Index

• Long-term Projects
• 2018 | 2017  |  2016 

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Long-term Projects

• The Classics Club
  • Books read so far: 43/156
• A Century of Books
  • My 19th-century Women Project
• Virago Modern Classics
  • Books reviewed ||  Complete list
• Persephone Books
  • Books reviewed || Complete list
• NYRB Classics
  • Books reviewed || List
• Dorothy Project
  • Books reviewed || List
• Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • Books reviewed || List
• My Year of Pilgrimage
  • PIlgrimage I ✓
    • Pointed Roofs (174 p.) || Backwater (160 p.) || Honeycomb (143 p.)
  • Pilgrimage 2
    • The Tunnel (280 p.)
    • Interim (163 p.)
  • Deadlock (222 p.)
  • Revolving lights (166 p.)
  • The Trap (112 p.)
  • Oberland (120 p.)
  • Dawn’s Left Hand (140 p.)
  • Clear Horizon (132 p.)
  • Dimple Hill (152 p.)
  • March Moonlight (105 p.)

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2018 Projects

• ✓ Persephone Readathon (February 1st through February 11th)
  • The Runaway, by Elizabeth Anna Hart (1872)
• ✓ #ReadSoulLit(February)
  • The Autobiography of My Mother, by Jamaica Kincaid (1996)
  • Feel Free, by Zadie Smith (2018)
• ✓ Reading Ireland Month
  • The Bell, by Iris Murdoch (1958)
• 2018 Africa Reading Challenge
  • Rotten Row, Petina Gappah
• Read More Poetry
  • January: Calling a Wolf a Wolf, by Kaveh Akbar
  • February: Ordinary Beats, by Nicole Sealey
  • March: Good Bones, by Maggie Smith
  • April: Bright Dead Things, by Ada Limón
  • May: Nature: Poems Old and New, by May Swenson
  • June: Midnight Salvage, by Adrienne Rich
  • July: Circadian, by Joanna Klink
  • August: Shape of Time, by Doris Kareva, tr. Tiina Aleman
  • September: Complete Poems, by Karin Boye, tr. David McDuff (1994)
  • October: The Night is Darkening Round Me, by Emily Brontë (2015)
• Jane’s Birthday Book of Underappreciated Lady Authors
  • 10th May – Monica Dickens
    • The Winds of Heaven (1955)
  • 31st August – Elizabeth Von Arnim
    • Vera, by Elizabeth von Arnim (1921)
  • 17th September – Mary Stewart
    • The Ivy Tree (1961)
  • 21st December – Rebecca West

