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Emneord20th century (92), 1001 (61), 21st century (59), Non-fiction (39), 888 (36), British literature (33), University (32), Canadian literature (29), England (24), Book club (20) — se alle emneord

Grupper1001 Books to read before you die, 18th-19th Century Britain, 888 Challenge, Atwoodians, Awful Lit., Book Clubs, Books Compared, Canadian Bookworms, Clarissa's Cottage, Girlybooks — vis alle grupper

FavorittforfattereJane Austen, Mark Frutkin, Katherine Mansfield, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Jane Urquhart, Virginia Woolf (Delte favoritter)

FavorittbokhandlereMosaic Books, Munro's Books

Om meg I find reading lists really fun, even though I usually don't follow them. I'm currently reading books from these lists:

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
The Best of Canadian Literature
The Best of Sri Lankan Literature
Giller Prize Winners & Nominees
Booker Prize Winners & Nominees
All the Unread Books in My Closet
Read Around the World Challenge
Orange Prize Winners & Nominees

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Here is my university reading list for the autumn term 2008. Wish me luck--I think it looks both daunting and boring :-( And I'm usually so excited to start the term:

Humanities 101:
Antigone (Sophocles)
Survival in Auschwitz (Primo Levi)
Mencius (Confucius, I think)
The Prince, (Machiavelli) (I've read and written on this one already, and reviewed it last spring to cite in my essay on Shakespeare's The Tempest, so I'm totally comfy with this text)
Revelations of Divine Love (Julian of Norwich) (have done a titch on her before, and I believe she's a total nutbar. but I mean that in the nicest way)
Galileo (Bertolt Brecht)
Discourse on Method (Descartes)
Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud) (That title sounds FUN!)
Discourse on Origins of Inequality (Rousseau)
Oresteia (Aeschylus)

plus,

Cultural Criticism and Society (Theodor Adorno)
Letter from the Birmingham Jail (ML King)

Humanities 332: Women in Greek Mythology:
Two of the texts, Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud) and Antigone (Sophocles) are also in the Humanities 101 course, so I'm doubling up on my reading. The other books listed are:

In Spite of Plato, (Adriana Caverero)
Agamemnon (Aeschylus)
Medea (Euripides)
Helen in Egypt (HD)
Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays (Christa Wolf)

and finally,

English 371
Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace

Whew!

Om biblioteket mitt Here are the countries from my Read Around the World Challenge. In 2008 I will be focusing on British and Canadian literature, so this map probably won't change very much over the next little while.

create your own visited country map

I track my reading in two places at LibraryThing:

1. Everything I read goes to the 50 Book Challenge (I'll move to the 75 Book Challenge if I read more)
http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...

Here is my list from 2007: http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...

2. I'm also playing the 888 Challenge, which is just a different way of tracking my reading (although not everything I read shows up here). It's a good way to keep my reading plans on track and keep myself well-rounded, book wise.
http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...

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I see what you mean about your course reading! (following on from the 1001 books discussion)

Being more in the position of setting readings now rather than following them, I'm always fascinated by lists. I miss my days at uni & try to set up workshops with my former lecturers for my current high school students as much as I can, just so I can imbibe the ambience of the hallowed halls of Sydney Uni once again. Sad, I know :)

Anyway, I loved Antigone & the Oresteia, Agamemnon and Medea, so imho you're in for a few treats there. Descartes wasn't too bad and Freud sounds... well, is entertaining a way to express it? :)

All the best!

postet av Miss-Owl kl. 6:31 pm (EST) den Aug 29, 2008

That's quite a list for school! I hope you are on the semester (18 weeks) system and not the quarter (12 weeks) system.

I read all the Greek plays and I LOVED them so maybe you will too.

I did a term paper on the Descartes and it wasn't bad to read if you like that kind of thing--I sometimes do and I enjoyed it (a long time ago--when I was in school. forgotten most of it now just remembered I had fun doing it.)

If you like poetry you should really enjoy Helen in Egypt I think. It's wonderful as I remember. Unfortunately I've lost my copy in one of the moves I've made since reading it--I think I will try to find another one and read it again, now that I'm reminded of it.

When you read Survival in Auschwitz I'd love to get your opinion. Lately I've been read some WWII non-fiction and I might want to try that one if you like it. I just finished Night by Wiesel and I have his Memoirs which I haven't started yet.

