Index
- Long-term Projects
- 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016
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Long-term Projects
- The Classics Club
- Books read so far: 55/150
- 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
- Links for each category on Karen’s sidebar
- 1. 19th-century Classic: The Morgesons, by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (1862)
- 4. Classic in translation: The Pillow Book, by Sei Shōnagon, tr. Meredith McKinney (2006. Original: 枕草子 – Makura no sōshi, c.1002)
- 8. Novella: Wise Blood, by Flannery O’Connor
- 9. Classic From the Americas: The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett (1896)
- Links for each category on Karen’s sidebar
- 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)
- 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)
- Austria: Intimate Ties, by Robert Musil, tr. Peter Wortsman (2019. Original: Vereinigungen, 1911)
- UK: North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell (1854 – 1855)
- Iceland: Butterflies in November, by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, tr. Brian FitzGibbon (2014. Original: Rigning í nóvember, 2004)
- Germany: Go, Went, Gone, by Jenny Erpenbeck, tr. Susan Bernofsky (2017. Original: Gehen, ging, gegangen, 2015)
- Greece: If not, winter, poems by Sappho, tr. Anne Carson (2003)
- France: Lavinia, by George Sand (1833)
- Italy: Family Lexicon, by Natalia Ginzburg, tr. Jenny McPhee (2017. Original: Lessico famigliare, 1963)
- Switzerland: Last Vanities, by Fleur Jaeggy
- Ireland: Belinda, by Maria Edgeworth (1801)
- 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)
- 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)
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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
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March: Iphigenia, by Teresa de la Parra, tr. Bertie Acker
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- 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)
- 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)
- Radetzky March readalong, hosted by Caroline and Lizzy (April)
- 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)
- Literary Criticism Readalong, hosted by Tom over at Wuthering Expectations
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) ✓
- The Rose Garden: Short Stories, by Maeve Brennan (1999)
- Notes to self, by Emilie Pine (2018)
- Selected poems, by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
- Selected poems, by Medbh McGuckian
- Wales Readathon, hosted by Paula (March)
- Welsh Women’s Poetry 1460-2001, edited by Katie Gramich (2003)
- Winter Sonata, by Dorothy Edwards (1928)
- Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi. A Taste for Eccentricity, by Marianna D’Ezio (2010)
- The Pumpkin Eater, by Penelope Mortimer (1962)
- Belinda, by Rhoda Broughton (1883)
- The #1965Club (April, 22nd – 28th, 2019), hosted by Karen and Simon
- Ariel, by Sylvia Plath
- Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young
- Sofia Petrovna, by Lydia Chukovskaya
- The Flight of the Falcon, by Daphne du Maurier
- 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) ✓
- Spring TBR | 2019
- 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
- New-to-me authors for my 19th-century Women Writers Project (5 books)
- Sarah Orne Jewett:
- Elizabeth Drew Stoddard:
- The Morgesons (1862)
- Elizabet Barret Browning:
- Aurora Leigh (1857)
- Maria Edgeworth:
- Belinda (1801)
- Sarah Grand:
- The Beth Book (1896)
- 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)
- North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell (1854 – 1855)
- The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett (1896)
- If not, winter, poems by Sappho, tr. Anne Carson (2003)
- Cassandra at the Wedding, by Dorothy Baker (1962)
- Lavinia, by George Sand (1833)
- The Morgesons, by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (1862)
- Aurora Leigh, by Elizabet Barret Browning (1857)
- Wise Blood, by Flannery O’Connor
- Belinda, by Maria Edgeworth (1801)
- The Beth Book, by Sarah Grand (1896)
- My Virago Modern Classics list (5 books)
- Cassandra at the Wedding, by Dorothy Baker (1962)
- The Beth Book, by Sarah Grand (1896)
- My Persephone Books list (3 books)
- My Fitzcarraldo Editions list (3 books)
- 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)
- My Century of Books (10 books)
- North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell (1854 – 1855)
- The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett (1896)
- Lavinia, by George Sand (1833)
- The Morgesons, by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (1862)
- Aurora Leigh, by Elizabet Barret Browning (1857)
- Belinda, by Maria Edgeworth (1801)
- The Beth Book, by Sarah Grand (1896)
- Backpack through Latin America
- Man Booker Prize
- Man Booker International Prize
- Love in the New Millennium by Can Xue, translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen
- The Years by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison Strayer
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
- Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin, translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell
- The Pine Islands by Marion Poschmann, translated by Jen Calleja
- The Faculty of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg, translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner
- Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi, translated from Arabic by Marilyn Booth
- Women’s Prize for Fiction
- The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
- Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss ✓
- Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton
- My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
- The Pisces by Melissa Broder ✓
- Milkman by Anna Burns
- Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
- Ordinary People by Diana Evans
- Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
- 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
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- 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) ✓
- Books read: 04/12
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