January 2018- What will you be reading?

[[deleted user]]

Please share you TBR plans for January 2018.

[[deleted user]]

I am trying not to be too strict with my reading plans in 2018 but I have a few books I would like to get to:

1. A Gentleman in Moscow (off my shelves, group read)
2. The Dragon Keeper (off my shelves)
3. Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales (group read, short story collection)
4. River of Smoke (library book)

[Stef]

January 2018 I hope to read:

Socialist Reasoning: An Inquiry Into the Political Philosophy of Scientific Socialism

The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

The Lover

Tangara

Well Read and Dead

Lambs of God

However I do have to work, so I will see how that pans out! I make no firm promise

[Pam]

My January reading plan is:
1) The Sparrow
2) It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree
3) Minds of Winter
4) An American Tragedy
5) Murder at Midnight (children's)

[Laurel]

Carried over from December:
Yseult: A Tale of Love in the Age of King Arthur
READ Conspirata

Coming up:
READ Dictator
What Happened
READ A Man Called Ove for book club

Possibly:
READ The Frozen Thames

Edited, now that it is Jan. 1. Happy New Year!
Besides A Man Called Ove for my f2f book club, an online group is reading The Essex Serpent so I'd like to add that one. Another group is reading The Alice Network. I probably won't get to it, but it sounds interesting. Not sure I'm in the mood for another WWII book...

Besides The Frozen Thames, I am anxious to start on my list of 30 random reads. There are a couple I could knock off in a day, and I just might do it today!
READ The Barn: From the Beginning
and a short story: Virgins by Diana Gabaldon

[Petra]

I seem to have gotten myself into a few group reads for January:

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursela Le Guin
Independent People by Halldór Laxness
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov

If I've got time to add another, I would really like to join in on the AAB read An American Tragedy.

[Pink]

January plans-

The Well of Loneliness (to finish) 4 stars
Les Misérables (to finish)
Doctor Zhivago (classics group read)currently reading
Infinite Jest (AAB buddy read)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (library book) 3 stars
American War (library book)DNF
Alias Grace (classics group read) DNF
Prometheus Bound (personal challenge) 3 stars
Much Ado About Nothing (personal challenge) 3 stars

[[deleted user]]

January books:

Alex and Eliza
Anna and the Swallow Man
Divergent

Those three for sure.

[Sam]

I know it's ambitious but that's how I like to kick off the new year :)

The Blue Fox
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
Eight Skilled Gentlemen
Peter and Alice
The Prestige
Moving Pictures
Also, I want to begin Belgarath the Sorcerer and A Novel in a Year; the latter will accompany me through the year.

[Petra]

Pink, I'm going to be following the Infinite Jest discussion but not rereading it (too soon yet). Looking forward to it and really hope you all enjoy it.

[Chrissie]

Fiction
1.Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier 3 stars read
2.Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman half was enough 1 star
3.Mrs. Hemingway by Naomi Wood 4 stars read
4.Winter by Ali Smith 3 star read
5.The World Below by Sue Miller 3 stars read
6.A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter 4 stars read
7.The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo 2 stars read
8.An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor 2 stars read
9.Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham 4 stars read
10.The Blue Guitar by John Banville 5 stars read
11..Martin Eden by Jack London 3 stars read (added)

Non-fiction
1.Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England] by Alison Weir 3 stars read
2.The Co-op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North by Hunter Davies 3 stars read
3.Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts by Stanislas Dehaene 1 star read half
4.The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner 4 stars read
5.Mousy Cats and Sheepish Coyotes: The Science of Animal Personalities by John Shivik 3 stars read

[Evelyn]

So far I am planning
A Gentleman in Moscow
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
The Expatriates

[Nichole]

Here is the list for January:

Chemistry by Weike Wang (currently reading)
The Harvard Classics in a Year: A Liberal Education in 365 Days by Charles Eliot (I will start this year-long reading project on the 1st)
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

[Beth]

start City of God for a group read Jan-March

Henry V to read across Jan-Feb, unless I don't get to it until February...

[Jeremy]

I will be reading these 3 books

Trainride Elsewhere
Freedom's Fate
Little Girl Blues: Existence of an Image

[Greg]

I feel fairly sure I have overcommitted myself; so some boxes will probably fall off the train, but here is my plan:

Readalongs/Buddy Reads:

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Various Group Reads:

The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley (finish)
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Other Books on Hold via Library:

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman

[Esther]

my plans:
The Handmaid's Tale (book club read)
A Gentleman in Moscow (book club read)
Poirot Investigates (book club challenge)

If I have an extra time:
Finish The Last Hours (e-book)
Return to The Bronze Horseman

[[deleted user]]

Esther, you have some great books to read this month! The Handmaids Tale is one of my favourites and I’m really enjoying A Gentleman in Moscow

[Esther]

Heather wrote: "Esther, you have some great books to read this month! The Handmaids Tale is one of my favourites and I’m really enjoying A Gentleman in Moscow"

I was on the fence about The Handmaids Tale and am glad that a book club 'pushed' me into reading it.
I have heard so much about A Gentleman in Moscow I hope I love it!.

[Tasmin]

Assissans Apprentice by Robin Hobbs after all this time of me saying I would.
And maybe get to my non fiction books

[Chrissie]

I have added a few more to my planned books for January in message 11.

[Rebecca]

I am currently reading Tomorrow, When the War Beganand I will be starting An American Tragedy today. I have to admit that I may not get anything else read because of how long An American Tragedyis, I have read books of this length before but not a classic. Hopefully I will be able to read more if so I will post it when I have started it!

[Laurel]

Updated my plans in message number 5.