Good luck this term--happy reading!

postet av MusicMom41 kl. 12:16 pm (EST) den Aug 25, 2008

I finished Erewhon and News From Nowhere. They were both terrible. don't read them if you don't have to.

I suggest the entire Dashiell Hammett series: The Glass Key, The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man and/or Red Harvest.

Wonderful writing.

-- M1001

postet av media1001 kl. 1:35 am (EST) den Aug 25, 2008

Hi Joyce,

Thanks for the sweet enquiry but I am still alive. I have been frantically busy this past two months - work and house stuff and now a holiday on Vancouver Island which is half over. I am writing from a cafe as the place we are in has no internet, TV or modern techno devices (all designed by devious parents to lure their kids into the great outdoors!!!)

I will try and rehatch myself in September when the grind of school and homework and general routine starts again. I grab my holidays with great zeal as they seem so fleeting.

Happy reading, Joyce - I will return to haunt you soon!!!!

Cheers,

Karen

postet av kiwidoc kl. 2:53 am (EST) den Aug 23, 2008

I just finished reading Mosquito, and after posting my review I read yours. You wrote, It's a rare book that makes me cry, but I have to admit my eyes were a
bit moist on the final pages.. Yes, me too. What a fabulous book; so glad I read it!

postet av lindsacl kl. 8:41 am (EST) den Aug 21, 2008

LOL! Thank you. Yeah, in a perfect world, I wouldn't have to work all day and could just lose myself amidst shelves of books. Even though I'm 26 year old urban girl, I feel a kindred spirit with the old country butler man portrayed in my profile picture! :)

postet av vhoeschler kl. 4:22 pm (EST) den Aug 7, 2008

Hello!

Thank you for the feedback on my 888 Challenge page. Since reading is all about the experience, I love suggesting my books with a little "ambiance"! Out of curiosity, why didn't you like Shadow of the Wind?

postet av vhoeschler kl. 1:35 pm (EST) den Aug 5, 2008

You are correct that the book title is supposed to be "Nowhere" spelled backwards, but that's not the title. It's not clear exactly why he choose to misspell it backwards, but that is the spelling.

Are you on Netflix? I can add you to my Netflix friends list if you are.

-- M1001.

postet av media1001 kl. 10:32 pm (EST) den Jul 28, 2008

I found a couple more uptopian/dystopian novels in the 1001 list. I haven't read either one of them. They are both in my immediate TBR queue and both are under 300 pages, which should make for a quick read:

Erewhon by Samuel Butler
News from Nowhere by William Morris

Have you read them?

-- M1001

postet av media1001 kl. 10:53 am (EST) den Jul 28, 2008

"We" was decent (sounds like I'm using bad grammar, heh). I still prefer "Brave New World", but I guess "We" was one of the first dystopia novels and it influenced both Huxley and Orwell. It is much more poetic writing than "Brave New World", less intellectual and more visceral. I understand intellectual writing much better, but it was still pretty good. And I can definite see the influence it had on Huxley.

-- M1001

postet av media1001 kl. 5:46 pm (EST) den Jul 19, 2008

Hi! Just wanted to say that I really liked your review of "The Birth of Venus". While I gave it a positive review myself, you brought up a really good point, that Alessandra was much too modern and precocious to really have lived in the Florentine Renaissance-- I liked your choice of words with "anachronistic." It's difficult to find accurate historical fiction out there!

Thanks and keep writing honest and helpful reviews!! :)

Caity

postet av caitykarczewski kl. 1:16 pm (EST) den Jul 2, 2008

Joyce - sorry for the tardy reply but have been away - on Vancouver Island for a couple of days. More sun there, methinks.

The weather is the pits, but I don't remember it being much better all these years. I remember when I first arrived, I thought to myself "How can anyone live in such a gloomy place?" I came here because I married a Canuck! I really wanted to go home after 2-3 years, but seem to have gotten used to it?

I spent most of my youth in sunny climes. Although born in London (UK), we lived in Cyprus, Malta and other sunny places until moving to NZ - which has also has a Medittearean climate. Came here aged 24 and now 49 so there you have it all!!!!

I also read an Elizabeth Bowen book - had similar difficulties with it, especially as I thought it would be a 'Nancy Mitford' style. That 1940s style was quite revolutionary but not easy. Great writer, but hard work, IMO.

Nice to hear from you! I hear that the sun is definitely ON ITs WAY!!!

Cheers,

Karen

postet av kiwidoc kl. 9:37 pm (EST) den Jun 11, 2008

Hah, well it is good that you didn't like the story, because that was a pretty harsh review I wrote :).

