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5 hours ago, Anie said:

I went to Waterstones while waiting for a friend and I accidentally bought Vicious and another book. Whoops! Just as well though because I found out that V. E. Schwab is doing a talk there soon and now I can’t wait! The Poppy War looks good and definitely my kind of book so that will be going on my birthday list when that comes around (Happy birthday btw).  

I'm so jealous! I'd love to meet her. 😭

 

I can definitely relate to "accidentally" buying books. :ph34r:

 

Awww, thanks! I'm excited. 😄

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2019

  1. Doctor Who: Ish ... - Phillip Pascoe
  2. Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time - Paul Cornell
  3. Reversal of Fortune: The Ducati Op - Kathleen McClure
  4. The Chains of Their Sins - Anna Butler
  5. Day of Wrath - Anna Butler
  6. The Callahan Chronicles - Spider Robinson
  7. Doctor Who: The Light at the End - Nicholas Briggs
  8. Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction - Alec Nevala-Lee
  9. The Callahan Touch - Spider Robinson
  10. Trapped - Kevin Hearne
  11. Martians, Go Home - Frederic Brown
  12. Stranger on the Shore - Josh Lanyon
  13. Be Fairy Game - Meghan Maslow
  14. Other People's Weddings - Josh Lanyon
  15. Charmed Heart - Sarah M. Miller
  16. Bailey's Ninth Life - Stephani Hecht
  17. The Tournament of Supervillainy - C.T. Phipps
  18. Jackoby - William Ritter
  19. Archaeology in Fiction - Dr. Scott Viguie
  20. Soldier of Fortune - Kathleen McClure
  21. Devouring Flame - E.J. Russell
  22. Hunted - Kevin Hearne
  23. Doctor Strange: The Oath - Brian K. Vaughn
  24. Thirdspace (Babylon-5) - Peter David
  25. In Any Light - Sam Burns
  26.  Etiquette & Espionage - Gail Carriger
  27. Ant-Man: Natural Enemy - Jason Starr
  28. Beastly Bones (Jackoby #2) - William Ritter
  29. Demon on the Low Down - E.J. Russell
  30. Eagle in the Hawthorn - Sam Burns
  31. Shattered - Kevin Hearne
  32. Not Dead Yet - Jenn Burke
  33. Stealing His Heart - Bru Baker
  34. Staked - Kevin Hearne
  35. Ghost of a Chance - Ari McKay
  36. Scourged - Kevin Hearne
  37. The Sidekicks Initiative - Barry J. Huchtison
  38. Rock N Soul - Lauren Sattersby
  39. Shane's Assassins Disaster - Stephanie Hecht
  40. Stumptown Spirits - E.J. Russell
  41. A Record of a Space Born Few - Becky Chambers
  42. Rise of Renegade X (Renegade X #1) - Chelsea M. Campbell
  43. The Case of the Empty Throne - Brian Olsen
  44. Do or Die - Suzanne Brockmann
  45. Free Fall - Suzanne Brockmann
  46. Home Fire Inferno - Suzanne Brockmann
  47. Some Kind of Hero - Suzanne Brockmann
  48. Cold as Clay - Stephen Osborne
  49. Ready to Roll - Suzanne Brockmann
  50. Royal Rescue - A. Alex Logan - 🎂 AroAce MC! Great story.
  51. Fated - Benedict Jacka
  52. Murder House - Jordan Castillo Price
  53. A Body in a Bath House - Brad Shreve
  54. The Mercenaries of the Stolen Moon - Megan Derr
  55. The Little Death (Henry Rios #1) - Michael Nava
  56. Quill Me Now - Jordan Castillo Price
  57. An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon
  58. Goldenboy (Henry Rios #2) - Michael Nava
  59. Trouble in Taco Town - Jordan Castillo Price
  60. The Sentinel's Prophecy - Mel Eight
  61. Howtown (Henry Rios #3) - Michael Nava
  62. The Painted Crown - Megan Derr
  63. The Hidden Law (Henry Rios #4) - Michael Nava
  64. Noble's Honor - Glynn Stewart

Pages read to date: 14998.

