Yes, it's been more than a year since my last post. A year and a month, to be precise. A lot has happened, and I won't go into details because 1) I'm lazy like that and 2) your mind will totally asplode at the sheer awesomeness of it all if I do.
On second thought, I don't give a fig about your sanity. Here's a bunch of lists about books, books and more books that will hopefully bore you to tears before driving you mad.
List of books I've read in 2006, in no particular order:
1. Master and Margarita
2. Alice in Wonderland
3. Through the Looking Glass
4. I, Robot
5. The Prestige
6. Three Men in a Boat
7. A Clash of Kings
8. A Storm of Swords I
9. A Storm of Swords II
10. A Feast for Crows
11. The Horse Whisperer
12. Lolita
13. A Confederacy of Dunces
14. A Clockwork Orange
15. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
16. Song of the Lioness Quartet (4 books)
20. The Earthsea Quartet (4 books)
24. Hyperion
25. On the Road
26. Mixed Magics
27. The Magicians of Caprona
28. Witch Week
29. Conrad's Fate
30. Black Maria
31. The Lives of Christopher Chant
32. Metamorphosis
33. The Turn of the Screw
34. Kafka on the Shore
35. The Opal Deception
36. The Mediator
37. Which Witch?
38. Seize the Day
39. Cat Stories
40. Freakonomics
41. Sophie's World
42. The Gods Themselves
43. The 5 People You Meet in Heaven
44. The Alchymist
45. Middlesex
List of books I've bought but have not read:
1. The Count of Monte Cristo (about 20 pages in)
2. The Illuminatus! Trilogy
3. Foucault's Pendulum
4. Thus Spake Zarathustra (about 12 pages in)
5. A Tale of Two Cities
6. Brave Story (Japanese)
7. The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi (Japanese)
List of books I need to buy:
1. Three Men on a Bummel
2. Sir Apropos of Nothing
3. 1984
4. Animal Farm
5. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
6. The Brothers Karamazov
7. Crime & Punishment
8. War & Peace
9. As I Lay Dying
10. 100 Years of Solitude
11. Midnight's Children
12. The Death of Ivan Ilych
13. Syrup
14. House of Leaves
15. The Devil Wears Prada
16. Ender's Shadow
17. Moby Dick
18. The Stranger
19. The Trial
20. The Wind-up Bird Chronicles
21. Peter Pan in Scarlet
22. The Pinhoe Egg
23. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
24. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
25. To Say Nothing of the Dog
26. Gravity's Rainbow
27. Infinite Jest
28. Germs and Steel
29. A Short History of Nearly Everything
30. The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection
31. Waiting for Godot & Endgame
In conclusion: I fell 5 books short from my 50 Books A Year challenge for 2006. In my defense the idea for the challenge only hit me around September, and time was against me. During my one week summer holiday I actually read 5 books in as many days, and nearly
went blind. I kid you not. By the 3rd day I was actually long-sighted, and had to read
without my glasses and with the book about an inch from my face. It was terrible. Well, not really. I just wanted to say it. Say "It was terrible", I mean. It wasn't
that terrible. Still. The "almost went blind" part is true, though.
Will I be able to read 50 books in 2007?
WILL THE MOON FINALLY TURN INTO CHEESE? Only Time can tell, but unfortunately I accidentally murdered Time by feeding him mouldy cheese when he came over to visit last year, so at present
no one can tell. It saddens me to think of it still. It was
good cheese, dammit.
Well, here's to a wonderful year for all of us. For me, especially. I don't really care about you. Who the heck are you anyway, and why are you reading this? Don't you have anything better to do? You know, like giving me books. For free. I need books. Come now, give me books. You know you want to, whoever you are. The world will be a much better place when everyone starts making a habit of giving me books.
Don't you want to make the world a better place?Tsk, people these days.