I just reread it and all I can say is that I must have been fairly angry at wasting my time reading the story...the book *was* pretty bad, though.

And yeah, the pictures are amazing. I love those old, details drawings. Of course, my favorites are still the Alice In Wonderland, John Tenniel drawings. I even have the leather bound collection of Lewis Caroll's complete works. Great stuff.

Thanks for the comment.

-- M1001

postet av media1001 kl. 4:06 pm (EST) den Jun 1, 2008

Hi Nickelini,

Just wanted to thank you for recommending Mosquito - I'm 100 pages in and loving it. I'm torn between racing through it because I want to see what happens, and slowing right down because I don't want it to end!

Rachel

postet av rachbxl kl. 1:50 pm (EST) den May 21, 2008

I saw your message on the "What are you reading now" group about books for your daughter, and I had a few suggestions. I have a ten year old son who loves the Warrior books and Harry Potters. Some of his other favorites are the Ga'Hoole books by Kathryn Lasky (I preorder these and the Warriors whenever there's a new one coming out), the Spiderwick Chronicles, Chronicles of Narnia, and the Lemony Snickett books. Oh, and he's currently working his way through the Redwall books, and he loves them.
I love children's lit myself, and some of my favorites are:
the Echo Falls mysteries by Peter Abraham (Down the Rabbit Hole is the first one, and a 13 year old girl is the heroine in these stories)
the Sisters Grimm series by Michael Buckley (Two girl heroines in these)
the Artemis Fowl books by Eoin Colfer (not girly, but really fun - not quite on the Harry Potter level, but what is?)
Gregor the Overlander books by Suzanne Collins
I saw that someone had suggested Twilight, and unless she's really mature, I would hold off on that one for a few years.
Anyway, I know that's a lot of input from a total stranger, but I hope it'll give you a few ideas.
Good Luck,
Traci

postet av virginiahomeschooler kl. 11:13 pm (EST) den May 17, 2008

Thanks for the support, Nickelini. I'm frankly surprised I haven't been flamed. I sometimes feel like I am becoming the master of the (hopefully polite & well-written) smack-down. Why don't people understand that the whole point of the Awful lit board is to talk about books you don't like?

postet av fannyprice kl. 8:25 pm (EST) den Apr 22, 2008

Hi Nickelini,

Thanks for the kind words, and I definitely recommend [Infidel], especially for Ali's remarks on the immigrant problem in Holland. I found her comments thought provoking. I'm currently reading [Foreskin's Lament] and [Honor Lost], but have barely scratched the surface of them, so way too soon to tell what I'll think of them.

I find it hard to recommend books to others because everyone's tastes are so individual. However, if you want recommendations from me, give me an idea of what you like to read (or are interested in reading) and I'd be happy to tell you what I found interesting and well written.

Maggie

postet av whymaggiemay kl. 8:51 pm (EST) den Apr 21, 2008

Yes, there are some purists on LT. It did start as just a cataloging site, of course. And I do understand where they are coming from. But it's grown way beyond that now. Besides, who would police such a thing (secret book ninjas?). Best, Lois

postet av avaland kl. 2:56 pm (EST) den Apr 21, 2008

I don't mind at all. =) Besides I think that I borrowed the idea from someone else's profile at some point myself. I find its a nice way to keep track...and with the link to the challenge pages, it makes it easier to jump right to my thread when it comes time to add a book. Its amazing how quickly you can drop to the lower pages! So many readers challenging themselves. Its great. =)

I'm going to have to make a ticker for Middlemarch myself at some point.

postet av Irisheyz77 kl. 7:32 am (EST) den Apr 21, 2008

Thanks Joyce,

I know the Ambleside book store, and browse in there alot - I feel right at home in a bookstore and sometimes worry I will get locked in if late in the day!!!

not move around the store. It needed a real good clean out when he died a couple of years ago. It is fairly good, but lacks some variety and still needs a good clean-up. It was a true fire hazard before.

Good book hunting!!!

Cheers, Karen

postet av kiwidoc kl. 3:47 pm (EST) den Apr 20, 2008

Hi Joyce,

Sounds like you had a good day book-shopping - I was in Brown's today (stopped on the way to work which made me late!). Got a good copy of Claire Keegan's short stories - 'Antarctica'.

