This is probably the last 50BC entry of the year-because I've reached that goal. =) But I'll go on adding which books I read, I think. (For now, I'm going with Goodreads "2012 challenge", which I upped to 100 books in 2012. Just by reading in August, I should get close to completion. XD ( Read more... )

No school holidays, and a frigging set of oral exams for the Agrégation this month. On the other hand, those were over after June 20, I had time to read while travelling by train or during the DNB exams (because I was put to watching over the corridor => nothing happening), and when I was sick at home. Not to mention that YA novels & novellas are ( Read more... )

In between school holidays, Ascension Day (long week end off) and Whit Monday (day off as well), and various personal downtime, I managed to cram a few more books in this. 'Course in hindsight I tell myself "I should've worked for the Agregation more!", but I was just really tired all the time, so reading was the most I managed to do anyway. I didn ( Read more... )

Since I decided last month that it was time to commit once again to more serious reading, here's the list of what I read in April-I doubt I'll finish anything else by tonight, anyway. I was helped in that by the Easter week-end, one week of holidays, and the fact that I was too down for half the month (the teeth crap) to do much, except reading. ( Read more... )

Almost forgot to log that one:

• William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
• Matthew Lewis - The Monk
• Julian Baggini - Welcome to Everytown

Total: 50/50
And with that, I've completed the challenge, something like 2 months in advance, even. The list doesn't include everything, though, because I also read a few books for the second or the third time ( ( Read more... )

I didn't read so much this month, partly because I've been away from home and busy catching up on a pile of magazines, the oldest of which dates back to Decemberr 2010; and partly because I've been studying articles and such for the Agrégation. Which also explains why I included two of such books in my list-they were work, but also very interesting ( Read more... )

There we go. I haven't included the few articles / really academic books etc. I've read for the agregation, though.

• Mathias Malzieu - Métamorphose en bord de ciel
• David Lodge - The Art of Fiction
• Roland Marx - Histoire de la Grande-Bretagne
• Ernest Hemingway - Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises
• Coleridge & Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads

Since I'm not going to add anything to this list by tomorrow evening...

• Steve Roud - London Lore


• Charles Barber - The English Language


• Terry  Pratchett - Going Postal


• William Shakespeare - The Winter's Tale


• Philip Roth - American Pastoral

• Haruki Murakami - La course au mouton sauvage
• Roald Dahl - Kiss Kiss
• Tom Quinn - London's Strangest Tales

Total: 32/50

Not much reading done this month, partly because I've been reading the Nightprowler rulebook and that thing is long-especially since I need to read every single rule, like, 3 times at least to vaguely understand something. I guess ( Read more... )

• Terry Pratchett - Wyrd Sisters
• Mathias Malzieu - La mécanique du coeur
• Terry Pratchett - Pyramids
• Terry Pratchett - Reaper Man
• Terry Pratchett - The Truth