50 Book Challenge for 2011

[miss_catherine]

Oh my! What a wonderful idea for a thread - such a great way to find out about new books and keep going with your reading. Is it possible to start now? I'm studying to be an English Lit teacher and it'll motivate me to keep track of what I've been reading instead of the usual forgetting that happens...

 

[Alvedansen]

01. John Steinbeck - The grapes of wrath
02. Richard Matheson - I am legend
03. Joyce Carol Oates - Big mouth & Ugly girl
04. Ken Follett - The pillars of the earth
05. Haruki Murakami - Afterdark
06. Gayle Forman - If I stay
07. J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
08. Patti Smith - Just kids

i need to make more time for reading, can't wait for summer when i can sit in a park and there's nothing to distract me

 

[Cristina777]

I am in too! I haven't read much, I need something to keep me motivated!

 

[tigerrouge]

19: Ancient Trees, Living Landscapes by Robin Muir

A book about how you can 'read' the countryside by understanding what each tree was used for at different stages in history, and the effect that different ages had on the landscape that came before. Today, we're left with remnants of historical forest and hedgerow, but we can still find some living evidence in the form of trees that have survived for hundreds - and in some cases, thousands - of years, and each one has its story.

 

[from: sophia]

I think I am going to read The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides next. I am waiting for my friend to loan it to me tomorrow to start reading.

 

[Susann]

I think I am going to read The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides next. I am waiting for my friend to loan it to me tomorrow to start reading.

I liked reading that! enjoy your read!

finished number 3: L'homme aux cercles bleus by Fred Vargas

 

[miss_catherine]

I'll just assume it's a-okay. I've already read a lot this year but it feels like cheating if I put down what I can remember - after all, what if my memory is less than accurate? So I'll just go with the last thing I've read and what I'm currently reading.

01 l JD Salinger - Franny & Zooey
02 l Dave Eggers - Zeitoun (reading)
03 l Lawrence Lipton - The Holy Barbarians (reading)
04 l LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables (reading)

 

[Alvedansen]

01. John Steinbeck - The grapes of wrath
02. Richard Matheson - I am legend
03. Joyce Carol Oates - Big mouth & Ugly girl
04. Ken Follett - The pillars of the earth
05. Haruki Murakami - Afterdark
06. Gayle Forman - If I stay
07. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
08. Patti Smith - Just kids
09. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

now reading
Rick Riordan - The lightning thief

 

[Toccata]

WEEK 12 (MARCH 20-26)
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01 ❖ AENEID VIRGIL LATIN EPIC
02 ❖ NAUSEA SARTRE EXISTENTIAL FICTION
03 ❖ POETICS ARISTOTLE ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
04 ❖ COMPLETE AESCYHLUS II AESCHYLUS GREEK TRAGEDY
4.1 ► PERSIANS
4.2 ► SEVEN AGAINST THEBES
4.3 ► SUPPLIANTS
4.4 ► PROMETHEUS BOUND
05 ❖ THE HOUSE OF ATREUS AESCHYLUS GREEK TRAGEDY
5.1 ► AGAMEMNON
5.2 ► THE LIBATION-BEARERS
5.3 ► THE FURIES
06 ❖ LA VITA NOUVA DANTE MEDIEVAL POETRY
07 ❖ DISCOURSE ON METHOD DESCARTES PROTO-MODERN PHILOSOPHY
08 ❖ HOMERIC HYMNS ANON. GREEK POETRY
09 ❖ THE THEBAN PLAYS SOPHOCLES GREEK TRAGEDY
9.1 ► OEDIPUS REX
9.2 ► OEDIPUS AT COLONUS
9.3 ► ANTIGONE
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ READING ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
10 ❖ ELECTRA & OTHER PLAYS SOPHOCLES GREEK TRAGEDY
10.1 ► ELECTRA
10.2 ► AJAX
10.3 ► PHILOCTETES
10.4 ► WOMAN OF TRACHIS

 

[ChrissyM]

now reading
Rick Riordan - The lightning thief

don't blame me if it ends up being too silly for you, ok?



i'm curious to know what you think

 

[Alvedansen]

^ don't worry. it was so weird...i had lent a friend from school two of my fave books from when i was a kid and then he brought this book to school for me to borrow, without even asking if i had ever read them.
but the beginning is promising, better than the movie.

