Reading Post
Reading goals, possibly little reviews, suggestions are welcome.
2010
January Reading List
Matchless, Gregory Maguire - 32/32
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley - 876/876 ( review )
Odd and the Frost Giants, Neil Gaiman - 117/117 *
The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole - 116/116
The History of the Kings of Britain, Geoffrey of Monmouth - 288/288
The Conspiracy of Catiline, Sallust - 58/58
The Assassination of Julius Caesar, Michael Parenti - 111/228
The Italian, Ann Radcliffe - 129/415
Total pages: 1,727
Goal: 1,000
February Reading List
Walking Thunder: Dine Medicine Woman, Walking Thunder - 171/171 *
Tracks, Louise Erdrich - 226/226 *
The Italian, Ann Radcliffe - [129] 415/415 (286)
“The Dream of Rhonabwy” and “Peredur, Son of Evrawc” (Welsh triads) - 33/33
Caleb Williams, William Godwin - 383/383
Lancelot, Yvain, and Perceval, Chretien de Troyes - 308/308
The Assassination of Julius Caesar, Michael Parenti [111] 228/228 (117)
Tristan, Gottfried von Strassburg - 353/353
Total pages: 1,877
Goal: 1,500
March Reading List
Morte d’Arthur (The Marriage, The Sangrail, Lancelot and Guinivere, Death of Arthur), Sir Thomas Malory - 296/296
Wieland and Carwin the Biloquist, Charles Brockden Brown - 294/294
Castle of Wolfenbach, Eliza Parson - 203/203
The Murder of Regilla, Sarah Pomeroy - 174/174
The Monk, Matthew Lewis - 456/456
Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko - 262/262
Total pages: 1,685
Goal: 2,000
April Reading List
A Delusion of Satan, Frances Hill - 250/250
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain - 360/360
Zofloya, Charlotte Dacre - 280/280
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear, Lori Alvord - 201/201
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen - 187/187 *
Total pages: 1,278
Goal: 1,500
May Reading List
Stardust, Neil Gaiman - 248/248
The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger - 536/536 *
The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch - 719/719 * [re-read]
Total pages: 1,503
Goal: 1,500
June Reading List
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho - 193/193
The Last Man, Mary Shelley - 19/342
Total pages: 212
Goal: 1,500
Total Books Read: 29
Total Pages Read: 8,282
* indicates that I loved it and recommend it
To read:
The Famished Road, Ben Okri
A Harlot High and Low, Honore de Balzac
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami
Two Spirits, Walter Williams and Toby Johnson
Looking for Lost Bird, Yvette Melanson
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Neuromancer, William Gibson
2009
January Reading List
A Lion Among Men, Gregory Maguire - 308/308 *
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen - 360/360 *
Total pages: 668
February Reading List
The Country Wife, William Wycherley - 61/61
All For Love, John Dryden - 45/45
Venice Preserv'd, Thomas Otway - 45/45
Pere Goriot, Honore de Balzac - 217/217 *
American Gods, Neil Gaiman - 588/588 *
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Gawain Poet - 53/53
Canterbury Tales (Selected Readings), Chaucer - 90/90
Astrophil and Stella, Sir Philip Sidney, 11 sonnets
Amoretti, Edmund Spenser - 5/5
Sonnets, William Shakespeare - 14 sonnets
Poems, John Donne - 9 poems and sonnets
Total pages: 1,138
March Reading List
The Luckey Chance, Aphra Behn - 69/69
Bleak House, Charles Dickens - 989/989 *
Storm Front, Jim Butcher - 322/322 *
Lost Illusions, Honore de Balzac - 454/699 ( review )
Spiderwick Chronicles, Holly Black - 567/567
Oroonoko, Thomas Southerne - 48/48
Faerie Queen, Edmund Spenser - 62/62
Total pages: 2,511
April Reading List
The Way of the World, William Congreve - 49/49
Paradise Lost, John Milton - 224/224
A Bold Stroke for a Wife, Susanna Centlivre - 40/40
The Beggar's Opera, John Gay - 41/41
The London Merchant, George Lillo - 33/33
Effi Briest, Theodor Fontane - 217/217
What Maisie Knew, Henry James - 266/266
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde - 184/184 *
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe - 220/220
The Case for a Creator, Lee Strobel
Lost Illusions, Honore de Balzac - [454] 699/699 ( review )
Total pages: 1,519
May Reading List
The Historical Register for the Year 1736 - 50/50
The Once and Future King, T.H. White - 677/677 *
Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland - 284/284
Total pages: 1,011
June Reading List
The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch - 719/719 *
Fool Moon, Jim Butcher - 342/342
Soul Music, Terry Pratchett - 373/373
Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman - 384/384 *
The Battler, Ernest Hemingway - 10/10
The Sutton Pie Safe, Pinckney Benedict - 12/12
