Kimbs 2013 assault on the summit of Mount TBR
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1KimB
Intro:
I've completely lost track of Mount TBR, which in reality is probably less of a mountain these days and more of an avalanche sprawled around the house. My virtual Mount TBR on librarything is the only way I have a chance of tracking my treasures, hidden in nooks and crannies, and I'm again looking forward to making some sort of dent in the vast unread.
Here's my interests below, I'm not even going to pretend that I'm up to the challenge of reading all I would like to this year :-)
Everything and anything will be subject to change through the year ;-)
Reading list for 2010
10 Australian Authors
10 Bookcrossing books
10 non-fiction
10 Viagaros (women writers)
10 1001 books
10 prizes
10 books that have been in my TBR pile for more than 12 months
10 new books- spontaneous reading- well who can resist adding to Mount TBR. Or it could be argued that if you obtain it then read it straight away, is it really adding to Mount TBR!
I've completely lost track of Mount TBR, which in reality is probably less of a mountain these days and more of an avalanche sprawled around the house. My virtual Mount TBR on librarything is the only way I have a chance of tracking my treasures, hidden in nooks and crannies, and I'm again looking forward to making some sort of dent in the vast unread.
Here's my interests below, I'm not even going to pretend that I'm up to the challenge of reading all I would like to this year :-)
Everything and anything will be subject to change through the year ;-)
Reading list for 2010
10 Australian Authors
10 Bookcrossing books
10 non-fiction
10 Viagaros (women writers)
10 1001 books
10 prizes
10 books that have been in my TBR pile for more than 12 months
10 new books- spontaneous reading- well who can resist adding to Mount TBR. Or it could be argued that if you obtain it then read it straight away, is it really adding to Mount TBR!
2KimB
10 Australian Authors
1. Unwritten Histories Craig Cormick (Read in Aug13 and has been on Mount Toobie >12mths)
2. Campaign Ruby Jessica Rudd (Read in Aug13, Political satire-J.Rudd is our current PMs daughter)
3.Ruby Blues Jessica Rudd (Read Aug12)
4.The Watch Tower Elizabeth Harrow (Read Aug13) for The Book Club ABC Sep13
5.The Swan Book Alexis Wright (Reading Sep13) A popular library ebook. A possible nominee for the MF Award and/or The Stella Prize.
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"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."-Mortimer Adler
1. Unwritten Histories Craig Cormick (Read in Aug13 and has been on Mount Toobie >12mths)
2. Campaign Ruby Jessica Rudd (Read in Aug13, Political satire-J.Rudd is our current PMs daughter)
3.Ruby Blues Jessica Rudd (Read Aug12)
4.The Watch Tower Elizabeth Harrow (Read Aug13) for The Book Club ABC Sep13
5.The Swan Book Alexis Wright (Reading Sep13) A popular library ebook. A possible nominee for the MF Award and/or The Stella Prize.
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"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."-Mortimer Adler
3KimB
10 Bookcrossing books
1. The Things they carried Tim O'Brien ( A 1001 book and TBR>12mths) Read Aug13
2.The Knitting Circle Ann Hood (A good holiday read and TBR>12mths) Read Sep13
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"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum."- Henry Miller
1. The Things they carried Tim O'Brien ( A 1001 book and TBR>12mths) Read Aug13
2.The Knitting Circle Ann Hood (A good holiday read and TBR>12mths) Read Sep13
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"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum."- Henry Miller
4KimB
10 non-fiction
1.Eaten by a Giant Clam: Great Adventures in Natural Science by Joseph Cummins TBR>12mths (Read Jul13)
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"All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been in lyings as in magical preservation in the pages of books." - Thomas Carlyle
1.Eaten by a Giant Clam: Great Adventures in Natural Science by Joseph Cummins TBR>12mths (Read Jul13)
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5KimB
10 Viagaros (women writers)
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"I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book."- Lydia M. Child
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"I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book."- Lydia M. Child
6KimB
10 1001 books
1. Cloud Atlas: A Novel David Mitchell (Read May13) Best book so far this year.
2. The Secret History Donna Tartt (Reading Aug13)
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."- Jorge Luis Borges
1. Cloud Atlas: A Novel David Mitchell (Read May13) Best book so far this year.
2. The Secret History Donna Tartt (Reading Aug13)
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."- Jorge Luis Borges
7KimB
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"In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others."- Andre Maurois
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"In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others."- Andre Maurois
8KimB
10 books that have been in my TBR pile for more than 12 months
1.Alexandria by Lindsey Davis. Read Jun13. Fun historical detective fiction. Set in The Alexandria Library.
2.Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell. Read Aug13. Historical fiction with an action hero bent.
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"Books to the ceiling Books to the sky. My pile of books Are a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard By the time I read them."-Arnold Lobel
1.Alexandria by Lindsey Davis. Read Jun13. Fun historical detective fiction. Set in The Alexandria Library.
2.Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell. Read Aug13. Historical fiction with an action hero bent.
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"Books to the ceiling Books to the sky. My pile of books Are a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard By the time I read them."-Arnold Lobel
9KimB
10 new books- spontaneous reading
1. The Kingmaker's Daughter Philippa Gregory. Read May13. It was a gift :)
2. Beautiful Ruins: A Novel Jess Walter. Reading Aug 13. The Book Club (ABC) Sep13.
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"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones." -- Joseph Joubert
1. The Kingmaker's Daughter Philippa Gregory. Read May13. It was a gift :)
2. Beautiful Ruins: A Novel Jess Walter. Reading Aug 13. The Book Club (ABC) Sep13.
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10KimB
I'm also reading quite a few e-books, with my sony e-reader. Borrowing many at the touch of a couple of buttons from my local library. Some are better in the format then others. Ones I've found good. Needless to say these mainly also fall in with spontaneous reading.
1.Campaign Ruby Jessica Rudd Aug13
2.Ruby Blues Jessica Ruddd. Aug13
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12KimB
Proposed TBR list
I love thinking about what I could read however, all this could change tee hee ;-)
10 Australian Authors
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2. Coldwater
3. Unwritten Histories
4. Sound of One Hand Clapping
5. Oyster
6. Pushing Time Away
7. The showgirl and the brumby
8. Almost French: A new life in Paris
9. Remembering Babylon
10.Mr Darwin’s Shooter
10 non-fiction
1. Platypus
2. Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants
3. Endurance
4. E=MC 2
5. Spice: The History of a Temptation
6. The Hive
7. 1421: The Year China Discovered America
8. 1215: The Year of The Magna Carta
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10 Viagaros (women writers)
1. Frost in May (Virago modern classics)
2. The Friendly Young Ladies (Virago modern classics)
3. Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays (Virago modern classics)
4. Coming to Birth
5. Two Days in Aragon (Virago modern classics)
6. A Saturday Life (Virago modern classics)
7. Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems
8. The Edible Woman
9. Elizabeth and Her German Garden (Virago modern classics)
10. A Fine of Two Hundred Francs (Virago Modern Classics)
10 1001 books
1. Cloud Atlas: A Novel
2. At swim two boys
3. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
4. A Prayer for Owen Meany
5. The Inheritance of Loss
6. The Line of Beauty
7. Middlemarch
8. The Moor's Last Sigh
9. Possession: A Romance
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10 prizes (recent)
1. Mateship with Birds Carrie Tiffany. The Stella Prize winner of 2013
2. The Orange Prize winner of 2013
3. The booker winner of 2010
4. The Miles Franklin winner of 2010
5. A Pultizer Prize winner of 2010 (not sure in what category yet)
6. The Orange Prize winner of 2010
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10 prizes (older)
1. Slow Natives Miles Franklin winner 1965
2. On Beauty Orange Broadband Prize 2006
3. Poor fellow my country Miles Franklin winner 1975
4. The Stone Diaries Pultizer Prize winner fiction 1995
5. Beloved Pultizer Prize winner fiction 1988
6. Gilead Pultizer Prize winner fiction 2005
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10 books that have been in my TBR pile for more than 12 months
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10 new books- spontaneous reading
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10 historical fiction
1. The Linnet Bird
2. The Coffee Trader
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4. The Scandal of the Season
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10 Bookcrossing books
1. Samsara
2. The City of Joy
3. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
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I love thinking about what I could read however, all this could change tee hee ;-)
10 Australian Authors
1.
2. Coldwater
3. Unwritten Histories
4. Sound of One Hand Clapping
5. Oyster
6. Pushing Time Away
7. The showgirl and the brumby
8. Almost French: A new life in Paris
9. Remembering Babylon
10.Mr Darwin’s Shooter
10 non-fiction
1. Platypus
2. Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants
3. Endurance
4. E=MC 2
5. Spice: The History of a Temptation
6. The Hive
7. 1421: The Year China Discovered America
8. 1215: The Year of The Magna Carta
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10.
10 Viagaros (women writers)
1. Frost in May (Virago modern classics)
2. The Friendly Young Ladies (Virago modern classics)
3. Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays (Virago modern classics)
4. Coming to Birth
5. Two Days in Aragon (Virago modern classics)
6. A Saturday Life (Virago modern classics)
7. Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems
8. The Edible Woman
9. Elizabeth and Her German Garden (Virago modern classics)
10. A Fine of Two Hundred Francs (Virago Modern Classics)
10 1001 books
1. Cloud Atlas: A Novel
2. At swim two boys
3. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
4. A Prayer for Owen Meany
5. The Inheritance of Loss
6. The Line of Beauty
7. Middlemarch
8. The Moor's Last Sigh
9. Possession: A Romance
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10 prizes (recent)
1. Mateship with Birds Carrie Tiffany. The Stella Prize winner of 2013
2. The Orange Prize winner of 2013
3. The booker winner of 2010
4. The Miles Franklin winner of 2010
5. A Pultizer Prize winner of 2010 (not sure in what category yet)
6. The Orange Prize winner of 2010
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10 prizes (older)
1. Slow Natives Miles Franklin winner 1965
2. On Beauty Orange Broadband Prize 2006
3. Poor fellow my country Miles Franklin winner 1975
4. The Stone Diaries Pultizer Prize winner fiction 1995
5. Beloved Pultizer Prize winner fiction 1988
6. Gilead Pultizer Prize winner fiction 2005
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10 books that have been in my TBR pile for more than 12 months
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10 new books- spontaneous reading
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And maybe
10 historical fiction
1. The Linnet Bird
2. The Coffee Trader
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4. The Scandal of the Season
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10 Bookcrossing books
1. Samsara
2. The City of Joy
3. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
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15rebeccanyc
Love all the quotes, Kim, and intriguing lists of books, too.
16laytonwoman3rd
An ambitious list! I'll be following to see which ones you choose, and what you think of them.
17SassyLassy
Love your quotes. Can you combine categories, for instance Henry Handel Richardson is published by Virago. That way it's not quite so daunting.
18KimB
>17 SassyLassy: Oh yes, Sassy it is a good idea and it was something that I thought might happen inadvertently.
My copy of The Getting of Wisdom is ancient, published well before Virago was even a spark in Carmen Callil's eye. ;)
My main objective is to read those ones I have here, so it's unlikely I'll seek out any others of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, which is more how I remember the author now and not by her pen name.
Glad everyone enjoyed the quotes, I'm sure it's an idea I pilfered from someone else on LT.
I'm still reading Unwritten Histories, enjoyable bits of iconic Aussie history, mentioning the aboriginal involvement in those events more than it was in some of the usual run of the mill historical records, but not enough from an Aboriginal POV for my liking. This set of short stories was published 1998, so maybe it was slightly more cutting edge in the 90s than it is in 2013, although I doubt it. Has left me wanting more than it delivered.
The author, Craig Cormick, is a local Canberran.
My copy of The Getting of Wisdom is ancient, published well before Virago was even a spark in Carmen Callil's eye. ;)
My main objective is to read those ones I have here, so it's unlikely I'll seek out any others of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, which is more how I remember the author now and not by her pen name.
Glad everyone enjoyed the quotes, I'm sure it's an idea I pilfered from someone else on LT.
I'm still reading Unwritten Histories, enjoyable bits of iconic Aussie history, mentioning the aboriginal involvement in those events more than it was in some of the usual run of the mill historical records, but not enough from an Aboriginal POV for my liking. This set of short stories was published 1998, so maybe it was slightly more cutting edge in the 90s than it is in 2013, although I doubt it. Has left me wanting more than it delivered.
The author, Craig Cormick, is a local Canberran.
19KimB
Campaign Ruby by Jessica Rudd
Was feeling a bit unwell tonight, so decided to try something light from the library. The online connection to my local public library downloaded straight to my e-reader. I'm more than a little chuffed that it is all so easy to pick up a new book so quickly, and one that I probably wouldn't want to keep in my permanent collection.
Jessica Rudd is our current Prime Ministers daughter and she published this just after he was outed in his first term. Also her heroine has the same surname as our local Chief Minister at the time, so it was all interesting "coincidences" when this first came out two years ago.
I've been meaning to read it since then, and now's the time :)
Edited to say, she was born in Canberra, so I'm still reading very locally.
Was feeling a bit unwell tonight, so decided to try something light from the library. The online connection to my local public library downloaded straight to my e-reader. I'm more than a little chuffed that it is all so easy to pick up a new book so quickly, and one that I probably wouldn't want to keep in my permanent collection.
