50 Books Challenge 09
This is a few days late owing to my marvellous trip to see humanshapes , but now I'm back and it's time for my
50 Books in 2009
summary post.
The full text list is here. But being that I am creative and also have way too much time on my hands, I made a collage with all the actual book covers on:
And now for my quick-fire summary:
Funniest Book:
Thank You, Jeeves - PG Wodehouse
Saddest Book:
Giovanni's Room and The Road both had really desolate endings.
Books I really liked:
Tipping the Velvet, The Remains of the Day, The Turn of The Screw, Lucky, The Time Traveller's Wife and Doctor Faustus.
Books that were a bit of a disappointment:
The Waterfall by Margaret Drabble. I loved The Millstone, which I read last year, but this just didn't measure up.
Favourite Author:
It has to be Elizabeth Gaskell, with special shout-outs to Christopher Marlowe and Alice Sebold.
Favourite Cover:
All of the Penguin Popular Classics (in the lime green) and Tim Burton's The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories.
Best Novella / Short novel:
The Turn of The Screw by Henry James
Best Novel:
It's really hard to pick one - but I'd say Catch-22
Best Play:
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
Best colletion of poetry:
I read very little poetry this year, so it has to be Paradise Lost.
Best non-Fiction:
A toss-up between Lucky by Alice Sebold and The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
Most insane work of literature:
Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill. Enough said.
This concludes my summary. And now, time to proceed to 50 Books in 2010...
50 Books in 2009
summary post.
The full text list is here. But being that I am creative and also have way too much time on my hands, I made a collage with all the actual book covers on:
And now for my quick-fire summary:
Funniest Book:
Thank You, Jeeves - PG Wodehouse
Saddest Book:
Giovanni's Room and The Road both had really desolate endings.
Books I really liked:
Tipping the Velvet, The Remains of the Day, The Turn of The Screw, Lucky, The Time Traveller's Wife and Doctor Faustus.
Books that were a bit of a disappointment:
The Waterfall by Margaret Drabble. I loved The Millstone, which I read last year, but this just didn't measure up.
Favourite Author:
It has to be Elizabeth Gaskell, with special shout-outs to Christopher Marlowe and Alice Sebold.
Favourite Cover:
All of the Penguin Popular Classics (in the lime green) and Tim Burton's The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories.
Best Novella / Short novel:
The Turn of The Screw by Henry James
Best Novel:
It's really hard to pick one - but I'd say Catch-22
Best Play:
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
Best colletion of poetry:
I read very little poetry this year, so it has to be Paradise Lost.
Best non-Fiction:
A toss-up between Lucky by Alice Sebold and The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
Most insane work of literature:
Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill. Enough said.
This concludes my summary. And now, time to proceed to 50 Books in 2010...