May 15, 2019

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Um...I read super, super fast, so...I guess I'll just list the books I read...

 

This past week:

Soul Music [Terry Pratchett]

Lords and Ladies [Terry Pratchett]

Charmed Life [Diana Wynne Jones]

Conversations With God Book 1, 3, and the New Revelations [Neale Donald Walsch]

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Lee's 2019 List!

Full disclaimer: I'm currently working toward my English Lit degree, so this is going to be a bit of a haphazard list, lol.

An * indicates it was read for class.

 

1. The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang (★★★★½) (530 pages)

2. *America: A Narrative History, Vol. 1 by David E. Shi and George Brown Tindal (★★★★) ([pages redacted])

3. *Song of Myself by Walt Whitman (★★★★) (80 pages)

4. Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning (★★★) (303 pages)

5. *The War Prayer by Mark Twain (★★★★) (5 pages)

6. *The Notorious Jumping Frog of Claveras County by Mark Twain (★) (160 pages)

7. If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim (★★½) (417 pages)

8. *The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins GIlman (★★★★) (64 pages)

9. *The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin (★★★★★) (23 pages) (re-read)

10. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (★★★★½) (722 pages)

11. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden (★★★★★) (210 pages)

 

Total Pages: 2,514

 

I had a bit less of a productive month in February. 😢 College got in the way, and Lamora is a big book, so I spent a good amount of the month reading that. Spring break is coming up, though, so hopefully, I'll get more reading done then. :)

 

(I'm still four books ahead of my reading challenge on Goodreads, though!)

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I love this topic so I'll list some books too😊:

1. Elizabeth Acevedo-The poet X

2. Becky Albertalli-Simon vs the homo-sapiens agenda

3.Francesca Zappia-Eliza and her monsters

4. Jandy Nelson-I'll give you the sun

5. Robin Roe-A list of cages

6. V. E. Schwab-Vicious

7. Leigh Bardugo-Six of crows

These are the ones I've read so far in 2019 but there are more I want to read.

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iff's list 2019

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1. The plot against America by Philip Roth  ★★★★★  reread 163 pages

2. Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori ★★★★★ 391 pages

3. The Orange Groove - larry Tremlay, translated by Sheila Fischman  ★★1/2 138 pages

4. My Year of Meats - Ruth Ozeki ★★★★  430 pages

 

 

5. call me by your name - andre aciman ★★★ 248 pages

6.  dry season - gabriela babnik, translated by rawley grau ★★ 212 pages

7. clean - juno dawson ★★★★★ 399 pages

8. kingdom cons - yuri herrera, translated by lisa dillman ★★★★ 103 pages

 

Pages total - 2,084 (not including currently reading)

 

loved juno dawson's novel

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✿ Camelia ✿

Books thread *^*

 

So far this year I've read:

» A Kingdom of Ashes - Sarah J. Maas

» La libertà viaggia in treno (Freedom travels by train--or something?) - Federico Pace
» A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas

» A Court of Mist and Fury - Sarah J. Maas

» A Court of Wings and Ruin - Sarah J. Maas

» A Court of Frost and Starlight - Sarah J. Maas

» Deep Learning with Python - François Chollet (-- which counts because it wasn't for studying 😂 just interest)

» InterWorld - Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves

 

... and since I have nothing new to read, I'm re-reading the SJM series because I didn't have the patience to do it before gobbling down the last of her TOG series. I'm halfway through the 4th book re-read plus the prequel novellas.

(I do like this author, don't I?)

 

Now I'm saving up for Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds, and Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick which I really really wanna read since I've heard very good reviews. 

 

My species ain't human. My species is bookworm. 

