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Read all the books I own, but haven't read
I have decided to keep track using Goodreads.
I used to borrow so many books that the librarian would ask me questions to check if I had actually read the books. Now I live far from the library and just seem to buy and collect e-books. I also read much slower now. Plus, I'm experiencing problems with my vision. I don't like getting my eyes checked anymore. It used to be at an eye doctor (I have always had glasses for being nearsighted) but now one has to go to the stores that sell glasses - yep, the store that gives you a free eye check-up but makes their money selling glasses.
Anyway, I guess I should read the books I own. I read some last year, but that was last year. I will not put a timeline for this goal.
My friend gave me a tablet. Kindle and others like it are easier to use on a bigger screen than on a small phone. So I don't really have any excuses for not reading now....lol.
Anyway, I guess I should read the books I own. I read some last year, but that was last year. I will not put a timeline for this goal.
My friend gave me a tablet. Kindle and others like it are easier to use on a bigger screen than on a small phone. So I don't really have any excuses for not reading now....lol.
1. The Body by Bill Bryson
2. The People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
3. Paying Attention
2. The People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
3. Paying Attention
I've been failing miserably at reading. My goal for the week is to get 25 pages past where I am now. I've also started rereading Stephen King's On Writing. I think I should wait until summer for that and just get through A Promised Land. At the end of the summer or in the fall when I go to the eye doctor, I'm going to keep the lenses I have, but ask for subscription reading glasses with two different strengths.
I did make the 25 page goal. My goal starting tonight is to read before bed like I used to. Maybe I can finish Obama by the end of the month.
4/25 Minimal progress. Here's one issue, a big one. When I go up to bed, I get on my phone instead of into my book. I want to do my things to do list, but then I go to Pinterest, which I do like, and twice I played chess. That's okay, but I have to make it reading at night. Plus it helps me fall asleep, while chess makes me wake up.
5/2 I read twice this week. I'm still in the habit of scrolling on my phone or playing chess before I go to sleep. It's gotta be reading! My goal this week is to read 50 more pages.
5/9 Nope. I picked it up a few times but got sleepy - not even 10 pages by my best estimate. I think I can get to it this week.
5/16 I read a couple of times, but I'm still not reading consistently. Maybe summer will usher in a change.
5/30 Some progress. Still plugging.
6/6 Minute progress. I think I'm done with political books for awhile.
6/20 This week I will finish ch. 22.
I did make the 25 page goal. My goal starting tonight is to read before bed like I used to. Maybe I can finish Obama by the end of the month.
4/25 Minimal progress. Here's one issue, a big one. When I go up to bed, I get on my phone instead of into my book. I want to do my things to do list, but then I go to Pinterest, which I do like, and twice I played chess. That's okay, but I have to make it reading at night. Plus it helps me fall asleep, while chess makes me wake up.
5/2 I read twice this week. I'm still in the habit of scrolling on my phone or playing chess before I go to sleep. It's gotta be reading! My goal this week is to read 50 more pages.
5/9 Nope. I picked it up a few times but got sleepy - not even 10 pages by my best estimate. I think I can get to it this week.
5/16 I read a couple of times, but I'm still not reading consistently. Maybe summer will usher in a change.
5/30 Some progress. Still plugging.
6/6 Minute progress. I think I'm done with political books for awhile.
6/20 This week I will finish ch. 22.
I still have tomorrow, but I don't think I'm going to come close to my mark. So I'm going to add 50 pages beyond this weeks goal by next Sunday evening.
3/28 I haven't touched A Promised Land.
Goal for the week: read 100 pages.
Goal for the week: read 100 pages.
I did a chunk of reading. I'm at the halfway point of A Promised Land.
Admittedly, I'm going to get part way to this goal by: Giving away all the books I own that I don't actually want to read!
And I haven't touched it since last Sunday. Ugh!
Today I had a really good read. I have read about 235 pages of A Promised Land.
At the moment I need to read 41 unread books. So maybe I should stop getting more book?
Vanity Fair
Secrets of the Bolshoi
The Labours of Hercules
Faces in the Water
Triple Ripple
Leave Before you Go
To the Lighthouse
Not the Marrying Kind
Wild Swans
Janet Frame in her Own Words
The Art of Science
Mansfield Selected Stories
Three Cities: Seeking Hope in the Anthropocene
The Littlest Clue
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Love, Sex, Death and Words
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Dinosaur in a Haystack
Imagining Decolonisation
Middlesex
Spinster
Secrets of the Bolshoi
The Labours of Hercules
Faces in the Water
Triple Ripple
Leave Before you Go
To the Lighthouse
Not the Marrying Kind
Wild Swans
Janet Frame in her Own Words
The Art of Science
Mansfield Selected Stories
Three Cities: Seeking Hope in the Anthropocene
The Littlest Clue
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Love, Sex, Death and Words
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Dinosaur in a Haystack
Imagining Decolonisation
Middlesex
Spinster
Did very little reading this week. Didn't touch A Promised Land and read maybe a chapter of The Wind in the Willows.
Haven't touched Willows, but I could knock it off in an hour. Still plodding through A Promised Land. Both need to be done this week.
