Index

• Long-term Projects
• 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016

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Long-term Projects

• The Classics Club
  • Books read so far: 70/150
• A Century of Books
• Virago Modern Classics
  • Books reviewed
• Persephone Books
  • Books reviewed
• Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • Books reviewed
• Speak its name
• #100BestWIT
  • Books read so far: 36/100
• 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
  • Links for each category on Karen’s sidebar
    1. 1. 19th-century Classic: The Morgesons, by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (1862)
    2. 2. 20th Century Classic: Nada, by Carmen Laforet, tr. Edith Grossman (2007. Original: Nada, 1944)
    3. 3. Classic by a Woman Author: Evelina, by Frances Burney (1778)
    4. 4. Classic in translation: A Woman, by Sibilla Aleramo, tr. Rosalind Delmar (1980. Original: Una donna, 1906)
    5. 5. Classic Comic Novel: The King of a Rainy Country, by Brigid Brophy (1956)
    6. 6. Classic Tragic Novel: The Well of Loneliness, by Radclyffe Hall
    7. 7. Very long classic: Middlemarch, by George Eliot (1871-72)
    8. 8. Novella: Wise Blood, by Flannery O’Connor
    9. 9. Classic From the Americas: The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett (1896)
    10. 10. Classic From Africa, Asia, or Oceania: The Pillow Book, by Sei Shonagon, tr. Meredith McKinney (2006. Original: 枕草子 – Makura no sōshi, c.1002)
    11. 11. Classic From A Place You’ve Lived: A Falência, by Júlia Lopes de Almeida (‘The Bankruptcy’, 1901)
    12. 12. Classic Play: The Rover, by Aphra Behn
• Victorian Reading Challenge,hosted by Becky at Becky`s Book Reviews
  • Check-in posts on March 2, May 11, July 20, September 28, and December 14th
    • North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell (1854 – 1855)
    • Hester, by Margaret Oliphant (1883)
    • The Beth Book, by Sarah Grand (1897)
    • Middlemarch, by George Eliot (1871-72)
    • Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte (1847)
    • The Journals of George Eliot, edited by Margaret Harris and Judith Johnston (2000)
    • Aurora Leigh, by Elizabet Barret Browning (1856)
    • Goblin Market, by Christina Rossetti (1862)
    • Belinda, by Rhoda Broughton (1883)
    • Gothic Tales, by Elizabeth Gaskell, edited by Laura Kranzler (2000)
    • Gondal’s Queen by Emily Brontë, edited by Fannie Elizabeth Ratchford (1955)
• European Reading Challenge, hosted by Gilion over at Rose City Reader
  • Review Page | Wrap-up page
  • My level of participation: 5 star (deluxe entourage)
    1. Austria: Intimate Ties, by Robert Musil, tr. Peter Wortsman (2019. Original: Vereinigungen, 1911)
    2. UK: North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell (1854 – 1855)
    3. Iceland: Butterflies in November, by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, tr. Brian FitzGibbon (2014. Original: Rigning í nóvember, 2004)
    4. Germany: Go, Went, Gone, by Jenny Erpenbeck, tr. Susan Bernofsky (2017. Original: Gehen, ging, gegangen, 2015)
    5. Greece: If not, winter, poems by Sappho, tr. Anne Carson (2003)
    6. France: Lavinia, by George Sand (1833)
    7. Italy: Family Lexicon, by Natalia Ginzburg, tr. Jenny McPhee (2017. Original: Lessico famigliare, 1963)
    8. Switzerland: Last Vanities, by Fleur Jaeggy
    9. Ireland: Belinda, by Maria Edgeworth (1801)
    10. Russia: Sofia Petrovna, by Lydia Chukovskaya, tr. Aline Werth, emended by Eliza Kellogg Klose. (1994. Original: Sofia Petrovna, written in 1939-40, and first published in 1965). Also published as The deserted house, tr. Aline B. Werth. (1967)
    11. Spain: Nada, by Carmen Laforet, tr. Edith Grossman (2007. Original: Nada, 1944)
• Australian Women Writers Challenge (#aww2019), hosted by Elizabeth over at Australian Women Writers
  • AWW Link Your Review page
  • My level of participation: Stella (4 books)
• Historical Fiction Reading Challenge (#2019HistFicReadingChallenge), hosted by Amy at Passages to the Past
  • Link’s on the sidebar
  • My level of participation: Victorian Reader (5 books)

