Monthly Planning

May 2023:
- 20 Books of Summer Reading List
- Books for my TBR 2023
- New Bookcase
- Demon Copperhead – B. Kingslover – REVIEW
- Les mains du miracle – J. Kessel, 1960 – REVIEW
- Georges Perec – Claude Burgelin (2023) – REVIEW
- Berlin Requiem – Xavier-Marie Bonnot (2023) – REVIEW
- La carte postale – A. Berest (2021) – REVIEW
- Le baiser au lépreux – François Maurice (1922) – REVIEW
- The Night Watchman – L. Erdrich – REVIEW
- L’étranger – Albert Camus (1942) – REVIEW
- Les Thibault – R.M. du Gard (1922) – READING
April 2023:
- April Reading List
- Do Not Disturb – M. Wrong, 2021 (Rwanda) (NF) – READ – no review…just too busy at the moment!
- Les mains du miracle – Joseph Kessel, 1960 (non-fiction) –– READ…review soon!
- READING STOP …time for Home Improvement!
- Kitchen 03 April
- Kitchen 04 April
- Kitchen 06 April
- Kitchen 08 April
- Kitchen 11 April
- Kitchen 16 April
- Kitchen 19 April
- Kitchen 22 April Fini!
- Eat Your Heart Out, Julia!
- Spring Cleaning
SHORT STORY: Stories from The New Yorker 2023
- The Other Party – M. Klam – excellent
- Notions of the Sacred – A. Savas – excellent
- Hammer Attack – Han Ong – good
- Wednesday’s Child – Yiyun Li – too depressing
- Different People – C. Sestanocivh – no conflict…just dishwater grey!
- The Middle Voice – H. Kang – main character has no voice…story has no plot.
- Sad Dead – Mariana Enriquez – TOP!! Who is this writer?…from Buenos Aires (1973)
- The Last Grownup – Allegra Goodman – divorced couple moving on….nothing special.
- – 23( total stories = 23/52 weeks …up-to-date until 01 June)
- The End of the World is a Cul de Sac – L. Kennedy, 2021 REVIEW (15 stories)
March 2023:
- On Becoming an American Writer – J. McPherson – REVIEW
- French Reading Challenge:
- Enfant de Salaud – Sorj Chalandon, 2021 (novel) – REVIEW
- L’Armée du silence – G. Pollack, 2022 (NF) – REVIEW
- #Readingirelandmonth23 Challenge
- Short History of Irish Literature – F. O’ Connor, 1968 Intro – REVIEW
- The End of the World is a Cul de Sac – L. Kennedy, 2021 Short Story – REVIEW
- My Fourth Time, We Drowned – Sally Hayden, 2022 Non- Fiction – REVIEW
February 2023:
- Updike – A. Begley (NF) – REVIEW
- Darkness at Noon – A. Koestler (Modern Library) – REVIEW
- Hong Kong Et Macao – J. Kessel (NF) (French) (Hong Kong) – REVIEW
- My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge Deadliest Migration Route – Sally Hayden (NF) – READING
- Journal d’un curé de campagne – Georges Bernanos – REVIEW
- Black History Month (#BHM)…reading as many as I can!
- De Doorsons – Roline Redmond (Dutch book) – REVIEW
- Love Songs W.E. Du Bois – Honorée F. Jeffers – REVIEW
- The Age of Phillis – H. F. Jeffers (poet’s life through poems) – REVIEW
- Punch Me Up to the Gods (memoir) – Brian Broome – REVIEW
- Halfway Home – R.J. Miller (NF) – REVIEW – LA Times Prize 2022 finalist
- A Knock At Midnight – Brittany K. Barnett (NF) – REVIEW
January 2023:
- Beartown – F. Backman (#NordicFINDS23 Sweden) novel – REVIEW
- Resin – A. Riel (#NordicFINDS23 Denmark) novel – REVIEW
- Why We Sleep NF – M. Walker (BookBingo science) – REVIEW
- Une mort très douce – S. de Beauvoir novella (French) – REVIEW
- Le Vice Consul – M. Duras. novella (French) – REVIEW
- The Man Who Played With Fire – J. Stocklassa – REVIEW
- Moderato Cantabile – M. Duras novella (French) – REVIEW
- A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast – Dorthe Nors – Denmark (NF) – REVIEW
- The Rabbit Factor – Antti Tuomainen – Finland (Dark crime, comedy) – REVIEW
- Scandinavian Movies – #NordicFINDS23
- Les caves du Vatican – (Wikipedia) André Gide – REVIEW. Nobel Prize
- La panthère des neiges – S. Tesson NF (French) #WorldFromMyArmchair – REVIEW
- #BAFTA Awards Movies
December 2022:
- Journal 1942-1945 – Hélène Beer (NF) – REVIEW
- The Long Game – Rush Doshi (NF) – REVIEW
- The Bostonians – Henry James (Novel )– REVIEW
- Rome (900 pages!) – E. Zola (Novel ) – REVIEW
- Lady Justice – D. Lithwick (NF) – REVIEW
November 2022:
- NonFicNov WEEK 1 non-fiction list for 2022
- NonFicNov WEEK 2 Book pairings – documentary/NF
- NonFivNov WEEK 4 “Jaw-dropping” nonfiction
- The New Yorker: RIP George Booth (1928-2022) iconic cartoonist
- The Time Machine – (novella) H.G. Wells – REVIEW
- Binti – N. Okorafor (novella) – REVIEW
- De Profundis – (novella) Oscar Wilde – REVIEW
- #AusReadingMonth2022 Reading List
- USA Mid-Term Elections 2022 – resullts
- Philip Larkin Collected Poems – P. Larkin – REVIEW
- Dark as Last Night (Tony Birch) (VIC) – REVIEW
- The Red Zone – Peter Hartcher – New South Wales (NSW) – REVIEW
- Lowitja – (change of plans…) – selecting author from (VIC) – REVIEW
- The Carbon Club – Marian Wilkinson – Queensland (QLD) – REVIEW
- The Lucky Laundry – Nathan Lynch – Western Australia (WA) – REVIEW
- Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong Louisa Lim – FREE SPACE –REVIEW
- Soil – M. Evans – (TAS) A love letter to Mother Earth. – REVIEW
- Telling Tennant’s Story: – D. Ashenden (NT) – REVIEW
- Friends & Rivals – Brenda Niall – REVIEW (VIC)
- #AusReadingMonth2022 WRAP-UP
October 2022:
- Ruined – Lynn Nottage – 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama – REVIEW:
- The Death of Vivek Oji (248 pg) – Akwaeke Emezi 2020 (novel) – REVIEW
- Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia – REVIEW
- Le mage de Kremlin – G. da Empoli – REVIEW
- Say No to Death – Dymphna Cusack (Australia) – REVIEW
- Max Verstappen World Champion Formula 1 !!