• Virago Monthly Reads
  • April: Rosamond Lehmann
    • Invitation to the Waltz
  • November: F Tennyson Jesse & Antonia White
  • December: Kate O’Brien
• ✓ Iris Murdoch Readalong (November 2017 – December 2019)
  • November 2017 Under the Net (1954) ✓
  • February 2018 The Bell (1958)  ✓
  • May 2018 The Unicorn (1963) ✓
• ✓ Muriel Spark Readalong
  • Phase 1 (January/February) Early novels – 1950s
    • The Comforters (1957) ✓
  • Phase 2. (March/April) 1960s
    • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) ✓
  • Phase 3 (May/June) 1970s
    • The Driver’s Seat (1970) ✓
• ✓ The 1977 Club (16 April – 22 April )
  • Passion of the New Eve, by Angela Carter (1977)
• ✓ Bout of Books 22 (May 14th – 20th)
  • The Unicorn, by Iris Murdoch (1963)
  • The Bookshop, by Penelope Fitzgerald (1978)
  • The Driver’s Seat, by Muriel Spark (1970)
  • Honeycomb, by Dorothy Richardson (1917)
•  ✓ Tales & Co. Goodreads Group, hosted by A Skeptical Reader
  • January: Almost Famous Women, by  Megan Mayhew Bergman
  • February: The Last Quarter of the Moon, by  Chi Zijian, tr. Bruce Humes
  • March: Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, by Angela Y. Davis
  • June:  Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon (2015)
  • November: The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth by Tom Burgis (2015)
  • December: Butterflies in November, by  Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, tr. Brian FitzGibbon (2014. Original: Rigning í nóvember, 2004)
• ✓ Mini-Persephone Readathon (June, 1- 3), hosted by Jessie
  • The Home-Maker, by Dorothy Canfield-Fischer (1924)
• ✓ Romantic Outlaws Readalong with Jessie (June)
  • Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon (2015)
• ✓ 20 Books of Summer (June 1st – September, 3rd)
  1. Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon (2015)
  2. The Home-Maker, Dorothy Canfield-Fischer (1924)
  3. Mathilda, by Mary Shelley (written between 1819 and 1820, and published posthumously in 1959)
  4. Valentine, by George Sand (1832)
  5. Artemisia, by Anna Banti, tr. Shirley D’Ardia Caracciol (2003. Original: Artemisia, 1947)
  6. A View of the Harbour, by Elizabeth Taylor (1947)
  7. Vera, by Elizabeth von Arnim (1921)
  8. The Matriarch, by G. B. Stern (1924)
  9. Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk, tr. Jennifer Croft (2017. Original: Bieguni, 2007)
• ✓ Backpack Through Europe Summer Reading Challenge(July, 2 – September, 30)
  • England: Mathilda, by Mary Shelley (written between 1819 and 1820, and published posthumously in 1959)
  • France: Valentine, by George Sand (1832)
  • Belgium: Cosmétique de l’ennemi, by Amélie Nothomb (2001. The Enemy’s Cosmetique, not translated yet)
  • The Netherlands: The Laws, by Connie Palmen, tr. Richard Huijing (1993. De Wetten, 1991)
  • Germany: The Rings of Saturn, by W. G. Sebald, tr. Michael Hulse (1998. Die Ringe des Saturn. Eine englische Wallfahrt, 1995)
  • Switzerland: I Am The Brother of XX, by Fleur Jaeggy, tr.  Gini Alhadeff (2017. Original: Sono il fratello di XX, 2014)
  • Italy: Artemisia, by Anna Banti, tr. Shirley D’Ardia Caracciol (2003. Original: Artemisia, 1947)
  • Austria: The Piano Teacher, by Elfriede Jelinek tr. Joachim Neugroschel (1988. Die Klavierspielerin, 1983)
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  • Czech Republic:  A Kingdom of Souls, by Daniela Hodrová, tr. Véronique Firkusny and Elena Sokol (2015. Original: Podobojí, 1991)
  • Poland: Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk, tr. Jennifer Croft (2017. Original: Bieguni, 2007)
  • Lithuania: Breathing into Marble, by Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė, tr. Marija Marcinkute, 2016 (Original: Kvėpavimas į marmurą , 2006)
  • Latvia: Soviet Milk, by Nora Ikstena, tr.  Margita Gailitis (2018. Original: Mātes piens, 2015)
  • Estonia: Shape of Time, by Doris Kareva, tr. Tiina Aleman (2010. Original: Aja kuju, 2005)
  • Russia: The Boarding-School Girl, by Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya, tr. Karen Rosneck (2000. Original: Pansionerka, 1861)
  • Finland: Doña Quixote and Other Citizens/Gold of Ophir, by Leena Krohn, tr. Hildi Hawkins (1996. Original: Donna Quijote ja muita kaupunkilaisia: Muotokuvia, 1983)
  • Sweden: Complete Poems, by Karin Boye, tr. David McDuff (1994)
• ✓ Paris in July
  • Based on a True Story, by Delphine de Vigan, tr. George Miller (2017. Original: D’après une histoire vraie, 2015)
  • The God of Carnage, by Yasmina Reza, tr. Christopher Hampton (2008. Original: Le dieu du carnage, 2007)
• ✓ The Rings of Saturn Readalong with Robert Macfarlane (July)
  •  The Rings of Saturn, by W. G. Sebald, tr. Michael Hulse (1998. Die Ringe des Saturn. Eine englische Wallfahrt, 1995)
• ✓ Spanish and Portuguese Reading Months(July & August)
  • Three poems by Brazilian poet Ana Martins Marques
  • Four poems by Brazilian poet Alice Sant’Anna
  • Five poems by Brazilian poet Angélica Freitas
  • Three poems by Brazilian poet Ana Guadalupe
  • Review: Sinuca embaixo d’água, by Carol Bensimon (2009, ‘Underwater Snooker’, not translated yet)
