50 Book Challenge for 2011

[Toccata]

01|Aeneid by Virgil
02|Nausea by Sartre
03|Persians by Aeschylus
04|Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus
05|Suppliant Maidens by Aeschylus
06|Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
07|Agamemnon by Aeschylus
08|The Libation-Bearers by Aeschylus
09|The Furies by Aeschylus
10|La Vita Nouva by Dante
11|Antigone by Sophocles ⬅ READING
12|Selected Poems by Wordsworth ⬅ READING

Other Reads
Poetics by Aristotle
Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction
Bach and the Patterns of Inventions
Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
The Art of Poetry

 

[adorefaith]

01. saturday - ian mcewan
02. beatrice & virgil - yann martel
03. room - emma donoghue

i'm not doing so well.

i think i want to read the book thief next..

 

[rox_yr_sox]

1. Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
2. Cupid and the King: Five Royal Paramours by Princess Michael of Kent
3. Haiku: Poetry Ancient and Modern: An Anthology by Jackie Hardy [Ed]
4. Art of the Soviets: Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in a One-Party State, 1917-1992 by Bown & Taylor [Eds]
5. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
6. Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two by Vladimir Paperny
7. The Edifice Complex: how the rich and powerful shape the world by Deyan Sudjic
8. God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
9. Plans, pragmatism and People: The legacy of Soviet planning for today's cities by R. Antony French
10. Quicksilver (Vol.1 in the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
11. The Confusion (Vol.2 in the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
12. The System of the World (Vol.3 in the Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson
13. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas
14. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
15. Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England by Alison Weir
16. Tete-a-Tete: The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre by Hazel Rowley
17. Pandora by Anne Rice
18. The Executioner by Joseph de Maistre
19. Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova
20. Conversations With Students by Rem Koolhaas
21. Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson (currently reading)
22. Electra and Other Plays by Euripides (currently reading)
23. Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens (currently reading)

 

[adorefaith]

just bought the book thief....i'm a little intimidated by the sheer size but can't wait.

 

[Belowen]

just bought the book thief....i'm a little intimidated by the sheer size but can't wait.

I this book adore, and it's such an easy and captivating read. You'll breeze through it for sure. I can't wait to hear what you think of it!

 

[ChrissyM]

1: This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
2: Just Kids by Patti Smith
3: The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
4: Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
5: The Monster of Florence: A True Story by Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi
6: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
7: Little Bee by Chris Cleave
8: The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy
9: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
10: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
11: The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
12: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

I finally feel like I'm starting to catch up
Glad that this Percy Jackson and the Olympians series is an easy, entertaining read...
The series has been a good palette cleanser so far

You can definitely tell that it's geared toward the young adult crowd (is that even the right name for that category?) but I've been enjoying them and it feels good to make my way easily and quickly through a few books

 

[tigerrouge]

After getting chance to read things that aren't textbooks:

17: Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? from New Scientist

A second volume of the scientific magazine's Q&A column.

18: The New Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz

The updated version of a 1960's book about setting goals and making things happen.

 

[Belowen]

Finished number eleven, now onto number twelve...

01: American Subversive by David Goodwillie
02: The Collector by John Fowles
03: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
04: Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
05: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
06: The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
07: Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
08: The Forest Of Hands & Teeth by Carrie Ryan
09: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
10: The Odyssey by Homer
11: The Dead Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan
12: The Woman In Black by Susan Hill

 

[CaoticaClaudia]

Is it possible that I join now, even if it's March? :[

 

[Annu]

1. Pieces of Modesty by Peter O'Donnell
2. Treasure Yourself: Power Thoughts for My Generation by Miranda Kerr

3. My story by Marilyn Monroe
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4. Nora Ephron: I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman
5. Diary of a bad year by J M Coetzee

6. Solar by Ian McEwan
7. Consolation by Anna Gavalda
8. the Gun seller by Hugh Laurie
9. The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano

10. Ruusumadonna by Tuija Lehtinen
11. Ruutumadonna by Tuija Lehtinen
12. The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi

Tuija's book are rom-com, I really needed some light stuff after all those news in Japan. I'm not usually read much of this genre but she is really fun writer, I keep reading her book over and over again. The first book main character almost find the right man, and the second she does. Lovely

The quantum thief is part of trilogy I think. It started little bit slow but story was pretty interesting. Only problem was that, you know, sci-fi you create own universe with own laws but come on, when you start to create some kind of new stuff, how about little bit explain those terms.. just for us, stupid readers.
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[saann]

I this book adore, and it's such an easy and captivating read. You'll breeze through it for sure. I can't wait to hear what you think of it!

