2014 Challenge: Log a book you finished

[John]

The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Published 1912.
Pages237.
Kindle edition

[Powder River Rose]

My Escape From Slavery & The Destiny of Colored Americans by Frederick Douglass
Published: sometime during his life 1818-1895
Published by: Telltale Weekly
Time: 44 min
Overdrive MP3 audiobook release date: Aug 16, 2005

Oregon

[John]

Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works 1840-1849 by Edgar Allan Poe.
Kindle edition December 23, 2012.
Pages 235.

[Powder River Rose]

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner originally published in 1936
Overdrive MP3 audiobook
Publisher: Books on Tape. Release date: Dec 18, 2007
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
12 hrs 35 min

Go to my books for my review....it's too painful to do again.

[John]

Just posted the monthly theme for February, Black Authors for Black History Month.

Check out the Recommendations that David put together here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I also saw this post about Science Fiction Authors on Black History Month and thought it was relevant to our theme this month. The audio isn't great, but having read quite a lot of classic science fiction, I find the points to be very valid with regard to both science fiction and many traditional classics that I have read.

http://video.openroadmedia.com/Rnr4/s...

or

Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvf4Fj...

[John]

The Man Who Would be King by Rudyard Kipling
Published 1865, English.
Kindle edition 2007.
Pages 60.

[Powder River Rose]

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling
Published 1894
Overdrive MP3 audiobook
29 min

[John]

The Book of American Negro Poetry by James Weldon Johnson.
Published 1922 or 1969, USA
Kindle edition.
Pages 126.

[John]

Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold.
Published 1869.
Kindle edition 2012.
Pages 272.

[Martha]

Finished Pied Piper 2/6/14 by Nevil Shute. Published 1942. paperback, 320 pages.

Central Illinois

[John]

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
Published in 1899 as three stories, then in book form in 1902.
Kindle edition 2006.
Pages 118.

[John]

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.
Published 1894, English.
Kindle edition.
Pages 177.

[Raine]

So I finished The Woman in White. Loved it. Twisted plot.
1996 Edition, originally published in book form in 1860.
Edition with Intro by John Sutherland
643 Pages

[John]

Finished The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Published 1850, English.
Kindle edition.
Pages 292.

[Powder River Rose]

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Published Apr 25, 1719
Overdrive MP3 audiobook
Narrated by John Lee
10 hrs 57 mins

[John]

The Secret Providence of God by John Calvin.
Published 1558 Latin.
Kindle edition Sept.2012, English.
Pages 127.

[Angelique]

The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe.
Published 1842.
Epub edition pub 2009 14pages.

[Angelique]

The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe.
Published 1839.
Epub edition pub. 2009.
16 pages.

[John]

Against Praxeas by Tertullian.
Written before 208 AD in Latin.
Kindle edition 2001.
Pages 55.

[John]

The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper.
Published 1823.
Kindle edition 2012.
Pages 452.

[Angelique]

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Published 1937.
Epub edition, published 1993 74 pages.

[Aaron]

The Ship of Ishtar by A. Merritt, first published 1924, paperback, 180 pages.

[Aaron]

Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin, first published 1968, paperback, 203 pages.

[Rita]

Peter and Wendy by JM Barrie. Original publication 1911. Audiobook: 4h 41m.

[Angelique]

The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham.
First published 1925, paperback, 246 pages.

[Aaron]

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, first published in 1898, ebook, 120 pages.

[Parker]

Just recently read the sea wolf by Jack London

Published 1904

Paperback, signet classic

[Parker]

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
published 1820
500+ pages

[David]

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. Published in 1532. 128 pages (my edition anyway), print.

I had this on my to-read list for a while, I think after reading Thomas Cahill's Mysteries of the Middle Ages in which Machiavelli is frequently referenced. I particularly enjoyed his classical-era examples of the use of power, but my medieval Italian history is poor at best so I think I missed some of his points. Although not a guidebook for life in the 21st century, well worth reading just for getting a little extra insight on human nature.

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[David]

Names on the Land by George R. Stewart. Published in 1944, revised in 1958, 527 pages, print.

Most folks will recognize the author from other works like Earth Abides and Ordeal By Hunger, about a fictional global pandemic and the Donner party respectively. This book is nonfiction, a classic study of how various places in the United States came into their names. There is so much interesting information in the book I cannot begin to do it justice in this short review, so here are just a couple observations. One is the fascinating Dutch heritage behind many of the street and town names in and around New York City. Another interesting exploration is on how towns end up with suffixes like -ville, -burg(h), -to(w)n, or -boro(ugh). Even though the book is fairly old (the second edition gets us caught up with the soon-to-be admitted Alaska and Hawaii) it is filled with amazing insights that will make you the life of the party, if nothing else.