So I'm going to take up any new suggestion too :D 

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On 2/6/2019 at 11:42 PM, ByASpringForASpell said:

List for 2019

  1. The Trial by Franz Kafka — ★★★★½ (231 pages) [reread]

  2. The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick — ★★★★✩ (70 pages)

  3. Fatelessness by Imre Kertész — ★★★★✩ (262 pages)

4. The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth — ★★★★✩ (180 pages)

5. Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow — ★★★★✩ (260 pages)

6. Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano — ★★★½✩ (119 pages)

 

Total pages: 1,122

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I’m currently reading:

•Waiter rant

•Tuesday with morrie

•Defcon one

•Brain jack

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@ColeHW I used to read only one book at a time. Nowadays it's not so unusual for me to read more, usually when the book I started first is too complicated for how I'm feeling when I start another book. It's quite rare for me to be reading 4 at the same time, though. I usually finish the books in reverse order of when I started them (LIFO). I'd be interested in other people's habits.

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So far I've read:

1. My sister loved on the mantelpiece -  Annabel Pitcher 

2. Truth or dare - Non Pratt

3. The unpredictability of being human - Linni Ingemundsen 

4. More Happy Than Not - Adam Silvera

5. Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell 

6. Nobody's Son - Cathy Glass

7. I have lost my way - Gayle Forman

8. The exact opposite of ok- Laura Steven

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It's that time again! 😄

 

Lee's 2019 List!

Full disclaimer: I'm currently working toward my English Lit degree, so this is going to be a bit of a haphazard list, lol.

An * indicates it was read for class.

 

1. The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang (★★★★½) (530 pages)

2. *America: A Narrative History, Vol. 1 by David E. Shi and George Brown Tindal (★★★★) ([pages redacted])

3. *Song of Myself by Walt Whitman (★★★★) (80 pages)

4. Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning (★★★) (303 pages)

5. *The War Prayer by Mark Twain (★★★★) (5 pages)

6. *The Notorious Jumping Frog of Claveras County by Mark Twain (★) (160 pages)

7. If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim (★★½) (417 pages)

8. *The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins GIlman (★★★★) (64 pages)

9. *The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin (★★★★★) (23 pages) (re-read)

10. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (★★★★½) (722 pages)

11. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden (★★★★★) (210 pages)

12. The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky (★★★★) (144 pages)

13. *The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (★★) (180 pages)

14. White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky (★★★) (82 pages)

15. *MLA Handbook 8th Edition by Modern Language Association (★) (146 pages)

16. Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa (★★★) (409 pages)

 

Total Pages: 3,475

 

Technically, I'm still reading Shadow of the Fox, but I only have fifty pages left, so I'll add it in now. ^__^

 

(I am so looking forward to summer, asdfghjkl.)

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9.  The voyage out,                                                        Virginia Woolf
14. The philosopher kings                                          Jo Walton
10. The next big thing,                                                  Anita Brookner
6.  Annihilation,                                                               Jeff VanderMeer
13. Authority,                                                                   Jeff VanderMeer
16. Harry Potter and the half-blood prince,            J. K. Rowling
4.  Harry Potter and the deathly hallows,                J. K. Rowling
12. Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix,    J. K. Rowling
15. Angels & Insects                                                      A. S. Byatt
18. Harry Potter and the methods of rationality, Eliezer Yudkowsky
17. Altered carbon,                                                        Richard Morgan
2.  Harry Potter and the goblet of fire,                     J. K. Rowling
3.  The chalk artist,                                                        Allegra Goodman
19. Fasting, feasting,                                                     Anita Desai
8.  Our friends from Frolix 8,                                     Philip K. Dick
7.  Transit,                                                                        Rachel Cusk
5.  The benefactor,                                                        Susan Sontag
1.  The mum who'd had enough,                            Fiona Gibson
11. Illusions,                                                                   Aprilynne Pike

That's ordered with my favourite first and numbered in the order I've read them.

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I set my goodreads number of books to read challenge at 24 this year (I set it higher last year and didn't make it - but so far this year am ahead of schedule).