- Annie Ernaux Nobel Prize for Literature 2022 (France) “Les années”
- Romantisme Noire in Paris (tentoonstelling)– au Musée Jacquemart-André
- Prix Goncourt 2022 – long list nominated books
- Sa préféerée – Sarah Jollien-Fardel (novella) 200 pg – REVIEW
- Le chien à ma table – C. Hunzinger – REVIEW
- I Love Poetry – Michael Farrell (Australia) 42 poems – REVIEW
- Ruined – Lynn Nottage (play) – REVIEW
- De Machine – Stijn Bronzwaer (Dutch NF) – REVIEW
- #AusReadingMonth2022 Reading List
- Cathy Park Hong – Minor Feelings (essays) – READ (3 stars) – no review
September 2022:
- Wrap-Up BooksOfSummer22 (LIST of books read June-July)_August)
- Walkley Prize Longlist 2021 P. Hartcher – REVIEW
- Ring Shout – RIPXVII P. Djèlí Clark (novella) – REVIEW
- The Colour of Magic – RIPXVII Terry Pratchett (fantasy) – REVIEW
- Wrong Man Down – RIPXVII J. Masinton (CF) – REVIEW
- RIPXVII Reading Challenge – book list
- September 8 2022 – London Bridge Is Down (RIP Queen Elizabeth 1926-2022)
- The Man Who Could Move Clouds – I. Rojas-Contreras (memoir) – REVIEW
- Unaccompanied – J. Zamora (poems) – REVIEW
- Holly and the Nobodies – RIPXVII Ben Pienaar (novel) – REVIEW
- Sa préféerée – Sarah Jollien-Fardel (novella) 200 pg – REVIEW
August 2022:
- Until Justice Be Done (2021) (NF) – K. Masur (NF) – REVIEW
- Stages of Struggle: Modern Playwrights – J. DiGaetani (NF) – REVIEW
- Unfollow Me – J. Busby (NF) – REVIEW
- Why We Did It– Tim Miller (2022) NF – REVIEW
- Everything Flows – Vasily Grossman – REVIEW
- Gordo – J. Cortez (12 stories) – REVIEW
- Lungs – Duncan MacMillian (2011) play – REVIEW
- August books by the pool! – Mini Reviews
July 2022:
- La Cousin Bette – H. Balzac – REVIEW
- Profession du père – Sorj Chalandon (France) – REVIEW
- Invisible Storm – Jason Kander (memoir) (NF) (NF)- REVIEW
- Portrait of an Unknown Woman – Daniel Silva – REVIEW
- Le Dieu de Dostoïevski – Marguerite Souchon (France) (NF)- REVIEW
- Thank You For Your Servitude (2022)- M. Leibovich (NF) – REVIEW
- Devil in the Blue Dress – W. Mosley (CF) – REVIEW
Juni 2022:
- #20BooksOfSummer22 Reading List
- Flyboy in the Buttermilk – Greg Tate (NF) – REVIEW
- Mildred Pierce – James M. Cain – REVIEW
- Stony the Road (NF) – H.L. Gates jr. (USA) – REVIEW
- All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep – A. Henry (NF) – REVIEW
- Beachmasters – Thea Ashley (Australia) – REVIEW
- Hooked: Art and Attachment – Rita Felski (NF) (USA) – REVIEW
- The Periodic Table – Primo Levi (Italy) – REVIEW
- Living By the Word – Alice Walker (NF) (USA) – REVIEW
- When Harlem Was In Vogue – D. Lewis (NF) (USA) – REVIEW
- The Crown Ain’t Worth Much – (50 poems) Hanif Abdurraqib – REVIEW
- Le Dernier Jour d’un Condamné – Victor Hugo – REVIEW
May 2022:
- May READING LIST
- Cézanne: Puissant et solitaire– M. Hoog – REVIEW
- Le maniérisme – P. Falguières – REVIEW
- Freezing Order (2022)- B. Browder – REVIEW
- Rescue – Joseph Conrad – REVIEW
- Bring the War Home – K. Belew – REVIEW
- Silver – Chris Hammer – REVIEW
- Writing Deep Scenes – M. Alderson – REVIEW
- Caravaggio – José Frèches – REVIEW
April 2022:
- April READING LIST
- Tunnel 29 – H. Merman – REVIEW
- Tiger Girl – Pascale Petit – REVIEW
- Les délassiés – T. Porcher – REVIEW
- Le fagot de ma mémoire – S. Diagne – REVIEW
- The Road to Unfreedom – T. Snyder – REVIEW
- The Age of the Strongman – G. Rachman – REVIEW
- La guerre des idées – E. Bastié – REVIEW
- The Browning Version – T. Rattigan – REVIEW
- The King of Warsaw – T. Szczepan – REVIEW
- Shadow Strike: Inside Israel’s Secret Mission – Y. Katz – REVIEW
March 2022:
- #ReadingIrelandMonth22 March READING LIST
- #ReadingIrelandMonth22 5 FAVORITE IRISH ACTORS
- #DutchDictionary
- Burns Family Crest + Irish Sweaters
- Abelard and Heloise – H. Waddell (historical fiction)
- The Shining City – C. McPherson (play)
- Theatre & Ireland – L. Pilkingkton
- Still Life – Ciaran Carson (poetry)
- Patrick Kavanagh: A Biiography – Antoinette Quinn
- The Best of Frank O’Connor – F. O’Connor (essays)
- The Canterville Ghost – O. Wilde (novella)
- On Blueberry Hill – S. Barry (play)
- The Humours of Bandon – M. McAuliffe
- Portia Coughlan – Marina Carr (play)
February 2022:
- #MountTBR 2022 UPDATE and February READING LIST
- A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson (travelogue)
- John Adams – David McCullough (biography)
- King Charles III – Mike Bartlett (play)
- All That She Carried – T. Miles (NF)
- Red Velvet – L. Chakrabarti (play)
- Big White Fog – T. Ward (play)
- Redeployment – P. Klay (12 short stories)
- Macbeth – W. Shakespeare (play)
- Last Night – James Salter (10 short stories)
- No Man’s Land – H.Pinter (play)
- No Name in the Street – James Baldwin
- Dancing Lessons – Olive Senior (novel)
- Unbound – Tarana Burke (memoir)
- Sweat – Lynn Nottage (play)
January 2022:
- #MountTBR 2022 January Reading LIST
- #Challenges The New Yorker 2022 short stories
- The Housekeeper and the Professor – Y. Ogawa (novella)
- Thomas Becket – J. Guy (NF)
- The Confessions of Nat Turner – W. Styron (novel)
- Out of Africa – I. Dinesin (memoir)
- A Cultural History of Causality – S. Kern (NF)
- The Silence of the Sea – Y. Sigurdardottir (CF)
- The Hummingbird – K. Hiekkapelto (CF)
- The Hunting Dogs – J.L. Horst (CF)
- Kolymsky Heights – L. Davidson (CF)
- Gaudy Night – D. Sayers (CF)
- Collected Stories – Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Captians Courageous – R. Kipling (novella)
- The Dawn of the Belle Epoque – M. McAuliffe (NF)
- The Art of Racing in the Rain – G. Stein (novel)
- The Collected Short Plays – Thornton Wilder, Volume I (plays)
- Separate Tables – R. Rattigan
- The Crossroads of Should and Must – E. Luna
- A Manual for Cleaning Women – Lucia Berlin (short stories)
December 2021:
- Passing – Nella Larsen (126 pg) 1929 (novella) REVIEW
- Bodies of Men – Nigel Featherstone (267 pg). REVIEW
- Disgraced – Ayad Akthar (play) REVIEW
- Roseanna – Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö REVIEW (CF)
- In the New World – Lawrence Wright (307 pg) 1987 REVIEW (NF)
- Things I Have Withheld – Kei Miller (199 pg) 2021 REVIEW (NF)
- Plot and Structure – J.S. Bell (240 pg ) 2004 REVIEW (NF)
- The Figure of the Detective – C. Brownson (216 pg) 2014 REVIEW (NF)
- #Dutchman Max Verstappen wins Formula 1 World Championship…celebration!
November 2021:
- Bloods – Wallace Terry (320 pg) 1984 (NF) REVIEW
- #NonficNov reading list for November 2021
- #NonficNov Wk 1 – My year of non-fiction (48 books)
- I’m Ready Now – Nigel Featherstone (156 pg) 2012 (novella) REVIEW
- Vertigo – Amanda Lohrey (144 pg) 2019 (novella) REVIEW
- #NonficNov Wk 2 – Pairings
- Pushout – M.W. Morris ((303 pg) 2018 (NF) REVIEW
- The Little Devil in America -398 pg) H. Abdurraqib (300 pg) (essays) 2021 REVIEW
- The Year of Living Dangerously – C. Koch (224 pg) 1978 REVIEW
- Basics to Brillance – Donna Hay (398 pg) (cookbook) 2017 REVIEW
- Black and British: A Forgotten History – David Olusago (639 pg) 2016 (NF) REVIEW
- Coda – Thea Astley (188 pg) 1994 (novella) REVIEW
- Tea and Sympathetic Magic – Tansy Roberts (73 pg) 2021 (novella) REVIEW
- How the Word Is Passed – Clint Smith (336 pg) 2021 (NF) REVIEW
- #NonficNov Wk 3 – Be/Ask/Become the Expert
- Crusade – Amos Oz (92 pg) 1971 (novella) REVIEW
- The Newspaper of Claremont Street – E. Jolley (128 pg) 1981 (novella) – REVIEW
- Empire of Pain – P. R. Keefe (NF) ….excellent!! – REVIEW
- #NonficNov Wk 4 – “Jaw-dropping” books
- Hell of a Book – Jason Mott (320 pg) 2021 (novel) Winner National Book Award 2021 REVIEW
- Australian Food – Bill Grannger 2020 REVIEW
- The 1619 Project: The New American Origin Story – Nikole Hannah-Jones (590 pg) REVIEW
October 2021:
- Everything Happens for a Riesling – G. de Morgan REVIEW
- After Lives – A. Gurnah (Nobel Prize Literature 2021) REVIEW
- XMAS 2021
- Read-A-Thon 23 Oct 2021
- #BackToTheClassics Challenge – Completed
September 2021:
Taking a short reading break…..for 4 weeks.