I used to visit Kidsbooks almost weekly when my kids were little - it is a superb store. I harangued the store owner on 4th so much, I think she opened the Edgemount Village one just to get me off her back. However, since they are older (16 and 14) I don't go there much any more. They both read off my 'adult shelf' now they are teens.

Can you believe it was snowing this evening? I drove home from Burnaby in the slush, wondering how I could be thinking it was time to break out the gardening gear!

A few of us have been reading Fifth Business 'together' - so what seems like a coincidence is not really. I am not one for group reads, but this one seemed worthwhile!

Cheers and happy reading,

Karen

postet av kiwidoc kl. 2:07 am (EST) den Apr 19, 2008

I have exhaustively tried to locate good bookstores in Vancouver - there are two reasonable second-hand ones downtown - Macleans is one ( I have my bike stolen from in front of MacLeans when I first came to Canada in the 1980s so I know the owner quite well. There is another one two blocks away which has a good selection also. I have been to the foreign book store a few times when my kids were in French Immersion.

I buy books from 32 Books more to support the business than anything else. It is really too small for a good browse.

Presently reading Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, and surprised to discover him. So far it is really very good.

So I see you are Italian - if only by marriage. I would live in Italy in a heart beat - it is such a beautiful country!!

Cheers,

Karen

postet av kiwidoc kl. 12:25 pm (EST) den Apr 15, 2008

Hi, Nickelini. I see you added my library to your list of interesting ones, and I hopped over to browse yours. I also saw the note about The Winter's Tale, which I am about to start teaching next week. Not sure how my students will like it, but I always end with one of the romances, and I change it every time I teach Shakespeare.

postet av Cariola kl. 6:18 pm (EST) den Apr 14, 2008

Hi Nickelini,
I noted that you said that you were a 'map freak' on one of the reading globally threads. Are you familiar with Google Earth. I only ask on LT because I am accompanying my reading by putting placemarks on google earth maps so that I can physically see where my reads are taking place. I have not mentioned this in the Reading Globally group, but thought you may be interested in it as an idea.
Cheers,
Andy

postet av depressaholic kl. 12:14 pm (EST) den Apr 14, 2008

Well, after such flattering comments, I must ask you to be a friend. It is nice to know someone locally, too.

Vancouver disappoints me wrt to bookstores.

I am always amazed when I travel, how wonderful some bookstores can be. I love Munro's in Victoria and there are lots of second hand stores in Sidney. Browns is a co-op bookstore - and they recently added a women in print section (by the woman who used to own Hagar Books in Kerrisdale). So I managed to snaffle a few good titles there including a Patricia Grace (NZ writer) and a few other overseas authors that are usually hard to find. It is hit and miss.I mostly use the internet now.

Well done with your studies. I work fairly close to SFU!

Cheers,

Karen

postet av kiwidoc kl. 11:16 am (EST) den Apr 9, 2008

Well - thank you very much, Nickelini, for your kind comments.

I don't know exactly how many of the books in my library are read, most of the initially posted ones, less of the more recently added. More than less.

I find it helpful to know what is in my library, even if unread, as it avoids me buying duplicates. I really love browsing book-stores, especially second-hand ones. Brown's bookstore on Hastings near Boundary is my latest haunt, and it happens to be on my way to work!!

The trouble with my LT obsession, it that it fuels the fire of more book acquisitions. I sometimes feel I just have to read/acquire a book after glowing recommendations from a respected fellow LTer!!!!

Cheers.

Karen

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postet av kiwidoc kl. 6:11 pm (EST) den Apr 7, 2008

Hello Nickelini,

Thanks for the note.

Yes I live in Greater Vancouver also - on the North Shore. Rather a compulsive bookie - my rather out of control library attests to this.

I started to realize that I could get a lot of 'reading' done if I listened to audios in the car commuting to Burnaby. Started on some novels last year and this year worked through an excellent English audio on Shakespeare plays. The four I listened to were the ones available at the library - I haven't seen any others yet in this excellent format. Very well done with seamless explanations between speeches. I actually really enjoyed them - although I am a keen participant at the Bard on the Beach every year.

I really enjoyed Twelfth Night - perhaps my favourite of the four so far (although R & J is also a big favourite).

Nice to meet you. I have noticed your comments around LT which are always very well thought out.