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I don’t beat myself up if I don’t reach 50 books because I tend to read longer books. It’s usually closer to 30-35. So far in 2019 I’ve read Victoria Aveyard’s “Red Queen” trilogy (not bad), Pierce Brown’s “Red Rising” series (loved it) and a smattering of Diana Gabaldon novellas.

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16 hours ago, Mona Lisa said:

I don’t beat myself up if I don’t reach 50 books because I tend to read longer books. It’s usually closer to 30-35. So far in 2019 I’ve read Victoria Aveyard’s “Red Queen” trilogy (not bad), Pierce Brown’s “Red Rising” series (loved it) and a smattering of Diana Gabaldon novellas.

Quality over quantity is a great way to go. Enjoy your reading!

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8 minutes ago, fuzzipueo said:

Quality over quantity is a great way to go. Enjoy your reading!

Words to live by. 😄 I'm looking forward to summer and cracking open all of the tomes I've had to put off because of schoolwork.

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9 minutes ago, fuzzipueo said:

Quality over quantity is a great way to go. Enjoy your reading!

Agreed, enjoying it is the most important thing.

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iff's list 2019

Spoiler

 

1. The plot against America by Philip Roth  ★★★★★  reread 163 pages

2. Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori ★★★★★ 391 pages

3. The Orange Groove - larry Tremlay, translated by Sheila Fischman  ★★1/2 138 pages

4. My Year of Meats - Ruth Ozeki ★★★★  430 pages

5. call me by your name - andre aciman ★★★ 248 pages

6.  dry season - gabriela babnik, translated by rawley grau ★★ 212 pages

7. clean - juno dawson ★★★★★ 399 pages

8. kingdom cons - yuri herrera, translated by lisa dillman ★★★★ 103 pages

 

 

9. Maya's notebook - Isabel Allende translated by Anne McLean ★★★★★ 387 pages reread

10. Leonard and Hungry Paul - Ronan Hession ★★★★ 1/2  240 pages

11. freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi ★★★★ 229 pages

12. Four Soldiers - Hubert Mingarelli, translated by Sam Taylor ★★★★★ 155 pages

13. Number one chinese restaurant - lillian li ★★★ 1/2 329 pages

 

 

Pages total - 3,204 (not including currently reading)

 

four soldiers review

 

Spoiler

Four Soldiers is set during the Russian Civil War in 1919, somewhere on the front near Romanian and as the title tells us, there are four soldiers as part of a company of the Red Army who have been ordered to the woods on the borders with Romania waiting for orders to decamp. There is the narrator from Kirov (well the city now known as Kirov), the intelligent Pavel who has made plans for the their hut for sleeping so that they are protected, Uzbek soldier Kyabine, a guy who really shouldn't gamble his tobacco in games of Dice as he doesn't win (a thought while reading is how can you lose so many games of Dice, which would be a game of chance?). Kyabine reminds me of lenny from Of Mice & Men, he is a very strong, diligent hardworker but not clever and then there is the quiet sifra who can put a gun together with his eyes closed. Threre is a guardedness to them when forced to take on a fifth soldier to their hut by the Lieutenant, a young teenager enlisted from the Lake Ladoga area but after they realise he isn't going any where, there is a paternal protectiveness towards the new recruit.

the conditions are hard but with the help of each of the four working together in the base, they have made the best of what they can. For example, at there hut they have used tins to protect from rain and when they had been in retreat from the Polish front, they got a tarp for protection.

The narrative is minimalist and Taylor's translation is similar to his superb translation of David foenkinos' Charlotte. There is a really good restraint to it and it works really well in this to create the feeling that as well as the reader, the soldiers in the sense of them waiting for orders but wanting to take it easy. As the song goes, the waiting is the hardest part. .

another quote was from the war series generation war, the line being about after a while fighting for your friends and i got the real sense that the four soldiers main purpose now is not the cause of socialism, socialism never being mentioned, but they have stuck it out for each other, to be there for them.

I thought this was a superb novel and finished it in one day (it is also only 150 pages.

