In other words, I have piled up the books I plan to read over the forthcoming three months. And taken a teeny tiny headstart amidst the dozen assignments I should hand in during next week.
The books on my desk:
Mitch Albom: Fem personer du möter i himlen
Dee Brown: Haudatkaa sydämeni Wounded Kneehin
Julio Cortázar: Ruutuhyppelyä
Roald Dahl: Rakkaani, kyyhkyläiseni
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Torey Hayden: Auringonkukkametsä
Torey Hayden: The Very Worst Thing
James Joyce: Dubliners
Stephen King: Four Past Midnight
Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Anne Rice: The Vampire Chronicles Collection
Nawal El Saadawi: God Dies by the Nile
Lionel Shriver: Poikani Kevin
Mark Twain: Matkakirjeitä Maasta
Yvonne Vera: Butterfly Burning
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Additional ones:
Beowulf
Minna Canth: Työmiehen vaimo
Alexandre Dumas: Kolme muskettisoturia
J.W. von Goethe: Nuoren Wertherin kärsimykset
Lee Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
Thomas Keneally: Schindlerin lista
Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera
Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
Shohei Ooka: Tulia tasangolla
Ken Saro-Wiwa: Sozaboy
Jonathan Swift: Gulliverin matkat
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five
Yay, I get to read whatever I want, whenever I want,and in whatever order I happen to like!!! Thirty boooks!!! Yeeheee!!! Can't wait!!!
Edit: Not my bookcase underneath. I'll post my bookself once I get the new phone (the current one is showing worrying signs of malfunctioning at times).
4 kommenttia
millikan
26.5.2008 12:14
Interesting variety...some books I have read, some which I have thought about reading, some which I have never heard of.
I wonder if Shohei Ooka did write anything else than Tulia tasangolla, that's the only book of his I have heard of...wikipedia to the rescue: he has, four other titles mentioned in the English page...
Splenetic
28.5.2008 11:11
It was my little brother's high school Finnish course book from where I found Ooka and 'Tulia tasangolla' was the only one mentioned. Made bigger a deal of his suicide than his literary accomplishments, the course book I mean. But I suppose it's better than not mentioning any Asian literature as was during my time.
The ones you've never heard of... could they possiblu be the two Torey Haydens and Yvonne Vera and Julio Cortázar?
millikan
28.5.2008 12:10
Hmm, many Japanese authors seem to have lived lives more mediasexy than their books like Yukio Mishima and Osamu Dazai but anyway, they are good writers (though as said, that's the only Ooka book I have read).
Hayden I knew about but haven't read, strange ones were those two others, Kingsolver and Shriver.
Splenetic
29.5.2008 11:41
Maybe it's the exitic aspect that draws the attention of Western literary circles. In my experience, the novels themselves do have their own cultural exotism but nowhere near the amount the authors' lives.
Shiver I picked up from another blogger who writes about books she has read lately. The synopsis sounded so interesting I made a promise to myself to read the book. Shriver has also published at least one other book "Syntymäpäivän jälkeen" but that didn't sound interesting (it's about a woman being a partner of two different men, wondering if one event can change the course of one's entire life). Kingsolver? Really? Try it sometime. Did you know she used to play in the same band with Stephen King during the 90's?