August 2021:
- Mémoires d’ Hadrien – M. Yourcenar REVIEW
- Rien où poser sa tête – F. Frenkel REVIEW
- Voyage au centre de la terre – J. Verne REVIEW
- Gouverneurs de la rosée – J. Roumain REVIEW
- Les enfants sont les rois – D. de Vigan REVIEW
July 2021:
- La maison du chat qui pelote – H. Balzac (1830) REVIEW
- La cagnotte – E. Labiche (1864) REVIEW
- Pour une nuit d’amour – E. Zola (1880) REVIEW
- Le Bourgeois gentilhomme – Molière (1670) REVIEW
- J’Accuse – Émile Zola REVIEW
- Âme brisée – A. Mizubayashi REVIEW
- Charlotte – D. Foenkinos REVIEW
- 4 French Films – REVIEW
- Le Dossier 113 – E. Gaboriau REVIEW
- Une amie de la famille – J. Laclavetine REVIEW
- La promesse de l’aube – Romain Gary REVIEW
- Sign-up “Summer reading in other languages”
- Salammbô – G. Flaubert REVIEW
- Henri Matisse: Rooms with a view – S. Blum REVIEW
- #Paris In July FINI!
June 2021:
- John – Annie Baker (play) REVIEW
- Entangled Life – M. Sheldrake REVIEW (NF)
- A Killing Spring – G. Bowen REVIEW (CF)
- The Sense of an Ending – J. Barnes REVIEW
- Mrs. McGinty’s Dead – Agatha Christie REVIEW (1952) (CF)
- The Birdwatcher (2016) – W. Shaw (CF) – REVIEW
- Fer-de-Lance (1934) – Rex Stout (CF) REVIEW
- Zero Fail (2021) – Carol Leonnig REVIEW
- Catch and Kill (2019) – Ronan Farrow REVIEW
- Darktown (2016) – T. Mullen (CF) REVIEW
- The Prophets – R. Jones Jr. (2021) REVIEW
- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme – Molière REVIEW
- Secrets Never Told – Dermot Bolger REVIEW
May 2021:
- The Long Fall – Walter Mosely REVIEW
- The Door – Magda Szabo REVIEW
- Station Eleven – E. St. John Mandel REVIEW
- Palace Walk – N. Mahfouz REVIEW
- The Committed – Viet Thanh Nguyen REVIEW
- Mediocre – Ijeoma Oluo REVIEW
- Gulag Archipelago vol 1 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn REVIEW
- Nobody Knows My Name – James Baldwin (essays) REVIEW
- Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison REVIEW
- Talking To My Country – Stan Grant REVIEW
- Wayward Lives – Saidiya Hartman (criticism) REVIEW
- Rembrandt and the Female Nude – E. Sluijter REVIEW
- Classical Art: From Greece to Rome – M. Beard REVIEW
- Has China Won? – K. Muhbubani REVIEW
- Henri Matisse: Rooms with a View – S. Neilsen Blum REVIEW
- Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsun (1917) – REVIEW
- Stories from the Warm Zone – Jessica Anderson (1987) – REVIEW
- Classical Art – M. Beard REVIEW
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love – R. Carver (1981) REVIEW
- Bloodlands – T. Snyder – REVIEW
- The Blue Clerk – Dionne Brand (2018) REVIEW
- Fire Front – edited by Alison Whittaker (2020) REVIEW
- The Betrayal – W. R. Corson (1968) REVIEW
- A Baker’s Dozen – Dorothy Hewett (2001) REVIEW
- The Lost Arabs – Omar Sakr REVIEW
- The New Ships – Kate Duignan REVIEW
- The Wall – John Hersey (1950) – …too long, skimmed, AWFUL
- Ghostspeaking – Peter Boyle (2016) REVIEW
- The Collected Stories (30) of Jean Stafford – J. Stafford 1970 Pulitzer Prize REVIEW
- Reaching Tin River – Thea Astley REVIEW
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April 2021:
- The Guilded Auction Block – Shane McCrae (22 poems) REVIEW #PoetryMonth 2021
- Revolusi – David van Reybrouck REVIEW Longlist Brusse Prize 2021
- Urk – M. Declercq REVIEW Longlist Brusse Prize 2021
- Surge – Jay Bernard – REVIEW #PoetryMonth 2021
- Een Klein Land Met Verre Uithoeken – Floor Milikowski REVIEW
- Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel – Z. N. Hurston (1937) REVIEW
- Ghost Wars – Steve Coll (2004) REVIEW
- Song of the Crocodile – Nardi Simpson REVIEW
- Hiroshima – J. Hersey REVIEW
March 2021
- Poem: “Still” – Felicia Olusanya (aka FeliSpeaks) #ReadingIrelandMonth21
- The Origins of Totalitarianism – Hannah Arendt REVIEW
- The Awkward Black Man – Walter Mosley REVIEW
- Pure, White and Deadly – J. Yudkin REVIEW
- Anseo – Úna-Mingh Kavanaugh REVIEW #ReadingIrelandMonth21
- Why the Moon Travels – Oein DeBhairduin REVIEW #ReadingIrelandMonth21
- Ulster American – David Ireland REVIEW #ReadingIrelandMonth21
- A Promised Land – Barack Obama REVIEW
- Irish Short Stories – J. McGahern, W. Trevor, C. Keegan REVIEW #ReadingIrelandMonth21
- The Jakarta Method – Vincent Bevins REVIEW
- It’s Almost Spring!
- Still Cold!
- Spring?…it doesn’t feel like it!
- The Ways of White Folks – Langston Hughes (14 short stories) REVIEW
- The Grand Chessboard – Zbigniew Brzezinski REVIEW
- The House of Dies Drear – V. Hamilton REVIEW
February 2021
- Society 4.0 – B. de Wit – Review
- How Fascism Works – Jason Stanley – REVIEW
- Kill Switch – Adam Jentleson – REVIEW
January 2021
- Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo – REVIEW
- Heads of Colored People – Nafissa Thompson-Spires (12 short stories) REVIEW
- A Black Women’s History of the United States – Daina Ramey Berry REVIEW
- AI Superpowers – Kai-Fu Lee – Excellent! 5 star
December 2020:
- The Anarchy – W. Dalrymple
- The Topeka School – B. Lerner finalist 2020 Pulitzer Prize Fiction
- A Treasury of African-American Christmas Stories – ed. J. Collier-Thompson
- After the Count – Stephanie Convery finalist 2020 Australian Walkley Award
- Say Nothing – P. R. Keefe winner 2019 National Book Critic’s Circle Award NF
- Iola Leroy – F. Walker
- Merry Christmas 2020
- Reading Challenges 2021
- Body Count – Paddy Manning finalist 2020 Australian Walkley Award
- How to Do Nothing – J. Odell
- How to Make A Slave – J. Walker finalist 2020 National Book Award NF
- The Yield – T.J. Winch – winner 4 major Australian literary prizes
- The Dead Are Arising – Les Payne winner 2020 National Book Award NF
- Don’t Touch My Hair – Emma Dabiri #ReadingIrelandMonth21
- Dying of Whiteness – J. Metzl
- The Tradition – Jericho Brown winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- There There – Tommy Orange (debut novel)
November 2020
- #AusReadingMonth2020 SIGN-UP post
- #AusReadingMonth2020 WRAP-UP post
- Hazelwood – T. Doig – finalist 2020 Australian Walkley Award
- Nganajungu Yagu – C. P. Green – winner 2020 Victorian Premier’s Award – (poetry)
- Fall On Me – Nigel Featherston – #AusReadingMonth2020 #NovNov
- We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know – Sophie McNeill – finalist 2020 Australian Walkley Award
- Fallen – Lucie Morris-Marr – winner 2020 Australian Walkley Award
- Argosy – Bella Li – #AusReadingMonth2020 – (poetry)
- Pearly Gates – Owen Marshall – #AusReadingMonth2020
- Comrade Ambassador – S. FitzGerald #AusReadingMonth2020 – #NonficNov 2020
- City On Fire: The Fight For Hong Kong – A. Dapiran finalist 2020 Australian Walkley Award
- Dolores – L.A. Curtis #AusReadingMonth2020 #NovNov
- The Altar Boys – S. Smith finalist 2020 Australian Walkley Award
- Icefall – S. Gunn #AusReadingMonth2020 #NovNov
- Penny Wong – M. Simons finalist 2020 Australian Walkley Award
- #NonFicNov WEEK 3 Be/Ask/Become the Expert (list)
- #NonFicNov WEEK 1 My favorite non- ficton books 2020 (list)
- #NonFicNov list of ALL my non-fiction books 2020
- #NonFicNov WEEK 4 New to my TBR (list)
- Walking with Ghosts – Gabriel Byrne (memoir) #NonficNov 2020
- Things I Thought ToTell You Since I Saw You Last – P. Layland
- winner 2019 Kenneth Slessor Prize (poetry)
- Simpson Returns: A Novella – W. Macauley – #AusReadingMonth2020 #NovNov
- Empirical – Lisa Gorton (poetry) – #AusReadingMonth2020 – (poetry)
- Waiting For the Past – Les Murray – winner 2015 QLD Literary Award (poetry)
- An Item From the Late News – T. Astley #AusReadingMonth2020
October 2020:
- The Influence of George Soros – Emily Tamkin – Review
- We Live for the We – D. McClain – Review
September 2020: I promise to read more books….as life is returning to a new normal.
