Projects

Index

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Long-term Projects

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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. 4. Classic in translation: The Pillow Book, by Sei Shōnagon, tr. Meredith McKinney (2006. Original: 枕草子 – Makura no sōshi, c.1002)
      3. 8. Novella: Wise Blood, by Flannery O’Connor
      4. 9. Classic From the Americas: The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett (1896)
  • 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
  • Africa Reading Challenge, hosted by Kinna over at Kinna Reads
    • Zimbabwe: Rotten Row, by Petina Gappah (2016)
    • Nigeria: Stay with me, by Ayobami Adebayo (2017) ✓
    • Ghana: Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi (2016)
  • 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)
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge (#aww2019), hosted by Elizabeth over at Australian Women Writers
  • The Asian Reading Challenge (#YARC2019),hosted by Lily at Sprinkles of Dreams, Shealea at Shut Up Shealea, CW at The Quiet Pond, and Vicky at Vicky Who Reads
    • Page links | My Goodreads shelf
    • Level: Philippine tarsier (1 to 10 books read)
      • Territory of Light, by Yūko Tsushima, tr. Geraldine Harcourt (2018. Original: 光の領分, Hikari no ryōbun, 1979)
      • The Pillow Book, by Sei Shōnagon, tr. Meredith McKinney (2006. Original: 枕草子 – Makura no sōshi, c.1002)
      • 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)
  • 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)
  • Reading through the ages (#readingthroughtheages), hosted by Mel and Victoria
  • Reading Women Challenge  (#readingwomenchallenge), hosted by Kendra and Autumn
    • Goodreads group
    • 02. Woman with mental illness: Cassandra at the Wedding, by Dorothy Dodds Baker (1962)
    • 03. Author from Nigeria or New Zealand: Stay with me, by Ayobami Adebayo (2017) 
    • 09. A novella: Territory of Light, by Yūko Tsushima, tr. Geraldine Harcourt (2018. Original: 光の領分, Hikari no ryōbun, 1979)
    • 13. Translated book pub before 1945: The Pillow Book, by Sei Shōnagon, tr. Meredith McKinney (2006. Original: 枕草子 – Makura no sōshi, c.1002)
  • 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
      • March: The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72 by Molly Peacock (2010)
    • Read Around the World, hosted by Mel
      • March: Iphigenia, by Teresa de la Parra, tr. Bertie Acker
    • Virago Modern Classic Book Club (#VMCBookClub)
      • February: The Weather in the Streets, by Rosamond Lehmann
    • Women of the World Goodreads Group, hosted by Kirsty and Katie
      • January – Go, Went, Gone, by Jenny Erpenbeck, tr. Susan Bernofsky (2017. Original: Gehen, ging, gegangen, 2015) ✓
      • 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)
      • December – Song of a Captive Bird, by Jasmin Darznik (Iran)
    • Radetzky March readalong, hosted by Caroline and Lizzy (April)
      • Part One on Thursday  April 4
      • Part Two on Thursday April 11
      • Part 3 on Thursday April 18
  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Readalong (#WollstonecraftReadAlong), hosted by Ruth (April)
    • Week One: Dedication and Introduction, plus Chapters I-III (April 7 Discussion Post)
    • Week Two: Chapters IV-VI (April 14 Discussion Post)
    • Week Three: Chapters VII-IX (April 21 Discussion Post)
    • Week Four: Chapters X-XIII (April 29 Wrap-up Discussion Post)
  • Readalong of Henrik Pontoppidan’s Lucky Per, hosted by Dorian (May)
Events
  • The #1965Club (April, 22nd – 28th, 2019), hosted by Karen and Simon
    • Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young
    • 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)
  • Daphne du Maurier reading week, hosted by Ali (May, 13th – 19th)
  • 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)
  • 20 Books of Summer, hosted by Cathy (June, 3rd to September, 3rd)
  • Sylvia Townsend Warner reading week, hosted by Helen (July, 1st – 7th)
  • All Virago/ All August
  • Women in Translation Month
  • The #1930Club (Ocotober, 14th – 20th, 2019), hosted by Karen and Simon
    • Diary of a Provincial Lady, by E.M. Delafield
    • After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, by Jean Rhys
    • The Weatherhouse, by Nan Shepherd
    • As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
