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Candiss - 52 Books in 2014
I'm going to try to keep track of group reads here as they become known.January 2014 TBR:
- reading for The Novella Club (read 01-12-14)
- for blog-o-sphere Vintage Sci-Fi January event (read 01/06/14)
February 2014 TBR
- group read in Beyond Reality (read 02/13/14)
- buddy read in Dark Fiction (read 02/19/14)
- reading for The Classics Club's March theme: feminist literature/Virago books/Persephone books (read 02/24/14)
March 2014 TBR
- reading for The Classics Club "Spin" event (read 03/19/14)
- reading for The Novella Club (read 03/06/14)
April 2014 TBR
- reading for 2014 Reading Challenge 2nd-quarter event #readwomen2014 & Pick-a-Shelf April shelf "Stand Alone" (read 04/12/14)
May 2014 TBR
- reading for The Novella Club (read 05/17/14)
- reading for Pick-a-Shelf May shelf "Short Story Collections" (read early - 04/29/14)
- reading for 2014 Reading Challenge 2nd-quarter event #readwomen2014 (05/30/14)
June 2014 TBR
- reading for Beyond Reality (read June 23)
reading for The Classics Club "Spin" event (read June 18)
July 2014 TBR
- reading for The Novella Club (read July 13)
August 2014 TBR
- reading for The Novella Club
September 2014 TBR
- reading for The Novella Club
October 2014 TBR
- reading for The Novella Club
- reading for Beyond Reality
Kind of jealous how you read such great and more adult/classier books than me :P Interested what you end up thinking of The Reason I Jump. Have fun reading!
8. Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead - Barbara Comyns **** (My review is at my blog, Read the Gamut.)
13. Notes from the Internet Apocalypse - Wayne Gladstone **** (This was a Goodreads giveaway win, and I'm working on my review.)
14. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Böll *** (5 for execution and the author's storytelling & writing skill; 2-3 for actual enjoyment. This Nobel winner's book is a book to study, not necessarily to read for fun.)
15. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston *** (3.5? 5 for execution and story...I just didn't like any of the characters, so I didn't enjoy their journey much.)I finished this one between #13 and #14 but forgot to list it here.
18. A Country Year: Living the Questions by Sue Hubbell (reread) *****(read during Dewey's Read-a-thon)
How was Lizard? I have heard about Banana Yoshimoto but haven't read any of her books. Have you read Kitchen by her?
Alison wrote: "How was Lizard? I have heard about Banana Yoshimoto but haven't read any of her books. Have you read Kitchen by her?"Kitchen is a favorite of mine. It's very honest and "human" (for lack of a better word,) and it deals with some unconventional topics. Lizard, a short story collection, was quite good overall, but as with most collections some stories were much better than others. Of the six stories, I would give one 5 stars, two four stars and the other three three stars. I liked Kitchen much better. (I reviewed it here on Goodreads a couple of years ago: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)
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For half a dozen challenges around Goodreads and via the book blog-o-sphere, I've (fortunately) managed to cross-challenge a lot of books, so my tentative TBR list is currently 34 books for the year, which allows for group read-a-longs or new releases that may strike my fancy. I'm reading a number of classics, chunksters, and "difficult" books this year, so I will be perfectly satisfied if I reach even this modest goal. I just want to read good books, not obsess over whether I'm reading enough books.
I'm really excited about my line-up this year! There's a lot of diversity of genre, era, culture, language and author background, so I'm expecting to have a wide variety of reading experiences - which is always what I'm after.