I need to get this out before this year is over and my little list of 2016 is no longer relevant. Here is what I read, more or less, since last February. The links will take you to my review:
- Hemingway: the Writer as Artist by Carlos Baker
- Rudyard Kipling by Kingsley Amis
- History of England by G.M. Trevelyan
- A Higher Call by Adam Makos
- Joseph Conrad by Norman Sherry
- Ezra Pound by Peter Ackroyd
- Designa: Technical Secrets of the Traditional Arts
- Dancing On My Grave by Gelsey Kirkland
- Douce Apacolypse
- The Place of Houses
- Tacitus: Germania, Agricola, Oratory
- Paris in the Past and Montmarte
- New Grove's Modern Masters
- Beethoven Biography by Frederich Schiller
- Holding onto Air by Suzanne Farrell
- Stoneground Ghost Tales by Ralph B. Swain
- Maigret and the Spinster by Georges Simenon
- Lew Archer Private Investigator by Ross Macdonald
- Beethoven's Letters
- House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson
- Why Call them Back form Heaven by Clifford Simak
- A Life in Photographs by Edward Steichen
- Knights of the Brush: The Hudson River School and the Moral Landscape by James F. Cooper
- Mozart by Marcia Davenport
- The Writer's Art by James J. Kilpatrick
- Beautiful Bibles
- The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
- A Composer's World by Paul Hindemith
- Agatha Christie: Five Complete Novels
- I Should Be Dead by Bob Beckel
- Short Breaks Into Mordor: Dawns and Departures of a Scribbler's Life by Peter Hitchens
- Christianity's Dangerous Idea by Allistair McGrath
- Chess: An Illustrated by Raymond Keene
- The Lewis Chessmen Unmasked by David Caldwell
- Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories (The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle and Complete Short Stories)
- Midnight to Siberia by David Greene
- Michelango An Art Book
- The Zimmerman Telegraph
- Mozart: A Cultural Biography by Robert Gutman
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
- Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders by William R. Drennan
- The Life of Michelangelo by Ascanio Condivi
- Meditating Spaces by Michael Freeman
- The Simple Home by Sarah Nettleton
- Hanok: The Korean House by Nani Park and Robert J. Fouser
- C.S. Lewis: An Experiment to Criticism
- Behold the Glory by Chad Walsh
- Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture by Isaac Newton
- Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
- The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov
- A Walk Through the Cloisters by Bonnie Young
- The Vatican Collections
- Abandoned Places by Kieron Connolly
- Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers
- The Complete Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway
- On Stories to the Essays on Literature by C.S. Lewis
- The Quiet American Graham Greene
- Robots and Murder by Isaac Asimov
- TinTin Le tresor Rackham Le Rouge by Herge
- TinTin La Estrella Misteriosa by Herge
- Mozart: a Life by Paul Johnson
- The Poetic Wonder of Isaac Watts by Douglas Bond
- The Gospel and Epistles of John by F.F. Bruce
- A Night on the Moor and Other Tales of Dread by R. Murray Gilchrist
- Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers
- One of the Few by Jason Ladd
- Medieval Monsters by Damien Kempf and Maria L. Gilbert
- Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story by Carlos Baker
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- Parrots by Petra Deimer
- TinTin L'Etoile Mysterieuse by Herge
- Parrots by Batest Bosesabork
- Budgerigar Handbook by Ernest L. Hart
- African Grey Parrots by Mulawka
- Cockatiels by Nancy Curtis
- TinTin Au Congo by Herge
- Frank Lloyd Wright American Master by Kathryn Smith
- The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
- Crime Novels: American Noir 1930s and 40s
- World of Ancient Rome by Michael Grant
- My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
- The Life of Michelangelo by Giorgio Vasari
- The Edge of the Chair Edited Joan Kahn
- The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert by Rosaria Butterfield
- Classic Tales of Horror Edited by Robin Brockman
- Night Flight by Antoine Saint de Exupery
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Witch of Prague and Other Stories by F. Marion Crawford
- Murder in the Gun Room by H.B. Piper
- TinTin en Amerique
- Classic Ghost Stories Edited by Robin Brockman
- Maniac McGee by Jerry Spirelli
- Chilling Horror Stories (Gothic Fantasy) by Dale Townsend
- Seven Complete Perry Mason Novels by Erle Stanley Gardner
- Asterix the Gladiator by Goscinny and Uderzo
- Burmese Days; Keep the Apisdistra Flying and Comping Up for Air by George Orwell
- Chilling Ghost Stories by Dale Townsend
- Deception by Randy Alcorn
- Dr. Doolittle by Hugh Lofting
- Henry James on Italy
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
- Many Masks: A Biography of Frank Lloyd Wright by Brendan Gill
- The Colosseum by Peter Quenell
- Letters of Mozart
- Photographers: Andre Kertesz, Lewis Hine, August Sanders, and Nadar
- The Thurber Carnival
22 comments:
Lots of lovely reviews to read, thank you. I’ve read some of these such as the girl on the train, Dr. Doolittle and The ghost stories of Edith Wharton but there are many I’ve not read and some I really must read.
