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Vincennes Review of Books 2015

ms_bracken Jan 01, 2016 14:18

2015 marks ten years of my recording the books I read as I read them. I've got a list for 2004, but up until September it was a list that I'd written from memory, rather than as each book was finished. Ten years later, the highlights of my reading year were:

A substantial number of books by women
Samuel Richardson's Clarissa
Brian Eno's A Year With ( Read more... )

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Vincennes Review Of Books 2014

ms_bracken Jan 01, 2015 13:31

2014 was a year in which I read fewer books than normal, but was really happy with what I did read. The big projects I completed this year were:

Reread the Bible
Reread In Search Of Lost Time in the latest full translation
Finish reading all of Iris Murdoch's novels

ALSO IN THIS REVIEW:

Misc notes on other books read in 2014
Aims for 2015

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Vincennes Review Of Books 2013

ms_bracken Jan 08, 2014 23:03

This is too late in the year to be doing my review of books, but it's been a fantastic year of reading and I want to get at least a precis down somewhere ( Read more... )

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Vincennes Review of Books 2012

ms_bracken Jan 02, 2013 13:17

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Vincennes Review of Books 2011

ms_bracken Jan 01, 2012 18:09

At the end of January of last year, I noticed that to date I'd only read books by women, and decided to make a project of books by women for the rest of the year.

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Vincennes Review of Books 2010

ms_bracken Jan 01, 2011 15:14

Last year, my aim was really to read more books - I had been disappointed by how relatively little I'd read in 2009, and wanted to get my book larnin' game back on.