June 2006 Reads

[abecedarian]

So how do you guys find time to finish how ever many books in a month? Could somebody please answer my question?

I read late at night too, and often I wake up before my husband's alarm goes off. I also take my current book along whenever I have to play chauffer, since I might get stuck with nothing to do for awhile My dh and I like to read before bed often too.

 

[Kenny Shovel]

So how do you guys find time to finish how ever many books in a month? Could somebody please answer my question?

40-45 hours a month commuting on a train gives you time.

 

[beer good]

Anansi Boys - Gaiman, Neil (reading)
Beware Of God - Auslander, Shalom 4/5
Skugga-Baldur - Sjón 4/5
Buddenbrooks - Mann, Thomas 3/5
Pappersväggar - Ajvide Lindqvist, John 4/5
Too Loud A Solitude - Hrabal, Bohumil 5/5
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Carroll, Lewis 3/5
Lolita - Nabokov, Vladimir 5/5
Lit Riffs- Miele, Matthew 3/5

 

[Ms.]

The real life of sebastian knight - Nabokov
Pale Fire - Nabokov
The Truce - Primo Levi
If this is a man - Levi
Joy Division and the making of Unknown Pleasures
The Essential Davidson

 

[tartan_skirt]

Books I finished this month:

My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
Wild Swans - Jung Chang

I was ill earlier this month and had a gap of 5 days in which I couldn't do any reading because I just felt awful. I'm just glad I got through Wild Swans. Also read 4 volumes of manga, but they were just spread over 2 days.

 

[Anamnesis]

Rereads:
Burnt Offerings and Cerulean Sins. Both were written by Laurell K. Hamilton.

Books I finished up from last month:
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Books I started and finished this month:
Taliesin by Stephen R. Lawhead
The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
Fifty-Fifty by Robbie Sethi
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

 

[Stewart]

Spring Flowers, Spring Frost, Ismail Kadare
Everyman, Philip Roth
Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
Bad News, Edward St. Aubyn
Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
Animal Farm, George Orwell
The Red Pony, John Steinbeck

 

[Thursday]

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Buddies - Michaela Morgan
Cold Granite - Stuart MacBride
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilmore (Re-read)
Danny Boy - Jo-Ann Goodwin
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
Sugar Rush - Julie Burchill
Angels and Men - Catherine Fox
Holes - Louis Sachar
Call After Midnight - Tess Gerritsen
Necessary Evil - Alex Kava

A pretty mixed list, all things considered!

 

[Balmy Westwind]

I only managed three books in June. I have been on vacation and there were just too many distractions.

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
We Need to Talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver

 

[KristoCat]

I finished:

Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (re-read)
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire

Not finished yet:
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Does Anything Eat Wasps?
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

 

[bren]

Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Fortunate Son - Walter Mosley
Money for Nothing - P. G. Wodehouse
A Judgement in Stone - Ruth Rendell
A Fatal Inversion - Barbara Vine
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
Talkative Man - R. K. Narayan
Under the Banyan Tree - R. K. Narayan, still reading

All these books were definitely worth reading.

I can sure see why Nabokov incites detailed discussion, he's slippery as all get-out, cloaking all the actions and characters in bejewelled impenetrability, and then doffing it by millimeters. AND I kept a list of all the words I'd never seen anywhere else previously - the list was twenty plus words! And I'm a forty seven year old dictionary-reading nerdball.

"Ancillula"? What the bleeding heck!

 

[venusunfolding]

How was The House? I've been wanting to read that.

It was alright. I thought the ending and the "message" of the book was really forced, but it was an interesting read.

 

[savvyambrose]

Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
Diary - Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Caucasia - Danzy Senna
Fugitives and Refugees - Chuck Palahniuk

Oh, boy. I've really been in a Chuck Palahniuk mood.