Readalongs

• The Anniversaries Readalong, hosted by Trevor

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)
  • A Riot of Goldfish, by Kanoko Okamoto, tr. J. Keith Vincent (2010. Original: 金魚撩乱, 1937/ 食魔, 1941)
  • The Pillow Book, by Sei Shōnagon, tr. Meredith McKinney (2006. Original: 枕草子 – Makura no sōshi, c.1002)
  • Territory of Light, by Yūko Tsushima, tr. Geraldine Harcourt (2018. Original: 光の領分, Hikari no ryōbun, 1979)
• Classics Spin #19 (January, 31st, 2019)
  • Cassandra at the Wedding, by Dorothy Baker (1962)
• #ReadSoulLit, hosted by Didi (February)
  • Stay with me, by Ayobami Adebayo (2017) 
  • Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi (2016)
• Reading Ireland Month (#readingirelandmonth19 or #begorrathon19), hosted by Cathy and  Niall (March)
  • Belinda, by Maria Edgeworth (1801)
  • The Beth Book, by Sarah Grand (1897)
  • Selected poems, by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
• Wales Readathon, hosted by Paula (March)
  • The Pumpkin Eater, by Penelope Mortimer (1962)

• The #1965Club (April, 22nd – 28th, 2019), hosted by Karen and Simon
  • Astragal, by Albertine Sarrazin, tr. Patsy Southgate (1968. Original: L’Astragale, 1965)
  • Sofia Petrovna, by Lydia Chukovskaya, tr. Aline Werth, emended by Eliza Kellogg Klose. (1994. Original: Sofia Petrovna, written in 1939-40, and first published in 1965). Also published as The deserted house, tr. Aline B. Werth. (1967)
• Classics Spin #20 (May, 31st)
  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)
• Persephone Readathon, hosted by Jessie (May, 31st to June, 9th)
  • Someone at a Distance, by Dorothy Wipple (1953)
• 20 Books of Summer, hosted by Cathy (June, 3rd to September, 3rd)
  1. Nada, by Carmen Laforet, tr. Edith Grossman (2007. Original: Nada, 1944)
  2. Someone at a Distance, by Dorothy Whipple (1953)
  3. The King of a Rainy Country, by Brigid Brophy (1956)
  4. Speedboat, by Renata Adler (1976)
  5. Middlemarch, by George Eliot
  6. Fidelity, by Susan Glaspell
  7. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
  8. The Doll’s Alphabet, by Camilla Grudova
• Jane Austen in July, hosted by Katie and Marissa
  • Pride and Prejudice (1813)
  • Only a Novel: The Double Life of Jane Austen, by Jane Aiken Hodge (1972)
• Spanish and Portuguese Lit Month, hosted by Stu (July & August)
  • A Falência, by Júlia Lopes de Almeida (‘The Bankruptcy’, 1901)
    • Author profile
  • Nada, by Carmen Laforet, tr. Edith Grossman (2007. Original: Nada, 1944)
    • Author profile
• All Virago All August, hosted by the Virago Modern Classics Group at LibraryThing
  • The King of a Rainy Country, by Brigid Brophy (1956)
  • A Woman, by Sibilla Aleramo, tr. Rosalind Delmar (1980. Original: Una donna, 1906)
• My Life in Books, series hosted by Simon
• Women in Translation Month, hosted by Meytal (August)
  • A Woman, by Sibilla Aleramo, tr. Rosalind Delmar (1980. Original: Una donna, 1906)
  • Nada, by Carmen Laforet, tr. Edith Grossman (2007. Original: Nada, 1944)
  • alphabet, by Inger Christensen
  • Iphigenia, by Teresa de la Parra, tr. Bertie Acker
• The #1930Club (Ocotober, 14th – 20th, 2019), hosted by Karen and Simon
  • Two Viragos for the #1930Club
  • Diary of a Provincial Lady, by E. M. Delafield (1930)
• R.I.P. – R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril,  hosted by Andi and Heather (September 1st, 2019 – October 31st, 2019)
  • Emmeline; or The Orphan of the Castle, by Charlotte Smith (1788)
  • Gothic Tales, by Elizabeth Gaskell, edited by Laura Kranzler (2000)
  • Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide: Women Writers and the Supernatural, by Vanessa D. Dickerson (1996)
  • Goblin Market, by Christina Rossetti (1862)
  • Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë (1847)
  • Gondal’s Queen: A Novel in Verse, by Emily Bronte, edited by Fannie E. Ratchford (1955)
• Victober, hosted by Kate, Katie, Ange, and Lucy (October, 2019)
  • Gothic Tales, by Elizabeth Gaskell, edited by Laura Kranzler (2000)
  • Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide: Women Writers and the Supernatural, by Vanessa D. Dickerson (1996)
  • Ambitious Heights: Writing, Friendship, Love: The Jewsbury Sisters, Felicia Hemans, and Jane Welsh Carlyle, by Norma Clarke (1990)
  • The Journals of George Eliot, edited by Margaret Harris and Judith Johnston (2000)
  • Aurora Leigh, by Elizabet Barret Browning (1856)
  • Goblin Market, by Christina Rossetti (1862)
  • Belinda, by Rhoda Broughton (1883)
  • Gondal’s Queen: A Novel in Verse, by Emily Bronte, edited by Fannie E. Ratchford (1955)
• Classics Spin #21 (October 31st)
  • Letty Fox: Her Luck by Christina Stead (1946)
• German Lit Month, hosted by Lizzy and Caroline
• Nonfiction November hosted by Katie, Julz, Rennie, Sarah, and Leann. On on Booktube, hosted by Olive and Gemma.

