I've fallen behind in listing my monthly reads and now at just past the halfway mark for April, I'm only now posting my February and March 2011 reads. You might find these to be an eclectic list, but perhaps not, considering who is the primary blogger here. Since I have 61 books to list, I'll dispense with even the cursory comments that I usually do, but feel free to ask about specific titles in the comments below. Time permitting, I'll answer any inquiries there with my takes on those books mentioned.
February
41 William Butler Yeats, The Poems of William Butler Yeats
42 John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
43 Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
44 Aesop, Aesop's Fables
45 Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
46 Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales
47 Michel de Montaigne, Essays
48 Franz Kafka, Der Prozeß
49 Franz Kafka, The Trial
50 William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
51 Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
52 Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
53 St. Augustine, The Confessions of St. Augustine
54 Paul Kearney, Corvus
55 François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
56 Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
57 Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
58 Octave Mirbeau, Torture Garden
59 Stendhal, The Red and the Black
60 Col Buchanan, Farlander
61 Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
62 Emile Zola, Nana
63 Justin Halpern, Shit My Dad Says
64 Aristophanes, The Birds & The Frogs
65 Blaise Pascal, Pensées
66 William Shakespeare, Poems
67 Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
68 Ritter von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs
69 D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
70 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Les Confessions 1
71 Rubén Darío, El modernismo y otros ensayos
72 Bret Harte, California Stories
73 Jack London, The Sea-Wolf
74 Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
75 Emily Dickinson, The Poems of Emily Dickinson
76 T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems 1909-1962
77 Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
78 Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
79 Brian Stableford, The Dedalus Book of Decadence: Moral Ruins
80 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part One
81 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust/Urfaust
82 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part Two
March
83 Omar Khayyam, The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam
84 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Les Confessions, Livres VII à XII
85 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
86 Honoré de Balzac, Le pére Goriot
87 Honoré de Balzac, Pére Goriot
88 Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
89 Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife
90 Fyodor Doestoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
91 Aristotle, Politics & Poetics
92 Zoran Živković, Pisac
93 Steven Erikson, The Crippled God
94 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Dreams in a Time of War
95 Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
96 Roberto Bolaño, 2666
97 James Joyce, Ulysses
98 John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
99 Jack Vance, Emphyrio
100 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper, Herland, and Other Stories
101 Samuel Delany, Nova
So far in April, I've read another 19 titles, with perhaps 1-2 more to be complete by Sunday morning. Interesting to see a dip in March compared to previous months; it's one of my worst reading months in three years. However, I'm not dismayed by that, since there were some new activities that began around the same time and my mind has not been as much on reading compared to previous springs, where I sometimes would read 50-60 books in a month, many of those outdoors. Then there's the nature of some of those works as well, with some being quite weighty works, more so on the mind than on the hands.
I see due to deciding to re-read classics that I first encountered from 16-23 that there have been very few female authors read. Hopefully, this will change in the coming months, although I don't expect there'll be more than 25% female authors in my final 2011 reading list. That may seem poor, but if I read 100 female authors this year, I suspect the raw number will more than offset a skewed pattern. All I know is that I'm continuing to wake to sleep as I go. I'll leave it up to you to figure out that reference.
February
41 William Butler Yeats, The Poems of William Butler Yeats
42 John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
43 Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
44 Aesop, Aesop's Fables
45 Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
46 Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales
47 Michel de Montaigne, Essays
48 Franz Kafka, Der Prozeß
49 Franz Kafka, The Trial
50 William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
51 Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
52 Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
53 St. Augustine, The Confessions of St. Augustine
54 Paul Kearney, Corvus
55 François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
56 Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
57 Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
58 Octave Mirbeau, Torture Garden
59 Stendhal, The Red and the Black
60 Col Buchanan, Farlander
61 Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
62 Emile Zola, Nana
63 Justin Halpern, Shit My Dad Says
64 Aristophanes, The Birds & The Frogs
65 Blaise Pascal, Pensées
66 William Shakespeare, Poems
67 Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
68 Ritter von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs
69 D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
70 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Les Confessions 1
71 Rubén Darío, El modernismo y otros ensayos
72 Bret Harte, California Stories
73 Jack London, The Sea-Wolf
74 Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
75 Emily Dickinson, The Poems of Emily Dickinson
76 T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems 1909-1962
77 Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
78 Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
79 Brian Stableford, The Dedalus Book of Decadence: Moral Ruins
80 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part One
81 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust/Urfaust
82 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part Two
March
83 Omar Khayyam, The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam
84 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Les Confessions, Livres VII à XII
85 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
86 Honoré de Balzac, Le pére Goriot
87 Honoré de Balzac, Pére Goriot
88 Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
89 Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife
90 Fyodor Doestoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
91 Aristotle, Politics & Poetics
92 Zoran Živković, Pisac
93 Steven Erikson, The Crippled God
94 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Dreams in a Time of War
95 Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
96 Roberto Bolaño, 2666
97 James Joyce, Ulysses
98 John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
99 Jack Vance, Emphyrio
100 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper, Herland, and Other Stories
101 Samuel Delany, Nova
So far in April, I've read another 19 titles, with perhaps 1-2 more to be complete by Sunday morning. Interesting to see a dip in March compared to previous months; it's one of my worst reading months in three years. However, I'm not dismayed by that, since there were some new activities that began around the same time and my mind has not been as much on reading compared to previous springs, where I sometimes would read 50-60 books in a month, many of those outdoors. Then there's the nature of some of those works as well, with some being quite weighty works, more so on the mind than on the hands.
I see due to deciding to re-read classics that I first encountered from 16-23 that there have been very few female authors read. Hopefully, this will change in the coming months, although I don't expect there'll be more than 25% female authors in my final 2011 reading list. That may seem poor, but if I read 100 female authors this year, I suspect the raw number will more than offset a skewed pattern. All I know is that I'm continuing to wake to sleep as I go. I'll leave it up to you to figure out that reference.
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5 comments:
Mind boggling list, but full of great stuff. I also read Abercrombie's "The Heroes" in March and quite enjoyed it as a first taste of his fiction. I know, I know... it's the last book chronologically speaking, but I made sense of it just fine.
Also: I have fond memories of Delany's "Nova". Probably my favorite of his pure SF works, of which I've read almost all. I need to reread Dhalgren one of these days; I'm curious if it would retain its title as "most awesome thing I've read" that I happily bestowed upon it in college.
Out of curiosity, how are you able to read so much so quickly? Did that come naturally or have you trained in speed reading?
Well, to answer your last questions first, I answered that in a post almost a year ago.
I re-read Dhalgren last year and reviewed it for a group blog. It was even better the second time through (I first read it in 2004 or 2005, I think).
Gotcha.
Anyway, I stumbled onto your blog via R. Scott Bakker's link to your latest review of his work, and I'm enjoying your posts thus far. Personally, I'm a terribly slow reader, but it's my favorite hobby nevertheless. I'm looking forward to more of your reviews!
Glad you're enjoying them. I saw Scott's post the other day and I almost popped in to ask if he'll consider supporting the Preds in the NHL Playoffs, since he used to live in Nashville when he was working on his Ph.D.
Maybe another time :P
Interested in what you thought of Venus in Furs, considering its subject.
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