1. To read 20 000 pages>>>>> 2068 pages read
2. To wild-release at least one book per month>>> three releases done:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/7776152
http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/7445817
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3. To read 15 books from my Mountain TBR>>>> none
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
Books about books
I got this wonderful list of titles from Abebooks.com and thought it worth mentioning:
Sixpence House by Paul Collins
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (read)
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (read)
A Gentle Madness by Nicholas Basbanes
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (read)
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel (read)
The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (read)
Used and Rare by Lawrence Goldstone
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (read)
Sixpence House by Paul Collins
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (read)
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (read)
A Gentle Madness by Nicholas Basbanes
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (read)
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel (read)
The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (read)
Used and Rare by Lawrence Goldstone
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (read)
Thursday, January 14, 2010
2010- goals and challenges
1. To read 20 000 pages
2. To wild-release at least one book per month
3. To read 15 books from my Mountain TBR
4. To read all Virginia Woolf`s novels
5. To re-read Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert
2. To wild-release at least one book per month
3. To read 15 books from my Mountain TBR
4. To read all Virginia Woolf`s novels
5. To re-read Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert
Summary of 2009 reading
1.Henry Miller- Tropic of Cancer-288p.
2.Marian Keyes- Anybody out there?- 462 pages
3.Miranda Glover- The Masterpiece- 377 pages
4.Astonishing Splashes of Color by Clare Morrall- 327 pages
5.A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami- 286 pages
6.Yana Bukova- A Journey to the Shadow /in Bulgarian/, 312 pages
7.Carlos Ruiz Zafon- The Shadow of The Wind- 457 pages
8.The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid- 209 pages
9.Barbara Nadel- Pretty Dead Things-384 pages
10.The Gathering by Anne Enright- 142 pages, not finished
11.French Lessons by Peter Mayle- 224 pages
12.Khaled Hosseini- Thousand Splendid Suns- 412 pages
13.Eat Pray and Love by Elisabeth Gilbert- 447
14.Getting Out of The House by Isla Dewar-407
15.So Many Ways to Begin with by Jon Mcgregor- 354 pages
16.Burned Alive by Suad- 188 pages
17.Dreams of Rivers and Seas by Tim Parks- 413 pages
18.Twilight by Stephanie Mayer- 504 pages
19.Nothing to be frightened of by Julian Barnes- 302 pages
20.Clara and the Shadow by Jose Carlos Samosa- 602 pages
21.Recipes for Cherubs by Babs Horton- 402 pages
22.The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry- 302 pages
23.The Various Flavours of Coffee by Anthony Capella- 469 pages
24.To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee-380 pages
25.Orhan Pamuk- Museum of Innocence- 630 pages
26.From the Inside- Ruth Wyner- 241 pages
27.The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett- 121 page
28.Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver- 464
29.The Collector of the Worlds by Iliya Troyanov- 250 pages, unfinished
30.Portuguese Irregular Verbs by A.M.Smith- 190 pages
31.Three Men in the Snow by Erich Kestner- 190 pages
32.The Right Attitude to Rain by A.M.Smith- 304 pages
33.Grandhotel Bulgaria by Angelika Schrobsdorf- 205 pages
34.Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins- 285 pages
35.Michael Cunningham- Specimen Days- 347 pages
36.Eric-Emanuel Schmidt- "Milarepa"/
37."Oscar and the Pink Dame"/
38.Mr. Ibrahim and the flowers of Quran"-
39.Amelie Nothomb- Neither Eve Not Adam- 127 pages
40. Michael Cunningham- Flesh and Blood- 488 pages
40 books, 12 857 pages
2009 favorites:
Astonishing Splashes of Color by Clare Morrall
Amelie Nothomb- Neither Eve Not Adam
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Clara and the Shadow by Jose Carlos Samosa
Carlos Ruiz Zafon- The Shadow of The Wind
2.Marian Keyes- Anybody out there?- 462 pages