- White Too Long – Robert P. Jones
- Donald Trump v. The United States – M. Schmidt
- Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump – P. Strzok
- The Fire This Time – editor Jesmyn Ward
- Rage – Bob Woodward
- Just Us – C. Rankine
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption – Bryan Stevenson
- Heavy – Kiese Laymon
- Caste – I. Wilkerson
August 2020:
- #CCSPIN nr 24 reading list
- Summer Lockdown….not over yet (journal)
- Summer Lockdown….second wave? (journal)
- Summer Lockdown…August? (journal)
- Les années – Annie Ernaux – Review
- Deacon King Kong – James McBride – Review ( #ccspin nr 24)
Journals: April, May, June, July, August:
- Corona Lockdown Reading List
- #Corona Break 21.03.2020 (journal)
- #Corona Update: 26.03.2020 (journal)
- #Corona Update: 13.04.2020 (journal)
- #Corona Update: 29.04.2020 (journal)
- #Corona Update: 16.05.2020 (journal)
- Summer Soltice 2020
- Summer Walk in Covid Lockdown 2020 (journal)
- Summer Lockdown….life goes on 2020 (journal)
- ummer Lockdown….not over yet (journal)
- Summer Lockdown….second wave? (journal)
- Summer Lockdown…August? (journal)
July 2020:
- Summer Walk in Covid Lockdown 2020 (journal)
- Summer Lockdown….life goes on 2020 (journal)
- The Room Where It Happened – John Bolton – Review
- Too Much and Never Enough – Mary Trump – Review
- Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul – Review
June 2020:
- Reading List: Books You Should Read About Black Lives
- Reading List: #20BooksOfSummer20
- Tears We Cannot Stop – M. Dyson – Review
- The Accidental President – A.J. Baime – Review
- Democracy In Black – E. S. Glaude jr. – Review
- Jean Barois – R.M. de Gard – Review
- D’un cheval l’autre – Bartabas (Clément Marty) – Review
- How To Be An Antirascist – I.X. Kendi – Review
- The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander – Review
- Bolívar – Marie Arana Review
- Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates – Review
- Summer Soltice 2020
May 2020:
- L’Été – Albert Camus – Review
- The Moviegoer – Percy Walker – Review
- Tu seras un homme, mon fils – P. Assouline (2020) – Review
- D’un cheval l’autre – Bartabas (2020) – Review
- Thérèse Raquin – Emile. Zola – Review
- Brown is The New White – Steve Phillips – Review
- My Vanishing Country – B. Sellers (2020) – Review
- How To Live – Helen Rickerby (poetry)
April 2020:
- Corona Lockdown Reading List
- #Corona Break 21.03.2020 (journal)
- #Corona Update: 26.03.2020 (journal)
- #Corona Update: 13.04.2020 (journal)
- #Corona Update: 29.04.2020 (journal)
- #Corona Update: 16.05.2020 (journal)
- The China Model – Daniel Bell – Review
- Essayism – Brian Dillon – Review
- Critics, Monsters and Fanatics – C. Ozick – Review
- Thomas Aquinas – Denys Turner – Review
- Saul Steinberg: A Portrait – D. Bair – Review
- Shosha – I.B. Singer (fiction) – Review
- The Orphan Master’s Son – A. Johnson (fiction) – Review
- Front Row at the Trump Show – J. Karl – Review
March 2020: #ReadingIrelandMonth20*
- The Lottery – S. Jackson #Classic short story
- A Doll’s House – H. Ibsen #Classic play
- The Martian Chronicles – R. Bradbury
- Passage to India – E. Forster – #Classic
- Julius Caesar – Shakespeare #Classic
- Woman of No Importance – Oscar Wilde #Classic play*
- The Christmas Tree – Jennifer Johnston*
- The Wake – T. Murphy play*
- Station Island – Seamus Heaney (67 poems)*
- Lady Gregory and the National Theatre – E. Remport*
February 2020:
- Unmaking of the Presidency – S. Hennessey, B. Wittes
- Oslo – J.T. Rodgers winner Tony Award Best Play 2017
- Runaway – Alice Munro (8 short stories) winner Nobel Prize 2013 #Classic
- A Very Stable Genius – C. Leonnig, P. Rucker
- A Warning – Anonymous
- The Things They Carried – T. O’Brien
- Indivisible – L. Greenberg
- The Quiet American – G. Greene #Classic
- The Crucible – A. Miller #Classic play
- Animal Farm – George Orwell #Classic
- The Real Thing – Tom Stoppard winner Tony Award Best Play 1984
- Hard Times – C. Dickens #Classic
January 2020
- The Churchill Factor – Boris Johnson
- JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died – J.W. Douglass, Pete Larkin
- Mary’s Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder JFK and Mary Pinchot Meyer- P. Janney
- Hit List – R. Belzer and D. Wayne
- Nolan on Bradbury – W.F. Nolan
- Master of the Senate – R. Caro
- The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir – Samantha Power
- The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 – J. Shapiro
- Nixon At The Movies – Mike Feeney
- From Russia with Blood – Heidi Blake
- The Spaces of Irish Drama – H. Lojek
- The Secret Team – L. Fletcher Prouty
- The Irish Writer and the World – Declan Kiberd (2005)
- Wild Sea: a history of the southern ocean – Joy McCann #AWW2020
- Moth Snowstorm Nature and Joy – M. McCarthy
- The High Places – Fiona McFarlane (13 short stories) #AWW2020
- Icefall – Stephanie Gunn Aurealis Award 2018 Best SF Novella #AWW2020
- Marriages – ( 6 short stories) – Amy Witting #AWW2020
- Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand #Classic
- Transparency – (play) – Suzie Miller
- Surrender – Joanna Pocock (memoir) #WorldFrromMyArmchair (American North West)
- Sightlines – K. Jamie
- Flèche – Mary Jean Chan (50 poems) #Winner Costa Award Poetry 2019
December 2019 (…less reading this month)
- Nine Lives: Postwar Women Writers – S. Sheriden
- Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing – Ashleigh Wilson
- War and Peace – L. Tolstoy (audio book )….after eye surgery)
- Blowout – Rachel Maddow
- Drylands – Thea Astley
- Catching Teller Crow – A. and E. Kwaymullina
- True Stories – Helen Garner
November 2019:
- The American Dream: American Realism 1945-2001
- A Kindness Cup –Thea Astley –
- The Endsister – Penni Russon – READ
- Sea People – C. Thompson – READ – NSW 2019 History Award
- Boys Will Be Boys – Clementine Ford –
- Dr Space Junk vs Universe – A. Gorman
- The Phoenix Years – M. O’Dea –
- An Unconventional Wife – M. Hoban –
- Adani: Following Its Dirty Footsteps – L. Simpson
- It’s Raining in Mango – Thea Astley –
- Troll Hunting – Ginger Gorman –
- The Thinking Woman – J. van Loon –
- Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin – Dr. Fiona Hill
October 2019:
- Tide of Stone – Kaaron Warren – READ
- Imp of the Perverse – E.A. Poe – READ
- Short Blogging Break….in hospital!
- Update: Amen…
- Update: Be back soon…
- Update: Drinks Are On Me!
September 2019 – RIP XIV Reading List
- All-Day Fat Burning Diet – Y. Elkaim – READ (…excellent, and I lost weight!)
- Everywhere I Look (essays) – Helen Garner – READ #AWW2019
- The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe (essays) – S. Peeples READ #RIPXIV #NonFicNov (early)
Summer Reading August:
- Driving Into The Sun – M. Polain – READ
- The Shepherd’s Hut – T. Winton – READ – Bah!
