Bibliophila is IN!

[searchsoleil]

Well, I was alerted to the awesomeness that is 50bookchallenge and 15000pages, which of course means that I must take part. I'm still sort of wrapping my head around apprx. one book a week, but as I've been set up to volunteer in a library, I figure I now have the perfect excuse to settle in with books as I am wont to do when I am separated from a personal computer. Of course, the deal may change when school starts up again and I am crying about never having personal time to do all the reading I want to do. Meh, can't hurt to have the sentiment, eh?

For the record: Just as a consolation for the prolific amount of manga I read, I'm instating the personal rule that 7 manga = 1 book and 200 pages. I figure that is a pretty fair rough equivalent to the amount of mental stimulation I get out of manga vs books. I've never tried to say that manga was all that good for my mental health. Manga is more for satisfying my emotional and hormonal needs, when it boils down. Anyway.

The current reading list: Right now, it consists primarily of classics I've always wanted to read, recommendations, Book Club stuff I've put off, and, of course, summer reading requirements.

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (translation by Pauette Moller)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Odyssey by Homer (Penguin Classics Deluxe edition, translation by Robert Fagles)
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (Dover Thrift edition, translation by Arthur Waley)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (translation by Lucia Graves)
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
A Nocturnal Expedition Around my Room by Xavier de Maistre (Hesperus edition, translation by Andrew Brown)
Also, if I feel particularly masochistic, Utopia by Thomas More (Penguin Classics edition, translation by Paul Turner)

After reviewing this list, I find it is overrun with Penguin Books publications and foreigners (both translated and emigrated).

Progress (start date 7/12/06): Updates hopefully once a week, or whenever the heck I can be bothered.

Pages:

70 / 15,000 (0.5%)

Books:

0 / 50 (0.0%)

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_stoptheworld_/]

i want to read the kite runner terribly!
it looks so good.
but at the moment I'm broke, so my must read list will just sit there gettting longer and longer.
although the library is always an option...

[search-soleil.livejournal.com]

Ugh, it was our Book Club book in April, thereabouts, and I couldn't bring myself to read it. It wasn't my time, I guess.

That's the weird thing. I may buy specific books and have lists, but more often than not, the books and the order I read them in (if I read them at all) choose me more than anything. Sometimes, I buy a book and it sits around for years until one day I pick it up and, weirdly, it's the perfect fit for whatever is going on or how I'm feeling. Kinda spooky.

[wrongphilosophy.livejournal.com]

"Tale of Genji" ftw! I should read that. Let me borrow it sometime?
Dorian Grey, The Shadow of the Wind, and Reading Lolita are all amazing (I really need to buy Reading Lolita...). Although you should read "Angels and Demons" before you read "The DaVinci Code." "Angels and Demons" pwns "The DaVinci Code". Completely.

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"Tale of Genji" ftw! I should read that. Let me borrow it sometime?
Dorian Grey, The Shadow of the Wind, and Reading Lolita are all amazing (I really need to buy Reading Lolita...). Although you should read "Angels and Demons" before you read "The DaVinci Code." "Angels and Demons" pwns "The DaVinci Code". Completely.

<size=1>... I kept trying to spell DaVinci, DiVinca. wtf, I need sleep.</size>

[wrongphilosophy.livejournal.com]

And my coding died. Because I've been using BBC code on forums too much. I lose.