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leonard and hungry paul review

 

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This novel is about 2 friends, Leonard and Hungry Paul as they try to make their way in life. Leonard works writing encyclopedias without getting credit for it and his mother has just died so there is change in his life because of that while Hungry Paul's parents are approaching retirement age and his sister is getting married at Easter. He works as an occasional postman as he feels it wouldn't be fair for him to take up a full job from another person. They are friends and occassionally meet at Hungry Paul's to play board games. Life ensues, between the wedding, there are also in Hungry Paul's family, pushes to make him do more from the mild suggestions of his mother to the pushiness of his sister who for the sake of their parents want him to give them a life and break now that they are retiring.

As part of moving on, Leonard develops feeling for the fire safety office at his work and him and her start going on a date or two.

There is humour worked in to the novel, some scenes are very funny as are some lines. Particularly nice was one involving chocolates

As a musician, Hession made 3 albums under the name Mumblin' Deaf Ro which were very good and it is really nice to see him writing novels. He uses a similar sensitivity in his voice as he did with the books (the start with Leonard's mother passing away reminded me of his song Cade Calf Call, a cade calf being a calf whose mother has died).

A very good debut, I really enjoyed this book. It is a funny, coming of age novel about thirty somethings. An enjoyable read.

* * * * 1/2

i don't usually read books as soon as they come out but circumstances transpired that this ended up being started the day I got it (I didn't have a book with me to read when I got it so basically within 15 minutes of buying it, I was reading it :D I do not regret it one bit as it is a really good novel)

 

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Update:

 

1. Republic of Thieves - Scott Lynch

2. A Conjuring of Light - V. E. Schwab

3. The Crown Tower - Michael J. Sullivan

4. The DUFF - Kody Keplinger

5. The Rose and the Thorn - Michael J. Sullivan

6. Royal Bastards - Andrew Shvarts ((currently reading))

7. The Death of Dulgath - Michael J. Sullivan

8. Theft of Swords - Michael J. Sullivan

9. Rise of Empire - Michael J. Sullivan

10. Heir of Novron - Michael J. Sullivan

11. Vicious - V. E. Schwab

12. Truthwitch - Susan Dennard ((currently reading))

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In 2018 I read 82 books and I'm still impressed with myself even 4 months later hahaha. This year I'm lagging behind and don't know if 50 books will be possible, because uni is tough and learning a language time-consuming. Still, here is what I read so far in 2019 (including non-fiction and comics):

 

1. Lords and Ladies - Terry Pratchett

2. Maskerade - Terry Pratchett

3. Fence (Volume 2) - C.S. Pacat, Johanna the Mad

4. White Chrysanthemum - Mary Lynn Bracht

5. Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett

6. Women and Confucianism in Choson Korea - Youngmin Kim, Michael Pettid

7. Women of the Yi-Dynasty - Sookmyung Women's University

8. Women of Korea - Kim Yung-chung

9. Measuring the world - Daniel Kehlmann

10. 82년생 김지영 - 조남주

11. Homestories: Korean diaspora in Vienna (1) - Vina Yun

12. Homestories: Korean diaspora in Vienna (2) - Vina Yun

13. Poor man's wife (빈처) - Eun Hee-kyung

 

This year I want to have a ratio of less than 50% white cis male authors (but Terry Pratchett is making this difficult haha).

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1. The plot against America by Philip Roth  ★★★★★  reread 163 pages

2. Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori ★★★★★ 391 pages

3. The Orange Groove - larry Tremlay, translated by Sheila Fischman  ★★1/2 138 pages

4. My Year of Meats - Ruth Ozeki ★★★★  430 pages

5. call me by your name - andre aciman ★★★ 248 pages

6.  dry season - gabriela babnik, translated by rawley grau ★★ 212 pages

7. clean - juno dawson ★★★★★ 399 pages

8. kingdom cons - yuri herrera, translated by lisa dillman ★★★★ 103 pages

9. Maya's notebook - Isabel Allende translated by Anne McLean ★★★★★ 387 pages reread

10. Leonard and Hungry Paul - Ronan Hession ★★★★ 1/2  240 pages

11. freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi ★★★★ 229 pages

12. Four Soldiers - Hubert Mingarelli, translated by Sam Taylor ★★★★★ 155 pages

13. Number one chinese restaurant - lillian li ★★★ 1/2 329 pages

 