- Tin Man – S. Winman – READ
- The Hate U Give – A. Thomas – READ
- Brother – David Chariandy – READ
- Crocodile Tears – M. O’ Sullivan – READ (Irish Detective Leo Woods #1)
- Aquarium – David Vann – READ
- Insistance – A. Darcy – READ (Irish poet, 18 poems)
- The Barracks – J. McGahern – READ
- Are Friends Electric? – Helen Heath – READ (New Zealand poet, 57 poems)
- Red Ribbons – L. Phillips – READ (CF)
- Exit West – M. Hamid – READ
- The Twelve – S.Neville – READ (Irish Noir)
- Harbour Lights – D. Mahon (25 poems by Irish poet) – READ
- The Radio (32 poems) – Irish poet L. Flynn (shortlist 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize) – READ
- The Boys of Bluehill – E. Ní Chuilleanáin – READ (40 poems, Irish poet)
- Now We Can Talk Openly about Men – Martina Evans – READ
- Show Them a Good Time – Nicole Flattery (8 short stories) – READ
- My Name is Revenge – A. K. Blunt – READ
- Milkman – Anna Burns – READ
- Cane – Jean Toomer – READ
- Lemons in the Chicken Wire – READ (50 poems)
- Fast Talking PI – Selina Tusitala Marsh – READ (32 poems)
- Parang – Omar Musa – READ (27 poems)
- The Empty Family – C. Tóibin (9 short stories) – READ
- Fancies and Goodnights – J. Collier (32 short stories) – READ
- America’s War for the Greater Middle East – A. Bacevich – READ
- My Name is Leon – Kit de Waal – READ
- A Time of Gifts – Patrick Leigh Fermor – READ
- The Billion Dollar Spy – D. Hoffman – READ
July:
- The First Casualty – Peter Greste – READ
- Max Havelaar – Multatuli – READ
- 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write – S. Ruhl – READ
- These Truths – Jill Lepore – READ
- The Weir – Conor McPherson – READ
- Et Soudain, La Liberté – E. Pisier, C. Laurent – Prix Marguerite Duras 2017 – READ
- Fouché – E. de Waresquiel – READ
- Le jour d’avant – S. Chalandon – READ
- Retour à Killybegs – S. Chalandon – READ
- Je suis fou de toi – D. Bona – READ
- French cooking for #ParinInJuly….
- Mousse aux éclats de chocolat (2019)
- Le Grand Meaulnes – Alain-Fournier – READ
- Wrap-up #Paris in July
- Wake in Fright – K. Cook – READ
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – G. Honeyman – READ ( Stunning!)
June 2019
- Glengarry Glen Ross – D. Mamet – READ
- The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams – READ
- Waiting for Godot – S. Beckett – READ
- Twenty-First Century American Playwrights – C. Bigsby – READ
- The Mueller Report – READ
- Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom – D. Blight – READ
- Stamped From the Beginning – I.X. Kendi – READ
- The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke – J.C. Stewart READ
- The Arsonist – C. Hooper – READ
- Himself – Jess Kidd – READ
- James Tiptree, jr. The Double Life Alice Sheldon – J. Phillips – READ
- Ghosts of the Tsunami – R. L. Parry – NF – READ
- Indecent (play) – Paula Vogel – READ
- The Heart’s Invisible Furies – John Boyne – READ
- The Coddling of the American Mind – G. Lukianoff. J. Haidt – READ
- Astonished Dice – G. Cochrane (short stories) – READ
- We Can Make a Life – C. Henry – READ
- Seeing Yellow (poetry) – E. Bourke – READ shortlist Irish Times Poetry Award 2019
- Negroni #Cocktail…relaxing during Negroni week (24-30 June)
- From a Low and Quiet Sea – Donal Ryan- READ
May 2019
- The Radio Room – Cilla McQueen (34 poems) – READ
- The Almighty Sometimes – Kendall Feaver (play) – READ WINNER NSWLiteraryAward2019
- Tilt – Kate Lilley – READ (38 poems) Winner Victorian Premier’s Award 2019
- Olio – Tyehimba Jess – READ – Pulitzer Prize 2017 for poetry (pg 231)
- Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook – J. Kent – READ (memoir)
- The Lebs – M.M. Ahmad – READ WINNER NSWLiteraryAwards2019
- This Mortal Boy – F. Kidman – READ – WINNER Ockham Prize for Fiction 2019
- Black is the New White – N. Lui – READ – WINNER NSW Lit Prize for Playwriting 2018
- Ritual – Maxine Beneba Clarke (poem) – READ
- No Friend but the Mountains – B. Boochani – READ WINNER NSWLiteraryAwards2019
- No Friend but the Mountains – B. Boochani – READ WINNER
- ….Australia National Biography Award 2019
- Not Just Black and White – L and T Williams, mother and daughter – READ
- Wade in the Water – Tracy K. Smith, US Poet Laureate – READ (32 poems)
- The Thurber Carnival – James Thurber – READ (essays)
- On Poetry – Glyn Maxwell – READ (NF)
- Blakwork – Alison Whittaker (94 poems) – READ “Cotton On” (pg 15)
- August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle (13 essays) – editor S. Shannon – READ
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – E. Ablee – READ (play)
- Title poem: “Blakwork” Alison Whittaker – READ (pg 3)
- Noises Off – M. Frayn – READ (play)
- Fences – A. Wilson – READ (play)
- Streetcar Named Desire – T. Williams – READ
April 2019
- The Bridge – E. Gandolfo – READ #StellaPrize Shortlist 2019
- Too Much Lip – M. Lucashenko – READ #StellaPrize Shortlist 2019
- Axiomatic – M. Tumarkin – READ #StellaPrize Shortlist 2019 (essays)
- Little Gods – J. Ackland – not available in Netherlands! #StellaPrize Shortlist 2019
- The Erratics – Laveau-Harvie – not available in Netherlands! WINNER #StellaPrize 2019
- Pink Mountain on Locust Island – J.M. Lau – READ #StellaPrize Shortlist 2019
- Monte Carlo – P. Terrin – READ #LonglistDublintLiteraryPrize2019
- Aunts Up the Cross – R. Dalton – READ #AWW2019
- Le Lambeau – P. Lançon – READ #PrixFémina2018, #PrixRenaudot2918 (special prize)
- Reservoir 13 – J. McGregor -READ #ShortlistDublintLiteraryPrize2019
- Home Fire – K. Shamsie – READ #ShortlistDublintLiteraryPrize2019
- Can You Tolerate This? – A. Young – READ #AWW2019 (essays)
- Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger – F. Wright – #AWW2019 (essays)
- The Everlasting Sunday – R. Lukins – READ #ShortlistNSWLiteraryAward2019
- Boy Swallows Universe – T. Dalton – READ WINNER NSWLiteraryAwards2019
- Deep Time Dreaming – B. Griffiths – READ WINNER NSWLiteraryAwards2019
- Border Districts – G. Murnane – READ #ShortlistNSWLiteraryAward2019
- Scrublands – C. Hammer – READ #ShortlistNSWLiteraryAward2019
- The Cage – L. Jones – READ #ShortlistOckhamNewZealandBookAwards2019
- The Facts – T. Lloyd – READ (poetry) #ShortlistOckhamNewZealandBookAwards2019
- The New Testament – Jericho Brown (41 poems) – READ #NationalPoetryMonth2019
- Water & Power – G. Fanning (30 poems) – READ #NationalPoetryMonth2019
- #Dublin Literary Award 2019 Shortlist – read-athon
- #NSW Premier’s Award 2019 Shortlist – read-a-thon
- #Ockham New Zealand Award 2019 Shortlist – read-a-thon
- #Kerry Group Irish Novel of 2019 Shortlist – read-a-thon
- #Stella Prize 2019 Shortlist – read-a-thon
March 2019
- Shirley – C. Bronte – READ #ClassicMasterList* (#DNF…here is why!) (BAH!)
- The Goat’s Song – D. Healy – READ #ReadingIrelandMonth19
- A Poet’s Dublin – Eavan Boland – READ #ReadingIrelandMonth19 (35 poems)
- Saints and Sinners – E. O’Brien – READ #ReadingIrelandMonth19 (short stories)
- Two Moons – Jennifer Johnston (Dublin, 1930) – READ #ReadingIrelandMonth19
- The Wrong Country: Essays on Modern Irish Writing – G. Dawe – READ
- Come On Home – Phillip McMahon (play) – READ #ReadingIrelandMonth19
- A Slanting of the Sun – Donal Ryan – READ #ReadingIrelandMonth19 (20 stories)
- Memoir – John McGahern – READ #ReadingIrelandMonth19
- Happy St. Patrick’s Day !