3.Miranda Glover- The Masterpiece- 377 pages
4.Astonishing Splashes of Color by Clare Morrall- 327 pages
5.A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami- 286 pages
6.Yana Bukova- A Journey to the Shadow /in Bulgarian/, 312 pages
7.Carlos Ruiz Zafon- The Shadow of The Wind- 457 pages
8.The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid- 209 pages
9.Barbara Nadel- Pretty Dead Things-384 pages
10.The Gathering by Anne Enright- 142 pages, not finished
11.French Lessons by Peter Mayle- 224 pages
12.Khaled Hosseini- Thousand Splendid Suns- 412 pages
13.Eat Pray and Love by Elisabeth Gilbert- 447
14.Getting Out of The House by Isla Dewar-407
15.So Many Ways to Begin with by Jon Mcgregor- 354 pages
16.Burned Alive by Suad- 188 pages
17.Dreams of Rivers and Seas by Tim Parks- 413 pages
18.Twilight by Stephanie Mayer- 504 pages
19.Nothing to be frightened of by Julian Barnes- 302 pages
20.Clara and the Shadow by Jose Carlos Samosa- 602 pages
21.Recipes for Cherubs by Babs Horton- 402 pages
22.The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry- 302 pages
23.The Various Flavours of Coffee by Anthony Capella- 469 pages
24.To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee-380 pages
25.Orhan Pamuk- Museum of Innocence- 630 pages
26.From the Inside- Ruth Wyner- 241 pages
27.The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett- 121 page
28.Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver- 464
29.The Collector of the Worlds by Iliya Troyanov- 250 pages, unfinished
30.Portuguese Irregular Verbs by A.M.Smith- 190 pages
31.Three Men in the Snow by Erich Kestner- 190 pages
32.The Right Attitude to Rain by A.M.Smith- 304 pages
33.Grandhotel Bulgaria by Angelika Schrobsdorf- 205 pages
34.Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins- 285 pages
35.Michael Cunningham- Specimen Days- 347 pages
36.Eric-Emanuel Schmidt- "Milarepa"/
37."Oscar and the Pink Dame"/
38.Mr. Ibrahim and the flowers of Quran"-
39.Amelie Nothomb- Neither Eve Not Adam- 127 pages
40. Michael Cunningham- Flesh and Blood- 488 pages
40 books, 12 857 pages
2009 favorites:
Astonishing Splashes of Color by Clare Morrall
Amelie Nothomb- Neither Eve Not Adam
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Clara and the Shadow by Jose Carlos Samosa
Carlos Ruiz Zafon- The Shadow of The Wind
Sunday, December 21, 2008
My Reading List for 2008
1.A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena de Blasi-
2.Bulgarian Diaries by Count Robert de Burbulon (in Bulgarian)-
3.Bachelor Brothers` Bed&Breakfast by Bill Richardson-
4.Just One More Day by Susan Lewis- 352 pages,finished
5.I Have Lived A Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson-
6.The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory-
7.Serving Crazy with Curry by Amulya Malladi-
8.Bounjour,tristesse by Francois Sagan-
9.How To Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young
10.Stuart-A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters-
11.The Ottoman Cage by Barbara Nadel-
12.Glass Children by Lyudmila Filipova-
13.Measuring The World by Daniel Kehlmann
14.The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman-
15.Digging to America by Anne Tyler-
16.Schindler`s Ark by Thomas Keneally-
17.The Corrections by John Franzen-
18.Marie Darrieussecq- Le Bebe-
19.The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant-
20.The Sound of Language by Amulya Malladi-
21.A Breath of Fresh Air by Amulya Malladi-
22. The Other Side by Maria Staneva
23.Light My Fire by Ray Manzarek- 352 pages
24.Father`s Affair by Karel Van Loon-238 pages
25.Mapping The Edge by Sarah Dunant- 195 pages( unfinished)
26.Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harer- 335 pages
27.Seal Wife by Kathryn Harrison-224 pages
28.The Book Thief by Markus Zusak- 584 pages
29.Virgin Earth by Philippa Gregory- 661 pages
30.The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai- 324 pages
31.The True And Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson- 350 pages
32.Wild Swans by Jung Chang- 684 pages
33.Into The Wilderness by Sara Donati- 874 pages
34.Together by Anna Gavalda- 590 pages
35.Married to a Bedouin by Marguerite van Geldermalsen- 276 pages
36.Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz- 338 pages
37.Death Dance by Barbara Nadel- 360 pages
38.The Savage Garden by Mark Mills- 388 pages
39.Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson- 338p.