Karen

postet av kiwidoc kl. 12:16 am (EST) den Apr 7, 2008

A few months ago, you mentioned on my 888 challenge thread that you were reading The Winter's Tale for school. What did you think of it? I just started it, and I admit, I'm a bit confused. I've requested the audio book from the library to see if that will help (it usually does with Shakespeare), but I was wondering what your take on it was.

postet av shootingstarr7 kl. 11:21 pm (EST) den Apr 2, 2008

You should go vote. There are no rules about having to be there for any length of time. You are part of the group and so should have a say in what gets read next. =) And don't just vote for Middlemarch because its currently in the lead. Vote for the book that you most want to read...for who knows what might happen between now and Friday! =)

postet av Irisheyz77 kl. 12:09 pm (EST) den Apr 2, 2008

Don't just lurk...join in and vote. =)

postet av Irisheyz77 kl. 7:28 am (EST) den Apr 2, 2008

Yeah, I don't look quite that haggard, even in the morning. It's a tapir, actually- I chose it from among LT's offerings when I created the account. One of these days I may get around to putting a personalized picture up, but then again- I kind of like the tapir.

postet av Kplatypus kl. 3:10 am (EST) den Mar 12, 2008

Hey Nickelini,

I've just finished The Waves, and I loved it. It was amazingly poetic, but I was also really surprised about how relevant it seemed - all about the decisions people make about the way they construct their lives and their self-image.

Do let me know what you think of your annotated version. I stopped reading the footnotes in mine after the first few, because I thought they were pretty banal and sort of undermined the poetry of the book. And I'm quite glad that I just let it soak in slowly and thought about what parts made sense to me, rather than overlaying it with the analysis. But I'm also sure that there is a lot more in the book that I just didn't see, so next time it would be nice to have the extra information too.

I think your plan for how to read it is just right - there are so many lines in the book which express things so perfectly that you want to copy them out and share them with people and follow the line of thought...

postet av wandering_star kl. 6:45 am (EST) den Dec 23, 2007

Glad you're finally getting around to The Bloody Chamber - looking forward to hearing what you think of it!

postet av margad kl. 6:50 pm (EST) den Dec 19, 2007

Hi, I've noticed your insightful comments on the 1001 list, and I've also noticed that you are reading "the best of Sri Lankan Literature", is there a list somewhere? Sounds fascinating and I think I'd like to take the plunge, tks, Emily

postet av aemilys kl. 4:47 pm (EST) den Dec 14, 2007

I'm flattered to be on your "interesting libraries" list. I notice we both have Angela Carter's book of short stories, The Bloody Chamber. What do you think of her stories? It seems as though LTers have this book at a higher rate than readers in the general population, which I think is interesting. I believe it didn't sell very well, but I find her writing quite thrilling.

postet av margad kl. 2:32 pm (EST) den Dec 2, 2007

Grouchy, eh? Silly and boring maybe, but I based my 50 Book Challenge on reading only those books on my shelves that I owned but hadn't read because I found myself increasingly choosing an easy read. It's working well. Right now I'm slogging through Mann's and, though at times it feels like the literary equivalent of a carb-free diet, I'm enjoying it (particularly after I added Sneaky Read Rule One: Non-challenge books can be read alongside Challenge books but only if a certain number of Challenge book pages are read first. while this slows things down, it means I keep going). As to your question re PNG, I was born up there, leaving when I was 2. My dad worked in telecommunications and his work took us back there when I was a teenager. I met my future husband there and we returned after we were married for a couple of years. It's a fascinating place but I haven't returned since the late 1970s. Currently I'm researching some legal implications re Australia's colonial governance of PNG. Hard going, I'm floundering, no, I'm in quick sand and going down fast. What was your brother doing there?

postet av Bookful kl. 2:04 am (EST) den Dec 2, 2007

You certainly posed an interesting question in Books Compared about the difference between Kafkaesque and Orwellian. I'm enjoying the discussion!

postet av margad kl. 5:32 pm (EST) den Nov 28, 2007

Nickelini - you may already have this on your reading list, but I would highly recommend Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy if you are looking for books about Sri Lanka. It's a series of linked episodes in the life of a Tamil boy growing up in Sri Lanka, and an excellent overview of the island's recent history and ethnic tensions.

postet av wandering_star kl. 6:52 pm (EST) den Oct 1, 2007

I saw on one of the Reading Globally threads you appealed for NZ lit. I was there earlier this year and 'discovered' a fantastic Maori writer called Patricia Grace. She is pretty big in NZ but fairly non-existant on Librarything. I read two of her books (Baby No-Eyes and Potiki). Both excellent, but would recommend the latter before the former.

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