April 2006 Reads

[abecedarian]

How was everyone's April? What did you read? Here's my list:

1. The Committments-Roddy Doyle 3.5
2. The Snapper-Roddy Doyle 4.5
3. The Van-Roddy Doyle 4.5
4. A Bed of Red Flowers-Nelofir Pazira 4
5. Tears of the Giraffe-Alexander McCall Smith 3.5
6.Morality School for Beautiful Girls A. M. Smith 3.5
7. 1491:New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus-Charles C. Mann 5
8. Troll-Johanna Sinisalo 3
9. The Shadow of the Wind- Carlos Ruiz Zafron 5
10. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea- Yukio Mishima 5
11. Korea Unmasked-Won-bok RHIE 3
12.The Reader-Berhard Schlink 4

 

[ions]

1. Great Expectations by Dickens. Was started before April.
2. Oracle Night by Paul Auster.
3. *Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
4. A Game of Thrones by Georege R.R. Martin.
5. 60% of the way through Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamon.

 

[SFG75]

Awesome reads Ions, I'm definitely going to look Jared Diamond up in the near future. Book #5 that you read is definitely THE book to read among historians right now.

As for me....

Crime & Punishment-Dostoyevsky
The Possessed-Dostoyevsky
Siddhartha-Herman Hesse

A few Rolling Stones, Foreign Affairs, not to mention Time.

 

[steffee]

The World According to Garp by John Irving
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Tall Poppies by Louise Bagshawe
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle

Currently reading:
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (reread, and very nearly almost finished)
Glory by Vladimir Nabokov
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

 

[StillILearn]

I'm so embarrassed. I've been reading Lillian Jackson Braun. And Perri O'Shaughnessy.

 

[pontalba]

I'm so embarrassed. I've been reading Lillian Jackson Braun. And Perri O'Shaughnessy.

Don't be...Koko and Yum Yum are my favorite fictional cats.

 

[denny]

The Architect - Keith Ablow
The hunt - Allison Brennan
The prey - Allison Brennan
Darkest fear - Harlan Coben
Gone for good - Harlan Coben
Gone - Lisa Gardner
Darkly dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
A child called 'it' - Dave Pelzer
The lost boy - Dave Pelzer
Nothing to fear - Karen Rose
The lovely bones - Alice Sebold

 

[steffee]

I'm so embarrassed. I've been reading Lillian Jackson Braun. And Perri O'Shaughnessy.

Never heard of any of them, but I agree with Pontalba, don't be embarrassed!

 

[tartan_skirt]

1. The Tale of Murasaki - Liza Dalby(started on the last day of march though)
2. Sorceress - Celia Rees
3. Sir Thursday - Garth Nix
4. Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman

Plus I started The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, which I'm still reading.

My exams start in less than two weeks, so this list will probably get shorter I might have some free study time after all my exams are over though...

 

[ions]

Awesome reads Ions, I'm definitely going to look Jared Diamond up in the near future. Book #5 that you read is definitely THE book to read among historians right now.

As for me....

Crime & Punishment-Dostoyevsky
The Possessed-Dostoyevsky
Siddhartha-Herman Hesse

Yeah it was a good month. I made up for what I lacked in quantity with quality. As did you I see. Some time this year I'm gonna do a re-read of Crime and Punishment. Probably in November, celebrate Fyodor's birthday.

On deck for May:

Finish Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Lolita by Nabokov. Finally gonna be able to join the Nabokov party.
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

And another work of non-fiction, likely Diamond's Collapse or The Third Chimpanzee.

 

[DiscoDan]

Only book I finished was the 6th Harry Potter, but I'm somewhat close to finishing Memoirs of a Geisha, so maybe I'll be able to finish it before it's officially May.

 

[Anamnesis]

Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Towes
Over the Wine-Dark Sea by H.N. Turteltaub
I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

The two books I started this month:

Different Seasons by Stephen King
A Home At the End of the World by Michael Cunningham

 

[venusunfolding]

Lion's Honey - David Grossman
The Helmet of Horror - Victor Pelevin
Grand and Humble - Brent Hartinger
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker
The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
The River Between - James Ngugi

The three Alice Walker books were rereads for me.

 

[bluecaffeine]

- The Accidental by Ali Smith
- The Zahir by Paulo Coelho
- Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian
- The Practice of Deceit by Elizabeth Benedict
- The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
- Wonder When You'll Miss Me by Amanda Davis

 

[unKeMPt]

Garcia Márquez: Chronicles of a Death Foretold
Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49
Roth: Sabbath's Theater
Roth: The Plot Against America

 

[Balmy Westwind]

In April I read

The Bookseller of Kabul - Asne Seierstad
Oryx & Craik – Margaret Atwood
Disgrace – J M Coetzee
My Forbidden Face – Latifa
The Van – Roddy Doyle
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro

 

[MonkeyCatcher]

Last month I read:

Finished - A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
1. Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
2. Eragon by Christopher Paolini
3. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Unfinished - The Sleeping Father by Matthew Sharpe
4. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
5. Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
6. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
7. Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody
8. Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
9. Wild Swans by Jung Chang (currently reading)

 

[Tamsine]

I'm so embarrassed. I've been reading Lillian Jackson Braun. And Perri O'Shaughnessy.

I always feel a little embarrassed , too, when I see others listing Murakami and Chekov while I've read M.C Beaton and Lawrence Block, but then, I read all kinds and happen to be in a mystery phase just now. Besides, I never look down upon people who read romance or what we, in France, call " romans de gare" ( railway-station novels). Reading is reading.

 

[Flowerdk4]

I have only read two books in april:

The widow of the south Robert Hicks
Crime & Punishment Dostojevsky

 

[chop_chop]

I have read:
Daggerspell - Katherine Kerr
Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - JK Rowling
Matilda - Roald Dahl
and
Dragonflight - Anne McCaffrey.
What to read next.....I have got it narrowed down to Ash, a Secret History by Mary Gentle or A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin