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Om mig I was English born, a New Zealand teen, now working on being a Canadian adult (for over 20 years).......
My 2008 reading list follows and is also discussed HERE on my 50 book challenge thread
BOOKS READ 2008.
Twelfth Night by Shakespeare(audio)
Deceived With Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood by Angelica Garnett
Siegfred by Harry Mulisch
MacBeth by Shakespeare (Audio)
Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
The Forger by Cioma Schonhaus
The Master' by Colm Toibin
In the Dutch Mountains by Cees Nooteboom
The Devil's Footprints by John Burnside
Henry V by Shakespeare (audio)
The Slave Ships by Marcus Rediker
In the Blood - a Memoir of my Childhood by Andrew Motion.
Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir by David Rieff
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. (Audio)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Martin Birck's Youth by Hjalmar Soderberg
The Gathering by Anne Enright
Mozart by Peter Gay
The Invention of Dr. Cake by Andrew Motion
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Imagining London by Anne Quindlen
'Shutterspeed by Erwin Mortier
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
The Observations by Jane Harris
The Carhullan Army' by Sarah Hall
The Great Man, by Kate Christensen
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Rough Crossings by Simon Schama
The Man Who Turned Into Himself by David Ambrose
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg.
Agent Zigzag by Ben MacIntyre
The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
The Palace of the Snow Queen by Barbara Sjoholm
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage
Six Impossible Things before Breakfast by Lewis Wolpert
Nothing to be Frightened of by Julian Barnes.
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Poe: A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Bachelor Brothers Bed and Breakfast by Bill Richardson
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Master Bedroomby Tessa Hadley
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Swann's Way by Proust
The Words by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Smoking Diaries by Simon Gray
The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Nixon and Mao by Margaret Macmillan
Modernism' by Peter Gay
Netherland by James O'Neill
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
Cold Cream by Ferdinand Mount
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I really like being morose. There is nothing like tea, dark music, a sombre novel or history, the couch, the dogs asleep beside me and rain outside. Wow, I can hardly wait for the season.
I think I am now done with my Studer fixation and can move on to something else. Not Barnes yet. Olivia Manning? I see you read Netherland. That might be good for my mood right now.
inlägg gjort av owenre vid 12:05 pm (EST) Aug 24, 2008
Haven't seen a post from you in forever . . . are you on holidays, or are you too busy to hang out at LT, or . . . ? I miss chatting with you and hope everything is okay in your world.
inlägg gjort av Nickelini vid 12:57 am (EST) Aug 21, 2008
inlägg gjort av owenre vid 10:54 pm (EST) Aug 16, 2008
I am still reading the NY trilogy. It has been in the 100's (high 30's if yox prefer) for the last three days and I am jxst passing time xntil we retxrn to normal weather.
inlägg gjort av owenre vid 10:51 pm (EST) Aug 16, 2008
I moved in May and my other book did not catch xp to me and I see from the reviews here and elsewhere that I missed something wonderfxl.
In the meanwhile, NBC is broadcasting entire competitions of also-of-interest sports on the net. I think it might be a bit like the CBC philosophy of inclxsiveness on the Olympics. There is no commentary, jxst video. Now, I dislike organized sports greatly, bxt I love horses and the three day event. So imagine how happy I am to watch horses and riders gallop throxgh a golf coxrse in the rain. A friend told me that she not only wanted nothing to do with it, bxt nothing to do with me xntil the madness had passed.
inlägg gjort av owenre vid 11:38 pm (EST) Aug 10, 2008
So here is a comment to you that I mistakenly deleted, so if it is a repeat read, please forgive me. Also please forgive the missing letter from my keyboard that I have replaced with an x. I am too cheap to replace my laptop because of one missing key! It will only be there when spell check doesn't work, so it will be a sort of weird puzzle.
