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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |