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I'm also a reading walker! it's pretty unsafe tbh but sometimes it's just the thing. it's funny when I'm reading some giant book but I do it anyway.
here's me this year:
The Last Man, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Home: New Arabic Poems (anthology), Two Lines Press
Tales of Hoffman, ETA Hoffman, tr. Hollindale
Real Easy, Marie Rutkowski
Homecoming, Magda Isanos, forgot to note translator
Post Exoticism in Ten Lessons, Lesson Eleven, Antoine Volodine, tr. Mahaney
Bardo or Not Bardo, Antoine Volodine, tr. Mahaney
War and Peace, Tolstoy, tr. Briggs
Leeches, David Albahari, tr. Elias-Bursac
Bartleby & Co., Enrique Vila-Matas, tr. Dunne
Obscure Destinies, Willa Cather
Bloodlines, Melissa del Bosque
Go Tell It On the Mountain, James Baldwin
Another Country, James Baldwin
The Invention of Morel, Adolfo Bioy-Casares, tr. Simms
The Good Conscience, Carlos Fuentes, tr. not listed anywhere in early paperback ed.!!
The Union Jack, Imre Kertesz, tr. Wilkinson
The Judgment of Richard Richter, Igor Stiks, tr. Elias-Bursac
After the Banquet, Yukio Mishima. tr. Keene
The Islamist Phoenix, Loretta Napoleoni
Ways of Going Home, Alejandro Zambra, tr. Mcdurell
The Art of Flight, Sergio Pitól, tr. George Henson
Detective Story, Imre Kertesz, tr. Wilkinson
A Brief History of Portable Literature, Enrique Vila-Matas, tr. Bunstead & McLean
The Devil's Home on Leave, Derek Raymond
Destroy, She Said, Marguerite Duras, tr. Bray
The Journey, Sergio Pitól, tr. George Henson
Introduction to Emptiness, Guy Newman
The Autobiography of Phra Ajaan Lee, tr. name illegible in my notebook
The Master of Knots, Massimo Carlotto, tr. Woodall
I'll probably finish By Bus, the truly delightful book by Erica Van Horn I'm presently reading, tonight or tomorrow, and then tomorrow I'll fret about whether to read a super short book in one day to get one more in, or start in on something ambitious.
Wonderful year in reading for me. Music and literature, as magnificent and eternally new to me still as they were when I first discovered them as a child.
War and Peace, Tolstoy, tr. Briggs
Have been advised that Briggs tr. is best modern, was thinking that
W&P was about due for re-read anyway.
The Good Conscience, Carlos Fuentes, tr. not listed anywhere in early paperback ed.!!
And the old uncredited ones that I find are always good to read, which is--disconcerting, somehow.
― dow, Saturday, 31 December 2022 02:26 (one year ago) link
I'd like to be able to comment on that, Mark S, but haven't read this stuff properly since THE SILMARILLION when I was ... 13? I feel that I set myself rather an unnecessarily difficult and dreary challenge in that instance. I did read it all. I should have focused more on just properly reading THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
The comic book (c.1990?) of THE HOBBIT is very good.
― the pinefox, Saturday, 31 December 2022 13:17 (one year ago) link