Prince Caspian – CS Lewis

Maybe next: Love in the time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I am deleting this goal.

25 books in a year is too much for me, so I’ve downscaled to 12. Here’s my list so far:

5 – yesterday

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis

4 – Atonement by Ian MacEwan — 1 month ago

Took me a little while to truly get stuck into it, but probably one of the best books I have ever read. Not #1, but it’s up there :)

3: Magician: Apprentice by Raymond E Feist — 4 months ago

I admit it: I was procrastinating reading The Lord of the Rings by reading this book. I started reading The Fellowship of the Rings’ prologue, and it was so beautifully written that I became afraid my over-stressed, work-addled brain wasn’t quite in the state it needed to be in to appreciate it properly.

While it’s not the masterpiece Lord of the Rings is, it is a good fantasy book.

2: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan — 4 months ago

I really enjoyed reading this book. It is basically explores four sets of mother-daughter relationships. The book is divided into four parts, each containing a chapter written from the perspective of either the Chinese emigrant mother or the Chinese American daughter. I thought that it was a good glimpse at the complexity of this kind of relationship, even making me reflect on my own.

1: Spud by John van de Ruit — 5 months ago

A sweet, fun coming-of-age novel about a boy growing up in a private boarding school in Natal during the break-up of the apartheid regime in South Africa. I thought it nicely captured the zeitgeist of adolescent youth in South Africa during the time, without being a struggle novel.