 

14. milkman - anna burns ★★★★ 348 pages

15. home fire - kamila shamsie ★★★★★ 260 pages

16. the remainder - alia trabucco zeran translated by sophie hughes ★★★★ 193 pages

17. the brothers - asko sahlberg ★★ 1/2  122 pages

18. Lullaby - Leila Slimani translated by Sam Taylor ★★★★★ 207 pages

 

Pages total - 4,334 (not including currently reading) 

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I just realized I forgot to update this. :ph34r: Will have to do that as soon as I get home.

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I'm a little late with this list. 😶 Oh well.

 

Lee's 2019 List!

Full disclaimer: I'm currently working toward my English Lit degree, so this is going to be a bit of a haphazard list, lol.

An * indicates it was read for class.

 

1. The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang (★★★★½) (530 pages)

2. *America: A Narrative History, Vol. 1 by David E. Shi and George Brown Tindal (★★★★) ([pages redacted])

3. *Song of Myself by Walt Whitman (★★★★) (80 pages)

4. Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning (★★★) (303 pages)

5. *The War Prayer by Mark Twain (★★★★) (5 pages)

6. *The Notorious Jumping Frog of Claveras County by Mark Twain (★) (160 pages)

7. If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim (★★½) (417 pages)

8. *The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins GIlman (★★★★) (64 pages)

9. *The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin (★★★★★) (23 pages) (re-read)

10. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (★★★★½) (722 pages)

11. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden (★★★★★) (210 pages)

12. The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky (★★★★) (144 pages)

13. *The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (★★) (180 pages)

14. White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky (★★★) (82 pages)

15. *MLA Handbook 8th Edition by Modern Language Association (★) (146 pages)

16. Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa (★★) (409 pages)

17. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware (★★★★) (308 pages)

18. *Impotent by Matthew Roberson (★) (166 pages)

19. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (★★★★) (353 pages) (re-read)

 

Total Pages: 4,302

 

Another unproductive month, hrejkfldsf. But now I'm free for the summer, so I can devote my spare time to reading. 😄

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(3) 1. Arnopp, Jason. Te Last Days of Jack Sparks. 2016. 376 pages 9

(5) 2. Atkinson, Kate. Life After Life. 2013. 529 pages. 8

(3) 3. Barrett, Shirley. The Bus on Thursday. 2018. 290 pages. 4

(1) 4. Birbiglia, Mike. Sleepwalk With Me. 2010. 190 pages. 10 (r)

(4) 5. Buergenthal, Thomas. A Lucky Child. 2007. 225 pages 9

(3) 6. Buntin, Julie. Marlena. 2017. 271 pages 6

(1) 7.Capote, Truman. The Early Stories of Truman Capote. 2015. 167 pages. 8

(2) 8. Carter, TE. I Stop Somewhere. 2018. 298 pages. 10

(1) 9. Conley, Garrard. Boy Erased. 2016. 338 pages 7

(5) 10. Crouch, Blake. Dark Matter. 2016 340 pages. 8 (r)

(4) 11. Cutter, Nick. The Deep. 2015. 394 pages 3

(5) 12. Cutter, Nick. The Troop. 2014. 355 pages. 10 (r)

(2) 13. DeBoard, Paula Treick. The Drowning Girls. 2016. 369 pages 4

(3) 14. Dickey, Colin. Ghostland. 2016 285 pages 6

(1) 15. Doctorow, Cory. Charles Stross. The Rapture of the Nerds. 2012. 349 pages 6

