Bibliophilia 2009

n the interest of keeping up this record of my reading, here is what I am currently reading and this list from now will be further broken down by month so I can scrutinize even further my reading habits.

Same chart symbols as last time, although addition of R to denote currently reading, F-[month] to denote month finshed.

January

1. The Athlete's Way - Christopher Bergland (F-Jan) [started in December]
2. The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald (F-Jan)
3. Proust Was a Neuroscientist - Jonah Lehrer (F-Jan)

February

1. Son of A Smaller Hero - Mordecai Richler (F-Feb)
2. The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck (F-Feb)
3. How Soccer Explains the World - An Unlikely Theory of Globalization - Franklin Foer (F-Feb)
4. Fifth Business - Robertson Davies (F-Feb)

March

1. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (F-Mar)
2. The Tin Flute (English Translation) - Gabrielle Roy (F-Mar)
3. Memories of My Melancholy Whores (English Translation) - Gabriel Garcia Marquez(F-Mar)
4. The Watchmen - Alan Moore (GN) * (F-Mar)
5. The 12 Stages of Healing - Donald M. Epstein (F-Apr)

April

1. Tale of the Body Thief - Anne Rice (F-Apr)
2. Memnoch the Devil - Anne Rice (F-Apr)
3. Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (F-May 1st)

May

1. White Noise - Don Delillo (F-May)
2. Sandman Vol.1 Preludes & Nocturnes (GN) - Neil Gaiman (F-May)*
3. Sandman Vol.2 The Doll's House (GN) - Neil Gaiman (F-May)*
4. Sandman Vol.3 Dream Country (GN) - Neil Gaiman (F-May)*
5. Sandman Vol.4 Season of Mists (GN) - Neil Gaiman (F-May)*
6. Dubliners (SS) - James Joyce (F-May)
7. Sandman Vol.5 A Game of You (GN) - Neil Gaiman (F-May)*
8. Sandman Vol.6 Season of Mists (GN) - Neil Gaiman (F-May)*
9. Crime and Punishment (English Translation) - Fyodor Dostoevsky (F-May)
10. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (English Translation) - Milan Kundera (F-May)

June

1. Sandman Vol.7 Brief Lives - Neil Gaiman (GN) (F-June) *
2. St. Urbain's Horseman - Mordecai Richler - (F-June)
3. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand (F-June)

July

1. The Portable Jung - Carl Jung (edited by Joseph Campbell) (F-September)

August

1. ChiRunning - Danny Dreyer ( F-September)
2. Sandman Vol.8 World's End - Neil Gaiman (GN) (F-August)*
3. The Billion Dollar Game: Behind the Scenes of the Greatest Day In American Sport - Super Bowl Sunday - Allen St. John (F-September)

September

1. Jacon Two-Two and the Hooded Fang - Mordecai Richler (F-September)*
2. Neuromancer - William Gibson (F-September)
3. The Killing Joke - Alan Moore (F-September) (GN)
4. Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth - Grant Morrison(F-September) (GN)

October

1. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol (F-November)

November

1. Two Treasties on Government - John Locke (F-November)
   
2. Dreaming Your Real Self - Joan Mazza (F-November)
   

December

1. Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham (F-December)
   
2. Sandman Vol. 9 The Kindly Ones - Neil Gaiman (GN) * (F-December)
   
3. Sandman Vol. 10 The Wake - Neil Gaiman (GN)* (F-December)
   

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-s

"This is a completed transmission log from the Freecity"

Bibliophilia 2008

This will serve as a record of what books/literature i engaged myself to read in 2008. Emily suggested cataloguing a list and i think its a good idea to see what I have and haven't read, see how productive my reading was on a given year, show trends and interests, see what I re-read in a given year and for the sake of pride and motivation to continue to read and propagate that as leisure for myself. I think it would serve as a nice personal examination of my mindsets and ideas and eventually might serve as some sort of self-serving statement of a life lived reading and in pursuit of words.

So without further ado (and hopefully forgiveness for any and all pretension) here was 2008 (in no chronological order).

(SS = short story works, P = poetry collection, GN = Graphic Novel, CS = Comic Strip Collection* = Repeat Read )

1. The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald *
2. Preacher Vol 1 - Garth Ennis (GN) *
3. Preacher Vol 2 - Garth Ennis (GN) *
4. Preacher Vol 3 - Garth Ennis (GN) *
5. Preacher Vol 4 - Garth Ennis (GN) *
6. The Gunny Sack - M.G. Visanji
7. For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
8. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
9. Northern Lights/Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman
10. The Subtle Knife - Phillip Pullman
11. The Amber Spyglass - Phillip Pullman
12. V - Thomas Pynchon
13. Leaf Storm - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (SS)
14. Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Mordecai Richler
15. The Street - Mordecai Richler (SS)
16. Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy - Leo Tolstoy (SS)
17. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman (P)
18. A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
19. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
20. Demian - Hermann Hesse
21. Desperation - Stephen King *
22. The Regulators - Stephen King *
23. Animal Farm - George Orwell *
24. 1984 - George Orwell *
25. Collected Short Works of Nikolai Gogol - Nikolai Gogol (SS)
26. The Communist Manifesto - Lenin/Marx *
27. Oil! - Upton Sinclair
28. Hard Times - Charles Dickens
29. The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie *
30. Shame - Salman Rushdie
31. The Boondocks Vol.2 - Aaron McGruder (CS)
32. Where Hope Takes Root, Speeches of Aga Khan IV - The Aga Khan
33. Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
34. Musicophillia - Oliver Sachs
35. The Bhagavad Gita - Sacred Scripture, so authorship might be some variation of God
36. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
37. Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut (SS)
38. Trumpets Sound No More - John Redfern
39. Walden and Other Writings - Henry David Thoreau
40. The Prophet - Khalil Gibran
41. The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche - Friedrich Nietzsche
42. Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
43. Bonjour Tristesse (english translation) - Françoise Sagan
44. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky

peacelovefreedomjustice

-s

"This has been a statement bearing witness to a year spent in the FreeCity"