Srividya's Climb to Mt. Ararat

[Srividya]

Last year I was extremely ambitious and tried to climb the Everest and failed but managed to climb a little above Mt. Kilimanjaro. This year, however, I want to start at a less ambitious height and hopefully cross it. Am planning to read mostly books from TBR that I have owned for a long time and am hoping that I will do it justice this year! Here's to a disciplined reading year 2016!

[Srividya]

Summary List of Books Planned for this expedition

Physical Books

✔ 1. The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War
2. A Suitable Boy
3. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
4. Tigana
5. Winter of the World
6. In Xanadu: A Quest
7. The Pillars of the Earth
8. O Jerusalem
9. The Idiot
10. From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East
11. A Prayer for Owen Meany
12. In Cold Blood
13. The Orphan Master's Son
14. Deadhouse Gates
15. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
16. Raiders from the North
17. Schindler's List

Kindle Books

✔ 1. Anna Karenina
2. Les Misérables
3. Seabiscuit: An American Legend
4. The Eye of the World
5. The Passage
6. The Quiet Game
7. Lonesome Dove
8. Reliquary
9. Speaks the Nightbird
10. War and Peace
11. The Brothers Karamazov
12. A Clash of Kings
13. The Prisoner of Heaven
14. Under Heaven
15. A Song for Arbonne
16. The Light Between Oceans
17. Before They Are Hanged
18. Last Argument of Kings
19. The Way of Kings
20. Coraline
21. Child 44
22. The Stand
23. The Gunslinger
✔ 24. Cloud Atlas
✔ 25. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
✔ 26. 2666
✔ 27. The Nightingale

[Srividya]

Summary List of Books read

[Srividya]

Books read in January 2016

1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
2. Anna Karenina
3. The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War
4. Cloud Atlas
5. 2666


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[Srividya]

1. - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Date read: 1/4/2016
Rating: 4 stars

[Srividya]

2. - Anna Karenina - by Leo Tolstoy

Date read: 1/9/2016
Rating: 5 stars

[Srividya]

3. - The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War - by Denise Chong

Date read: 1/12/16
Rating: 4 stars

[RachelvlehcaR]

Good luck Sri! I see War and Peace is still on that list. I started that then fizzled way back when we started that Buddy Read. I haven't picked it up since.

[Natália]

I have War & Peace and Anna Karenina on my list too! Let's hope I can finish them this year!

[Srividya]

Thanks Rachel and Natalia!

Rachel, yes it is still there and this year I want to finish it. I also left it at the same place and time. However, I did finish Anna Karenina, so I am hopeful about War and Peace!

[Srividya]

Natália wrote: "I have War & Peace and Anna Karenina on my list too! Let's hope I can finish them this year!"

Good luck to you, Natalia! We can keep cheering each other on with these two. I just finished Anna Karenina and found it to be spectacular!

[Srividya]

4. - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Date read: 1/24/16
Rating: 5 stars

[Srividya]

5. - 2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Date read: 1/30/16
Rating: 5 stars

[Srividya]

Thanks Jessika! :)

[Maxine]

I read Child 44 last year and it was one of my favourite reads. I must be honest though and admit I only picked it up because Tom Hardy was on the cover and I have yet to see a movie of his that I haven't liked. I still haven't seen the movie. I hope you enjoy it.

[Srividya]

Thanks Maxine! I have heard so much about Child 44 that I am quite excited to read it.

[Srividya]

6. - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Date read: 2/3/16
Rating: 2 stars

[Srividya]

7. - Mitosis by Brandon Sanderson

Date read: 2/17/16
Rating: 3 stars

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8. -Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson

Date read: 2/18/16
Rating: 4 stars

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9. - Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Date read: 2/24/16
Rating: 3 stars

[Srividya]

10. - Em and The Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto

Date read: 2/25/16
Rating: 5 stars

[Srividya]

11. - The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

Date read: 3/3/16
Rating: 3 stars

[Srividya]

12. - A History of France from the Earliest Times to the Treaty of Versailles by William Stearns Davis

Date read: 3/5/16
Rating: 3 stars

[Bev]

You've made it to Pike's Peak--doing great!