(3) 16. Doctorow, Cory. Walkaway. 2017. 379 pages 7

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(5) 20. Fforde, Jasper. One of Our Thursdays are Missing. 2011. 359 pages 5

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(1)21. Fforde, Jasper. Well of Lost Plots. 2003. 373 pages.10 (r)

(4) 22. Fisher, Helen. Anatomy of Love. 2016. 380 pages. 7

(5) 23. Flynn, Gillian. Gone Girl. 2012.432 pages. 7 (r)

(1)24. Herman, Eleanor. The Royal Art of Poison. 2018. 266 pages.9

(5) 25. Hunt, Laird. In the House in the Dark of the Woods. 2018. 214 pages

(3) 26. Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God.1937 193 pages 7 (r)

(4) 27. Jewell, Lisa. Then She Was Gone. 2017. 356 pages. 8

(4) 28. Jewell, Lisa. Watching You. 2018. 324 pages. 9

(2) 29..Kaling, Mindy. Is Everyone Hanging out Without me? 2011 219 pages. 6

(4) 30. Ketchum, Jack. The Girl Next Door. 1989. 294 pages.9

(2) 31. King, Stephen. Elevation. 2018. 145 pages 10

(3) 32. Kluger, Jeffrey. The Narcissist Next Door. 2014 262 pages 6

(2)33. Knoll, Jessica. The Favorite Sister 2018 382 pages 9

(3) 34. Krakkauer, Jon. Under the Banner of Heaven. 2003 331 pages  7 (r)

(4) 35. Kreutzmann, Bill. Deals. 2015 365 pages 6

(3) 36. Kurbjuweit, Dirk. Fear. 2013. 257 pages 8

(2) 37. Lawson, April Ayers. Virgin. 2016 175 pages. 7

(2) 38. Machado, Carmen Maria. Her Body and Other Parties. 2017. 241 pages 8

(2)39. Mackintosh, Clare. I See You. 2016. 374 pages. 8

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(4) 43. Morrison, Toni. Beloved. 1987. 319 pages 6

(1)44. Murphy, Sean. Punk Rock Jesus. 2013. 200 pages 10 (r)

(2) 45. Ng, Celeste. Little Fires Everywhere. 2017 336 pages 9

(1)46. Peterson, Anne Helen. Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud. 2017. 234 pages 7

(1) 47.Picoult, Jodi. Leaving Time. 2014. 398 pages. 10 (r)

(5) 48. Picoult, Jodi. Sing You Home. 2011. 461 pages. 9

(1) 49. Pietra, Cheryl Della. Gonzo Girl. 2015. 263 pages. 8

(4) 50. Poore, Michael. Reincarnation Blues. 2017 371 pages. 7

(5) 51. Randall, Lisa. Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs. 2015 372 pages.

(4) 52. Rayne, Sarah. The Silence. 2015 252 pages 3

(4) 53. Rufus, Anneli. Unworthy. 2014. 264 pages 5

(4) 54. Shiga, Jason Demon vol. 1. 2016 166 pages 9

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(3) 57. Taylor, Sonya Renee. The Body is not an Apology. 2018 137 pages 6

(3) 58. Thomas, M.E. Confessions of a Sociopath 2013 300 pages 4

(2) 59. Tiwary, Vivek J. The Fifth Beatle. 2016. 136 pages 9

(1) 60. Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse five. 1969. 215 pages 10 (r)

(5) 61. Ware, Ruth. The Death of Mrs. Westaway. 2018. 368 pages. 10 (r)

(1) 62. Watterson. Bill. The indispensable Calvin and Hobbes. 1992. 255 pages 9 (r)

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(4)67. Zentner, Jeff. The Serpent King. 2016 369 pages 10

 

“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”- The indispensable Calvin and Hobbes Bill Watterson.

 

“When a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments , past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.”- Slaughterhouse Five. Kurt Vonnegut.

 

“We live in a series of moments and seasons and sense memories, strung end to end to form a sort of story.” - The Serpent King. Jeff Zentner.