Haven't touched Willows, but I could knock it off in an hour. Still plodding through A Promised Land. Both need to be done this week.
Finished The Body by Bill Bryson.
Read two chapter of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. This is in preparation for eating at Rat's at the Grounds for Sculpture. I hope to read a chapter a day. It shouldn't take very long. It's a children's book - 200 pages.
I also started A Promised Land by Barrack Obama.
Read two chapter of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. This is in preparation for eating at Rat's at the Grounds for Sculpture. I hope to read a chapter a day. It shouldn't take very long. It's a children's book - 200 pages.
I also started A Promised Land by Barrack Obama.
Made progress on The Body. Hope to finish this week. Very doable.
Made progress on the body book. Hope to finish this upcoming week.
I have to give up playing games on my phone before bed so I have time to read. Also, I have a time slot 4:30-6, interspersed with prepping dinner, that I have not been utilizing.
Finished Paying Attention
Still to read:
Vanity Fair
Secrets of the Bolshoi
The Labours of Hercules
Faces in the Water
Triple Ripple
Leave Before you Go
To the Lighthouse
Not the Marrying Kind
Wild Swans
Janet Frame in her Own Words
The Art of Science
Mansfield Selected Stories
Three Cities: Seeking Hope in the Anthropocene
The Littlest Clue
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Love, Sex, Death and Words
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Vanity Fair
Secrets of the Bolshoi
The Labours of Hercules
Faces in the Water
Triple Ripple
Leave Before you Go
To the Lighthouse
Not the Marrying Kind
Wild Swans
Janet Frame in her Own Words
The Art of Science
Mansfield Selected Stories
Three Cities: Seeking Hope in the Anthropocene
The Littlest Clue
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Love, Sex, Death and Words
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Last week I had 606 unread books (including on my Kindle). I've knocked off 11 of those in a week. Feels like a good start!
The Reality of Magic ✔️
Jonathon Livingston Seagull ✔️
The Pact ✔️
Illusions of a Reluctant Messiah ✔️
Eat Pray Love ✔️
Saving Alex ✔️
Virals ✔️
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Witches of Eastwick
The Life of Ivan Denisovitch
Tales of The Unexpected
Someone Like You
Jonathon Livingston Seagull ✔️
The Pact ✔️
Illusions of a Reluctant Messiah ✔️
Eat Pray Love ✔️
Saving Alex ✔️
Virals ✔️
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Witches of Eastwick
The Life of Ivan Denisovitch
Tales of The Unexpected
Someone Like You
Gulliver's Travels
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Silver Linings Playbook
The Lovely Bones
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Silver Linings Playbook
The Lovely Bones
Actually make a list of all those books.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (english version)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (english version)
Did I mention that I love you
Did I mention that I need you
Did I mention that I miss you
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (english version)
Did I mention that I love you
Did I mention that I need you
Did I mention that I miss you
1. The Wasteland and Other Poems
2. Batman: The Court of Owls
3. Batman: The City of Owls
4. Leviathan Wakes (in progress)
5. The Holy Bible (in progress)
6. The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt (in progress)
2. Batman: The Court of Owls
3. Batman: The City of Owls
4. Leviathan Wakes (in progress)
5. The Holy Bible (in progress)
6. The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt (in progress)
4/9
C. R. Marsh - Streams in the Sahara
Jacqueline Wilson - Kiss
Honoré de Balzac - Father Goriot
P.G. Wodehouse - Leave it to Psmith
C. R. Marsh - Streams in the Sahara
Jacqueline Wilson - Kiss
Honoré de Balzac - Father Goriot
P.G. Wodehouse - Leave it to Psmith
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard ★★
The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainaini ★★★★
The Clockwork Scarab by Colleen Gleason ★★
The Queen's Fool by Phillipa Gregory ★★★
The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainaini ★★★★
The Clockwork Scarab by Colleen Gleason ★★
The Queen's Fool by Phillipa Gregory ★★★
Books owned on and before 27 November 2015.
John Irving - Małżeństwo Wagi Półśredniej
Antony Burgess - Mechaniczna pomarańcza
Antony Burgess - Mechaniczna pomarańcza
Chris Hoy - done
Andy Murray - done
Sense and Senseability - done
Super-freakonomics - done
Persusion - done
the Stud - done
1. To die for - in progress
2. Lord of the Rings
Andy Murray - done
Sense and Senseability - done
Super-freakonomics - done
Persusion - done
the Stud - done
1. To die for - in progress
2. Lord of the Rings
3) House in the Sky
4) Life, On the Line
4) Life, On the Line
the Stud
Tamara Mellon - done
Alex Ferguson - done
Quiet - done
Chris Hoy
Andy Murray
Lord of the Rings
Sense and Seneability
Super-freakonomics
Persusion
Alex Ferguson - done
Quiet - done
Chris Hoy
Andy Murray
Lord of the Rings
Sense and Seneability
Super-freakonomics
Persusion
Read:
1) Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan
2) In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
1) Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan
2) In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Perchance these are all in Dutch, some I bought myself, but most of these 14 books have been from my parents -as you can see by the age of the spine of some of them.