 

[saann]

So I picked up some new books today and ended up reading and finishing one of them. I'm still on the Lehane book though, I'm almost through with it.

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


11. Prayers for Rain - Dennis Lehane
12. The Sunset Limited - Cormac McCarthy // It was VERY different from 'the Road'. This is strictly dialogue while the former was very descriptive. It almost reeds like a screenplay, and is a very quick read. It's strictly one conversation between two men, no pauses or anything. If this was a film it would have all been in one shot. The ending left a bit to be desired but it was a fun read with some seriously mind-provoking parts.

 

[ChrissyM]

So I picked up some new books today and ended up reading and finishing one of them. I'm still on the Lehane book though, I'm almost through with it.

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


11. Prayers for Rain - Dennis Lehane
12. The Sunset Limited - Cormac McCarthy // It was VERY different from 'the Road'. This is strictly dialogue while the former was very descriptive. It almost reeds like a screenplay, and is a very quick read. It's strictly one conversation between two men, no pauses or anything. If this was a film it would have all been in one shot. The ending left a bit to be desired but it was a fun read with some seriously mind-provoking parts.

i think HBO just did a film on the sunset limited starring tommy lee jones (he's a huge cormac mccarthy fan) and samuel l jackson

 

[lucy92]

12. The Sunset Limited - Cormac McCarthy // It was VERY different from 'the Road'. This is strictly dialogue while the former was very descriptive. It almost reeds like a screenplay, and is a very quick read. It's strictly one conversation between two men, no pauses or anything. If this was a film it would have all been in one shot. The ending left a bit to be desired but it was a fun read with some seriously mind-provoking parts.

wow, i can't get through any cormac mccarthy. he usually doesnt use quotation marks, so i would have a hard time finishing it. it makes my eyes swim a bit when "Modern" writers exclude them. i hate this trend.

 

[saann]

To be quite honest, I'm not even sure if I like him just yet. I'm not the biggest fan of 'the road' (while I enjoyed reading it I never felt the urge to pick it up again between breaks) and this one was good but very easy to forget. It was a quick read like 'for one more day' but while that has still stayed in my thoughts (I really liked it) this one didn't 'get' to me in any particular way. And they both covered the same subject.

But it should be easier to get through this. The two characters are "Black" and "White" and everything is written like it's a script. I'm not even joking, it's written like this with the occasional 2 lines of what they're doing:

Black: bkvbjkjkbrvjkr
White: kbvdskvkbvbjk
Black: hbhbkahjbrahbj
etc

Chrissy - I'll be sure to check it out, I kept imagining it like a film. Thanks!

 

[ChrissyM]

^^no problem!

re: cormac mccarthy... i liked the road (though like you, saann, i haven't felt the urge for a reread)
i found the road to be MUCH easier to get through than his border trilogy...
and my sister had bought me a couple of his other books...
i've got one more to go but i'm almost dreading it because i find it so difficult to get into his writing style, and difficult to keep track of the characters when there's so little background information offered

 

[from: sophia]

so I still have not gotten Virgin Suicides yet but I did get Lolita by Nabokov at a book sale. I always loved the movie (the Kubrick one) and had never read the book. I am about half way through the novel it is brilliantly written.

 

[miss_catherine]

Oh, Lolita is amazing. Nabokov is such a brilliant writer. Glad you think so too!

 

[ChrissyM]

^^good choice with lolita! content is a bit disturbing but it's a classic for a reason

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
13: The Last Titan by Rick Riordan

I'm on to the last book in the series... we'll see how it all wraps up in this one...
it's felt like I've been reading one giant book

 

[miss_catherine]

01 l JD Salinger - Franny & Zooey
02 l Dave Eggers - Zeitoun
03 l Lawrence Lipton - The Holy Barbarians
04 l LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables (reading)
05 l F Scott Fitzgerald - The Beautiful and the Damned (reading)
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