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Tanya's Reading Goals for 2010 and 2011!
2011 Goals
My goals for 2011 are largely a continuation of 2010s goals. That is:
1. To work on Diane’s Around the World in 80 Books Challenge as I’ve decided to travel around again after enjoying it so much last year. I don’t know whether I will get to 80 again this year, but I will definitely give it a go. Progress found at Tanya -- Frequent Flyer
2. To try and complete the 25 Books to Read Before Age 25 list. Currently on 17, with 8 to go. Titles listed in next post.
3. To read at least 40 books from the 1001 Books you Must Read Before You Die list (all 3 versions) (complete 12/09/11)
a. Within this goal I would like to reach 10% of the three combined lists. This means I need to reach 130 books (currently I am on 103). (complete 20/06/11)
b. I would also like to reach 10% of all the centuries/sections within the list. This means I have to read:
- 1 book from the 2000s section of the list (complete 01/01/11)
- 32 books from the 1900s (complete 10/10/11)
- 0 books from the 1800s (as I have already reached 10% in this section)
- 4 from the 1700s (complete 24/09/11)
and
- 2 from the pre1700s (complete 28/09/11)
c. Finally there are also 11 specific books from the list that I want to read this year as they also count for another list I am working on. Titles listed in next post.
Progress
Required Reading
25 Books To Read Before Age 25
1. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair*
5. The Stand by Stephen King
8. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlossinger
* Also on 1001 list
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
6. Wild Swans by Jung Chang
11. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Progress
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
2000s
1. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk (01/01/11)
1900s
1. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (15/01/11)
2. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (18/01/11)
3. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett (22/01/11)
4. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (30/01/11)
5. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (20/02/11)
6. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (01/03/11)
7. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (07/03/11)
8. The Trial by Franz Kafka (22/03/11)
9. The Third Man by Graham Greene (22/03/11)
10. Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem by Emilio Salgari (30/03/11)
11. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (14/04/11)
12. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (17/04/11)
13. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (08/05/11)
14. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (11/05/11)
15. The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras (15/05/11)
16. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster (04/06/11)
17. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams (15/06/11)
18. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (16/06/11)
19. The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul by Douglas Adams (20/06/11)
20. Enduring Love by Ian McEwan (28/06/11)
21. The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark (29/06/11)
22. Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor (12/07/11)
23. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene (15/07/11)
24. Embers by Sandor Marai (10/08/11)
25. The Twins by Tessa de Loo (14/08/11)
26. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (15/08/11)
27. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (21/08/11)
28. The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark (12/09/11)
29. Silk by Alessandro Baricco (25/09/11)
30. The Wonderful O by James Thurber (26/09/11)
31. The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber (10/10/11)
32. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (10/10/11)
1700s
1. The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis (27/01/11)
2. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (21/02/11)
3. Candide by Voltaire (07/06/11)
4. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (24/09/11)
Pre1700s
1. The Golden Ass by Apuleius (28/06/11)
2. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (28/09/11)
Thanks Claire! I'm looking forward to making progress on this!! :)
Tanya, what did you think of The Elegance of the Hedgehog? I didn't end up liking it much, but I keep feeling as if I missed something somewhere...
I'm still a little bit conflicted about it. I was absolutely loving it, albeit feeling incredibly stupid, right up until the end. I still can't quite accept the ending. I did end up giving it 5 stars, though I upgraded it mainly because I listened to a fantastic audio version, as time goes by though it still keeps grating on me and I think I'm going to end up bumping it down sometime soon.
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