Index
- Long-term Projects
- 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016
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Long-term Projects
- The Classics Club
- Books read so far: 43/156
- A Century of Books
- Virago Modern Classics
- Persephone Books
- Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Speak its name
- My Year of Pilgrimage
- Pilgrimage I (Pointed Roofs || Backwater || Honeycomb) ✓
- Pilgrimage 2 (The Tunnel || Interim)
- Pilgrimage 3 (Deadlock || Revolving lights || The Trap)
- Pilgrimage 4 (Oberland || Dawn’s Left Hand || Clear Horizon || Dimple Hill || March Moonlight)
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2019 Projects
Year-long Challenges
- Back to the Classics, hosted by Karen at Books and Chocolate
- Victorian Reading Challenge,hosted by Becky at Becky`s Book Reviews
- North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell (1854 – 1855)
- Africa Reading Challenge, hosted by Kinna over at Kinna Reads
- Rotten Row, by Petina Gappah
- European Reading Challenge, hosted by Gilion over at Rose City Reader
- My level of participation: 5 star (deluxe entourage)
- Austria: Intimate Ties, by Robert Musil, tr. Peter Wortsman (2019. Original: Vereinigungen, 1911)
- My level of participation: 5 star (deluxe entourage)
- Australian Women Writers Challenge (#aww2019), hosted by Elizabeth over at Australian Women Writers
- My level of participation: Stella (4 books)
- Historical Fiction Reading Challenge (#2019HistFicReadingChallenge), hosted by Amy at Passages to the Past
- My level of participation: Victorian Reader (5 books)
- Reading through the ages (#readingthroughtheages), hosted by Mel and Victoria
Readalongs
- Literary Criticism Readalong, hosted by Tom over at Wuthering Expectations
- The Sense of an Ending, Frank Kermode ✓
- Illuminations, Walter Benjamin
- Fables of Identity, Northrop Frye
- Mimesis, Erich Auerbach
- Tales & Co. Goodreads Group, hosted by A Skeptical Reader
- Women of the World Goodreads Group, hosted by Kirsty and Katie
- January – Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany)
- February – Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata (Japan)
- March – The Shutter of Snow by Emily Holmes Coleman (United States of America)
- April – After Midnight, by Irmgard Keun (Germany)
- May – Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (Japan)
- June – Swallowing Mercury, by Wioletta Grzegorzewska (Poland)
- July – The Bone People by Keri Hulme (New Zealand)
- August – The Insomnia Museum, by Laurie Canciani (Wales)
- September – So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba (Senegal)
- October – My sister the serial killer, by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Nigeria)
- November – Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (India)
- December – Song of a Captive Bird, by Jasmin Darznik (Iran)
- Readalong of Henrik Pontoppidan’s Lucky Per, hosted by Dorian (May)
Events
- Japanese Literature Challenge 12 (From January to March), hosted by Meredith over at Dolce Bellezza
- Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata, tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori (2018. Original: コンビニ人間, 2016)
- Territory of Light, by Yūko Tsushima, tr. Geraldine Harcourt (2018. Original: 光の領分, 1979)
- The Goddess Chronicle, by Natsuo Kirino, tr.
- A Riot of Goldfish, by Kanoko Okamoto, tr. J. Keith Vincent (2010. Original: 金魚撩乱, 1937/ 食魔, 1941)
- Reading Ireland Month (March)
- Classics Spin #19 (January, 31st, 2019)
- Cassandra at the Wedding, by Dorothy Dodds Baker
- The #1965Club (April, 22nd – 28th, 2019), hosted by Karen and Simon
- 20 Books of Summer
- All Virago/ All August
- Women in Translation Month
- Victober
- RIP Challenge
- German Lit Month
Personal projects
- Most anticipated releases | second-half of 2018
- Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss ✓
- The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani ✓
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh ✓
- Bitter Orange, by Claire Fuller (2018) ✓
- Most anticipated releases | 2019
- Intimate Ties, by Robert Musil, tr. Peter Wortsman (2019. Original: Vereinigungen, 1911) ✓
- New-to-me Authors to read in 2019
- Radclyffe Hall
- Fanny Burney
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- Ouida/ Maria Louise Ramé
- Ann Quin
- Renata Adler
- Violette LeDuc
- Elena Garro
- Carmen Laforet
- Christina Stead
- Annie Ernaux
- Brigid Brophy
- Read More Poetry
- My Classics Club list (40 books)
- North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell (1854 – 1855)
- My Virago Modern Classics list (5 books)
- My Persephone Books list (3 books)
- My Fitzcarraldo Editions list (3 books)
- Speak its name challenge (3 books)
- Countries I never read before (3 books)
- New-to-me authors for my 19th-century Women Writers Project (5 books)
- My Century of Books (10 books)
- North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell (1854 – 1855)
- Backpack through Latin America
- Man Booker Prize
- Women’s Prize for Fiction
- Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
- Book Club
- Books read: 02/12
- The Heart of the Matter, by Graham Greene (1948) ✓
- Family Lexicon, Natalia Ginzburg
- Call me by your name, Andre Aciman
- Artemisia, by Anna Banti, tr. Shirley D’Ardia Caracciol (2003. Original: Artemisia, 1947) ✓
- Books read: 02/12
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