| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
miranda
An Addicted Babbler
Joined: 22 Jul 2006
Posts: 955
Birthday: 12th December
Location: Paisley, Scotland
|
 Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:08 pm Post subject: |
 |
|
| Amie wrote: | | What did you think of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings? I loved it, I want to read the rest of the series now. |
I loved it too! But I have heard the others are not as good. I think it would be difficult to live up to 'Caged Bird' and I don't want to be disappointed so I don't think I will read them anytime soon- if you do let me know what you think tho.
_________________
Currently reading: The Human Stain by Philip Roth
'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.' |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
wonderlake
An Addicted Babbler
Joined: 27 Jun 2008
Posts: 510
Birthday: 23rd April
Location: Manchester UK
|
| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:59 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Just finished Wise Blood, by Flannery O'Connor; my 10th from the 1,001 and one of my favourites so far :
2008=
1. The Handmaid's Tale, M Atwood
<strike>2. Dead Air</strike> Iain Banks
2. Regeneration, P Barker
3. Oscar & Lucinda, P Carey
4. Death in Venice, T Mann
5. The Talented Mr Ripley, P Highsmith
6. The Floating Opera, J Barth
7. Seize the Day, S Bellow
8. Little Women, L M Alcott
9. Surfacing, M Atwood
_________________
Current reading: The Last Temptation, Val McDermid ~ 40 @2009
1001 challenge 2009: 11
Last edited by wonderlake on Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:20 pm; edited 1 time in total |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
nicnic
Busy babbling when should be reading
Joined: 22 Aug 2006
Posts: 381
Birthday: 16th February
Location: Upper Largo, Fife
|
| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 2:32 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Well I'm making slow progress this year. I'm just not reading as much now I'm not travelling so often. I'm now on 11 for this year and 81 out of the 1001.
Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Glamorama by Brett Easton Ellis
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Timbuktu by Paul Auster
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
_________________
Currently reading: Man in the Dark by Paul Auster |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Amie
Busy babbling when should be reading
Joined: 22 Apr 2007
Posts: 276
|
| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:47 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I'm on 24 now:
Rabbit, Run - John Updike 2/5
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak 5/5
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 3/5 (compared to other Dickens)
Kafka On The Shore - Haruki Murakami 4/5
The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood 3/5
A Boys Own Story - Edmund White 4/5
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 4/5
The Hours 4/5
To The Lighthouse 2/5
Embers 1/5
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings 5/5
The Wasp Factory 3.5/5
Jude the Obscure 4/5
The Age of Innocence 2/5
The Bluest Eye 4/5
Captain Corelli's Mandolin 5/5
Sense and Sensibility 4/5
Comfort of Strangers 3/5
Far From the Madding Crowd 4/5
Crash 1/5
In Cold Blood 4/5
The Bell Jar 5/5
Shame 4/5
Uncle Tom's Cabin 5/5
_________________
Kill the tbr - currently 124
Currently reading:
War and Peace - Leo Tolsty
Wild Swans by Jung Chan
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
heathera
An Addicted Babbler
Joined: 21 Jul 2007
Posts: 676
Birthday: 2nd November
Location: Watford, Herts
|
| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 12:21 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I read my 8th for the year on hols - The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy. I'm now starting Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson.
1. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
3. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
4. A Kestrel For A Knave - Barry Hines
5. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
6. Animal Farm - George Orwell
7. Dead Air - Iain Banks
8. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
_________________
Currently Reading:
The Moonlit Cage - Linda Holeman
1001 Book Challenge:
2009 - 4
2008 - 14
Books Available for Swapping on RISI |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
miranda
An Addicted Babbler
Joined: 22 Jul 2006
Posts: 955
Birthday: 12th December
Location: Paisley, Scotland
|
| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:00 am Post subject: |
|
|
1. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
3. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
4. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
5. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
6. The HUman Stain by Philip Roth
7. The Virgin Suicides Jeffery Eugenides
7 now
_________________
Currently reading: The Human Stain by Philip Roth
'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.' |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
ginger987
Enjoys Books
Joined: 23 Jul 2008
Posts: 94
Birthday: July
Location: Preston
|
| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 6:15 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I know i'm a little late in the year joining this but I thought why not! Gives me an excuse to read more as catch up  so far I've read this year
1) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
2) White Teeth - Zadie Smith
3) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
And I have several more on my tbr so hopefully should start to make a dent in the list soon!!
_________________
Currently Reading: Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
heathera
An Addicted Babbler
Joined: 21 Jul 2007
Posts: 676
Birthday: 2nd November
Location: Watford, Herts
|
| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:57 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I've finished number 9 for me for the year to date which was Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson. I'm now going straight onto number 10 with Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro.
_________________
Currently Reading:
The Moonlit Cage - Linda Holeman
1001 Book Challenge:
2009 - 4
2008 - 14
Books Available for Swapping on RISI |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
heathera
An Addicted Babbler
Joined: 21 Jul 2007
Posts: 676
Birthday: 2nd November
Location: Watford, Herts
|
| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:50 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I've finished number 10 for the year to date - Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro. I'm now starting number 11 - The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood.