Hi R.T. I love your questions. I wish I could be orderly because then I would join all those wonderful book challenges that other bloggers participate in.
However I read as my whimsy takes me. Sometimes I'm in the mood for European Victorian literature, other times twentieth century fiction and still other times nonfiction.
To give you an idea I am currently reading The Warden by Trollope; The Little Book of Plagiarism by Richard Posner; Wind Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and a huge coffee table book about Japanese history in art and culture.
Right now I'm on the chapter about women samurais.
On Goodreads I have ambitiously made a goal to read 200 books by 2018. We'll see how successful I am.
Take care!
HI Barbara! Glad you liked it. Maybe you will share some of your favorites in a future post? (Besides the delightful out of print children books).
a fine eclectic assortment - congrats! i see you like bios of musicians.. i was one myself with a very short career; as such, said bios look very interesting... the last good one i read a couple of years ago was on Rossini; i'd like to find one on Vivaldi: any advice? many tx...
You had the kind of reading year that I strive to have, but have never stuck to as far as the amount of classics that you have read. I read them regularly, but would like to add more. I am getting better, and ended up finally reading several that I wanted to read for a long while just this past year. We have a few 2016 reads in common, BTW.
Impressive! Love the variety here, Sharon.
That is an impressive list. I wish that I had read as many books in that time period.
Happy reading in 2017!
Hi Mudpuddle. What instrument did you play or were you a vocalist. I am a classical pisnist (that's actually my day job).
I do like reading bios of composers and musicians. I feel it increases my insight in performing their works.
I haven't read a bio on Vivaldi yet, but your question spurred me to look up some bios. Based on reviews, Heller seems to have written the best, but Robbins' and Pincherle's bios look good as well.
Hi Toady! I think you have children at home? I do not. My son's in college and I cut down on my hours performing with singers in order to write more. So I have more time to read, although I never think it nearly enough.
Been really enjoying reading your blog by the way. On my way to comment on a couple of posts: Genesis and one about a girl with a drug addict family, can't think of the title. Take care!
Thanks Carol. Of course you are responsible for my adding to the library with your excellent reviews.
Thanks, Brian. You seem to be getting some quality reading in, however, based on your reviews. Hope you have a good reading year as well!
tx for the info: i ordered a copy of the Heller and look forward to reading it...
Your welcome Mudpuddle. Let me know if it's any good.
Wow, I'm blown away, not only by the number of books you were able to read but also the number of reviews you able to write. That's awesome! All the best in your reading for 2017!
Thanks, Cleopatra. Have a wonderful year of reading yourself. I always enjoy your reviews and I anticipate a good year for us both.
Yes. I do care for our granddaughter full time as our daughter is in college. She was planning on being a stay at home mother, but things didn't go the way that she planned, so she is plowing her way through a college education and raising a little one. They both lived here with us until just a few weeks ago, but now they are in their won place and our granddaughter is getting dropped off every morning. It gets in the way of some of my reading mojo, but I wouldn't have it any other way. She is already crazy for books though, so I am just at the point in my life where I am reading A LOT of picture books, and looking forward to the day when we can read the Little House Books, Nancy Drew, etc.
I have been enjoying your blog as well. It is a pleasure getting to know you better.
I will do Sharon. I’m always looking for ideas for blog posts so why not. :-)
Wow, what a list! I've not read most of these, although I do enjoy biographies. I'll be checking out more of your reviews. You must be a fast reader, averaging two a week! :)
Hi Marica! Well, actually I read three or four books concurrently so it looks like I'm reading a couple a week when I'm really only finishing up a couple a week. Nonfiction is a faster read because I'm basically gulping down information while literature must be savored and it takes longer.
That'd be great!
That's wonderful time spent with the Grandtoady. Years ago when Derek was that age, I was a functional single mom (and then a single mom) and I was so blessed to have my parents let me live with them for a couple of years. Derek still has a very special relationship with them.
I have the best memories of reading to my son. I still have all his children books because I'm hoping to read them again to either grand kids or adopted children (or both one day!)
And I'm really enjoying your blog. You write in an authentic voice with feeling. You strike me as an outspoken, opinionated person like me. Probably gets you into trouble, at least it gets me in trouble at times, but that's the price when you put yourself out there. Beats saying nothing. Take care!
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