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) ✓
• Spring TBR | 2019
• Autumn TBR | 2019
• New-to-me Authors to read in 2019
  • Radclyffe Hall
    • The Well of Loneliness (1928)
  • Frances Burney
    • Evelina (1778)
  • Sarah Orne Jewett
    • The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)
  • Ouida/ Maria Louise Ramé
  • Ann Quin
  • Renata Adler
    • Speedboat (1976)
  • Violette LeDuc
  • Elena Garro
  • Carmen Laforet
    • Nada, tr. Edith Grossman (2007. Original: Nada, 1944)
  • Christina Stead
  • Annie Ernaux
    • The Years, tr. Alison L. Strayer (2017. Original: Les Années, 2008)
  • Brigid Brophy
    • The King of a Rainy Country (1956)
• New-to-me authors for my 19th-century Women Writers Project (5 books)
  • Sarah Orne Jewett:
    • The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)
  • Elizabeth Drew Stoddard:
    • The Morgesons (1862)
  • Elizabet Barret Browning:
    • Aurora Leigh (1856)
  • Maria Edgeworth:
    • Belinda (1801)
  • Sarah Grand:
    • The Beth Book (1896)
  • Christina Rossetti
    • Goblin Market (1862)
  • Rhoda Broughton
• Read More Poetry (12 books)
  • If not, winter, poems by Sappho, tr. Anne Carson (2003)
  • Plum, by Hollie McNish (2017)
  • Notes on the End of the World, by Meghan Privitello (2016)
  • Aurora Leigh, by Elizabet Barret Browning (1856)
  • Estar onde eu nao estou, by Olivia Gutierrez (2018)
  • Selected Poems, by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (2008)
  • The Girl Aquarium, by Jen Campbell (2019)
  • Goblin Market and Other Poems, by Christina Rossetti (1862)
  • O Livro dos Jardins, by Ana Martins Marques (2019)
  • Bigornas, by Yasmin Nigri (2018)
  • Álbum, by Ana Elisa Ribeiro (2018)
  • Gondal’s Queen by Emily Brontë, edited by Fannie Elizabeth Ratchford (1955)
• My Classics Club list (40 books)
  1. North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell (1854 – 1855)
  2. The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett (1896)
  3. If not, winter, poems by Sappho, tr. Anne Carson (2003)
  4. Cassandra at the Wedding, by Dorothy Baker (1962)
  5. Lavinia, by George Sand (1833)
  6. The Morgesons, by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (1862)
  7. Aurora Leigh, by Elizabet Barret Browning (1856)
  8. Wise Blood, by Flannery O’Connor
  9. Belinda, by Maria Edgeworth (1801)
  10. The Beth Book, by Sarah Grand (1896)
  11. Sofia Petrovna, by Lydia Chukovskaya, tr. Aline Werth, emended by Eliza Kellogg Klose. (1994. Original: Sofia Petrovna, written in 1939-40, and first published in 1965). Also published as The deserted house, tr. Aline B. Werth. (1967)
  12. Evelina, by Frances Burney (1778)
  13. The Rover, by Aphra Behn
  14. The Well of Loneliness, by Radclyffe Hall (1928)
  15. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
  16. Hester, by Margaret Oliphant (1883)
  17. Goblin Market, by Christina Rossetti (1862)
  18. Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbens
  19. Someone at a Distance, by Dorothy Whipple
  20. Fidelity by Susan Glaspell
  21. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë (1847)
  22. Middlemarch, by George Eliot (1871-72)
  23. Emmeline; or The Orphan of the Castle, by Charlotte Smith (1788)
  24. Diary of a Provincial Lady, by E. M. Delafield (1930)
  25. Belinda, by Rhoda Broughton (1883)
  26. Gothic Tales, by Elizabeth Gaskell, edited by Laura Kranzler (2000)
• My Virago Modern Classics list (5 books)
  1. Cassandra at the Wedding, by Dorothy Baker (1962)
  2. The Beth Book, by Sarah Grand (1896)
  3. The Shutter of Snow, by Emily Holmes Coleman (1930)
  4. The Well of Loneliness, by Radclyffe Hall (1928)
  5. Hester, by Margaret Oliphant (1883)
  6. The King of a Rainy Country, by Brigid Brophy (1956)
  7. A Woman, by Sibilla Aleramo, tr. Rosalind Delmar (1980. Original: Una donna, 1906)