_________________
Currently Reading:
The Moonlit Cage - Linda Holeman
1001 Book Challenge:
2009 - 4
2008 - 14
Books Available for Swapping on RISI |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
heathera
An Addicted Babbler
Joined: 21 Jul 2007
Posts: 676
Birthday: 2nd November
Location: Watford, Herts
|
| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:34 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Finished The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood, taking my total to 11 so far this year.
_________________
Currently Reading:
The Moonlit Cage - Linda Holeman
1001 Book Challenge:
2009 - 4
2008 - 14
Books Available for Swapping on RISI |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
wonderlake
An Addicted Babbler
Joined: 27 Jun 2008
Posts: 510
Birthday: 23rd April
Location: Manchester UK
|
| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:02 am Post subject: |
|
|
10. was Wise Blood, by Flannery O'Connor and
11. 1984, George Orwell
_________________
Current reading: The Last Temptation, Val McDermid ~ 40 @2009
1001 challenge 2009: 11 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
ginger987
Enjoys Books
Joined: 23 Jul 2008
Posts: 94
Birthday: July
Location: Preston
|
| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:42 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I can now add 1984 and Mansfield Park to my list  which makes 5 for this year:
1) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
2) White Teeth - Zadie Smith
3) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
4) 1984 - George Orwell
5) Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
_________________
Currently Reading: Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
wonderlake
An Addicted Babbler
Joined: 27 Jun 2008
Posts: 510
Birthday: 23rd April
Location: Manchester UK
|
| Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:27 am Post subject: |
|
|
Aha!
I was looking at the Updated version of the 1,001 last night and it has included Kitchen, by Banana Yoshimoto which I read earlier this year !
12. Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto
_________________
Current reading: The Last Temptation, Val McDermid ~ 40 @2009
1001 challenge 2009: 11 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
smiler07
Busy babbling when should be reading
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
Posts: 232
Birthday: 30th March
|
| Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:56 am Post subject: |
|
|
I have been rubbish so far this year and have only read 2 so far from the list and they are
1) Oliver Twist - Dickens
and 2) The Cider House Rules - John Irving
...must do better! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Amie
Busy babbling when should be reading
Joined: 22 Apr 2007
Posts: 276
|
| Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:18 pm Post subject: |
|
|
32 now, I'm on a roll:
Rabbit, Run - John Updike 2/5
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak 5/5
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 3/5 (compared to other Dickens)
Kafka On The Shore - Haruki Murakami 4/5
The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood 3/5
A Boys Own Story - Edmund White 4/5
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 4/5
The Hours 4/5
To The Lighthouse 2/5
Embers 1/5
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings 5/5
The Wasp Factory 3.5/5
Jude the Obscure 4/5
The Age of Innocence 2/5
The Bluest Eye 4/5
Captain Corelli's Mandolin 5/5
Sense and Sensibility 4/5
Comfort of Strangers 3/5
Far From the Madding Crowd 4/5
Crash 1/5
In Cold Blood 4/5
The Bell Jar 5/5
Shame 4/5
Uncle Tom's Cabin 5/5
White Teeth 5/5
Cancer Ward 5/5
Go Tell it on the Mountain 2/5
The Master and Margharita 4/5
Nineteen Eighty-Four 4/5
The Mayor of Casterbridge 4/5
Disgrace 5/5
Hawksmoor 2/5
_________________
Kill the tbr - currently 124
Currently reading:
War and Peace - Leo Tolsty
Wild Swans by Jung Chan
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
smiler07
Busy babbling when should be reading
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
Posts: 232
Birthday: 30th March
|
| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:21 am Post subject: |
|
|
I've now read 3 this year..
3 - Oranges are not the only friut - Jeanette Winterson (6/10) |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
annecater
Administrator
Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Posts: 1629
Location: Lincolnshire
|
| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:21 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I've just finished my 7th of this year - The Great Gatsby - I didnt like it at all!
_________________
Currently reading: The Tent The Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy and Granny The Pag by Nina Bawden
1001 Challenge Books read in 2009 - 3
1001 Challenge Books read in 2008 - 8
1001 Challenge Books read in 2007 - 13 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
heathera
An Addicted Babbler
Joined: 21 Jul 2007
Posts: 676
Birthday: 2nd November
Location: Watford, Herts
|
| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:29 am Post subject: |
|
|
I'm going to start number 12 this evening. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Can't see this one being light entertainement some how!!
_________________
Currently Reading:
The Moonlit Cage - Linda Holeman
1001 Book Challenge:
2009 - 4
2008 - 14
Books Available for Swapping on RISI |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
katey
An Addicted Babbler
Joined: 07 Nov 2006
Posts: 807
Location: Sheffield
|
| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I don't think I have read any this year! Shameful!!! I have asked for '1001 books..' for my birthday though which will make it easier to keep track of exactly what is in there!
_________________
Katey
xxx
Books 01.09- 18 (5)
Books 02.09- 12 (4)
Books 03.09- 9 (1)
Books 04.09- 3 (0)
Books 05.09- 3(0)
Books 06.09- 8(1)
Books 07.09- 9(0)
Books 08.09- 10(1)
Books 09.09- 3(1)
Books 10.09- 9(1)
Target for 2009- 100 (15)- 16(2) to go! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
smiler07
Busy babbling when should be reading
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
Posts: 232
Birthday: 30th March
|
| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:13 am Post subject: |
|
|
I've just finished my 4th of this year The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx . It took me a while to get into it but once I did I found it very good actually! (7/10)
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