  • Nine poems by Brazilian author Adélia Prado
  • Four poems by Brazilian author Henriqueta Lisboa
  • Two poems by Brazilian author Lívia Natália
  • Six poems by Brazilian author Marília Garcia
  • Four poems by Brazilian author Cecília Meireles
  • Three poems by Brazilian author Laura Liuzzi
  • Review: Um teste de resistores, by Marília Garcia (2014, ‘a test of resistors’, not translated yet)
  • Three poems by Brazilian author Adelaide Ivánova
  • Two poems by Brazilian author Cora Coralina
  • Review: Nueva Correspondencia Pizarnik, ed.  Ivonne Bordelois and Cristina Pina (2014. Selected Letters by Alejandra Pizarnik, not translated yet)
  • Fours poems by Brazilian author Ana Cristina César
  • Review: O amor dos homens avulsos, by Victor Heringer(2016, ‘The Love of Singular Men’, not translated yet)
  • Four poems by Brazilian author Ricardo Domeneck
  • Eight poems by Brazilian author Hilda Hilst
• ✓ Reverse Readathon
  • Crudo, by Olivia Laing (2018)
  • I Am The Brother of XX, by Fleur Jaeggy, tr.  Gini Alhadeff (2017. Original: Sono il fratello di XX, 2014)
  • Circadian, by Joanna Klink (2007)
  • The God of Carnage, by Yasmina Reza, tr. Christopher Hampton (2008. Original: Le dieu du carnage, 2007)
• ✓ Women in Translation Month & Readathon (August)
  • Artemisia, by Anna Banti, tr. Shirley D’Ardia Caracciol (2003. Original: Artemisia, 1947)
  • The Piano Teacher, by Elfriede Jelinek tr. Joachim Neugroschel (1988. Die Klavierspielerin, 1983)
  • Nueva Correspondencia Pizarnik, ed.  Ivonne Bordelois and Cristina Pina (2014. Selected Letters by Alejandra Pizarnik, not translated yet)
  • A Kingdom of Souls, by Daniela Hodrová, tr. Véronique Firkusny and Elena Sokol (2015. Original: Podobojí, 1991)
  • Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk, tr. Jennifer Croft (2017. Original: Bieguni, 2007)
  • Invisible Links, by Selma Lagerlöf, tr. Pauline Bancroft Flach (1899. Original: Osynliga länkar,1894)
• ✓ All Virago/All August, hosted by the Librarything Virago Readers Group
  • A View of the Harbour, by Elizabeth Taylor (1947)
  • Vera, by Elizabeth von Arnim (1921)
  • The Matriarch, by G. B. Stern (1924)
  • Testament of Youth, by Vera Brittain (1933)
• ✓ Bout of Books 23 (August 20th to 26th), hosted by Amanda & Kelly
  • Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk, tr. Jennifer Croft (2017. Original: Bieguni, 2007)
  • Invisible Links, by Selma Lagerlöf, tr. Pauline Bancroft Flach (1899. Original: Osynliga länkar,1894)
  • Testament of Youth, by Vera Brittain (1933)
• ✓ Summer Reading recap
• Most anticipated releases | second-half of 2018
• ✓ The Classics Spin #18
  • Invisible Links, tr. Pauline Bancroft Flach (1899. Original: Osynliga länkar,1894)
• Literary Criticism Readalong, hosted by Tom
• ✓ R.I.P. – R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril
  • Breathing into Marble, by Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė, tr. Marija Marcinkute, 2016 (Original: Kvėpavimas į marmurą , 2006)
  • Lois the Witch, by Elizabeth Gaskell (1859)
  • Hauntings. Fantastic Stories, by Vernon Lee (1890)
    • A Wicked Voice (short-story)
• ✓ Victober
  • Ange’s challenge: Read a book by one of the hosts’ favourite Victorian authors (Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell or Thomas Hardy)
    • Lois the Witch, by Elizabeth Gaskell (1859)
  • Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian book with a proper noun (i.e., a place name or person’s name) in the title
    • Jill, by Amy Dillwyn  (1884)
  • Katie’s challenge: Read a book from the first ten years of the Victorian period and/or a book from the last ten years of the Victorian period (i.e., 1837-1847 or 1891-1901)
    • Zoe, by Geraldine Jewsbury (1845)
  • Lucy’s challenge: Read a Victorian book written by a woman anonymously or under a pseudonym
    • Hauntings. Fantastic Stories, by Vernon Lee (1890)
      • A Wicked Voice (short-story)
• The #1944Club, hosted by Karen and Simon (October)
  • • Absent in the Spring, by Agatha Christie (as Mary Westmacott)
    • Nada, by Carmen Laforet
• Nonfiction November
  • My Year in Nonfiction | 18th-century women writers 
  • My Year in Nonfiction | Biographies
  • Erika und Therese: Erika Mann und Therese Giehse – Eine Liebe zwischen Kunst und Krieg, by Gunna Wendt (2018)
  • The White Rose: Munich, 1942-1943, by Inge Aicher-Scholl, tr. Arthur R. Schultz (2011. Original: Die Weiße Rose, 1952)
  • The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth by Tom Burgis (2015)
• Novellas in November
  • The Mussel Feast, by Birgit Vanderbeke, tr. Jamie Bulloch (2013. Original: Das Muschelessen, 1990)
• German Lit Month
  • Erika und Therese: Erika Mann und Therese Giehse – Eine Liebe zwischen Kunst und Krieg, by Gunna Wendt (2018)
  • The Mussel Feast, by Birgit Vanderbeke, tr. Jamie Bulloch (2013. Original: Das Muschelessen, 1990)
  • The White Rose: Munich, 1942-1943, by Inge Aicher-Scholl, tr. Arthur R. Schultz (2011. Original: Die Weiße Rose, 1952)
  • Überseezungen: Literarische Essays, by Yoko Tawada, not translated (2002)
  • Die Kieferninseln, by Marion Poschmann, not translated (2017)

