What I've Finished Reading

The boarders dropped in one after another, interchanging greetings, and the empty jokes that certain classes of Parisians regard as humorous and witty. Dullness is their prevailing ingredient, and the whole point consists in mispronouncing a word or in a gesture. This kind of argot is always changing. The essence of the ( Read more... )

This is the last year-end summary thing, I promise!

Is there really anything to be gained from piling one challenge on another? Maybe not, but here we are anyway. 99 Novels is still underway, and who knows? maybe I'll even pick up the pace a little. It's been a good bunch of books so far. Also on my to-do list for 2017 ( Read more... )

It's time to keep the spirit of procrastination rolling into the New Year with more book memes! Questions snagged from egelantier and littlerhymes. Head under the cut if you want to hear me say "I don't know" a lot.

( so long and thanks for all the books )

Books I finished in 2016 by month, not counting compulsively re-read bag-of-chips type books or anything I skimmed so that I could get it off my bookshelves before moving to a new apartment. Non-compulsive re-reads are marked with an asterisk. Titles in bold are from 99 Novels - a challenge I am obviously not going to finish anytime soon.

( Books to the left of me, more books to the right )

Thanks to the Wednesday Reading Meme, 2015 is the first full year of my life for which I could make an almost-accurate list of books read! So I did. Unsurprisingly, it turns out to be a lot of detectives. I should probably scale back, but will I? That is the true mystery.

( A list of books )

I copied out Anthony Burgess' entire list of favorites from 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939, so that I could keep track of which ones I read. It's a great list!

( Future favorites and nemeses, below the cut )

I feel like I might be sabotaging myself in some way by lining up too many books to read. In a week I'll collapse and then read nothing for the next month. But it's seemed pretty good for me to read books and write a little about them, so I feel inclined to continue.


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The public library catalog has a feature that lists the "most circulated" items. Number one on the list is this book, about which I know nothing.


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I got this Wednesday Reading Meme from osprey_archer and, since "writing about books" contains some of the same words as the thing I'm supposed to be doing, it doesn't even count as full procrastination! So here is an embarassing glimpse into my sloppy reading habits to celebrate it being Wednesday.

What I’ve Just Finished Reading

The Mirror Crack'd by Agatha ( Read more... )

I keep getting these things and forgetting to post them, but I like them. These instructions have been copied from elsewhere. I think this was originally a "books everyone should read for some reason" list in one of the media outlets that does long lists of essential books. The "6 books" thing below is because the average number of books on this ( Read more... )