Your own BIG READ - annual stocktaking
Dec. 19th, 2008 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cadeiraI´m still sick with the flu but it´s getting better. What´s more I´m writing on a small story and seeing it come to life ever so slowly makes me fatuously happy.
I also watched Four Christmases with Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon online and it´s just as bad as Kermode made it sound. Puking babys are the funniest part of it. You really wanna watch it? JUST. DON´T.
Sooooo, this year, I can confidently assure was the year I read more fiction than ever before. I want to keep track of the stuff, so I´ll list it on my journal. It´s my sandbox and I can do in it whatever I please but feel free to join me!
Ladies, lay aside your books and tell me what you´ve read this year! (and please do include your audiobooks because they do count.)
--List all the books you´ve read or listened to this year. If you like add some thoughts to indicidual books.
1. William Goldman - The Princess Bride (Dude, what a load of fun.)
2. P.G. Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves <3
3. Earnest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea (I very much prefer Johnny Sessions version on 'ISIHAC' but I can see why it was so revolutionary. The language has its own appeal.)
4. Stephen Fry - The Liar
5. J.R.R Tolkien - The Hobbit
6. Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker´s Guide to the Galaxy (Okay, that´s a Re-read but it was the first time in English, now I get all the fancy references. Yay!)
7. Jane Hamilton - Short History of A Prince
8. Ben Elton - Inconceivable
9. Terry Pratchett - Truckers (Bromeliad Trilogy)
10. David Schickler - Kissing in Manhattan
11. J.K.Rowling - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
12. J.K.Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
13. J.K.Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
14. J.K.Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (with the Epilogue of LOLZ)
15. Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia (I cried, twice.)
16. Stephen Fry - The Hippopotamus
17. Paul Auster - Mr. Vertigo (fell somewhat flat towards the end)
18. Ben Elton - Past Mortem
19. Jane Hamilton - Disobedience (a story about a closeted gay guy with a weird family, the writing was kind of toned down, very down to earth. I liked it.)
20. Stephen Fry - The Star´s Tennis Balls (Stephen actually scared me with the insights into the brain of someone going slightly mad.)
21. Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Der Richter und sein Henker
22. William Makepiece Thackeray - Vanity Fair
23. Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
plus gazillions of short stories and theoretical texts for college.
Oh my, that´s just one German book. I need to do something about that.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges
I also watched Four Christmases with Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon online and it´s just as bad as Kermode made it sound. Puking babys are the funniest part of it. You really wanna watch it? JUST. DON´T.
Sooooo, this year, I can confidently assure was the year I read more fiction than ever before. I want to keep track of the stuff, so I´ll list it on my journal. It´s my sandbox and I can do in it whatever I please but feel free to join me!
Ladies, lay aside your books and tell me what you´ve read this year! (and please do include your audiobooks because they do count.)
--List all the books you´ve read or listened to this year. If you like add some thoughts to indicidual books.
1. William Goldman - The Princess Bride (Dude, what a load of fun.)
2. P.G. Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves <3
3. Earnest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea (I very much prefer Johnny Sessions version on 'ISIHAC' but I can see why it was so revolutionary. The language has its own appeal.)
4. Stephen Fry - The Liar
5. J.R.R Tolkien - The Hobbit
6. Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker´s Guide to the Galaxy (Okay, that´s a Re-read but it was the first time in English, now I get all the fancy references. Yay!)
7. Jane Hamilton - Short History of A Prince
8. Ben Elton - Inconceivable
9. Terry Pratchett - Truckers (Bromeliad Trilogy)
10. David Schickler - Kissing in Manhattan
11. J.K.Rowling - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
12. J.K.Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
13. J.K.Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
14. J.K.Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (with the Epilogue of LOLZ)
15. Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia (I cried, twice.)
16. Stephen Fry - The Hippopotamus
17. Paul Auster - Mr. Vertigo (fell somewhat flat towards the end)
18. Ben Elton - Past Mortem
19. Jane Hamilton - Disobedience (a story about a closeted gay guy with a weird family, the writing was kind of toned down, very down to earth. I liked it.)
20. Stephen Fry - The Star´s Tennis Balls (Stephen actually scared me with the insights into the brain of someone going slightly mad.)
21. Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Der Richter und sein Henker
22. William Makepiece Thackeray - Vanity Fair
23. Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
plus gazillions of short stories and theoretical texts for college.
Oh my, that´s just one German book. I need to do something about that.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges
