This year's reading goal is 25 books. Last year was around 20, but with a more measured approach, this year I'm on pace. Ms. 8 has suggested a theme based on the books I have already read: WORLD TOUR.
I'll post a map with pins for each book when I have a chance, but so far, I am moving westerly across space and time.
I started the new year with Charlie Chaplin's autobiography, The Summons (Grisham), The Caine Mutiny (Wouk), the Naked and the Dead (Mailer) and there's one more slipping my mind (hence the raison d'etre of this blog). Now that I've traveled to the South Pacific, I'm stranded, looking for the next book, based in SE Asia. That part of the world I know very little about--history, literature, personalities. Time for a real trip, at least to the book store.
Suggestions are welcome!
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Recreational Reading 2009
- Up in the Air (Kirn)
- 2007 Best American Non-required reading (Eggers, ed.)
- The girl who played with fire (Larsson)
- Night Soldiers (Furst)
- Derby Dugan (De Haven)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Larsson)
- Blood of Victory (Furst)
- Columbine (Cullen)
- The English Assassin (Silva)
- I, Claudius, by Not Claudius
world book tour 2008
- Anarchy and Old Dogs (Cotterill)
- The Power and the Glory (Greene)
- Lord of the Flies (Gooding)
- The Life of Pi (Martel)
- Into Thin Air (Krakauer)
- Popular Music of Vittula (Neimi)
- What is the What ? (Eggers)
- Infidel (Hirsi Ali)
- Seven Years in Tibet (Harrer)
- The Quiet American (Greene)
- Half a Life (Naipaul)
- Out (Kirino)
- True History of the Kelly Gang (Carey)
- Agents of Innocence (Ignatius)
- The Naked and the Dead (Mailer)
- The Caine Mutiny (Wouk)
- Papillon (Charriere)
- The Summons (Grisham)
- My Autobiography (Chaplin)
1 comment:
Hey Matt,
Cool idea, a reading World Tour. I want to suggest Dave Eggers' "What Is The What", a fictinalized autobiography about Valentino Achak Deng, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan. AMAZING. There's a website set up by Deng tracking his activities since the book was published (Eggers gave the book sale proceeds to Deng's foundation for rebuilding his former village and that region of Sudan).
For another part of the African continent, try anything by J.M. Coetzee ("Disgrace") or Bryce Courtenay ("Power of One").
For Russia, Gary Shteyngart's "Russian Debutante's Handbook" or "Absurdistan" (I've only read the former). In both, the main character is a Russian immigrant living in NYC, but much of it takes place in modern St. Petersburg.
Keep us posted!
Stacey Glyde
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