I have a theory on book purchases. I believe I am saving for retirement by creating a library for my leisure years. I am buying with my current income so that they will be there when I am trying to make a tiny pension stretch. So the stockpiling is prudent! What do yox think about that argument? Hah!!!!!
inlägg gjort av owenre vid 10:56 am (EST) Aug 9, 2008
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inlägg gjort av owenre vid 5:39 pm (EST) Aug 8, 2008
Kia ora from Aotearoa. I've just finished The Road Home and then I read your review. It says it all. Wonderful!
Rick
inlägg gjort av hasprintwillread vid 7:27 am (EST) Aug 8, 2008
I can't understand people from Long Island, so this gave me a giggle.
inlägg gjort av owenre vid 8:18 pm (EST) Aug 5, 2008
The Makioka Sisters has a Japanese title Sasame Yuki which, I am told, literally translates to Light Snow. It seems like a better title, more oblique and yet revealing, than the English title. I wish I were brilliant with languages and read in the original because of these revealing glimpses into translation irregularities. Instead I read in English and hope for the best.
inlägg gjort av owenre vid 11:04 am (EST) Aug 2, 2008
Just visiting! I'm new to LibraryThing and I picked up that you share a large proportion of my fledgling library.
Here's something for your amusement:
The English Language
Have you ever wondered why foreigners have trouble with the English Language?
Let's face it
English is a stupid language.
There is no egg in the eggplant
No ham in the hamburger
And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple.
English muffins were not invented in England
French fries were not invented in France.
We sometimes take English for granted
But if we examine its paradoxes we find that
Quicksand takes you down slowly
Boxing rings are square
And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
If writers write, how come fingers don't fing.
If the plural of tooth is teeth
Shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth
If the teacher taught,
Why didn't the preacher praught.
If a vegetarian eats vegetables
What the heck does a humanitarian eat!?
Why do people recite at a play
Yet play at a recital?
Park on driveways and
Drive on parkways
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy
Of a language where a house can burn up as
It burns down
And in which you fill in a form
By filling it out
And a bell is only heard once it goes!
English was invented by people, not computers
And it reflects the creativity of the human race
(Which of course isn't a race at all)
That is why
When the stars are out they are visible
But when the lights are out they are invisible
And why it is that when I wind up my watch
It starts
But when I wind up this observation,
It ends
inlägg gjort av sainsborough vid 10:32 am (EST) Aug 2, 2008
inlägg gjort av owenre vid 12:47 am (EST) Jul 30, 2008
No thespian I, I'm afraid but my two daughters dabble in amateur dramatics. Sarah was recently in "The Importance of Being Earnest" and Rachael is soon to be in "The Shell Seekers". Living in the West Midlands means London is only a two hour drive away and Shakespeare's home town, Stratford, is only a skip and a jump. So we are pretty lucky theatrewise. We're off to Edinburgh for the Fringe Festival in August where I've got any number of plays lined up to see.
I see you read Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast. I attended a talk by Lewis Wolpert at the Cheltenham Book Festival a year or so ago. While I fully agree with his science based philosophy I do find the dismissive attitude to religious experience of Wolpert and Dawkins a little disconcerting.
I've also got Julian Barnes "Nothing to be Frightened Of" on my want-to-read list (the Suspicions of Mr Whicher, too!).
Of books I've read recently I'd recommend "Kalooki Nights" by Howard Jacobsen, a amusing Jewish read and "Day" by A.L.Kennedy about a WWII gunner. I've given Henry James a go. Boy, should someone introduce him to the full stop. I counted 134 words in the first two sentences of "The Turn of The Screw"! Hard work reading but very rewarding. Some super stuff but not one to read after a glass of wine or when sleepy.
Have a good summer, Cheers Kevin.