    • The Naughtiest Girl in the School, by Enid Blyton
    • O Quinze. by Rachel de Queiroz
    • Miss Mole, by E.H. Young
    • Dance Night, by Dawn Powell
    • The Aloe, by Katherine Mansfield.
  • Victober
  • RIP Challenge
  • German Lit Month
Personal projects
  • Most anticipated releases | second-half of 2018
  • Most anticipated releases | 2019
    • Intimate Ties, by Robert Musil, tr. Peter Wortsman (2019. Original: Vereinigungen, 1911) ✓
  • Spring TBR | 2019
  • New-to-me Authors to read in 2019
  • New-to-me authors for my 19th-century Women Writers Project (5 books)
  • 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 (1857)
    • Estar onde eu nao estou, by Olivia Gutierrez (2018)
  • 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 (1857)
    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)
  • My Virago Modern Classics list (5 books)
    1. Cassandra at the Wedding, by Dorothy Baker (1962)
    2. The Beth Book, by Sarah Grand (1896)
  • My Persephone Books list (3 books)
  • My Fitzcarraldo Editions list (3 books)
    1. The Years, by Annie Ernaux, tr. Alison L. Strayer (2017. Original: Les Années, 2008)
  • Speak its name challenge (3 books)
    • Amora, by Natália Borges Polesso (2015)
    • Call Me by Your Name, by Andre Aciman (2007)
  • Countries I never read before (3 books)
    • Ghana: Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi (2016)
  • 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)
  • 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 (1857)
    6. Belinda, by Maria Edgeworth (1801)
    7. The Beth Book, by Sarah Grand (1896)
  • Backpack through Latin America
  • Man Booker Prize
  • Man Booker International Prize
    • The Years, by Annie Ernaux, tr. Alison L. Strayer (2017. Original: Les Années, 2008) ✓
    • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
    • The Pine Islands by Marion Poschmann, translated by Jen Calleja
    • Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi, translated from Arabic by Marilyn Booth
    • The Shape of the Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated from Spanish by Anne McLean
    • The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zerán, translated from Spanish by Sophie Hughes
    • The Faculty of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg, translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner
    • Love in the New Millennium by Can Xue, translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen
    • Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin, translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell ✓
  • Women’s Prize for Fiction
    • The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
    • An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
    • Circe by Madeline Miller
    • Milkman by Anna Burns
    • My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
    • Ordinary People by Diana Evans
    • Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss ✓
    • Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton
    • The Pisces by Melissa Broder ✓
    • Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
    • Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
    • Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lilian Li
    • Bottled Goods by Sophie van Llewyn
    • Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
    • Praise Songs for the Butterflies by Bernice L McFadden
    • Normal People by Sally Rooney
  • Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
  • Wainwright Prize
  • The Republic of Consciousness
    • Dedalus by Chris McCabe
    • Doppelgänger by Daša Drndić, translated by Celia Hawkesworth and S. D. Curtis
    • Kitch by Anthony Joseph
    • Lucia by Alex Pheby
    • Murmur by Will Eaves
    • Sweet Home by Wendy Erskine
    • The Cemetery in Barnes by Gabriel Josipovici
    • Resistance by Julián Fuks, translated by Daniel Hahn
    • Bottled Goods by Sophie van Llewyn
    • Now, Now, Louison by Jean Frémon, translated by Cole Swensen
    • Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford
    • Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena, translated by Margita Gailitis ✓
    • Hang Him When He Is Not There by Nicholas John Turner
  • Book Club
    • Books read: 04/12
      • 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) ✓

 

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