Target: 100+
Running total:
Several years ago I decided that I would do my utmost to read a book a week, because I felt like I was getting out of the habit of reading new things and I thought that having a goal to aim for would help. The effort paid off, and it's something I've kept up (off and on) ever since -- it encourages me to read more widely, and it helps me to justify to myself the vast quantities of books that I buy.
2007 showed some improvement (no house-moves, one job-move). I've made a resolution to read War and Peace and Ulysses before I'm 30, but will carry on reading other stuff inbetween (the interstices in which I live).
Owen & I are still on LibraryThing and have made a New Year's Resolution to finish cataloguing everything this year... |
Week | Book(s) read |
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Jan 1 - Jan 7 | Jacqueline Wilson, How to survive summer camp |
Jan 8 - Jan 14 | Charlie Higson, Hurricane Gold |
Jan 15 - Jan 21 | Frank Ormsby (ed.), The hip flask: short poems from Ireland |
Brigid Brophy, Flesh | |
Jan 22 - Jan 28 | Muriel Spark, The Abbess of Crewe |
Jan 29 - 4 Feb | Andreï Makine, A life's music |
5 Feb - 11 Feb | |
12 Feb - 18 Feb | Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace |
19 Feb - 25 Feb | Josephine Tey, The Franchise Affair |
James Kennaway, Silence | |
26 Feb - 3 Mar | J. G. Ballard, The Crystal World |
Malcolm Bradbury, Cuts | |
4 Mar - 10 Mar | Mike Carey, Vicious Circle |
Menis Koumandareas, Koula | |
11 Mar - 17 Mar | Mike Carey, Dead Men's Boots |
Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good | |
18 Mar - 24 Mar | Tove Jansson, Fair Play |
25 Mar - 1 Apr | Graham Greene, May We Borrow Your Husband? and other comedies of the sexual life |
2 Apr - 8 Apr | |
9 Apr - 15 Apr | |
16 Apr - 22 Apr | |
23 Apr - 29 Apr | |
30 Apr - 6 May | |
7 May - 13 May | |
14 May - 20 May | |
21 May - 27 May | Raymond Briggs, Ethel and Ernest |
28 May - 3 Jun | |
4 Jun - 10 Jun | |
11 Jun - 17 Jun | |
18 Jun - 24 Jun | |
25 Jun - 1 Jul | James Joyce, Ulysses |
2 Jul - 8 Jul | Tamora Pierce, Beka Cooper, Book I: Terrier |
M. M. Green, Schoolgirl Janet | |
Doris Lessing, The Story of a Non-Marrying Man | |
9 Jul - 15 Jul | Rudyard Kipling, Stalky & Co |
16 Jul - 22 Jul | Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands |
Raymond Chandler, Playback | |
23 Jul - 29 Jul | Michael Chabon, A Model World |
Iris Murdoch, Henry and Cato | |
30 Jul - 6 Aug | Malorie Blackman, Noughts and Crosses |
7 Aug - 13 Aug | |
14 Aug - 20 Aug | Cuthbert Bede, Mr Verdant Green: an Oxford Undergraduate |
21 Aug - 27 Aug | Gilbert Adair, The Act of Roger Murgatroyd: an entertainment |
Paul Magrs, Never the Bride | |
James Marcus, Amazonia | |
28 Aug - 3 Sep | Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine |
4 Sep - 10 Sep | Muriel Spark, Aiding and Abetting |
11 Sep - 17 Sep | |
18 Sep - 24 Sep | Eddie Izzard, Dress to Kill |
25 Sep - 1 Oct | E. M. Forster, Maurice |
Kyril Bonfiglioli, The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery | |
Harold Bloom, Hamlet: Poem Unlimited | |
2 Oct - 8 Oct | |
9 Oct - 15 Oct | |
16 Oct - 22 Oct | |
23 Oct - 29 Oct | Mike Hally, Electronic Brains: stories from the dawn of the computer age |
30 Oct - 5 Nov | Mark Gatiss, The Vesuvius Club |
6 Nov - 12 Nov | |
13 Nov - 19 Nov | |
20 Nov - 26 Nov | Otto Penzler (ed.), Pulp Fiction: the Villains |
27 Nov - 3 Dec | Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis |
George Saunders, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil / In Persuasion Nation | |
4 Dec - 10 Dec | H. Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain |
Robert van Gulik, The Red Pavilion | |
11 Dec - 17 Dec | Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves To Death |
18 Dec - 24 Dec | Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way |
Elizabeth Smart, The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals | |
T. S. Eliot, Poems Written in Early Youth | |
25 Dec - 31 Dec | Mark Lynas, Six Degrees |
John Gray, Al Qaeda and what it means to be modern | |
Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks | |
Carol Ann Duffy, The Good Child's Guide To Rock 'n' Roll |