Ok so I just joined this club today so I'm going to count the books I've read since the beginning of the year, I hope that's ok.

1. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2. The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol

and that's pretty much it, only 48 to go.

Currently reading
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Welcome! Of course you can count the books you've read since January :D

Thanks Aprile for the welcome!

3. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

next up


Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenvev

How was the Gogol collection?

Bishop wrote: "How was the Gogol collection?"
It's a good read.
Very strange at times but oddly satisfying.
I mean, there's a story about a man whose nose decides to leave his face one day and just run around town pretending to something else!!! how insane is that?
Then there's the more serious The Overcoat
and the funny and I find somewhat sad, Diary of a Madman and plents of others!
I would recommend it, highly.

ps. I like your little Decemberists Avatar.

I might have to add that to my list. I am familiar with the Nose, but not much else.

PS - :)

Bishop wrote: "I might have to add that to my list. I am familiar with the Nose, but not much else.

PS - :)"

WEll if you do decide to read I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

4. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

The Stranger by Albert Camus up next!!!

5. The Stranger by Albert Camus

Next

1984 by George Orwell

Have you read "The Rebel" by Camus? It's pretty good.

Oh, 1984! One of my favourite books ever!

Aprile wrote: "Have you read "The Rebel" by Camus? It's pretty good.

Oh, 1984! One of my favourite books ever!"

Actually, The Stranger is the first and only Albert Camus book that I have read thus far, but I really enjoyed the fact that The Stranger had so much to say for being an extremly short book, while other books are insanely long but leave me with nothing. I'll definitely be reading more Camus in the near future.

And this is also my first time reading 1984 and I'm enjoying this one very much too!!!

6.1984 by George Orwell DONE!!!


Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh next!!!!

I'm not done with Brideshead Revisited, I'm having trouble finishing the second part of the book, especially now that I've seen the movie. :(
so I've decided to start

House of Mirth by Edith Wharton.
I'll eventually finish BR, just need a break from Waugh for a minute.

7. House of Mirth by Edith Wharton.
I loved this book! I found it to be extremely sad.


Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by PAtrick Suskind NEXT!!

8. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind DONE.
I loved this book so much. It's not typically the kind of book I go for, but it was so well written and clever I couldn't help but read it in one day.

NOt sure what book I want to read next. :(

9. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
I just finished this book a couple minutes ago and I must admit that no book has ever made me cry as much is this book did. All I can say is that it was beautiful, and I will miss all the characters immensely.

again I'm not sure what book I want to start/finish.

10. I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak.
It wasn't as great as the book thief, and despite the fact that I thought some parts were pretty cheesy, I still really like this book. Kinda of scared of reading his other works tho for fear of being let down.

anywho YAH!! books down! only 40 to go... I'm a slow reader!

I think I might read the Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, or The Power and The Glory by Graham Greene next.

ten! whoohoo for your!

11. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. It took me a while but I finally finished it. Waugh easily became one of my top five writers.

Your book list cracks me up! You are all over the place...I like it! I shall try to branch out from junk food murder mysteries.

Mary Todd wrote: "Your book list cracks me up! You are all over the place...I like it! I shall try to branch out from junk food murder mysteries."

Hahaha I guess I am all over the place!!
I suppose it's because when I started taking reading more seriously I mainly focused on classics. (I had the misconception that the only books with any substance where the older ones) but I'm starting to branch out and expand my horizons more.
But there's so many books and so little time!!

I've never heard of junk food murder mysteries, can you recommend a good one!?!

12. The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

... slow and steady.

13.The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

I don't usually tent to read the same writers right after each other but have done so recently, twice.
I enjoyed my time with Jhumpa and Zusak very much. Both very different writers but both incredibly talented.

for my next read I'm thinking something longer, perhaps Moby Dick or A Passage to India... or I should finish one of the many books I have started but have only gotten half way.
:)

14.Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

I love this book so much! it's the only book I've been able to read more then once.

Oh crap I am so behind.

15. by Ayn Rand

this book was pretty next level.
I can't wait to read some more Ayn Rand.

16. Atonement by Ian McEwan
It was an insanely wonderful read.

Hyacinth wrote: "16. Atonement by Ian McEwan
It was an insanely wonderful read."

Lovely to see other people who liked it! :)

17. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss.
I don't really know how I feel the book. It made my head hurt.
It's heartbreaking to say the least.

18. Anthem by Ayn Rand
It was a decent book. Incredibly short but worth the read.

19. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

it was ok, not really my cup, but I enjoyed it just fine.

Oh man, I'm so far behind!

20. by Lev Gorssman
I really enjoyed this story and the way it was written. It has turned me to wanting to read Narnia series, which I look forward to soon.
:)

21. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

I must admit I was quite surprised to read thru this book. I have always heard this book referred to as a classic romantic novel, and I was shocked at the craziness of these characters. I guess wanting cruel revenge on everyone is romantic in a way.

is The Count of Monte Cristo considered a romantic novel?

22. The Wild Things by Dave Eggers

Just saw the movie and the this book follows it at some points and goes in its own direction at others. It's generally still the same story. I enjoyed it for what it was, a nice, quick, easy read.

Hyacinth, you mentioned seeing the movie, but the author of 'The Wild Things' (you said) was Dave Eggers...unless this is a 'making of' book, I'm confused. The original children's book "Where The Wild Things Are" was written by Maurice Sendak...perhaps Eggers took his book from Sendak's original one? The characters in the trailers I have seen of the movie look remarkably like the illustrations in Sendak's book, and in fact I think Maurice Sendak is a consultant of some kind for the movie, I remember seeing his name in connection with it...the reviews I have read say that it's more appropriate for adults than for children...I don't know why that is, seems odd to me...Perhaps this is an entirely different movie you are talking about??
UPDATE: I just looked at the customer reviews in Amazon for The Wild Things, and it is indeed a separate book, taken from the screenplay of WTWTA, with apparently a deeper meaning and darker twists...reading the reviews I am understanding a little more about the controversy around this movie and why it was so well-loved by children, who remember it as adults. I never read the original story, but now I want to see the movie and read Eggers' book. Being a fan of literature is so fascinating...you never know where it will lead!
Carol