About ten months ago I published the entry entitled bibliophilia, which passed on a list of one hundred books that others had considered worthwhile, and I marked those I had read, or was reading.
Now my Cyberspace friend Ribbons Whitfield has referenced it, with her own mark-up, so I thought maybe I should add an update. The erudite Ms Whitfield also confessed to bibliophilia, something that I share with her.
From that list, I have now read Nineteen Eighty Four, by George Orwell, and Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. I must say that I think the former is a must read, while the latter I think may be the best of Austen's work. Yes, I liked it even better than Pride and Prejudice.
I am still working, slowly, on War and Peace. That's the book I keep with me for reading when I am waiting some where, and I suspect I may be still working on it in another ten months.
I'm currently reading Eye of the Needle, by Ken Follett, and not on the list. I have a CD audio version of The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, which is on the list.
As I went through that list again, I notice that I had marked Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, as read. In fact, that was an error, as I have not read it, nor do I really have any great desire to, not considering paedophilia to be a great literary topic.
I started on an audio version of Ulysses, by James Joyce, which I downloaded from Librivox, but was disappointed in what I considered as the narrators not taking the material seriously at all. Librivox can be that way of course; some of the works are quite well done, others not so much. But the price is ideal.
Other books I have read so far this year include:
Albom, Mitch: Tuesdays with Morrie
Burnett, Frances Hodgson: Little Lord Fauntleroy
Card, Orson Scott: Ender's Game
Heinline, Robert and Spider Robinson: Variable Star
Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms
Hobbes, Thomas: Leviathan
Keillor, Garrison: Pontoon
Tolkien, JRR: The Children of Húrin