  • The Wild Muse: The Poetry of Annette Von Droste-Hulshoff, by Marion Tymms (2013)

• ✓ New-to-me Authors to read in 2018:
  • ✓ Fleur Jaeggy: I Am The Brother of XX, tr.  Gini Alhadeff (2017. Original: Sono il fratello di XX, 2014)
  • ✓ Muriel Spark: The Comforters (1957), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), The Driver’s Seat (1970)
  • ✓ Maggie O’Farrel: I Am I Am I Am (2017)
  • ✓ Dorothy Richardson: Pilgrimage I (1915-1917)
  • Ann Quin
  • ✓ Delphine de Vigan: Based on a True Story, tr. George Miller (2017. Original: D’après une histoire vraie, 2015)
• Book Club
  • Books read: 08/12
    • Sleepwalking Land, by Mia Couto ✓
    • The Laws, by Connie Palmen ✓
    • The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid
    • The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek  ✓
    • Beloved, by Toni Morrison ✓
    • The Circle, by David Eggers
    • Monsignor Quixote, by Graham Greene ✓
    • Baltasar and Blimunda, by Jose Saramago ✓
    • Inez, by Carlos Fuentes
    • The death of the heart, by Elizabeth Bowen ✓
    • Imperium, by Christian Kracht
    • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ✓
• The #1965Club (April, 22nd – 28th, 2019)
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
  • Ariel, by Sylvia Plath
  • Kosmos, by Witold Gombrowicz
  • The Red and the Green, by Iris Murdoch
  • The Millstone, by Margaret Drabble
  • The Magus, by John Fowles
  • Cosmicomics, by Italo Calvino
  • Sofia Petrovna, by Lydia Chukovskaya
  • The Flight of the Falcon, by Daphne Du Maurier

 

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