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[John]

Finished Ivanhoe by Walter Scott.
Published 1819.
Kindle edition.
Pages 367.

[Martha]

The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, originally published 1889
Kindle edition 322 pages

Illinois

[Crystal]

Not sure if this counts but I thought I'd throw it out there just in case....
Just finished "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein. Hardcover. 183 pages. Originally published in 1974 I think.

[John]

Typee by Herman Melville.
Published 1846.
Kindle edition May 2012.
Pages 274.

[Raine]

Finished The Godfather
Published 1969
Hardcover
433 pages

[Angelique]

The Count of Monte Cristo published 1996 (originally 1844) hardcover pgs 1462.

[Powder River Rose]

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Published 1847
Released by Blackstone Audio Jun 2009
Narrated by Nadia May

18 hrs 52 min

[Aaron]

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, the Woods trans., 1924, paperback, 706 pages.

[Maggie]

"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger, 1951, paperback, FAR too many pages

Hated this book! Had to force myself to finish it.

My location: Warsaw, IN, USA

[Powder River Rose]

The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Originally published 1865

Narrated by Fred Williams jr

11 hrs 56

[Powder River Rose]

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Narrated by Hope Davis
6 hrs 4 mi

[Powder River Rose]

The Imitation of Christ
Thomas a Kempis Pub 1886
Translated by William Benham

Gutenberg Project
mp3 audio format
Narrated by Librivox

181 pgs

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[Parker]

Sons and Lovers
DH Lawrence Published 1913
416 pages

[Powder River Rose]

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Mp3 audiobook Overdrive Media Console
Narration by Books in Motion
using original publication of 1896
18 hrs 10 min

488 pages

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[Martha]

Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 by Susan Shelby Magoffin
1926, 304 pages, print

Central Illinois

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[Linda]

A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens.
First published in 1859.
Nook Edition, 377 pages.

This is my all-time favorite novel. Reading it for at least the third time, but the first in many, many years, is like reconnecting with an old friend. It is uplifting to contemplate Dickens' portrayal of redemption through love, selflessness, and courage.

[John]

I have been a little remiss at posting myself.

My daughter and I just finished the following two books. We have shared in the reading, which has been nice.

by Astrid Lindgren, 1945, 116 pages, paperback.

by Astrid Lindgren, 1946, 116 pages, paperback.

The following two books fall into that gray area of whether they are or are not classics. Both are highly regarded YA fantasy novels which have respectively won Newberry Honor and Newberry Medals.

by Robin McKinley, 1982, 256 pages, Ebook.

by Robin McKinley, 1984, 240 pages, Ebook.

I highly recommend these books for anyone looking for fantasy books with strong female characters. If you like these, you might also like the recent book: by Rae Carson

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[Powder River Rose]

John wrote: "I have been a little remiss at posting myself.

My daughter and I just finished the following two books. We have shared in the reading, which has been nice.

by..."

Oh I love Pippi. Glad you shared the reading, she will have great memories when she gets older.

[Powder River Rose]

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Narrator: Simon Prebble, Blackstone Audio
11 hr 23 min
326 pgs

A disturbing look at an alternative society/world

[David]

Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner, 1968, 672 pages, print.

Years ago, back in my public librarian days, I would walk past this book, one of the thickest in the SF section and say to myself "someday". I duly placed it in my queue and it percolated its way up the charts until, voila! it was sitting on deck.

John Brunner was a prolific writer in the 1950's and early 1960's, cranking out volumes of fairly stock-sounding science fiction and space opera. In 1968 he made a very dramatic transition in both form and content with Stand On Zanzibar. The first in a quartet of dystopias, this novel deals with the cultural impacts of overpopulation in the far future year of 2010. It is written in a non-linear style, with the main plot line (Continuity) weaving among brief portraits of other characters (Tracking With Closeups) and fragments of the cultural world of 2010 (Context and The Happening World). Obviously this book's 2010 bears little resemblance in "past" events, politics and language to our world four years ago, but Brunner is actually not far off the mark as to where we are technologically and it is not unreasonable to think some of these things could come to pass in our own still-unwritten future.

It struck the right tone and the right time. The book would go on to win the Hugo Award in 1969 as well as a few other prestigious awards internationally, assuring its status as a classic. Brunner's health took a turn for the worse in the 1970's, so his output declined, but he continued to explore various dystopias in works such as The Sheep Look Up (pollution), The Jagged Orbit (racial discord) and The Shockwave Rider (computers in control). I would like to check these out in the future!

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