- Lally the Scut – Abbie Spallen (play) – READ #ReadingIrelandMonth19
- When All Is Said – Anne Griffin – READ #ReadingIrelandMonth19
- Travelling In A Strange Land – D. Park – READ #ReadingIrelandMonth19
- A Ladder To The Sky – John Boyne – READ #ReadingIrelandMonth19
- The Cruelty Men – Emer Martin – READ #ReadingIrelandMonth19
- Normal People – Sally Rooney – READ #ReadingIrelandMonth19
- The Hoarder – Jess Kidd – READ #ReadingIrelandMonth19
- The Art of Time Travel – T. Griffiths – READ (NF)
February 2019
- The Twelve Caesars – Suetonius – READ #ClassicMasterList
- The Heart of Darkness – J. Conrad – READ #ClassicMasterList
- Hamlet – W. Shakespeare – READ #ClassicMasterList
- Beowulf – Unknown – READ #ClassicMasterList (Translation: Seamus Heaney)
- The Great Gatsby – F.S. Fitzgerald – READ #ClassicMasterList
- The Tale of Two Cities – C. Dickens – READ #ClassicMasterList
- The Merchants of Truth – J. Abramson – DNF read first 50 pages….. short review
- The Mill of the Floss – G. Eliot – READ #ClassicMasterList
- Chimerica – Lucy Kirkwood – READ (play)
- The British Short Story – A. Maunder – READ (NF)
- Thick – Tressie McMillian Cottom – READ (NF)
- The Cambridge Introduction to The American Short Story – M. Scofield READ (NF)
- The Screwfly Solution – James Tiptree jr. (aka Alice Sheldon) – READ (SF novelette)
- Short Stories: 3 by James Tiptree jr – READ (…not her best worik, unfortunately)
- Edgar Allan Poe: 28 tales – E. A. Poe – READ #ClassicMasterList
- The Count of Monte Cristo – A. Dumas – READ #ClassicMasterList*
- The Complete Essays – M. de Montaigne – READ #ClassicMasterList* (BAH!)
- Snuff – T. Pratchett – READ (Watch City #8; Discworld #39/41)
- Valentine’s Day February 14
January 2019
- George Eliot: Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writing – READ (NF)
- The Spell by Katie Ford – READ 02.01.2019
- Writers on Writers: Patrick White – Christos Tsiolkas – READ (NF)
- The Age of Eisenhower – W. Hitchcock – READ (NF)
- The New Yorker – dd 07.01.2019 – READ
- Trace: who killed Maria James? – R. Brown – READ #AWW2019 (NF)
- Poemcrazy – S. Wooldridge – READ (NF)
- Blood Lyrics – K. Ford ( collection of 40 poems) READ
- Boy Overboard – P. Cornelius – READ #AWW2019
- Midsummer Night’s Dream – W. Shakespeare – READ #ClassicMasterList
- Moby Dick – H. Melville – READ #ClassicMasterList
- Othello – W. Shakespeare – READ #ClassicMasterList
- A Woman’s Experiences in the Great War – L. Mack – READ #AWW2019
- Rebecca – D. du Maurier – READ #ClassicMasterList
- Richard II – W. Shakespeare – READ #ClassicMasterList
- The Awakening – K. Chopin – READ #ClassicMasterList
- The Symposium – Plato – READ #ClassicMasterList
- The Complete Stories – F. O’ Connor – READ #ClassicMasterList 31/31
December 2018 Reading stats 2018 63 fiction 73 non-fiction 18 plays 13 posts about poems/poet 105 short stories 105 essays READ:
- The History of the Church – Eusebius – READ #ClassicMasterList
- Satires – Horace – READ #ClassicMasterList
- Moby-Dick as Philosophy – M. Anderson – READ
- Axiomatic – M. Tumarkin – READ Winner of the Melbourne Prize Best Writing Award 2018
- Alice in Space – G. Beer (literary criticism) – READ
- Downstairs No Upstairs – Brian Friel (short story) New Yorker 24.08.1963 – funny! – READ
- Go, Went, Gone – J. Erpenbeck – READ
- Literary Brian Friel Companion – M. Snodgrass – READ #ReadIreland
- Essay: From Monaghan to the Grand Canal ( Dublin) – S. Heaney – READ #ReadIreland
- The Pull of the Moon – Julie Paul – READ (12 short stories) #CanBookChallenge
- The Hummingbird – K. Hiekkapelto – READ #TBR since 2015!
- Speaking Up – G. Triggs #AWW2018 – DNF…not my kind or writer
- In Extremis: War Correspondent Marie Colvin – L. Hilsum – READ #TBRnovember2018
- Philadelphia , Here I Come! – Brian Friel (play)- READ #ReadIreland
- Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia – editor Anita Heiss (NF) – READ #AWW2018
- Indonesia etc – E. Pisani – READ #WorldFromMyArmchair
- The Tall Man – Chloe Hooper – READ #AWW2018 2009 Queensland Premier’s Literary Prize
- The Christmas Carol – C. Dickens – READ #ClassicMasterList
- Sisters In Law (S. Day ‘O Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg) – L. Hirshman – READ
- Infinity – Hannah Moscovitch (play) – READ #CanBookChallenge
- American Poetry Review – editor E. Scanlon – READ
- Saints and Sinners – Edna O’Brien (short stories) – READ only 4 /10 good #ReadIreland
- The New Yorker 24-31 December 2018 – READ
- The Evening of the Holiday – S. Hazzard – READ
- The Rich Brew – S. Pinsker – (NF) READ
- American Poetry Review – editor E. Scanlon – READING pg 27/44 Vol 47 Nov/Dec no. 6
November 2018 PRIX LITTERAIRE FRANCAIS LONGLIST 2018
- The Aeneid – Vrigil – READ #ClassicMasterList
- Mythos – Stephen Fry (audio book) – READ
- A Raisin in the Sun – L. Hansberry (play) – READ Best Play 1959 NY Drama Critic’s Circle
- David Copperfield – C. Dickens – READ #ClassicMasterList (audio and paperback)
- Poets Corner – editor J. Lithgow – READ (audio book)
- Great Expectations – C. Dickens – READ #ClassicMasterList
- Pulitzer – J. McGrath Morris ( biography) – READ
- Rosmersholm – Henk Ibsen (play) – READ #ClassicMasterList
- The Lusiads – L. Vaz de Camões – READ (epic poem) #ClassicMasterList
- Electra – Sophocles – READ #ClassicMasterList
- The Knights Tale – Chaucer – READ #ClassicMasterList
- Mrs. Dalloway – V. Woolf – READ #ClassicMasterList
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit – M. Desmond – READ #NonFicNov
- Kilonova (poem) – A. Sometimes – READ #AWW2018
- To Our Miscarried One, Age Fifty Now (poem) – S. Olds – READ #PulitzerPrize 2013
- The Best Australian Science Writing 2018 – editor J. Pickrell – READ #NonFicNov
- Death of a Salesman – A. Miller – READ- Pulitzer Prize Drama 1949 – #ClassicMasterList
October 2018
- Our Mutual Friend – C. Dickens – READ #ClassicMasterList
- Je reste ici – M. Balzano (longlist Prix Fémina 2018) – READ
- Mãn – K. Thuy – READ #CanBookChallenge
- An Ordinary Day (NF) – Leigh Sales – READ #AWW2018
- Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi – READ #ClassicMasterList
- The Keys of My Prison – F. Wees – READ #CanBookChallenge
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Ann Brontë – READ #ClassicMasterList
- Zolitude – Paige Cooper (14 short stories) – READ #CanBookChallenge
- An Ocean of Minutes – T. Lim – READ #CanBookChallenge
- French Exit – P. deWitt – READ #CanBookChallenge
- March Violets – P. Kerr (CF) – READ
- Looking for Lorraine – I. Perry – READ
- Nobel Streven – F. van Oostrom – READ #LibrisPrijs2018 shortlist Best Dutch History Book
- Thorbecke Wil Het – R. Aerts – READ – winner Prinsjesboekenprijs (best political book)
- De Sigarenfabriek van Isay Rottenberg – H/S Rottenberg – READ
- ….#LibrisPrijs2018 shortlist Best Dutch History Book
- Adieu Montaigne – J. Delacomptée – READ ( 50%…gave up, read why!)
