Reading 1001 discussion

January - 8
February - 5
March - 13
April - 8
May - 5
June - 11
July - 14
August - 18
September - 12
October - 20
November - 14
December - 27

Total: 155

January 2016
(1) - Alamut, by Vladimir Bartol (Other - missed 2015 by this much)
(1) - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spt, by John Le Carré (January BOTM - discussion only)
(1) - The Dark Child, by Camara Laye (January BOTM - discussion only)
(4) - The Golden Days, Volume I of The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xueqin
(1) - Complicity, by Iain Banks (Monthly Calendar - January)
January Subtotal: 8

February 2016

(3) - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, by Marina Lewycka (February BOTM)
(2) - Saturday, by Ian McEwan (Monthly Calendar - February)

February Subtotal: 5

March 2016

(10) - Cloudsplitter, by Russell Banks, (Seasonal Read, 1Q)
(3) - The Radetzky March (March Monthly Calendar Read)

March Subtotal: 13

April 2016

(4) - The Crab-Flower Club, Volume II in The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xueqin (Book II of Annual Read)
(4) - Broken April, byIsmail Kadare (April Monthly Calendar Challenge)

April Subtotal: 8

May 2016

(5) - That They May Face The Rising Sun, by John McGahern (May Monthly Calendar Challenge)

May Subtotal: 5

June 2016

(4) - The Warning Voice, Volume III in The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xueqin (Book III of Annual Read)
(1) - All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque (June BOTM, discussion only)
(6) - The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair (June Calendar Challenge)

June Subtotal: 11

July 2016

(4) - The Debt of Tears, Volume IV in The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xueqin (Book IV of Annual Read)
(7) - July's People, by Nadine Gordimer (July Calendar Challenge)
(3) - Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih (July BOTM)

July Subtotal: 14

August 2016

(10) - Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy (3Q Seasonal Read)
(8) - August Is A Wicked Month, by Edna O'Brien (August Calendar Challenge)

August Subtotal: 18

September 2016

(9) - The Last September, by Elizabeth Bowen (September Calendar Challenge)
(3) - A Tale of Love and Darkness, by Amos Oz (May BOTM)

September Subtotal: 12

October 2016

(4) - The Dreamer Wakes, by Cao Xueqin (Volume V of the Annual Read)
(5) - Bonus for completing the Annual Read
(10) - The Island of Dr. Moreau, by H.G. Wells
(1) - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (October BOTM - Discussion only)

September Subtotal: 20

Congratulations John on finishing the Annual Read.

Kristel wrote: "Congratulations John on finishing the Annual Read."

Thank you. Interesting, but I can't see myself re-reading it. Maybe I need to learn how to appreciate poetry to really understand it.

John wrote: "Kristel wrote: "Congratulations John on finishing the Annual Read."

Thank you. Interesting, but I can't see myself re-reading it. Maybe I need to learn how to appreciate poetry to really understan..."
I bought it but really never got started and now it is too late. Your comment doesn't help either. I imagine someday in retirement, working my way through it.

It wasn't a bad read, just really long and large portions of it were interesting because they seemed to suggest momentous events around the corner, then not so much. This has also been a crazy busy year for me with work, new commitments at church, a wedding and a new townhouse in Minnesota, so my distraction level is higher than normal, which didn't help. But I am happy to have read it and finished it.

I can tell that you are really busy this year. Hope it is all good busy. Commitments with church (good), wedding ? A child? A new townhouse- Yay! And then there was the hurricane that missed. You've had a busy year.

November

(11) - Embers, by Sándor Márai (November Calendar Challenge)
(3) - Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh (November BOTM)

November Subtotal - 14

December

(10) - The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Q4 Seasonal Read)
(3) - The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy L. Sayers (August BOTM)
(12) - Decline and Fall, by Evelyn Waugh (December Monthly Calendar Read)
(1) - Le Petit Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Other - French)
(1) - We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin (December BOTM, discussion only)

December Subtotal - 27