Jessica Rudd is our current Prime Ministers daughter and she published this just after he was outed in his first term. Also her heroine has the same surname as our local Chief Minister at the time, so it was all interesting "coincidences" when this first came out two years ago.
I've been meaning to read it since then, and now's the time :)
Edited to say, she was born in Canberra, so I'm still reading very locally.
21avaland
Kim, I didn't know you had a thread here! Glad to see it (and you!) I think judyou read Mateship with Birds for Belletrista and liked it well enough. I really enjoyed her first book.
22KimB
>21 avaland: Hello, hello. I haven't been back on LT for very long. Happy to be found :-)
Mateship with Birds is on hold at my library, looking forward to it.
Now reading The Secret History, seems to have won a place on quite a few prize lists, and from the first few pages it's appearing that it's a well deserved place.
It's another one on the 1001 books list.
Mateship with Birds is on hold at my library, looking forward to it.
Now reading The Secret History, seems to have won a place on quite a few prize lists, and from the first few pages it's appearing that it's a well deserved place.
It's another one on the 1001 books list.
23KimB
I was reading The Secret History while referring to Book Drum and thoroughly enjoying it
http://www.bookdrum.com/books/the-secret-history/9780140167771/index.html
Decide to pause The Secret History because I received my first early reviews e-book Summer's End by Lisa Morton. Quite a little page turner, and not too bad a way to while away a couple of hours.
While still feeling like reading something not too difficult, I picked out Azincourt one of Bernard Cornwall's Historical Fictions, from my e-readers library.
Hope to finish it in the next couple of nights to move onto The Book Clubs (ABC TV) selections for next month. I've borrowed The Watch Tower as an e-book from the library and found a copy of Beautiful Ruins online. It's the first time I've been this prepared before an episode, so it's something of a novelty. :-)
A link to The Book Club is here
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/firsttuesday/
http://www.bookdrum.com/books/the-secret-history/9780140167771/index.html
Decide to pause The Secret History because I received my first early reviews e-book Summer's End by Lisa Morton. Quite a little page turner, and not too bad a way to while away a couple of hours.
While still feeling like reading something not too difficult, I picked out Azincourt one of Bernard Cornwall's Historical Fictions, from my e-readers library.
Hope to finish it in the next couple of nights to move onto The Book Clubs (ABC TV) selections for next month. I've borrowed The Watch Tower as an e-book from the library and found a copy of Beautiful Ruins online. It's the first time I've been this prepared before an episode, so it's something of a novelty. :-)
A link to The Book Club is here
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/firsttuesday/
24NanaCC
I read Azincourt earlier this year. I will be curious to hear what you think about that one. I listened to the audio book version of Beautiful Ruins and loved it.
25edwinbcn
Oh，I loved The Secret History when I read it. I had avoided it for a long time, as I thought it would be "bestseller trash", but once I started reading it I was hooked and loved it.
26KimB
Azincourt was formula Bernard Cornwell, which I quite enjoy from time to time. The enjoyable thing about historical fiction is often doing the google searches afterwards, and that make some very interesting non-fiction reading about English Archers and the how the battle was fought.
My next read The Watch Tower was a beautifully written observational piece about a destructive dysfunctional family set in inner Sydney in the 50s & 60s. Had a typical Aussie feel that great Australian literature written in that era has. Looking forward to seeing what is said on the The Book Club on ABC.
I started reading Beautiful Ruins last night and it looks very promising, I can see how you would love it NanaCC. :-)
Looking forward to getting back to The Secret History as long as I'm not swayed by something else in the meantime :)
My next read The Watch Tower was a beautifully written observational piece about a destructive dysfunctional family set in inner Sydney in the 50s & 60s. Had a typical Aussie feel that great Australian literature written in that era has. Looking forward to seeing what is said on the The Book Club on ABC.
I started reading Beautiful Ruins last night and it looks very promising, I can see how you would love it NanaCC. :-)
Looking forward to getting back to The Secret History as long as I'm not swayed by something else in the meantime :)
27KimB
Just finished Beautiful Ruins a lovely romantic novel, still basking in the afterglow before I write a review. It's one I would recommend.
About to start an interesting Australian novel by the acclaimed award winning writer Alexis Wright, The swan book. Unfortunately the touchstone isn't working just yet. This one is also in e-pub format and I had to wait in line until I received the email today that it was ready to borrow.
About to start an interesting Australian novel by the acclaimed award winning writer Alexis Wright, The swan book. Unfortunately the touchstone isn't working just yet. This one is also in e-pub format and I had to wait in line until I received the email today that it was ready to borrow.
