Books wot I’ve read
2:18 pm on the 11th of January, 2006Inspired by d4d’s post the other day about the books he read last year I’ve compiled a little list of the ones I read in 2005. Not anything close to the 88 he notched up though.
I read a lot in January and the start of February as I had little else I could comfortably do while on the train to the school I was on placement at.
Birdsong by Sebastian Foukes (admittedly I had started this in the summer but had not got very far with it)
Blast from the Past by Ben Elton
The Garden of Unearthly Delights by Robert Rankin
The Client by John Grisham
Beckoning Silence by Joe Simpson
Peru guide book from Lonely Planet - this was the bible for, and before our month there in the Summer
The Gringo Trail by Mark Mann about his coked up travels in South America
The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
I also took two books from the Glasgow Uni Library by Dostoyevsky which I struggled through one of - Notes from Underground
Not a great number, so this year I’d like to set myself a target (not a resolution, I’m not resolving anything, just intimating my inclination to do something) of an average of more than one book a month. So far in 2006 I’ve already read Teacher on the Run by Francis Gilbert and started Touching the Void by Joe Simpson, as well as Lonely Planet’s New Zealand guide book (not that that one counts yet unless I need to bolster my count later)
Update: A Page of books I’ve read, hopefully updated regularly.
January 12th, 2006 at 8:59 am on the 12th of January, 2006
Good idea. I’m all for reading. Thus far I’ve started Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis. It’s okay, but I’ve not got very far. I don’t have so much time for reading, not being a student.
January 12th, 2006 at 1:44 pm on the 12th of January, 2006
So far I’ve read
The Last Battle by CS Lewis. (cos I decided to re-read the series, so I would have re-read the book before I saw the film. A habit of mine, I’m afraid. I got through the other 6 before xmas)
And I’ve started One Man’s Mountains, a collection of writing by Tom Patey.
Dunno exactly how much I read last year. I read on the bus quite a lot, so I’ve usually got a book on the go. Not as many as 88, but a bit more that the 9 Stu did. There was the first 6 of the Narnia series for a start, and that was December. But they were an easy 6, two bus journeys each. Some took a month.
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