Book List

[lettered]

I want to keep a list of all the books I have read this year, in case I ever get time to review them (unlikely).

Finished
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
The Leisure Seeker - Michael Zadoorian
Man In The High Castle - Philip K. Dick
Love In Infant Monkeys - Lydia Millet
Demon's Covenant - Sarah Rees Brennan
Leviathan - Scott Westerfield
Reading Lolita In Tehran - Azar Nafisi

In progress
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
Locksley - Nicholas Chase
At The Water's Edge - Carl Zimmer

Next Up
Remarkable Creatures - Tracy Chevalier
Harold and the Pursuit of Happiness -
The Girl Who Played Go

On Hiatus
Cosmos - Carl Sagan

I don't know how it can possibly be that I've only finished five books so far this year. Possibly all the fanfic . . . But Daniel Deronda should count as six!

Comments

[alizarin_nyc]

Daniel Deronda is one of my favorite books ever. I envy you the joy of that read.

[lettered]

Cool! You're the first person I've ever talked to who's read it. I picked it up because I saw there was a movie of it, and it was super cheap. I thought I'd read it before the movie, because lately I've been doing that the other way around. When I started reading it I had no idea what it was about, and then a little ways in I read the summary on the back and went, "...whoa." I've never read a 19th c. novel that addressed that particular social concern; all of them I've read so far have been about the poor.

I REALLY like it so far. Hopefully I can talk to you about it afterwards!

[alizarin_nyc]

Really? I'm the first? Well, I read it several years ago, but was really taken with it. I am a George Eliot fan, but this book really broadened my horizons in terms of how Jews were treated then and there - something I'd never considered in a larger context (I mean we know it's always been rough, right?). And it really makes you stop and think wow, anti-Semitism has been around forever, and it really sucks. And it was also something that was just taken for granted.

And then right after this I read a Bernard Malamud novel about a Russian Jew unlawfully imprisoned who finds his faith, and I thought holy crap, pogroms and prisons were pretty awful. If I recall, it was "The Fixer" which I'd also highly recommend. Yes, it was The Fixer, I checked.

Daniel Deronda is also a lovely little film with the very pretty Hugh Dancy and Romola Garai. Book's better, though.