books
Yes, long time no post. Not interested in posting about general life, so I'll probably only pop up occasionally for set-lists of concerts, etc.
I've had a Kindle since July 2011, and I sort of wondered to myself if it has caused an increase in reading. I know it's standard to post reading lists at the END of the year, but I broke my first Kindle (fortunately under warranty) so I am suddenly seized with the urge to catalogue the remnants of that library. The ultimate consensus is, yes, I have probably read more, but due to my being a frugal cheapskate, the entire list is made up of old public domain stuff. Of actual contemporary fiction, I think I've just read books people give me.
Aeschylus - The Oresteia
Currently reading this. God, this is slow. I think I have a tedious translation, but beggars can't be choosers.
Sir George Webbe Dasent - Popular Tales from the Norse
(Selection of English translations of Norse fairy tales, collected by Asbjornsen & Moe)
H.A. Guerber - Myths of the Norsemen/From the Eddas
(Summary of Norse mythology, primarily sourced from the Poetic and Prose Eddas)
Brothers Grimm - Household Stories
(Another selection/translation, but a lot of these were re-reads).
Charles Darwin - On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - In a Glass Darkly, volume 1 (currently reading this)
Bram Stoker - Dracula's Guest
Bram Stoker - Dracula (re-read)
Bram Stoker - Lair of the White Worm
Victor Hugo - Les Misérables (re-read)
Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey
Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre (re-read)
Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone (re-read)
Shakespeare - Coriolanus
Probably could do better in over a year of reading. :( Will try harder this year. Clearly, I had an enormous late Gothic fiction phase, as I've made fair progress through miscellaneous Brontës, Stoker and Le Fanu. Trying to finish In a Glass Darkly, but it reads a bit dated in terms of horror stories.
I've had a Kindle since July 2011, and I sort of wondered to myself if it has caused an increase in reading. I know it's standard to post reading lists at the END of the year, but I broke my first Kindle (fortunately under warranty) so I am suddenly seized with the urge to catalogue the remnants of that library. The ultimate consensus is, yes, I have probably read more, but due to my being a frugal cheapskate, the entire list is made up of old public domain stuff. Of actual contemporary fiction, I think I've just read books people give me.
Aeschylus - The Oresteia
Currently reading this. God, this is slow. I think I have a tedious translation, but beggars can't be choosers.
Sir George Webbe Dasent - Popular Tales from the Norse
(Selection of English translations of Norse fairy tales, collected by Asbjornsen & Moe)
H.A. Guerber - Myths of the Norsemen/From the Eddas
(Summary of Norse mythology, primarily sourced from the Poetic and Prose Eddas)
Brothers Grimm - Household Stories
(Another selection/translation, but a lot of these were re-reads).
Charles Darwin - On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - In a Glass Darkly, volume 1 (currently reading this)
Bram Stoker - Dracula's Guest
Bram Stoker - Dracula (re-read)
Bram Stoker - Lair of the White Worm
Victor Hugo - Les Misérables (re-read)
Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey
Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre (re-read)
Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone (re-read)
Shakespeare - Coriolanus
Probably could do better in over a year of reading. :( Will try harder this year. Clearly, I had an enormous late Gothic fiction phase, as I've made fair progress through miscellaneous Brontës, Stoker and Le Fanu. Trying to finish In a Glass Darkly, but it reads a bit dated in terms of horror stories.