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Kami
inlägg gjort av klarsenmd vid 1:36 pm (EST) Jul 1, 2008
Hope you had a good time on the Island. I'm on my way over there myself--we leave tomorrow, and I don't think I'll have an internet connection (LT withdrawal!). I hear the weather is going to get better, and they'd better be right! Have a good weekend,
Joyce
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inlägg gjort av Nickelini vid 1:14 am (EST) Jun 10, 2008
I'm just sitting here listening to CBC2 and the rain and avoiding my books (an Elizabeth Bowen and a really lame self-help book). Are you reading anything good? Can you believe this awful weather? I grew up in Vancouver, and June is always the pits, but this year things are really extreme. Are you from Vancouver?
inlägg gjort av Nickelini vid 1:12 am (EST) Jun 10, 2008
inlägg gjort av poeticmedic vid 12:07 am (EST) Jun 3, 2008
I'm new to Library thing and I'm just a free member who can only put in 200 books on the shelf. (I want to try the site before I decide to pay for them.) What marvelous is that from 200 books, we share 74 books. It's great coz' now I know what I miss in reading's world. Nice to know you.
inlägg gjort av poeticow vid 11:27 am (EST) Jun 2, 2008
I hope you are well. I'm open-mouthed in admiration at your haul of books read for 2008! My dozen or so seems a very poor effort. Where do you find the time? Mind you, I'm a bit fussy about my reading conditions - I must be reasonably awake and have at least one free hour where I shan't be interrupted. It doesn't happen half as often as I wish it did. Can you block out distractions and ignore alternative obligations?
I enjoyed perousing your read list and, if you'll allow me, I have a couple of questions. Your reading is brilliantly ecletic - how do you decide what to read next? What is your favourite sort of read? Do you ever decide anything is not worth reading and junk it?
Your reviews are fabulous, please keep it up! I also admire Julian Barnes. Like you I've read Parrot and 10 1/2 Chapters. Being a bit of a miserabilist I think I must seek out Nothing to be Frightened Of. It sounds just my thing! You might give Arthur and George a go sometime. It concerns the story of George Edjali, an immigrant who is falsely accused of the Wyrley Outrages, a series of livestock mutilations and is defended by none other than Sir Conan Doyle. It's based on a true story and set only a few miles away from where I've lived all my life.
I fairly recently read Sarah Hall's Electric Michelangelo which was enjoyable if occassionally a bit too wordy. It switched settings across the Atlantic from the English seaside town of Morecambe to Coney Island following the life of a tattoo artist.
I see you read L'Etranger recently. That takes me back to my youth when I hoovered up Camus, Satre and Dostoyevsky with a passion. I still consider La Peste to be one of the world's greatest books. How did I never take up smoking? I must reread some Camus again soon; I redid Crime and Punishment not long ago.
Day of the Triffids is undoubtedly John Wyndham's best novel. It's all a bit light and parochial though. He reminds me of a science fiction version of Agatha Christie. Not a lot of literary merit but just veering on to the scale at his best. I prefer to revisit HG Wells who was incredibly ahead of his time and a far more interesting and accomplished writer. The Door In The Wall is my favourite short story by anybody.
I've been working away at dylanwolf/blogspot.com which has diverted a lot of time away from LibraryThing. I miss it but time is finite and fashions change. I'll meander back properly someday I expect.
All the best,
Kevin.
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inlägg gjort av poeticmedic vid 9:22 pm (EST) May 28, 2008
Actually, the climate here is tropical with a lot of rain. In fact, imagine Vancouver--9 months of rain, more or less--but with a year round temperature that varies from lows in the low 60s at night to highs in the upper 80s during the day. But humid, very humid and close, in April.
There is a small English-speaking community where we live, but we're a little scattered. There's a larger one, mostly American, about 25 miles away in another small town, but we avoid it. We socialize mostly with Panamanian friends more and more comfortably as our proficiency in Spanish grows. My Spanish is adequate enough to hold conversations, read the paper, and direct our gardener, but I'm not fluent. That will come.
Meantime, we are extremely happy here--except for the major drawback I've already mentioned no doubt to everyone's boredom--the lack of access to english-language books. panama does not have good libraries even in Spanish and I doubt that there's an English-language library even in the capital, which is a 9 hour drive from here.
I'm in awe of what your basement is like. I can imagine going down there, torch in had, to peer at all the books and manuscripts, scrolls and papyrus! Yes, I'd shove the thought of moving right out of my mind, too!
Joyce
inlägg gjort av Joycepa vid 11:58 am (EST) May 21, 2008