Nobody else' s book club: rules and a first attempt at a list
Rules: not many, not any, just reading a book after another at one's pace.
Because some books are faster to read than others, I don't want to set any sort of deadline, like a book per month or something of that sort. To begin with I'll just follow my own pace, writing a review when I finish a book or, if I feel inspired, while I'm reading it. If someone else joins the club, I wish!, the choice of books and the pace will become democratic. I'll be very happy to share ideas for books to read and opinions on books read. That would be lovely.
A list of books… I must think about this.
The first book is easy, just the one I've last finished reading: The Lesser Bohemians, by Eimear McBride. I'll write my thoughts on it next week. I know this is not fair, nobody else's going to have time to read it so fast. But nobody else cares either, at least as long as nobody else joins this club.
The second book is not so easy. I'm also reading The Iliad and I've been doing it for a while. I must focus on it, instead of reading other books at the same time, and finish it. I'm not sure I want to write a review about it, though. We'll see if I do or if I prefer to skip to the next book.
A book I want to read is Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges. It has been on my list for a while. I'll read it in the original Spanish, but if I ever write a review, it'll be in this blog's language of choice, English.
A book I've started to read a while ago, but never went much farther than the first pages is Candide by Voltaire. Another book I'm reading in the original language, French in this case. Will I restart it again and finally finish it?
A book on my list is The Leopard, by Lampedusa, I own the translation by Archibald Colquhoun (yes, that's a real name, of Scottish origin, the surname I mean, and is pronounced Cahoon). And since I'm reading Italian literature, I might as well read Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo, which I've started more than a year ago.
That's a damn good list and it should keep me occupied for a while.
Because some books are faster to read than others, I don't want to set any sort of deadline, like a book per month or something of that sort. To begin with I'll just follow my own pace, writing a review when I finish a book or, if I feel inspired, while I'm reading it. If someone else joins the club, I wish!, the choice of books and the pace will become democratic. I'll be very happy to share ideas for books to read and opinions on books read. That would be lovely.
A list of books… I must think about this.
The first book is easy, just the one I've last finished reading: The Lesser Bohemians, by Eimear McBride. I'll write my thoughts on it next week. I know this is not fair, nobody else's going to have time to read it so fast. But nobody else cares either, at least as long as nobody else joins this club.
The second book is not so easy. I'm also reading The Iliad and I've been doing it for a while. I must focus on it, instead of reading other books at the same time, and finish it. I'm not sure I want to write a review about it, though. We'll see if I do or if I prefer to skip to the next book.
A book I want to read is Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges. It has been on my list for a while. I'll read it in the original Spanish, but if I ever write a review, it'll be in this blog's language of choice, English.
A book I've started to read a while ago, but never went much farther than the first pages is Candide by Voltaire. Another book I'm reading in the original language, French in this case. Will I restart it again and finally finish it?
A book on my list is The Leopard, by Lampedusa, I own the translation by Archibald Colquhoun (yes, that's a real name, of Scottish origin, the surname I mean, and is pronounced Cahoon). And since I'm reading Italian literature, I might as well read Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo, which I've started more than a year ago.
That's a damn good list and it should keep me occupied for a while.
Addendum: It appears that I am too undisciplined to follow a pre-defined list. So, to begin with and as long as nobody else joins me, I will just tell what the next book is going to be at the end of my post on the previous one.
The above list is still standing, the first book is still going to be "The Lesser Bohemians" by Eimear McBride. And, as for the other books, I do intend to read them, after all I have already started most of them, but I will not necessarily read them in a row or in a particular order.
The above list is still standing, the first book is still going to be "The Lesser Bohemians" by Eimear McBride. And, as for the other books, I do intend to read them, after all I have already started most of them, but I will not necessarily read them in a row or in a particular order.
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