- Frankenstein – M. Shelley – READ #RIPXIII and #CCdare
September 2018 RIPXIII reading list
- The Raven – E.A. Poe – READ #RIPXIII
- Dark Entries – R. Aickman (6 short stories) – READ #RIPXIII
- A Vindication of the Rights of Women – M. Wollstonecraft – READ
- Our Man in Charleston – C. Dickey (NF) – READ #20BooksOfAutumn
- The Pillow Book – Sei Shonagon – READ
- The Life of Johnson – J. Boswell – READ #ClassicMasterList
- Hawthorne – Henry James – READ #RIPXII
- A Kim Jong-IL Production – Fischer, P. – READ #20BooksOfAutumn
- The Bed-Making Competition – A. Jackson – READ #AWW2018
- Atomic Thunder – E. Tynan (Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2017 History) – READ #AWW2018
- The Enigmatic Mr. Deakin – J. Brett – READ #AWW2018 Nat Biography Award 2018
- Patrick Kavanagh – Irish poet poem – READ
- Audition – S. Sayarfiezadeh – READ (short story) #DealMeIn2018
- The River in the Sky – Clive James ( epic poem…reading it line for line) – READ
- Just Enough Liebling – J. Liebling (NF) – READ
- Washington Black – Esi Edugyan – READ #CanBookChallenge (shortlist Man Booker)
- Don’t Call Us Dead – D. Smith – READ (collection of poems)
- Nooit Meer Slapen – W.F. Hermans- READ Dutch – in translation Beyond Sleep
- James Wright: A Life in Poetry (NF) – J. Blunk – READ
- Pensées – B. Pascal – READ
August 2018
- Pride and Prejudice – J. Austen – Re-READ
- Letters From a Stoic – Seneca – READ
- The Angel of the Odd – E.A. Poe – READ (short story)
- The Birthday of the Infanta – O. Wilde – READ (short story)
- The Masnavi Book vol 1 – Rūmī (poet of Sufism Islamic mysticism) – READ
- Myths from Mesopotamia – (Anonymous) trans. S. Dalley – READ
- Nation – T. Pratchett – READ
- Means of Ascent – R. Caro – READ (non-fiction)
- The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal – READ (french edition)
- Chateaubriand – Jean-Claude Berchet – READ (french edition)
- Trois femmes puissantes – M. NDiaye – READ (french edition) Prix Goncourt 2009
- Le Roman de la Rose – De Lorris, G. et De Meun, J. – READ (french edition)
- The Revolutionary Road – L. Pryce – READ (Iran)
- Une Vie – G. de Maupassant – READ (french edition)
- Maupassant – F. Martinez – READ (french edition) (biography)
- Darkness Visible – W. Styron – READ (essay/memoir)
- Between Riverside and Crazy – S. Guirgis – (Pulitzer Prize 2015 play ) – READ
- The Outrun – A. Liptrot – READ
- L’Éspoir – A. Malraux – READ/ DNF …here’s why!
July 2018
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – W. Shirer – READ ….chunkster!
- Berthe Morisot – D. Bona – READ (french editon)
- Women In Love – D.H. Lawrence – READ – …intense book!
- The Dispossessed – U. Le Guin – READ
- The Sun Also Rises – E. Hemingway – READ
- View From the Cheap Seats – N. Gaiman – READ (essays)
- The Deerslayer – James Fenimore Cooper – RE–READ – classic Fini
- Like a House on Fire – C. Kennedy – READ (15 short stories)
- Victor Hugo: Romancier de l’abîme – editor J. Hiddleston – READ (11 essays)
June 2018
- Brit(ish) – A. Hirsch – READ
- Jenna’s Truth – N.L. King – READ
- A Spy Named Orphan – R. Philipps – READ
- The End of Seeing – C. Collins – READ
- Australian A. Kissane ‘Flannel Flowers’ – READ (poem)
- Essays: The Australian Face (editor C. Menzies-Pike) – READ (17 essays)
- Pipeline – D. Morisseau – READ (play)
- Americanah – C.N. Adichie – READ
- Saga Land – R. Fidler, K. Gislason – READ
- How to Get There – M. Mackellar – READ
- Very Expensive Poison – L. Harding – READ
- Deep South – P. Theroux – READ
- Islander: Journey Around Our Archipelago – P. Barkham – READ
- Why Horror Seduces – M. Clasen – READ
- Rice – Michele Lee – READ (play)
- From the Edge: Australia’s Lost Histories – M. McKenna (NF) – READ
- The Redemption of Galen Pike – C. Davies (short stories) – READ
- Flowers For Algernon – D. Keyes – READ
- The Serious Game – H. Söderberg – READ
- Judge and His Hangman – F. Dürrenmatt – READ
- Hunting the Wild Pineapple – T. Astley – READ (8 short stories)
- Down These Green Streets – D. Burke – READ
May 2018
- Her Father’s Daughter – A. Pung – READ
- Who’s Afraid? – M. Lewis – READ
- Cardinal – L. Milligan – READ (non-fiction)
- The Drover’s Wife – L. Purcell – READ (play)
- Broken – M.A. Butler – READ (play)
- Psynode – M.J. Ward – READ (YA)
- Do Not Go Gentle – P. Cornelius – READ (play)
- The Golden Bowl – H. James – READ (classic)
- Closing Down – S. Abbott – READ (SF)
- Too Easy – J.M. Green – READ (CF)
- This Mortal Coil – E. Suvada – READ (YA)
- Aletheia – J.S. Breukelaar – READ (Horror)
- Enormous Changes at the Last Minute:Stories – G. Paley – READ
- Wounds – F. Keane – READ winner Best Irish Non-fiction 2017
- Kitchen Sink Realisms – D. Chansky – READ
- Memories of Youghal – W. Trevor – READ (short story)
April 2018
- The Museum of Modern Love – H. Rose – READ – Stella Prize 2017
- Extinctions – J. Wilson – READ – Miles Franklin Award 2017
- Thea Astley’s Writing: Magnetic North – Kerryn Goldsworthy – READ
- Feeling the Heat – J. Chandler – READ – Chandler Best Freelanc Journalist 2017
- The Acolyte – T. Astley – READ – Miles Franklin Award 1972
- From the Wreck – J. Rawson – READ – Aurealis Award 2018 Best SF novel
- Girl Reporter – T. Roberts – READ – Aurealis Award 2018 Best SF novella
- The Green Road – A. Enright – READ
- Feel Free – Z. Smith (31 essays) – READ
- The Fifth Season – N.K. Jemisin – READ – Hugo Award 2016
- Autumn – A. Smith – READ
- Dying in the First Person – N. Sulway – READ
- The Third Policeman – F. O’ Brian – READ
- The Trauma Cleaner – S. Krasnostein – READ – Victorian Premier’s Award 2018
- Locking Up Our Own – J. Forman jr. – READ Pulitzer Prize 2018
- Joan: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor – S. Fenwick – READ
- Fahrenheit 451 – R. Bradbury – READ
- The Butchering Art – L. Fitzharris – READ
- 1984 – G. Orwell – READ
- Winesburg, Ohio – S. Anderson – READ
- The Hate Race – M. B. Clarke – READ
- Dark Lies the Island – K. Barry (13 short stories) – READ
- Rubik – E. Tan (15 short stories) – READ
- Ironweed – W. Kennedy – READ
- Soon – L. Murphy – READ
March 2018:
- Seamus Heaney – H. Vendler – READ
- Simon Leys: Navigator Between Worlds – P. Paquet – READ
- Without America – Quarterly Essay, vol. 68; White, H. 16.11.2017 – READ
- Short story: Deer Season – K. Barry – READ (The New Yorker)
- Short story: You Know How It Is – A. Spargo-Ryan – READ
- Short story: The Island and the Calves – Dermot Healy – READ
- Midwinter Break – B. MacLaverty – READ
- The Weir – C. McPherson – READ
- Mapping Irish Theatre – C. Morash and S. Richards – READ
- A Long Long Way – S. Barry – READ
- Tracker – A. Wright – READ abandoned…read why!
- Poem: Inniskeen Road: July Evening – P. Kavanagh – READ
- Quicksilver – N. Rothwell – READ (6 essays)
- Flame Tip – K. Thompson – READ (short fictions, Tasmania)
- The Divine Comedy – Dante – READ
- The Nightingale – K. Hannah – READ abandoned…read why!
- Best Words, Best Order: Essays of Poetry – S. Dobyns – READ
- Play: Two Pints – Roddy Doyle – READ
- Play: Alice Trilogy – T. Murphy – READ
- Essay: Aussie Albert – Julian Bull – READ
- Essay: Dancing Lessons for Writers – Z. Smith – READ
- A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work – B. Brennan – READ
- Blood in the Water – H. Thompson – READ
February 2018:
- Tartuffe – Molière – READ
- Girls and Boys – D. Kelly – READ
- The Path to Power – R. Caro – READ
- River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze – P. Hessler – READ
- Couleurs de l’incendie – P. Lemaître – READ
- La Prophétie de Langley – P. Pouchairet – READ
- Psychanalyse de Victor Hugo – C. Baudouin – READ
-
Art Chrétien / Art Sacré – Isabelle Saint-Martin) – READ (difficult…score 1/5)
- Victor Hugo: 1802-1851 – J.M. Hovasse – READ – FINI !! (1159 pg) = 4 books!