40.The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes by Marcel Theroux- 216 pages
41.Time`s Arrow by Martin Amis- 176 p.
42.Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler- 222 p.
43.Simon`s Night by Jon Hassler- 309 p.
44.Engleby by Sebastian Faulks- 342 p.
45.The Original Sin by Marcel Gabriel- 689 p.
46.The Diviner`s Son by Gary Crew- 261 p.
47.Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen- 464 p.
48.Larry`s Party by Carol Shields- 339 p.
49.Catch a fish from the sea (Using the Internet) by Nasreen Akhtar-324 p.
50.Chasing Dreams by Susan Lewis- 340 pages, unfinished
51.The Bad Mother`s Handbook by Kate Long- 350 pages
52.The Language of Others by Clare Morell- 376 pages
53.The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston- 485 pages
54.A Spot of Bother by mark Haddon- 503 pages
55.Amos Oz- "To Know a Woman"- 220 pages
56.The Point of Rescue- 457 pages
57.Janet Davey- First Aid- 178 pages
58.Josephine Hart-The Reconstructionist-216 pages
59.The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield- 452 pages
Total Pages for 2008- 22470
2.Bulgarian Diaries by Count Robert de Burbulon (in Bulgarian)-
3.Bachelor Brothers` Bed&Breakfast by Bill Richardson-
4.Just One More Day by Susan Lewis- 352 pages,finished
5.I Have Lived A Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson-
6.The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory-
7.Serving Crazy with Curry by Amulya Malladi-
8.Bounjour,tristesse by Francois Sagan-
9.How To Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young
10.Stuart-A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters-
11.The Ottoman Cage by Barbara Nadel-
12.Glass Children by Lyudmila Filipova-
13.Measuring The World by Daniel Kehlmann
14.The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman-
15.Digging to America by Anne Tyler-
16.Schindler`s Ark by Thomas Keneally-
17.The Corrections by John Franzen-
18.Marie Darrieussecq- Le Bebe-
19.The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant-
20.The Sound of Language by Amulya Malladi-
21.A Breath of Fresh Air by Amulya Malladi-
22. The Other Side by Maria Staneva
23.Light My Fire by Ray Manzarek- 352 pages
24.Father`s Affair by Karel Van Loon-238 pages
25.Mapping The Edge by Sarah Dunant- 195 pages( unfinished)
26.Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harer- 335 pages
27.Seal Wife by Kathryn Harrison-224 pages
28.The Book Thief by Markus Zusak- 584 pages
29.Virgin Earth by Philippa Gregory- 661 pages
30.The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai- 324 pages
31.The True And Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson- 350 pages
32.Wild Swans by Jung Chang- 684 pages
33.Into The Wilderness by Sara Donati- 874 pages
34.Together by Anna Gavalda- 590 pages
35.Married to a Bedouin by Marguerite van Geldermalsen- 276 pages
36.Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz- 338 pages
37.Death Dance by Barbara Nadel- 360 pages
38.The Savage Garden by Mark Mills- 388 pages
39.Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson- 338p.
40.The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes by Marcel Theroux- 216 pages
41.Time`s Arrow by Martin Amis- 176 p.
42.Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler- 222 p.
43.Simon`s Night by Jon Hassler- 309 p.
44.Engleby by Sebastian Faulks- 342 p.
45.The Original Sin by Marcel Gabriel- 689 p.
46.The Diviner`s Son by Gary Crew- 261 p.
47.Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen- 464 p.
48.Larry`s Party by Carol Shields- 339 p.
