citoyennebrett in Toronto is doing 21 things including…

read all the books I own


 

citoyennebrett has written 4 entries about this goal

Oh dear 5 months ago

So, I bought more books. A lot more books. And I read some of them. Really I did. But nonetheless, the list has expanded significantly.

Non-fiction:

Daniel J. Boorstin – The Seekers
Charles d’Eon de Beaumont – The Maiden of Tonnerre
François Furet – Interpreting the French Revolution
Nicolas Grimal – A History of Ancient Egypt
Herodotus – The Histories
Martin Klimke – 1968 in Europe
Teresa de Lauretis – Feminist Studies
Margaret MacMillan – Paris 1919
Robert Opie – Guillotine
Georges Rudé – Robespierre
Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just – L’esprit de la Révolution

Fiction:

Albert Camus – The Fall
Geoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales
Robertson Davies – The Salterton Trilogy
Robertson Davies – The Cunning Man
Emma Donoghue – Life Mask
Gustave Flaubert – A Sentimental Education
Sara Gruen – Water for Elephants
Franz Kafka – The Trial
John Milton – Paradise Lost
Tom Stoppard – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Nick Tosches – In the Hand of Dante
Emile Zola – L’Assomoir
Emile Zola – Germinal

Two down, 24 to go.



Four down, nineteen to go. 9 months ago

Finished reading Foucault and Stryker, got rid of Burroughs and Self (since I never was going to read those anyway). The updated list is as follows:

Non-fiction:

François Furet – Interpreting the French Revolution
Carlo Ginzburg – The Cheese and the Worms
Nicolas Grimal – A History of Ancient Egypt
Martin Klimke – 1968 in Europe
Teresa de Lauretis – Feminist Studies
Margaret MacMillan – Paris 1919
Alison Ownings – Frauen: German Women Remember the Third Reich
Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just – L’esprit de la Révolution

Fiction:

Albert Camus – The Fall
Robertson Davies – The Salterton Trilogy
Robertson Davies – The Cunning Man
Emma Donoghue – Life Mask
Gustave Flaubert – A Sentimental Education
Franz Kafka – The Trial
John Milton – Paradise Lost
Tom Stoppard – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Nick Tosches – In the Hand of Dante
Emile Zola – L’Assomoir
Emile Zola – Germinal



Slightly modified (and organized) 10 months ago

Non-Fiction:

William S. Burroughs – Last Words
Michel Foucault – The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1
François Furet – Interpreting the French Revolution
Carlo Ginzburg – The Cheese and the Worms
Nicolas Grimal – A History of Ancient Egypt
Martin Klimke – 1968 in Europe
Teresa de Lauretis – Feminist Studies
Margaret MacMillan – Paris 1919
Alison Ownings – Frauen: German Women Remember the Third Reich
Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just – L’esprit de la Révolution
Will Self – Junk Mail
Susan Stryker – Transgender History

Fiction:

Albert Camus – The Fall
Robertson Davies – The Salterton Trilogy
Robertson Davies – The Cunning Man
Emma Donoghue – Life Mask
Gustave Flaubert – A Sentimental Education
Franz Kafka – The Trial
John Milton – Paradise Lost
Tom Stoppard – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Nick Tosches – In the Hand of Dante
Emile Zola – L’Assomoir
Emile Zola – Germinal

Total: 23 books
This will probably take me a while.



A short list 10 months ago

At first glance (and excluding the books I started, didn’t like, and will get rid of before I move) this is what this goal will entail:

Carlo Ginzburg – The Cheese and the Worms
François Furet – Interpreting the French Revolution
Martin Klimke – 1968 in Europe
Albert Camus – The Fall
Emma Donoghue – Life Mask
Franz Kafka – The Trial
John Milton – Paradise Lost
Gustave Flaubert – A Sentimental Education
Emile Zola – L’Assomoir
Emile Zola – Germinal
Tom Stoppard – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Nick Tosches – In the Hand of Dante
Jennifer Baumgartner – Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics
Teresa de Lauretis – Feminist Studies
Alison Ownings – Frauen: German Women Remember the Third Reich
Will Self – Junk Mail
William S. Burroughs – Last Words
Nicolas Grimal – A History of Ancient Egypt
Michel Foucault – The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1
Margaret MacMillan – Paris 1919
Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just – L’esprit de la Révolution

That should keep me busy for a while.



 

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