Tuesday, December 13, 2011

#1 Amos Oz- My Michael- 278
#2 Mari Pau Dominguez- The house of seven sins- 316
#3 Lion Feuchtwanger- The Oppermann Brothers- 343p.
#4 Amos Oz- Panter in the basement- 174
#5 Alexander McCall- The Careful Use of Compliments- 280p.
#6 Peter Hartling- Schumann`s Shadow- 326p.
#7 Jay Parini- The Last Station- 351p.
#8 Patrick Gale- Rough Music- 384p.
#9 Hanif Kureishi- Gabriel`s Gift- 254p.
#10 Ali Smith- The Accidental- 295p.
#11 Fynn- Mister God, This is Anna- 310p.
#12 Elena Shtereva, Nikolay Yankov- Pen, chocolate and two rupees- 394p.
#13 Laurie Graham- Life according to Lubka- 325p.
#14 Paul Auster- Brooklyn Follies- 294p.
#15 Yasunari Kawabata- The House of Sleeping Beauties- 127p.
#16 Douglas Kennedy - The Pursuit of Happiness, 646p.
#17 Rosa Montero- Instructions To Save the World, 256p.
#18 Amelie Nothomb- Antichrista- 100p.
#19 Elias Canetti- The Blinding /Auto-da-Fe/- 548p.
#20 Tove Jansson- Fair Play- 152p.
#21 Jun`ichi Watanabe- Beyond the Blossoming Fields- 313p.
#22 Karen Maitland- Company of Liars- 558p.
#23 The translation- faces and masks. Portraits of Bulgarian translators" by Emil Bassat- 264p.
#24 "The Photographer- Obscura Reperta" by Galin Nikiforov- 268p.
#25 The Tanners by Robert Walser- 242p.
#26 The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell- 280p.
#27 Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson- 223p.
#28 Night Train to Lisboa by Pascal Mercier- 545p.
#29 The Theory of Clouds by Stephane Audeguy- 252p.
#30 To the East- in Paradise by Isabela Shopova- 340p.
#31 Loitering with Intent- Muriel Spark- 210p.
#32 The Key to the Abyss by Jose Carlos Somoza- 440p.
#33 The Royal Physician`s Visit by Per Olov Enquist- 356p.
#34 The Assistant by Robert Walser- 204p.
#35 The Black Box by Amos Oz- 394p.
#36 Messiah by Gore Vidal- 272p.
#37 Other colours by Orhan Pamuk- 453p.
#38 Invisible by Paul Auster- 307p.
#39 A Recipe for Bees by Gail Anderson- Dargatz- 248p.
#40 Mangelexemplar by Sarah Kuttner- 232p.
#41 A noble killing by Barbara Nadel- 384p.
#42 Life and times of Michael K by J.M.Coetzee- 230p.
#43 Rhyming Life and Death by Amos Oz- 151p.
#44 Clochemerle by Gabriel Chevalier- 282p.
#45 The Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell- 300p.
#46 The Dancing Girl of Izu. Collection of stories by Japanese writers-277p.
#47 Saskia Noort- The Dinner Club- 288p.
#48 Arthur Clarke- Profiles of the Future- 265p.
#49 The Redbreast- Jo Nesbo- 518p.
#50 Paradise Uninhabited by Anna-Maria Matute- 287p.
#51 Moominpappa at Sea by Tove Jansson- 207p.
#52 The Matchmaker from Perigord by Julia Stuart- 291p.
#53 The Rainbow by D.H.Lawrence- 558p.
#54 Thirty years in the Turkish harems by Melek Hanum-235p.
#55 The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt by Eduardo Mendoza- 174p.
#56 The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O`Farrell- 245p.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/5202045
#57 The Waves by Virginia Woolf- 272p.
#58 In the Country of Lost Things by Paul Auster- 188 p.
59 Amelie Nothomb- Fear and Trembling - 118
60 Amelie Nothomb- Neither Eve, nor Adam -127
61. Amelie Nothomb- The Character of Rain- 160
62. Herta Müller- Atemschaukel- 250
63. Pavel Sanaev- Burry me behind the ledge- 222
64. Amelie Nothomb- Winter travel- 160
65. Sarah Waters- The Little Stranger- 480
66. Night Watch by Sarah Waters- 528p.
67. The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano- 320p.
68. The White Queen by Philippa Gregory- 459p.
69. Van Gogh by Ingo F.Walther- 95p.
70. Lives ("Sudbine") by Miroslav Popovic- 439p.
71. All She was Worth by Miyaki Miyabe- 296p.
72. Sarah`s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay- 292p.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/8304457
73. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami- 896 p.
74. What I talk When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami- 240p.
75. The Selected Works of T.S.Spivet by Reif Larsen- 374p.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/7244390
76. This is not the end of the book by Umberto Eco, Jean-Claude Carriere- 312p.
77. Open- Andre Agassi- 432 p.
78. The Queen of New beginnings by Erica James- 512p.
80. The Man Who Lover Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett- 274p.
81. Own death by Peter Nadas- 80 p.
82. Muminvalley in November- 175p.
83. The House of Clowns by Galin Nikiforov- 160p.
84. Scenes from a Village Life by Amos Oz- 179p.
85. Children of Freedom by Marc Levy- 269p.

Reading summary

It`s a pity I have forsaken this blog for a long time. Now it seems the right moment to refresh it a bit:-)).

Here is a brief recapitulation of my reading in the last few years:

2007- 14 677 pages,39 books
2008- 22 470 pages,59 books
2009- 12 857 pages,40 books,
2010- 27 032 pages,77 books
2011- 25 771 pages,83 books

Some favorites:

2009
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

2010
Amos Oz- Tales of Darkness and love
Olga Tokarchuk- Pravek and other times
Elias Canetti- The Saved Tongue
-Torch in the ear
German Boy. A Child in War by Wolfgang W.E. Samuel
Virginia Woolf- The Years
Carlos Ruis Safon- The Game of the Angel

2011
Elias Canetti-Auto-da-fe
Robert Walser- The Tanners
Orhan Pamuk- Other colours
Virginia Woolf- The Waves
Tove Jansson- Moominpappa at the Sea
D.H.Lawrence- The rainbow
Herta Muller- Atemschaukel
Fynn-Mister God,this is Anna
Haruki Murakami-1Q84