49.Catch a fish from the sea (Using the Internet) by Nasreen Akhtar-324 p.
50.Chasing Dreams by Susan Lewis- 340 pages, unfinished
51.The Bad Mother`s Handbook by Kate Long- 350 pages
52.The Language of Others by Clare Morell- 376 pages
53.The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston- 485 pages
54.A Spot of Bother by mark Haddon- 503 pages
55.Amos Oz- "To Know a Woman"- 220 pages
56.The Point of Rescue- 457 pages
57.Janet Davey- First Aid- 178 pages
58.Josephine Hart-The Reconstructionist-216 pages
59.The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield- 452 pages
Total Pages for 2008- 22470
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Books read between 21/08- 10/09
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Books read between 11/08- 26/08
9)The Savage Garden by Mark Mills- 388 pages
10)Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson- 338
11)The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes by Marcel Theroux- 216 pages
12)Time`s Arrow by Martin Amis- 176 p.
13)Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler- 222 p.
14)Simon`s Night by Jon Hassler- 309 p.
15) Engleby by Sebastian Faulks- 342 p.
10)Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson- 338
11)The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes by Marcel Theroux- 216 pages
12)Time`s Arrow by Martin Amis- 176 p.
13)Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler- 222 p.
14)Simon`s Night by Jon Hassler- 309 p.
15) Engleby by Sebastian Faulks- 342 p.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Books read between 21/07- 11/08
1)The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai- 324 pages
The book is well written and manages to convey the complex and often controversial atmosphere of the small society at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga. The lives of the old judge, his cook and his granddaughter, Sai, are inflicted with the political riots and insurgency. Sai`s first romance with the young teacher Gyan is dramatically turned by his political involvement. Cook`s son, Biju, is fighting his place in America. The writer manages to describe the lives of ordinary people turned down by political changes. For me the novel was lacking a bit of focus. I fought to reach the end and somehow the story couldn`t sustain my interest.
2)The True And Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson- 350 pages
Olivia Hunt tries to enter the glamorous world of Hollywood. At the same time she has to deal with the fatal illness of her younger sister and to put some order in her personal life. The novel reminded me sometimes of Melissa Bank`s “Girl`s Guide to Hunting and Fishing”. I expected something light and relaxing for a read but was going to be disappointed. That part about Maddie`s illness was depressing, and the other part about Olivia`s personal and professional misfortunes was annoying.
3)Wild Swans by Jung Chang- 682 pages
August
4)Into The Wilderness by Sara Donati- 874 pages
5)Together by Anna Gavalda- 590 pages
6)Married to a Bedouin by Marguerite van Geldermalsen- 276 pages
7)Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz- 338 pages
8)Dance with Death by Barbara Nadel- 360 pages
The book is well written and manages to convey the complex and often controversial atmosphere of the small society at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga. The lives of the old judge, his cook and his granddaughter, Sai, are inflicted with the political riots and insurgency. Sai`s first romance with the young teacher Gyan is dramatically turned by his political involvement. Cook`s son, Biju, is fighting his place in America. The writer manages to describe the lives of ordinary people turned down by political changes. For me the novel was lacking a bit of focus. I fought to reach the end and somehow the story couldn`t sustain my interest.
2)The True And Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson- 350 pages
Olivia Hunt tries to enter the glamorous world of Hollywood. At the same time she has to deal with the fatal illness of her younger sister and to put some order in her personal life. The novel reminded me sometimes of Melissa Bank`s “Girl`s Guide to Hunting and Fishing”. I expected something light and relaxing for a read but was going to be disappointed. That part about Maddie`s illness was depressing, and the other part about Olivia`s personal and professional misfortunes was annoying.
3)Wild Swans by Jung Chang- 682 pages
August
4)Into The Wilderness by Sara Donati- 874 pages
5)Together by Anna Gavalda- 590 pages
6)Married to a Bedouin by Marguerite van Geldermalsen- 276 pages
7)Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz- 338 pages
8)Dance with Death by Barbara Nadel- 360 pages
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