1. The Secret Soldier - Alex Berenson - CIA semi-rogue op in Arabia 2. Dark Masques - [anthology] - short fiction; horror/suspense Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LonePiper Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 I was thinking about this, and the problem that reading 50 books in a year doesn't take into account the varying lengths of different works. So I propose the target for 2011 should be to read 15,000 pages. This means reading a long book will count for more than a short one. In which case, I'm so far on 471. Meh... I took it as just an extra level of challenge. If I wanted to read a particularly long book I either tried to read it really fast, or I'd make up for time lost by reading a couple of shorter books afterwards. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iff Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 I was thinking about this, and the problem that reading 50 books in a year doesn't take into account the varying lengths of different works. So I propose the target for 2011 should be to read 15,000 pages. This means reading a long book will count for more than a short one. In which case, I'm so far on 471. great idea. it encourages me to read 2666 by roberto bolano with 897 pages or so. :D i'm at 595 so far :) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
green pumpkin Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 iff, on 31 December 2010 - 8.50 AM, said Philip, on 31 December 2010 - 8.36 AM, said 15. The battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 - Antony Beevor 22. Guerra! living in the shadows of the Spanish Civil War - Jason Webster What were your thoughts on these two books? The battle for Spain is an excellent comprehensive and detailed history of the Spanish Civil War. It is a very good introduction to that vicious and tragic conflict. Guerra! is a mixture of history, biography and travelogue. Jason Webster writes about his Spanish friends and adventures in Spain, interspersed with a history of the Spanish Civil War. I enjoyed both books very much. Sometime before November I lost the notebooks in which I had listed the books I was reading, so I had to reconstruct my list of books from library catalogues and my memory of the books I have at home which I read last year. Another book I read last year was Chopin 2010. I don't remember if I read Party of one: the loners' manifesto by Anneli Rufus last year or 2009. thanks. Guerra sounds similar to "Ghosts of Spain" by Giles Tremlett (which i found excellent) if i read one of them, it'll be battle for spain :) cheers If I may, The battle for Spain is too much about the politics and too little about the actual battles. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
green pumpkin Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 1. Porcelain On Steel | Women of West Point's Long Gray Line - Donna M. McAleer 2. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream - H. G. Bissinger 3. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir - Nick Flynn Roughly 1100 pages (I'm using only my kindle to read so I have to check the number of pages of a printed edition) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TreacleSponge Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 1. Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world - Haruki Murakami 2. Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iff Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 My 2011 list 1. This Side of Brightness - Colum McCann ***** 241 pages 2. Oddballs: A Novel of Affections - Manchan Magan **** 247 pages Total pages in completed books 488 pages [total does not include currently reading] Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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