[Greg]

Rebecca wrote: "I am currently reading Tomorrow, When the War Beganand I will be starting An American Tragedy today. I have to admit that I may not get anything else read because of ho..."

I know what you mean Rebecca - An American Tragedy is a monster!

[Chrissie]

If I may voice my opinion, I really do not understand why the group chose to read An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser. Both Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt are much, much better. It is a shame that this is the one chosen. Just my view of course.

[Leslie]

Greg wrote: "I feel fairly sure I have overcommitted myself; so some boxes will probably fall off the train, but here is my plan:

Readalongs/Buddy Reads:

The Sparrow by .."

Greg - I adore Vanity Fair! I hope that you will too :)
If you listen to an audiobook edition, I recommend John Castle's narration.

[Leslie]

Stupid browser on my Kindle Fire lost my list of books so here I go again...

I am currently reading The Captive and listening to the audiobook of Beguilement by my chosen author for our 'read the name' challenge, Lois McMaster Bujold :)

Various group reads & readalongs:
Infinite Jest (AAB readalong)
The Abbey Court Murder
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Zeno's Conscience (maybe)

I am not going to reread An American Tragedy (AAB Group Classic) but I might try to rewatch the movie version with Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Cliff ("A Place in the Sun").

I hope to read A Gentleman in Moscow (AAB Group Fiction) but it is a very popular book so I don't know if any of my library holds will come in before the month ends! I put holds on both the Kindle & audiobook editions in about 4 different library systems and on the print edition & CD audiobook in my local library so we'll see...

Mysteries:
Dead Lagoon
The Ice Princess
The Vanishing Man
Over My Dead Body (for my 'read the name' challenge)
Black Diamond Death
Tenant for Death {reread}
The Marco Effect (maybe)

Other Fiction:
Back in Society
The Vagabond
The Minister's Black Veil and maybe some of the other short stories in Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales
Martin Eden (for my 'read the name' challenge)
Robinson
Moving Pictures
The Vicar of Bullhampton (maybe)
Melmoth the Wanderer (maybe)

[Patrick]

Martin Eden, which I just finished a week ago, is fantastic.

[Greg]

Leslie wrote: "Greg - I adore Vanity Fair! I hope that you will too :)
If you listen to an audiobook edition, I recommend John Castle's narration. ..."

Thanks for the tip Leslie! I probable will mix an audio version and a print version. Before I get the audio one, I'll check the narrator. :)

[Alice]

I will continue with The Remains of the Day.

After that, I plan to read:

Peony by Pearl S. Buck
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng

[Jason]

Just began The Shipping News by Annie Proulx. The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson and Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout to follow during January.

[Raul]

I will be reading:

Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett

And I might also re-read:

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

[Greg]

Raul wrote: "I will be reading:

Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

[book:We Have Always Lived in the Cast..."

I liked several of those Raul! Hope you enjoy them!

[Raul]

Greg wrote: "Raul wrote: "I will be reading:

Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

[book:We Have Always Live..."

Seeing that we share a common liking to lots of books I'm certain i will to!

[Greg]

Raul wrote: "
Seeing that we share a common liking to lots of books I'm certain i will to!
..."

:)

[Colleen]

January reading plans -

Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon - finished 4 stars
Winter Garden - finished 4 stars
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania - finished 4 stars
The Sparrow
The Catcher in the Rye (think I read this in my younger years, so will be good to get a current take on it)
The Vacationers - finished 4 stars
Wolf Hall
Peter Pan
It's Always the Husband
H is for Hawk - finished 3 stars
11/22/63

[LauraT]

These my probable next books:

Fabio Deotto Un attimo prima
Alex Howard Leggere è una faccenda da gatti
Edith Wharton The House of Mirth
Amor Towles Un gentiluomo a Mosca
Erri De Luca La Natura Esposta
Howard Fast  The Immigrants
John Connoly Every Dead Thing - Tutto ciò che muore
Laura Ingalls The Long Winter

[Leslie]

My library holds on a couple of short story books have come in:
The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book (the American title for The Virago Book of Fairy Tales) and
The Greek Myths

[Helly]

I have no hard and fast decision about my TBR. I have read 9 books till date in January and I would probably continue reading Indian Authors whom I had deeply neglected all my life. Would also be picking up another Ishiguro, as I liked The Remains of The Day. My Current Read is Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford.

[Leslie]

Helly wrote: "I have no hard and fast decision about my TBR. I have read 9 books till date in January and I would probably continue reading Indian Authors whom I had deeply neglected all my life. Would also be p..."

I hope that you enjoy Cranford as much as I did Helly!

[LauraT]

Leslie wrote: "Helly wrote: "I have no hard and fast decision about my TBR. I have read 9 books till date in January and I would probably continue reading Indian Authors whom I had deeply neglected all my life. W..."

I also loved it, even if I have to admit that by her I much prefere Wives and Daughters or North and South

[Petra]

Petra wrote: "I seem to have gotten myself into a few group reads for January:

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursela Le Guin
Independent People by Halldór Laxness
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
..."

I have finished The Lathe of Heaven and really enjoyed it. It's a "trippy" little novel that includes many social problems such as racial tension, global warming and overpopulation.

I'm 3/4 through Independent People. It's very well written. Yet, I'm not as drawn into the story as I could be. There are some strange reactions in this story that have me scratching my head.

I haven't started And Quiet Flows The Don and will move this to February.

[Chrissie]

Patrick wrote: "Martin Eden, which I just finished a week ago, is fantastic."

I will be reading that soon. Several of you have so liked it.

[Leslie]

I have been making good progress on my list in post 27 except for the group reads! I will try to finish The French Lieutenant's Woman before February...