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Nov 28, 2017 04:18PM
December is almost upon us!! This can be a difficult month to get much reading done but please share with us your reading plans (or just tentative thoughts!).
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I have lots of ideas for what to read in December, so this list is just what I think I might read...mysteries:
Some Buried Caesar
The Open House
Not a Creature was Stirring
other books:
Robinson
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Sodom and Gomorrah
Mapp and Lucia {reread}
Julius Caesar {reread via audiobook}
Mod
Louise Penny A Great Reckoning
Antonio Manzini Pulvis et umbra
Antonio Tabucchi Si sta facendo sempre più tardi
Simonett Agnello Hornby Camera oscura
Ferzan Özpetek Rosso Istanbul
Dinah Jefferies Il profumo delle foglie di tè
Laura Mancinelli Gli occhiali di Cavour
Antonio Caron Il gatto col numero di telefono
Ellery Queen Ellery Queen e la parola chiave
Robert Louis Stevenson The Master of Ballantrae
Nathaniel Hawthorne Twice-Told Tales
M.C. Beaton Kissing Christmas Goodbye
Miss Read Miss Clare Remembers
Kent Haruf Benediction
I will be finishing Midnight at the Bright Ideas BookstoreThen :
The Man in the Brown Suit
Some short stories:
Tis the Season
In The Late December
The Star
Julian: A Christmas Story
And if I have time maybe:
Lightless
Big Little Lies
I have lots of books I'd like to finish by the end of the year, but not enough time to read them all. These are the main ones. To continue-
The Decameron
Walden
Great Expectations
Les Misérables
Anna Karenina
To start-
The Well of Loneliness
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
I will be reading The Brothers Karamazov so I don't know if I'll have enough time for much else. I hope so, though, there are so many books to read!
Leslie wrote: "Esther - I have a copy of Lightless awaiting me. If you get to it, maybe I will join you."That would be lovely.
Marina wrote: "I will be reading The Brothers Karamazov so I don't know if I'll have enough time for much else. I hope so, though, there are so many books to read!"Enjoy it! Don't read it too fast, just enjoy every word of it.
My plans:
1) to finish the complete tales by Hans Christian Andersen
2) to read a book set in India or by an Indian author to complete a challenge in another group and I think I will read The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie. I hope to find it at the library.
3) Io non mi chiamo Miriam by Majgull Axelsson (no English translation) if I will have enough time.
Petra , thanks for mentioning A Fine Balance. It’s been on my list for ages .
Petra wrote: "Dely, if you haven't read it already, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry is excellent."I have read it and I agree, it's amazing. I hope to read something else by Mistry next year.
The following books (God willing...):To Finish:
Forty Stories by Anton Chekhov
To Start:
Erasure by Percival Everett
Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon by Nicole Brossard
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Chemistry by Weike Wang
Angela M wrote: "Petra , thanks for mentioning A Fine Balance. It’s been on my list for ages ."I think you'll really enjoy it, Angela.
Mod
I'll look for it then!
First I will finish Fiction:
1.The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri (Not for me, read only a couple of chapters)
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5.Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier (completed in January)
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Non-fiction:
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19.Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England] by Alison Weir (.read in January)
I hope to finish William Beckford's Vathek in the next few days, before embarking on Jean Terrasson's enormous epic The life of Sethos. Taken from private memoirs of the ancient Egyptians. Translated from a Greek manuscript Into French. And now faithfully done into English from the Paris edition; by Mr. Lediard. In two volumes. ... Volume I of 2 and The Life of Sethos. Taken from Private Memoirs of the Ancient Egyptians. Translated from a Greek Manuscript Into French. and Now Faithfully Done Into English from the Paris Edition; By Mr. Lediard. in Two Volumes. ... Volume 2 of 2.
- The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré- Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Chrissie - I loved Ordinary Grace earlier this year. And let us know about Wolf Hall - it's one I want to tackle the first part of next year.
December's plan:Finished The Rape of Nanking on 12/3 - 5 stars.
Currently reading Great Expectations - 4 stars
Currently reading The New Bohemians: Cool and Collected Homes - 5 stars
Currently reading Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See - 3 stars
Comfort & Joy - 3 stars
Sharp Objects - 4 stars
Bear Town - 5 stars
Winter Garden
Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon
Lark & Termite
Woman in the Nineteenth Century is up next for me and then I will start rereading The Once and Future King for a buddy read in another group.I intend to finish Antarctica as well but it might carry over to next year.
I just picked up The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
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Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig
They are short so I think I can stick them in too.
Colleen wrote: "Chrissie - I loved Ordinary Grace earlier this year. And let us know about Wolf Hall - it's one I want to tackle the first part of next year."I have not gotten to Ordinary Grace. Good to know you have liked it. Wolf Hall annoyed me.
Chrissie, I loved Ordinary Grace!
Esther wrote: "I will be finishing Midnight at the Bright Ideas BookstoreThen :
Some short stories: Julian: A Christmas Story
I haven't read this but apparently Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America is an expansion of this novella. I read the book earlier this year and thought it was brilliant. I'll keep this one in mind to read sometime soon, I think.
I have veered a bit from my list, adding in several mysteries:Jazz Funeral
The Case of the Journeying Boy
The Long Goodbye
The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries (currently reading)
and nonmysteries:
Rose Under Fire
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (currently reading)
Room
I still hope to read the rest of my list though!
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