In 2013, she read a total of 30 books.
In 2014, to her great disappointment, she managed to read only 7.
Thus far, in 2016, she’s read 18 books. Oh happy happy joy joy.
2013 was a great year for her reading life.
She read:
- Bicycle Diaries, by David Byrne
- Anna Karenina
- Don Quijote
- Per Petterson’s Out Stealing Horses
- Mildred Armstrong Kalish’s Litte Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
- Sister Carrie
- The Leopard, by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
- The Quiet American, by Graham Greene
- Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
- The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin
- City of Thieves, by David Benioff
- The Lincoln Lawyer, by Michae Connelly
- Henry M. Stanley’s How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa
In 2015, self’s great reads were:
- Silas Marner
- Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin
- The Act of Love, by Howard Jacobson
- Middlemarch, by George Eliot
- Bad Behavior, by Mary Gaitskill
This year, self’s favorite books have been:
- The Forever War, by Dexter Filkins (which she just realized she’d already read five years ago: She didn’t remember a thing!)
- Anjelica Huston’s second memoir, Watch Me
- The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Matsuo Basho
- Swimming Studies, by Leanne Shapton
She’s struggling through Northanger Abbey. Really struggling. But she is determined to finish it.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Kanlaon 