It's one of my favorite books! It's so sad and beautiful and his writing style just draws you in

1. The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
2. Never let me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
3. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
4. the Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. Pop Co - Scarlett Thomas
6. jPod - Douglas Coupland
7. Freakonomics - Stephen D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner (does this count? it's not exactly fiction)
8. The bell jar - Sylvia Plath
9. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
10. for one more day - Mitch Albom (I started this right after LB and finished it in just a couple of hours, it was a good read)

11. Prayers for Rain - Dennis Lehane (the author of Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island and Mystic River)

I thought the Lovely Bones was very good but I read the entire thing with a lump in my throat. It's just so sad.

Have any of you seen the film and read the book? From seeing the film I got the impression that the book would focus more on her life up above with the fantasylike elements but the book is really about grief and moving on without having to let go. It was very beautifully written and I wish the movie would have held on to that a bit more.

 

[Nemova]

I'm still stuck in book #3. And to make matters worse, I have Goethe's Faust sitting on my nightstand waiting impatiently to be devoured.

 

[purplethistle]

^ I'm stuck on #1. Though I do around 35 hrs or reading a week for uni. Should be able to add 5 or so fat textbooks at the end of the semester. In the mean time crime and punishment and other classics are just collecting dust on the shelf.

 

[Annu]

Looks like books don't have main stream stuff which would be same like every side of the world. I mean, like movie thread you could easily even know almost every film but there I haven't heard even half of your picks. But maybe I'm not very in books.

 

[Annu]

13. Andorra by Peter Cameron
I really like his style, the book was so beautifully written.

It seems to be good for my readings to be sick but I hope I will get better soon

 

[loonaka]

^ I'm stuck on #1. Though I do around 35 hrs or reading a week for uni. Should be able to add 5 or so fat textbooks at the end of the semester. In the mean time crime and punishment and other classics are just collecting dust on the shelf.

I'm almost finished with book #2 but I'm half way through Vanity Fair and Anna Karenina. I seriousley have no time to read..

 

[Susann]

Im not far either ....
finished book number 2: Dans le bois eternels by Fred Vargas
now almost finished with number 3: L'homme aux cercles bleus by Fred Vargas

 

[mint condish]

6. jPod - Douglas Coupland

11. Prayers for Rain - Dennis Lehane (the author of Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island and Mystic River)

What did you think of jPod? I just bought it based on a recommendation from the Book Reviews thread. Have you read Generation X or A? What did you think? If you'd like to answer in the Book Reviews thread that would be fine too.

I bought Gone Baby Gone and Shutter Island myself. I've never started reading Dennis Lehane yet though. I loved the movie Shutter Island, but I hated the movie for Mystic River

Me, 2011

1. Marian Keyes, This Charming Man
2. Lucy Kellaway, In Office Hours
3. Lisa Lutz, The Spellmans Strike Again

 

[Dora]

Finished (finally) "Eat, Pray, Love".
Moving on to "Breaking Dawn".

 

[saann]

What did you think of jPod? I just bought it based on a recommendation from the Book Reviews thread. Have you read Generation X or A? What did you think? If you'd like to answer in the Book Reviews thread that would be fine too.

I bought Gone Baby Gone and Shutter Island myself. I've never started reading Dennis Lehane yet though. I loved the movie Shutter Island, but I hated the movie for Mystic River

Me, 2011

1. Marian Keyes, This Charming Man
2. Lucy Kellaway, In Office Hours
3. Lisa Lutz, The Spellmans Strike Again

I haven't read his other books but jPod was fun in the mindless way. There's a lot of humor in his writing and a lot of extreme characters and circumstances. It was a fun and easy read, I recommend it but don't expect it to change your life or anything

I didn't care much for Mystic River as well! But shutter island, both the book and the film were good. The book was a bit less actiondriven than the movie but I think but you should definitely read it.