Sorrows of the Flesh, Isabel Huggan - 29/29
The Jerusalem Address, Milan Kundera - 9/9
The Fat Girl, Andre Dubus - 15/15
Total pages: 1,893
July Reading List
Plainsong, Kent Haruf - 301/301
Lawns, Mona Simpson - 22/22
Facing the Music, Larry Brown - 9/9
Catface, Arthur Bradford - 26/26
You’re Ugly, Too, Lorrie Moore - 21/21
Lust, Susan Minot - 15/15
Excerpt from The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy - 5/5
The Naked Lady, Madison Smartt Bell - 6/6
Total pages: 405
August Reading List
Greatness Strikes Where it Pleases, Lars Gustafsson - 10/10
Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett - 398/398 *
The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes, Jack M. Bickham - 112/112
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman - 370/370 *
Red Seas Under Red Skies, Scott Lynch - 628/628 *
Into the Realm of Raviton, a friend - 335/335
Total pages: 1,787
September Reading List
Mordred, Bastard Son; Douglas Clegg - 260/260
Watership Down, Richard Adams - 100/475
The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction, Christopher Kelly - 140/140
Playing in the Dark, Toni Morrison - 91/91
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison - 206/206
Sula, Toni Morrison - 174/174
Cassandra, Florence Nightingale - 58/58
Herculine Barbin, Foucault - 115/115
Total pages: 1,144
October Reading List
The Calling of Katie Makanya, Margaret McCord - 253/253
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison - 341/341*
Watership Down, Richard Adams - [100] 226/475
Beloved, Toni Morrison - 158/275
The Subjection of Women, J.S. Mills - 115/115
The Vagabond, Colette - 74/223
The Deified Augustus, Suetonius - 54/54
Total pages: 1,121
November Reading List
Beloved, Toni Morrison - [158] 275/275 (117)
The Vagabond, Colette - [74] 223/223 (149)
Outwitting the Gestapo, Lucie Aubrac - 232/232
A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore - 45/322
Jazz, Toni Morrison - 51/229
Total pages: 594
December Reading List
A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore - [45] 322/322 *
Jazz, Toni Morrison - [51] 229/229
Under a Cruel Star, Heda Margolius Kovaly - 192/192
Watership Down, Richard Adams - [266] 478/478
Total pages: 859
Total Books Read: 59 (including collections of poems and short stories as single book)
Total Pages Read: 14,908
* indicates that I loved it and recommend it
2010
January Reading List
Matchless, Gregory Maguire - 32/32
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley - 876/876 ( review )
Odd and the Frost Giants, Neil Gaiman - 117/117 *
The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole - 116/116
The History of the Kings of Britain, Geoffrey of Monmouth - 288/288
The Conspiracy of Catiline, Sallust - 58/58
The Assassination of Julius Caesar, Michael Parenti - 111/228
The Italian, Ann Radcliffe - 129/415
Total pages: 1,727
Goal: 1,000
February Reading List
Walking Thunder: Dine Medicine Woman, Walking Thunder - 171/171 *
Tracks, Louise Erdrich - 226/226 *
The Italian, Ann Radcliffe - [129] 415/415 (286)
“The Dream of Rhonabwy” and “Peredur, Son of Evrawc” (Welsh triads) - 33/33
Caleb Williams, William Godwin - 383/383
Lancelot, Yvain, and Perceval, Chretien de Troyes - 308/308
The Assassination of Julius Caesar, Michael Parenti [111] 228/228 (117)
Tristan, Gottfried von Strassburg - 353/353
Total pages: 1,877
Goal: 1,500
March Reading List
Morte d’Arthur (The Marriage, The Sangrail, Lancelot and Guinivere, Death of Arthur), Sir Thomas Malory - 296/296
Wieland and Carwin the Biloquist, Charles Brockden Brown - 294/294
Castle of Wolfenbach, Eliza Parson - 203/203
The Murder of Regilla, Sarah Pomeroy - 174/174
The Monk, Matthew Lewis - 456/456
Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko - 262/262
Total pages: 1,685
Goal: 2,000
April Reading List
A Delusion of Satan, Frances Hill - 250/250
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain - 360/360
Zofloya, Charlotte Dacre - 280/280
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear, Lori Alvord - 201/201
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen - 187/187 *
Total pages: 1,278
Goal: 1,500
May Reading List
Stardust, Neil Gaiman - 248/248
The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger - 536/536 *
The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch - 719/719 * [re-read]
Total pages: 1,503
Goal: 1,500
June Reading List
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho - 193/193
The Last Man, Mary Shelley - 19/342
Total pages: 212
Goal: 1,500
Total Books Read: 29
Total Pages Read: 8,282
* indicates that I loved it and recommend it
To read:
The Famished Road, Ben Okri
A Harlot High and Low, Honore de Balzac