 

“Religion is dangerous. It impedes human progress like a virus. It's a global opiate for the masses. It numbs us with feel-good magical thinking and inflates our egos. Two billion people starve each day while America hoards global resources for obscene over consumption. We're gorging on oil, fast food. and entertainment while we remain isolated from the true cost of our habits.”- Punk Rock Jesus, Sean Murphy.

 

“We have choices as women, and there is no right one to make- especially because no matter what you decide, the world will tell you you're doing it wrong.”- The Favorite Sister, Jessica Knoll

 

“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.” - Little Fires Everywhere. Celeste Ng.

 

“Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced.”- Life After Life. Kate Atkinson.

Number of books read monthly

Jan-14

Feb- 11

Mar-14

Apr-18

May- 12

Average Rating: 6

Number of pages read: 20449

Average pages: 305.2

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19 hours ago, WobblyWallaby said:

“Religion is dangerous. It impedes human progress like a virus. It's a global opiate for the masses. It numbs us with feel-good magical thinking and inflates our egos. Two billion people starve each day while America hoards global resources for obscene over consumption. We're gorging on oil, fast food. and entertainment while we remain isolated from the true cost of our habits.”- Punk Rock Jesus, Sean Murphy.

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@iff

Good to see a native Engish speaker reading translated books. Apparently, it's not that common.

 

I'm reading Sleeping Beauties by Stephen and Owen King. Good stuff, although the "big sleep imposed by a stranger" thing has already beed done by Stephen in Storm of the Century.

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On 5/28/2019 at 5:44 AM, Piotrek said:

@iff

Good to see a native Engish speaker reading translated books. Apparently, it's not that common.

 

thanks :) i really enjoy the writing and I particularly like the different perspectives that the translated novels bring

 

iff's list 2019

 

Spoiler

1. The plot against America by Philip Roth  ★★★★★  reread 163 pages

2. Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori ★★★★★ 391 pages

3. The Orange Groove - larry Tremlay, translated by Sheila Fischman  ★★1/2 138 pages

4. My Year of Meats - Ruth Ozeki ★★★★  430 pages

5. call me by your name - andre aciman ★★★ 248 pages

6.  dry season - gabriela babnik, translated by rawley grau ★★ 212 pages

7. clean - juno dawson ★★★★★ 399 pages

8. kingdom cons - yuri herrera, translated by lisa dillman ★★★★ 103 pages

9. Maya's notebook - Isabel Allende translated by Anne McLean ★★★★★ 387 pages reread

10. Leonard and Hungry Paul - Ronan Hession ★★★★ 1/2  240 pages

11. freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi ★★★★ 229 pages

12. Four Soldiers - Hubert Mingarelli, translated by Sam Taylor ★★★★★ 155 pages

13. Number one chinese restaurant - lillian li ★★★ 1/2 329 pages

14. milkman - anna burns ★★★★ 348 pages

15. home fire - kamila shamsie ★★★★★ 260 pages

16. the remainder - alia trabucco zeran translated by sophie hughes ★★★★ 193 pages

17. the brothers - asko sahlberg translated by Emily Jeremiah and fleur Jeremiah ★★ 1/2  122 pages

18. Lullaby - Leila Slimani translated by Sam Taylor ★★★★★ 207 pages

 

 

19. Homeland - Walter Kempowski translated by Charlotte Collins ★★★★ 188 pages

20. E.E.G. by Dasa Drndic translated by Celia hawkesworth ★★★★ 410 pages

21. Fame by Daniel kehlmann translated by Carol Brown Janeway ★★★★★ 206 pages reread

22. tell them of Battles, Kings and Elephants - Matthias Enard translated by Charlotte mandall ★★★★★ 137 pages

23. People In The room - norah Lange translated by Charlotte Whittle ★★★ 1/2 167 pages

 

 

Pages total - 5,442 (not including currently reading) 

 

I've just realised 3 of the 5 translators this month were called charlotte while the other 2 also have C names.

 

 

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