  8. The King of a Rainy Country, by Brigid Brophy (1956)
  9. Diary of a Provincial Lady, by E. M. Delafield (1930)
  10. Belinda, by Rhoda Broughton (1883)
• My Persephone Books list (3 books)
  • Someone at a Distance, by Dorothy Whipple (1953)
  • Fidelity by Susan Glaspell
  • Diary of a Provincial Lady, by E. M. Delafield (1930)
• My Fitzcarraldo Editions list (3 books)
  1. The Years, by Annie Ernaux, tr. Alison L. Strayer (2017. Original: Les Années, 2008)
  2. The Doll’s Alphabet, by Camilla Grudova
• Speak its name challenge (3 books)
  1. Amora, by Natália Borges Polesso (2015)
  2. Call Me by Your Name, by Andre Aciman (2007)
  3. Eine Frau zu sehen, by Annemarie Schwarzenbach
  4. Lyric Novella, by Annemarie Schwarzenbach
  5. The King of a Rainy Country, by Brigid Brophy (1956)
  6. The Well of Loneliness, by Radclyffe Hall (1928)
• Nonfiction
  • The Sense of an Ending, by Frank Kermode (1967)
  • Ambitious Heights: Writing, Friendship, Love: The Jewsbury Sisters, Felicia Hemans, and Jane Welsh Carlyle, by Norma Clarke (1990)
  • Illuminations, by Walter Benjamin, ed. Hannah Arendt, tr. Harry Zohn (1969)
  • A Passionate Sisterhood: the sisters, wives and daughters of the lake poets, by Kathleen Jones (2000)
  • The Years, by Annie Ernaux, tr. Alison L. Strayer (2017. Original: Les Années, 2008)
  • The Akhmatova Journals, by Lydia Chukovskaya (1980)
  • Viver entre línguas, by Sylvia Molloy (2016)
  • Até segunda ordem não me risque nada: os cadernos, rascunhos e a poesia-em-vozes de Ana Cristina Cesar, by Flora Süssekind (2016)
  • A branca dor da escrita: três tempos com Emily Dickinson, by Lúcia Castello Branco (2003)
  • Ein Kind (Autobiography #5), by Thomas Bernhard (1982)
  • Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide: Women Writers and the Supernatural, by Vanessa D. Dickerson (1996)
  • The Journals of George Eliot, edited by Margaret Harris and Judith Johnston (2000)
• My Century of Books (10 books)
  1. North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell (1854 – 1855)
  2. The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett (1896)
  3. Lavinia, by George Sand (1833)
  4. The Morgesons, by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (1862)
  5. Aurora Leigh, by Elizabet Barret Browning (1856)
  6. Belinda, by Maria Edgeworth (1801)
  7. The Beth Book, by Sarah Grand (1896)
  8. Goblin Market, by Christina Rossetti (1862)
  9. Hester, by Margaret Oliphant (1883)
  10. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë (1847)
  11. Middlemarch, by George Eliot (1871-72)
  12. Belinda, by Rhoda Broughton (1883)
• Book Club
  • Books read: 08/12
    • The Heart of the Matter, by Graham Greene (1948) ✓
    • Family Lexicon, by Natalia Ginzburg, tr. Jenny McPhee (2017. Original: Lessico famigliare, 1963) ✓
    • Call me by your name, Andre Aciman (2007) ✓
    • Artemisia, by Anna Banti, tr. Shirley D’Ardia Caracciol (2003. Original: Artemisia, 1947) ✓
    • Go Tell It On The Mountain, by James Baldwin (1953) ✓
    • Lost in Translation, by Eva Hoffman
    • The Wall, by John Lanchester
    • Conversations with Friends, by Sally Rooney ✓
    • Botchan, by Natsume Soseki ✓
    • The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
    • Hot Milk, by Deborah Levy (2016) ✓
    • Pnin, by Vladimir Nabokov

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2020 Projects

Events

• The #1920 Club, hosted by Simon and Karen (April, 13 – 19)
  • Women in Love, by D. H. Lawrence
  • The Lost Girl, by D. H. Lawrence
  • A Fool in Her Folly, by Rhoda Broughton
  • Open the Door!, by Catherine Carswell
  • The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
  • Chéri, by Colette
  • Queen Lucia, by E. F. Benson

 

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