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami
Two Spirits, Walter Williams and Toby Johnson
Looking for Lost Bird, Yvette Melanson
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Neuromancer, William Gibson
2009
January Reading List
A Lion Among Men, Gregory Maguire - 308/308 *
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen - 360/360 *
Total pages: 668
February Reading List
The Country Wife, William Wycherley - 61/61
All For Love, John Dryden - 45/45
Venice Preserv'd, Thomas Otway - 45/45
Pere Goriot, Honore de Balzac - 217/217 *
American Gods, Neil Gaiman - 588/588 *
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Gawain Poet - 53/53
Canterbury Tales (Selected Readings), Chaucer - 90/90
Astrophil and Stella, Sir Philip Sidney, 11 sonnets
Amoretti, Edmund Spenser - 5/5
Sonnets, William Shakespeare - 14 sonnets
Poems, John Donne - 9 poems and sonnets
Total pages: 1,138
March Reading List
The Luckey Chance, Aphra Behn - 69/69
Bleak House, Charles Dickens - 989/989 *
Storm Front, Jim Butcher - 322/322 *
Lost Illusions, Honore de Balzac - 454/699 ( review )
Spiderwick Chronicles, Holly Black - 567/567
Oroonoko, Thomas Southerne - 48/48
Faerie Queen, Edmund Spenser - 62/62
Total pages: 2,511
April Reading List
The Way of the World, William Congreve - 49/49
Paradise Lost, John Milton - 224/224
A Bold Stroke for a Wife, Susanna Centlivre - 40/40
The Beggar's Opera, John Gay - 41/41
The London Merchant, George Lillo - 33/33
Effi Briest, Theodor Fontane - 217/217
What Maisie Knew, Henry James - 266/266
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde - 184/184 *
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe - 220/220
The Case for a Creator, Lee Strobel
Lost Illusions, Honore de Balzac - [454] 699/699 ( review )
Total pages: 1,519
May Reading List
The Historical Register for the Year 1736 - 50/50
The Once and Future King, T.H. White - 677/677 *
Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland - 284/284
Total pages: 1,011
June Reading List
The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch - 719/719 *
Fool Moon, Jim Butcher - 342/342
Soul Music, Terry Pratchett - 373/373
Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman - 384/384 *
The Battler, Ernest Hemingway - 10/10
The Sutton Pie Safe, Pinckney Benedict - 12/12
Sorrows of the Flesh, Isabel Huggan - 29/29
The Jerusalem Address, Milan Kundera - 9/9
The Fat Girl, Andre Dubus - 15/15
Total pages: 1,893
July Reading List
Plainsong, Kent Haruf - 301/301
Lawns, Mona Simpson - 22/22
Facing the Music, Larry Brown - 9/9
Catface, Arthur Bradford - 26/26
You’re Ugly, Too, Lorrie Moore - 21/21
Lust, Susan Minot - 15/15
Excerpt from The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy - 5/5
The Naked Lady, Madison Smartt Bell - 6/6
Total pages: 405
August Reading List
Greatness Strikes Where it Pleases, Lars Gustafsson - 10/10
Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett - 398/398 *
The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes, Jack M. Bickham - 112/112
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman - 370/370 *
Red Seas Under Red Skies, Scott Lynch - 628/628 *
Into the Realm of Raviton, a friend - 335/335
Total pages: 1,787
September Reading List
Mordred, Bastard Son; Douglas Clegg - 260/260
Watership Down, Richard Adams - 100/475
The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction, Christopher Kelly - 140/140
Playing in the Dark, Toni Morrison - 91/91
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison - 206/206
Sula, Toni Morrison - 174/174
Cassandra, Florence Nightingale - 58/58
Herculine Barbin, Foucault - 115/115
Total pages: 1,144
October Reading List
The Calling of Katie Makanya, Margaret McCord - 253/253
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison - 341/341*
Watership Down, Richard Adams - [100] 226/475
Beloved, Toni Morrison - 158/275
The Subjection of Women, J.S. Mills - 115/115
The Vagabond, Colette - 74/223
The Deified Augustus, Suetonius - 54/54
Total pages: 1,121
November Reading List
Beloved, Toni Morrison - [158] 275/275 (117)
The Vagabond, Colette - [74] 223/223 (149)
Outwitting the Gestapo, Lucie Aubrac - 232/232
A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore - 45/322
Jazz, Toni Morrison - 51/229
Total pages: 594
December Reading List
A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore - [45] 322/322 *
Jazz, Toni Morrison - [51] 229/229
Under a Cruel Star, Heda Margolius Kovaly - 192/192
Watership Down, Richard Adams - [266] 478/478
Total pages: 859
Total Books Read: 59 (including collections of poems and short stories as single book)
Total Pages Read: 14,908
* indicates that I loved it and recommend it