Read all the books I have at home

33 to go o/

It’s not complete; I forgot 4 books.

- Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
- Jekyll and Hyde (R. Louis Stevenson)
- The Tempest (Shakespeare)
- A Luneta Mágica (Joaquim Manoel de Macedo)

I alos recieved one new book (Cidade de Deus by Paulo Lins) today, but I’m not gonna count it or any book that comes later as part of this goal.

Well, the NUMBER of books I have at home will always increase. So, I’m limiting this right now to the books I CURRENTLY have at home. They are (in order of purchase):

- The Therapist and the Wolf (Celso Guttfreind)
- On Death and Dying (Elisabeth Kübler-Ross)
- O Outro Pé Da Sereia (Mia Couto)
- Anne Of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
- The Book Of Lives – Collected Obituaries
- The Book Of Insults (H. L. Mencken)
- The Age Of Extremes (Eric Hobsbawn)
- Jornalismo- Compreensão e Reinvenção (José Marques de Melo)
- Inés del Alma Mia (Isabel Allende)
- Great Expectations (Dickens)
- For Whom The Bells Toll (Hemingway)
- This Side Of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Cien Años de Soledad (García Marquez)
- Complexo de Clark Kent (Geraldinho Vieira)
- Ten Days That Shook The World (John Reed)
- A Cidade Ilhada (Miltom Hatoum)
- Histórias Fantásticas (Bioy Casares)
- Tempo de Contar (Joel Silveira)
- Man In The Dark (Paul Aster)
- O Fio das Missangas (Mia Couto)
- Italian Fables (Italo Calvino)
- Lolita (Nabokov)
- To The Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
- Contos Selecionados (Machado de Assis)
- Incidente em Antares (Erico Verissimo)
- Triângulo das Águas (Caio F. Abreu)
- A Hora da Estrela (Clarice Lispector)
- Sagarana (Guimarães Rosa)
- Don’t Say Night (Amós Oz)

Total: 30

Currently halfway through Sagarana and almost halfway through Don’t Say Night.

Up next: A Hora da Estrela.

AGW, I’m going to a book fair this Saturday (largest one I can reach).
At the same time, I’m going nowhere with this goal :(

I know I’ll spend the whole week looking for books to buy on sale come Saturday, and while I know I shouldn’t be looking for suggestions, I can’t help it….

3 down in the last month, dozens to go. Currently reading one off my shelf, too.
Yay, me!

I am so terribly behind on my reading, and it took me forever to finish this book, but I don’t know why. I honestly enjoyed it. The book itself is kind of slow-paced, maybe that’s the reason.
I liked the characters, but I always get attached to the underdog anyway. I liked the Newfoundland scenery and the stories of life over there. It was also funny because I work in ship supply and we depend on the shipping news…but it’s nothing like in the book, of course:)
I loved the bits from The Ashley Book of Knots (never even heard of it before), loved that.

I really liked this one.It’s short, very well written and bitter-sweet.

_{I cheated again: borrowed from the library, again, and not only this one…}

A well written book, but it annoyed me all the way.
It’s not that I believe everyone should live a nice suburban life of quiet desperation but I don’t approve of gambling with your own existance just because you are stubborn. I understand the need to go into the wild and find oneself, but to be stubborn enough not to take a topographic map with you, just so that you can pretend you are lost in the wilderness, now for me that’s just plain stupid.
Croatia is a magnificent and very diverse country with a long sealine and many majestic mountains and every year there are so many tourists and know-it-alls who lose their lives on account of their own arogancy, at sea, or climbing mountains, and it really ticks me off.
I do feel bad for this poor man starving to death in what he thought was a middle of nowhere, but I couldn’t stop thinking about all the people who want to live and it’s just not given to them.
I only finished it last night, maybe I’ll think differently in a few days.
Oh, and, I cheated: this one I don’t own, it’s from a library. I am terrible.

It is hard to say what I think about this book: I did enjoy it somewhat but it was boring at times; it is light read, but took me forever to finish; paints Tuscany in romantic colours, but I’ve always wanted to go there anyway; delights in some”Tuscan” moments which are completely normal here where I live…
Not bad I guess, but not my cup of tea.

I am actually reading a book from my own library, but at a ridiculous speed and I also bought 2 other books, which are now sadly put upon my shelves waiting to be brought to life.
I need to make a list of all my books, and tick them off one by one, combined with some other goals I have.