What did you read in April?

[SFG75]

I was in a bit of a reading funk most of the month, so my total is a bit low.

Our Economic Morality; Harry F. Ward
A New Earth; Eckhart Tolle

The Ward book was quite interesting, he was a "social gospel" advocate in America, a movement that has always intrigued me. I found the book at a goodwill, which really shocked me as you don't find books from the '30s in such great condition there.

So how 'bout you?

 

[beer good]

Madame Bovary - Flaubert, Gustave 4/5
Gilead - Robinson, Marilynne 3/5
The Great Transformation - Armstrong, Karen 4/5
World War Z - Brooks, Max 4/5
Skapelsekonspirationen - Kornhall, Per 3/5
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster - Henderson, Bobby 4/5

Not a huge amount of titles, but Flaubert and Armstrong took some time...

 

[saliotthomas]

Always a good thread SFG75

The woman who waited by Andrei Makine

Sell house where i don't want to live anymore by bohumil Hrabal

the Sea by john Banville

world war Z by Max Brooks

The day of the triffids by john Wyndham

Fieldwork by Misha Berlinsky

Motherless brooklyn by johnathan Lethem

Patrimony by piliphe Roth

I,Claudius by Robert Graves

Nearly finished Pandora's star by Hamilton

 

[sparkchaser]

Not a whole helluva lot:

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke

Islands in the Sky - Arthur C. Clarke

Post Captain - Patrick O'Brian

 

[Sleepy]

Last Breath by George D. Shuman ****
Renfield - Slave Of Dracula by Barbara Hambly ****
The Shell Game by Steve Alten *****
Shadow Man by Cody McFadyen *****
Zimmerman's Algorithm by S. Andrew Swann **
What Lies In Shadow by Tina Wainscott *****
Sleep Softly by Gwen Hunter *****
The Wrong Man by John Katzenbach ****
Blind Spot by Terri Persons *****

 

[hockeycop]

I read these 4 books and I thought that was a lot. Some of you must read day and night.

Playing for Pizza-J. Grisham
Cross Bones-K. Reichs
Frankenstein-M. Shelley
The Children of Hurin-Tolkien

 

[LoeMa]

Due to my work I don't have enough time for reading at the moment and I also try to read books in their original language, which also takes me longer to finish them. Therefore my list of April is very very short:

Jerome K. Jerome, Three Man On The Bummel
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Le Petit Prince

 

[saliotthomas]

Forgot
Walden-Henry David Thoreau
(most of mine are audio that i listen while working)

 

[Disenthral]

Plum Lucky - janet evanovich
Into The Wild - jon krakauer
the communist manifesto - i wonder...

started war and peace then got sidetracked by guitar and was determined to learn a song that took almost 2 weeks to learn.and just started reading it again. or as a wise man once said..
"Did you know that the original title for War and Peace was War, What Is It Good For?"

 

[dollymixture]

I read:

Pig Tales - Marie Darrieussecq
Bear - Marian Engel
Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
The Hunter - Julia Leigh

All really small books, all for uni, and loved them all

 

[Robert]

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Ramage's Prize by Dudley Pope
The Day the Cowboys Quit by Elmer Kelton
To Glory We Steer by Alexander Kent
The Good Shepherd by C.S. Forester
Ramage & The Guillotine by Dudley Pope
Stone Cold by David Baldacci

 

[Fantasy Moon]

In The Highlander’s Bed – Cathy Maxwell
Nothing’s Sacred – Lewis Black
Crusader’s Lady – Lynna Banning
Sharpe’s Tiger – Bernard Cornwell
Another Chance To Dream – Lynn Kurland
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien (reread)

I wish that I had gotten more done in this month.

 

[Polly Parrot]

Just the one really, Ulysses, and I haven't finished it yet. Might start reading something else on the side because Ulysses is going to take me a rather long time methinks.

 

[Doris Day]

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Blast from the Past by Ben Elton
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
Aphrodite – A Memoir of the Senses by Isabel Allende

Started The Sands of Time by Sidney Sheldon today (suddenly have an urge to revisit his books )

 

[angerball]

April was another poor month:

The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
The Testament of Gideon Mack - James Robertson
Saturday - Ian McEwan

 

[pontalba]

Ghosts by John Banville 5/5
I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron 4/5
Athena by John Banville 5/5
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall 4/5
Patrimony by Philip Roth 5/5

Slowish month, but satisfactory. I managed to get to several I'd had in the stack for over a year.

 

[Wells83]

Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett

Gold Digger: The Outrageous Life and Times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce, by Constance Rosenblum

Stardust, Neil Gaiman

The Plague, Albert Camus

Are You There Vodka, Its Me Chelsea, by Chelsea Handler

The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World, by Steven Johnson

Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky

Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan

 

[Oklahoma]

34. Born For Love--Leo Buscaglia
35.The Rag Nymph --- Catherine Cookson
36. Tanner's Twelve Swingers---Lawrence Block
37. All Quiet on the Western Front--Eriche Maria Remarque
38. Field Guide to Chickens --Pam Percy
39. At Wit's End--Erma Bombeck
40. Oh, Kentucky!--Betty Layman Receveur
41. Woman's Doctor--Dr. William J. Sweeney III
42. Forever--Judy Blume
43. Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes
44. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams

 

[Peder]

April
The Order of Things by Michel Foucault
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy by Roger Scruton
Ghosts by John Banville
Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
The Orientalist by Tom Reiss
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
Athena by John Banville

Bringing the total to 22 for the year.