All About Books discussion
Past Posts
>
June 2014- what will you be reading?
message 1:
by
Shirley
(new)
May 18, 2014 06:00AM
What are your reading plans for June?
reply
|
flag
I only have one I definitely want to get to which is our group non-fiction. I will also probably start our group classic The Brothers Karamazov once I've finished my current reads.
Mod
I also want to go on with the All around the world challenge - too many european and north american books these days; so probably H. P. Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness or Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay for Antartica and Tim Winton Cloudstreet or something by Geraldine Brooks for Australia ...
I'll be reading Under the dome as a readalong at another book club and here before Under the dome season 2 starts June 30th and will go from there.
I also want to push on with my "Around the World Challenge". I've read one from each continent so far - except North America, surprisingly! But there are still a few gaps as I want to represent both fiction and non-fiction.
The Wives of Henry VIII. Plato's Phaedo. Don Quixote. The Complete English Works of George Herbert (Everyman edition, naturally!). Others, of course, but not sure which will be plucked out of the several toppling TBR piles yet.
Dhanaraj wrote: "Two books for sure:To the Lighthouse, a Readlong with Shirley and Cathie and The Murderess."
I'll be reading To the Lighthouse, re-reading To Kill a Mockingbird, The Round House (our new group fiction read) and hopefully The Crossing, but not necessarily in that order! We'll see if I actually manage it!
I am going to read Pride & Predjudice. I've booked tickets to see a a production of it at Hanbury Hall, (it's a National Trust property) in July and I have never read it, id like to read before I see it.
Mod
My favourite novel EVER. Enjoy!
That setting looks beautiful, Gemma! Is it an outdoor performance?
Yes it is Jean. We got married there last September too, such a beautiful venue.
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy. I hope to finish it soon and start back on the Norstromo which I was reading before :)
How lovely, Gemma! I do hope the weather holds for you :)
Dhanaraj wrote: "Two books for sure:To the Lighthouse, a Readlong with Shirley and Cathie...>
As I am behind with my current months' reads,
Additional June reads are
Mod
Hmmm... I don't really know what I will be reading in June. Probably our Group Classic Read, The Brothers Karamazov, and some BoTM for other groups such asLucky Jim
A Shilling for Candles (reread)
The Secret Vanguard (LT)
and Death is Now My Neighbor, the penultimate Inspector Morse mystery.
I want to read The Round House because it is our June Fiction Read and I haven't joined in a group read lately! I also want to marathon the Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy by Laini Taylor, which consists of:
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Days of Blood & Starlight
Dreams of Gods & Monsters
The concluding book in that trilogy is GINORMOUS so I don't know if I will have time for any others.
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Days of Blood & Starlight
Dreams of Gods & Monsters
The concluding book in that trilogy is GINORMOUS so I don't know if I will have time for any others.
I'm not sure yet but I'll definitely try the Brothers Karamazov which is the Group's classic Read and the woman in white in a readalong-I'll also start on the Memoirs of Stefan Zweig for another group
Domino Falls by Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due and Doctor Sleep by Stephen King. And the new Dean Kootz book Innocence
Wideacre, The Boleyn Inheritance
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Lady of the Rivers
The King's Curse
and
The Queen's Fool all by Philippa Gregory.
The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
You are on a roll , Bette . I loved The Other Boleyn Girl ,
Angela wrote: "You are on a roll , Bette . I loved The Other Boleyn Girl ,"Yeah, I'll need someone to come and haul me out of 1500 England by the time I finish these:) But I am learning lots I didn't know, getting good ideas for other books/authors and generally enjoying this.
Bette, with your love of all things 16th century, are you planning on joining with the non-fiction group read?
I've just picked up The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo and The Wives of Henry VIII from the downtown Vancouver library. I may join the non-fiction group read but am not really sure, since I read at snail pace :/
Heather wrote: "Bette, with your love of all things 16th century, are you planning on joining with the non-fiction group read?"Absolutely, already ordered from library:)
Mod
The Red Queen: A Novel
The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother
The Boleyn Inheritance ..."
Enjoy.
My Antonia by Willa Cather and I'm going to do the group read Brothers Karamazov. Besides that I usually just play it by ear.
I feel short story mystery or paranormal coming up on me...attention span must be on summer hours...short! LOL
My list tends to change as the month goes by but right now I intend to read:Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
The Street Sweeper
The Woman Who Heard Color
and finish The Signature of All Things which I am listening to on audio.
Beth , let me know when you are going to start The Woman Who Heard Color. :-)
Beth ,Btw - Ioved both The Hotel .......
and The a Street Sweeper .
Mod
Btw - Ioved both The Hotel .......
and The a Street Sweeper ."
Beth wrote: "My list tends to change as the month goes by but right now I intend to read:
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
The Street Sweeper
[book:The Woman Who Heard Colo..."
I was thinking the same!
The God of Small Things AAB readalongThe Woman in White AAB readalong
The Goldfinch other group read
Les Miserables to finish
Middlemarch audiobook to finish
A few others I'm considering if I get time
Burial Rites
His Last Bow & The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
The Beautiful and Damned
Mod
Mod
The Woman in White AAB readalong
The Goldfinch other group read
Les Miserables to finish
[book:Middlemar..."
I'd love to hear what you think when you get to Burial Rites.
Mod
Mod
Yes. All those out. I've liked them - even if Idmit they're a bit exccessive! Let me know how you find them
Pink wrote: "The God of Small Things AAB readalongThe Woman in White AAB readalong
The Goldfinch other group read
Les Miserables to finish
[book:Middlemar..."
I need to finish middlemarch one of these days too. And I forgot about God of small things which I meant to read
Mod
Yes. All those out. I've liked them - even if Idmit they're a bit exccessive! Let me know ho..."
Will do, thanks.
Alannah I have all the game of thrones books sitting on my shelf to start! I keep putting them off but really should pick them up soon. My daughter is currently reading the second book which she prefers to the first. We've both watched all the available episodes.
Pink, I am intending to read all the Game of Thrones Series this year, one a month from June onwards. Also planned for the beginning of June are:Why We Build by Rowan Moore
Crux by Ramez Naam
On the Steel Breeze by Alastair Reynolds
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing
Revelation by C.J. Sansom
Mod
That's good to hear. I saw a couple of episodes from this series. I was trying to spot any locations as it is filmed not far from where I live but no luck, haha.
Paul, I had planned to do the same thing, but I have lots of other big books to read in June. Might have to bite the bullet and try to squeeze it in anyway!
Mod
Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
Antonia Fraser, The Wives of Henry VIII
Walter Siti, Resistere non serve a niente
Louise Endrich, The Round House
Ryszard Kapuscinski The Shadow of the Sun
Giffin Emily Something Borrowed
Jonathan Lethem Gun, With Occasional Music
All About Books
Books mentioned in this topic
The Woman in White (other topics)Scorpia (other topics)
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (other topics)
The Round House (other topics)
Demons (other topics)
More...
Authors mentioned in this topic
Giles Tremlett (other topics)Anthony Doerr (other topics)
Philippa Gregory (other topics)
G.W. Bernard (other topics)
Mary Lawson (other topics)
More...