- Border – K. Kassabova – READ
January 2018:
- Là-bas, août est un mois d’automne – B. Pellegrino – READ
- Wild Kingdom – S. Moss – READ
- St. Joan – G.B. Shaw (play) – READ
- Feather Your Nest – A. O’Brien (short story) – READ
- In With A Chance – K. Murray (short story) – READ
- Bottle Party – J. Collier (short story) – READ
- The New Yorker dd 01.01.2018 – READ
- Enemy Within – Quarterly Essay, vol. 63; Watson, Don, 16.09.2016 – READ
- The Hidden Life of Trees – P. Wohlleben – READ
- The Left Hand of Darkness – U. Le Guin – READ
- The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland’s Border – G. Carr – READ
- Towards Mellbreak – M. Bragg – READ
- The Glass Canoe – D. Ireland – READ
December 2017:
- The Best Australian Essays 2016 – (editor) G. Williamson
- On Elizabeth Bishop – C. Tóibin
- Female Bodies on the American Stage – J. Scott-Mobley
- The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles – A. Christie
- Their Brilliant Careers – R. O’Neill
- Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell – L. Milligan 2017 Walkley Award
- Power Without Glory – F. Hardy
- Why Poetry? – M. Zapruder
- The Supreme Court – R. Mac Cormaic
- Essay: The Poetry of Systems by A. Levy
- Poem: Emotional Astronomer by B. Lovell
- Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall – G. King
- The New Yorker Magazine – 18-25 December
- XMAS Readings week 50
- XMAS Readings week 51
- XMAS Readings week 52
- 31 December 2017
- Goodbye….2017
November 2017:
- L’ orde du jour – E. Vuillard ( winner Prix Goncourt 2017)
- L’Art de perdre – A. Zeniter – READ
- My Place – S. Morgan
- Cloudstreet – T. Winton
- True History of the Kelly Gang – P. Carey
- The Old Wives Tale – A. Bennett
- Cast of Characters – T. Vinciguerra
- Silk Road – E. Ormsby –
- The Grief Hole – K. Warren
- Lord of the Flies – W. Golding
- L’ami – G. Xingjian
- The Hands – S. Orr
- The Life and Work of C.J. Dennis – P. Butterss
- A Boat Load of Home Folk – T. Astley
- A Town Like Alice – N. Shute
- Love and Summer – W. Trevor
- L’Art de perdre – A. Zeniter (winner Prix Goncourt des lycéens 2017)
- Essay: Why She Broke – H. Garner
- Position Doubtful – K. Mahood
- Into the Heart of Tasmania – R. Taylor
- Portable Curiosities – J. Koh
October 2017:
- Salt Water – C. McLennan – READ
- A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman and Birth of Modern China – K. Peraino – READ
- Whose Body? (1923) D. Sayers – READ
- The Anatomy of Fascism – R. Paxton – READ
- A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh – READ
- Jan Maelwael Dutch medieval painter (1370-1415) – P. Roelofs – READ
- Essays Collection by E.B.White READ
- Tsubaki – A. Shimazaki – READ (French)
- The Celery Stalks at Midnight – J. Howe – READ
- Portable Curiosities – J. Koh – READ
- The Dry – J. Harper – READ
- Famine – T. Murphy (play) – READ
September 2017:
- Seul dans Berlin – H. Fallada – READ (French)
- La Serpe – P. Jaenada – READ (French)
- The Persians – Aeschylus – READ
- Plutarch’s Lives Vol 1 – Plutarch – READ
- Oepidus Rex – Sophocles – READ
- The Union Buries Its Dead – H. Lawson – Short Story – READ
- Common Sense – T. Paine – READ
- The Slow Natives – T. Astley (Australian writer) – READ
- Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth Franklin (biography) – READ
- The General vs. The President – H.W. Brands – READ
- Spaceman – M. Massimino – READ
- Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? – M. Meade (biography) – READ
- Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change – E. Pao – READ
- East West Street – P. Sands – READ
- The Sheltering Sky – P. Bowles – READ
August 2017: Hug Your Dog Start Reading!
- Ghettoside by J. Levoy – READ
- Scoop – E. Waugh – READ
- Loving – H. Green – READ
- I, Claudius – R. Graves – READ
- The African Queen – C. S. Forester – READ
- Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon – L. Tye – READ
- The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien – READ
- Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence – READ
- Une femme à Berlin – M. Hillers (anonymous) – READ (French)
- The Way of All Flesh – S. Butler – READ
- Lincoln in the Bardo – G. Saunders – READ
- Une Vie – S. Veil – READ (French)
- Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien – READ
- Retour à Killybegs – Sorj Chalandon – READ (French)
- Seven Plays ‘True West’ – Sam Shepard – READ
- Principles of Angels – Jaine Fenn – READ….stopped after 25%….bah!
- Shatterday and Other Stories – H. Ellison 11/11 – READ
- Short Story – W. Trevor The Piano Teacher’s Pupil – READ
- The New Yorker Magazine – 24 July 2017
July 2017: #6Degrees of Separation Meme
- An American Tragedy – T. Dreiser – READ
- Dear Ijeawele – C.N. Adichie – READ
- The Martian – A. Weir – READ
- Open and Shut – D. Rosenfelt – READ
- First Degree – D. Rosenfelt – READ
- Doomsday Book – C. Willis – READ
- The Bloody Mary Book – E. Brown – READ
- Kennedy and King – S. Levingston – READ
- Coming Up Trumps: Memoir – J. Trumpington – READ
- The New Yorker Magazine 26 June 2017
- The New Yorker Magazine 03 July 2017
- The New Yorker Magazine – July 10 – 17 2017
- French composer Darius Milhaud…who?
- Les Chouans – Balzac – READ
- Rue des Boutiques Obscures – P. Modiano
- Vaster Than Empires and More Slow – U. Le Guin – READ
- The Alligators – J. Updike – READ
- You’ll Never Know, Dear, How Much I Love You – READ – J. Updike
Juni 2017: New Reading Strategy ‘Slow Down….’
- Medea – Euripides – READ
- Brideshead Revisited– E. Waugh – READ
- Pale Fire – V. Nabokov – READ
- As I Lay Dying – W. Faulkner – READ
- The Sympathizer – V.T. Nguyen – READ
- Dear Life – Alice Munro – READ
- Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow – READ
- Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh – J. Lahr – READ
- American Ulysses – R. White jr. – READ
- Walking the Nile – L. Wood – READ
- The Death of the Heart – E. Bowen – READ
- The Running Hare – J. Lewis-Stempel – READ
- Under the Net – I. Murdoch – READ
May 2017: Book Tag
- Breitner’s Amsterdam (G. Breitner, Dutch artist) – K. Keijer – READ (Dutch)
- Mondriaan – H. Janssen – READ (Dutch)
- L’ Aventure des Cathédrales – G. Denizeau – READ (French)
- Passagère du silence – F. Verdier – READ (French)
- Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin – READ
- The Republic – Plato – READ
- Les Chouans – H. Balzac – READ (French)
- Fellowship of the Ring – (Tolkien) – READ
- Angle of Repose – W. Stegner – READ
- Ça ira (1) Fin de Louis (play) – J. Pommerat – READ
April 2017 My reading was going nowhere….Mindy
- Essays: Michael Sweerts: Another Dimension S. Schama (art critic) – READ
- Non- fiction: Medieval Christianity: A New History ( K. Madigan) – READ
- La baronne meurt à cinq heures (2011) – READ (French)
- #CrimeFiction: The Dying Detective L. Persson – READ
- The Wednesday Club – K. Westö – READ
- French: Outside: Papiers d’un jour (M. Duras) – READ (French)
- Monet (G. Goeffroy) – READ (French)
- Immortelle randonnée (J.C. Rufin) – READ (French)
- Les petits chevaux de Tarquinia (M. Duras) – READ (French)
- Les fous de Guernesey – F. Lenormand – READ (French)
- Eugène Boudin L’atelier de la lumière – A. Haudiquet – READ (French)
- Van Gogh, Maître de la couleur – G. Denizeau – READ (French)
- Monet – G. Denizeau – READ (French)
- Claude Monet, sa vie, son temps, son oeuvre – G. Geffory – REVIEW (French)
March 2017: Starting over…. new blog
- The Fellowship of the Ring – READ ch 1-6 – REVIEW
- Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (H. Mantel) – REVIEW
- Bleak House (C. Dickens) – REVIEW
- Catherine the Great (R. Massie) – REVIEW
- Dans la tête de Marine Le Pen (M. Eltchanihoff) – READ
- Chez Soi (M. Chollet) – REVIEW
- En Attendant Bojangles (O. Bourdeaut) – REVIEW
- Ça Ira (1) Fin de Louis -play ( J. Pommerat) – REVIEW
- Progaganda and Counter Terroism (E. Briant) – REVIEW
- The Well Dressed Explorer (Thea Astley) – REVIEW
- Israel (D. Gordis) – REVIEW
- Life and Fate (V. Grossman) – REVIEW
- Escape Hatch (V. Makanin) – REVIEW
- Essays: (4)
- What Neil Gaiman Teaches Us About Survival – (M. Miller) – READ
- Remembering the Dead – (R. Long) – READ
- Remapping history, Reclaming memory A. Wilson play (J. H. Scott) – READ
- Bleak House: Dead Mother’s Property (H. Schor) – READ
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