Since March 31 I have read:
- Susan Kurosawa - Coronation Talkies
- Rose Tremain - Sacred Country
- David Mitchell - Number9Dream
- Nada Awar Jarrar - Dreams of Water
- Stephen Dando-Collins - Pasteur's Gambit (nonfiction)
- Audrey Niffenegger - Three Incestuous Sisters (visual novel)
- Audrey Niffenegger - The Adventuress (visual novel)
- Annie Proulx - Brokeback Mountain
- Mudrooroo - Wild Cat Falling (PFitG)
- Jenny Newman - Life Class
- Elizabeth Knox - The Vintner's Luck (PFitG)
- Louise Erdrich - The Master Butchers Singing Club
- Yoshimoto Banana - Kitchen (PFitG)
- Eric Gerome Dickey - Chasing Destiny
- Lev Grossman - Codex
- Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
- Sandra Newman - The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done
- Jonathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn
- Andrew Nicoll - The Good Mayor
- Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife
- Samrat Upadhyay - The Guru of Love
- Jeanette Winterson - Sexing the Cherry
- Martha Cooley - The Archivist
- Haruki Murakami - Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (PFitG)
Voila! 24 books (although two were picture books). Of these, six were written by people of colour; I am still way way short of my goal to make that half. (For the whole year, I am running at 12/37; still a massive improvement over last year's 6/60 but Not Good Enough!) Four were on my list for Project Filling in the Gaps.
As I write this I am still working on both Sexing the Cherry and Hard Boiled Wonderland. Both should be finished by the end of the week, so I am leaving them in the second-quarter list.
Some statistical analysis! This quarter I had a definite peak, reading seven novels in two weeks! But there was also a trough, when I read zero novels in two weeks! Remarkable in both cases.
My favourites were Sacred Country, Number9Dream, Motherless Brooklyn, The Good Mayor, and American Wife.
3 comments:
fuck that's awesome
I started on draculy in may and I still have not finished.
(but I read 3 other books in the meantime)
still, impressive list, any specific recommends for world lit?
I mean, draculA, but actually the typo sounds vay cuter :/
I suggest you read Gail Tsukiyama's Women of the Silk and The Language of Threads (latter being the sequel). They're both beautifully written.
Ha Jin - Waiting
Pearl Buck - The Good Earth
Those are the few that comes to my mind right now. But I'd seriously read Tsukiyama's because they're wonderful.
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