And yes, these are just 14 of the ±75 books I listed below.
And yes, these are just 14 of the ±75 books I listed below.
When I was younger, I used to be a major librophile, but I kinda lost the devotion lately. Still, I can't resist buying second hand books so I have a whole pile of books which I haven't read. I will change this.
Behold:
Adams, Douglas - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Adams, Douglas - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Adams, Douglas - Life, The Universe and Everything
Adams, Douglas - So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish
Adams, Douglas - Mostly Harmless
Adams, Richard - Watership Down
Andersen, Hans Christiaan - De Sprookjes van Andersen
Andersen, Hans Christiaan - Sprookjes en Vertellingen
Andrews, Lyn - Take These Broken Wings
Arion, Frank Martinus - Dubbelspel
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Bateman, Colin - Orpheus Rising
Beaufort, Simon - Murder in the Holy City
Beijnum, Kees van - De Oesters van Nam Kee
Biegel, Paul - Kinderverhalen van Paul Biegel
Bomans, Godvried - Groot Sprookjesboek
Bomans, Godvried - Groot verhalenboek
Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden
Campert, Remco - Het leven is vurrukkulluk
Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis - Through the Looking-Glass
Dickens, Charles - Complete Ghost Stories
Fitch, Janet - White Oleander
Fleming, Ian - Veel liefs uit Moskou
Fleming, Ian - Doctor No
Fry, Stephen - Moab is my Washpot
Fry, Stephen - Making History
Fry, Stephen - The Liar
Grisham, John - Bleachers
Grisham, John - Winterzon
Grisham, John - De Deal
Grisham, John - Het Dosier
Grunberg, Arnon - Onze Oom
Haasse, Hella S. - Oeroeg
Havank - Griezelverhalen
Havank Ross - Caribisch Complot
Hayder, Mo - Ritueel
Holden, Wendy - Bad Heir Day
Homerus - De Odyssee
Hugo, Victor - De Klokkenluider van de Notre Dame
Japin, Arthur - De Grote Wereld
Jong, Oek de - Hokwerda's Kind
Levin, Ira - Een kus voor je sterft
Ludlum, Robert - The Bourne Supremacy
Ludlum, Robert - The Tristan Betrayal
Martel, Yann - Life of Pi
Niffenegger, Audrey - The Time Traveler's Wife
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Picoult, Jodi - My Sister's Keeper
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Pullman, Phillip - De tijger in de put
Pullman, Phillip - Het raadsel van de robijn
Pullman, Phillip - De schaduw in het noorden
Rankin, Ian - Watchman
Rendell, Ruth - Het Stille Huis
Ross, Thomas - Beestachtig
Rymer, James Malcolm - Sweeney Todd
Shakespeare - Hamlet
Sheehan, James - De Burgemeester van Lexington Avenue
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Siebelink, Jan - Suezkade
Simenon, George - Maigret en het lijk bij de sluis
Simenon, George - Maigret en het wespennest
Stoker, Bram - Dracula
Tolkien - De Silmarillion
Tolkien - De Hobbit
Tolkien - De Reisgenoten
Tolkien - De Twee Torens
Tolkien - De Terugkeer van de Koning
Velde, Jacoba van - De grote Zaal
Verhoef, Esther - Erken Mij
Verne, Jules - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Wallace, Edgar - Het Spook van Garre Castle
Wyndham, John - Science-fictionverhalen 4
Wyndham, John - De Triffids komen
Zavón, Carlos Ruiz - De Schaduw van de Wind
The Poison Diaries
Behold:
Adams, Douglas - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Adams, Douglas - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Adams, Douglas - Life, The Universe and Everything
Adams, Douglas - So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish
Adams, Douglas - Mostly Harmless
Adams, Richard - Watership Down
Andersen, Hans Christiaan - De Sprookjes van Andersen
Andersen, Hans Christiaan - Sprookjes en Vertellingen
Andrews, Lyn - Take These Broken Wings
Arion, Frank Martinus - Dubbelspel
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Bateman, Colin - Orpheus Rising
Beaufort, Simon - Murder in the Holy City
Beijnum, Kees van - De Oesters van Nam Kee
Biegel, Paul - Kinderverhalen van Paul Biegel
Bomans, Godvried - Groot Sprookjesboek
Bomans, Godvried - Groot verhalenboek
Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden
Campert, Remco - Het leven is vurrukkulluk
Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis - Through the Looking-Glass
Dickens, Charles - Complete Ghost Stories
Fitch, Janet - White Oleander
Fleming, Ian - Veel liefs uit Moskou
Fleming, Ian - Doctor No
Fry, Stephen - Moab is my Washpot
Fry, Stephen - Making History
Fry, Stephen - The Liar
Grisham, John - Bleachers
Grisham, John - Winterzon
Grisham, John - De Deal
Grisham, John - Het Dosier
Grunberg, Arnon - Onze Oom
Haasse, Hella S. - Oeroeg
Havank - Griezelverhalen
Havank Ross - Caribisch Complot
Hayder, Mo - Ritueel
Holden, Wendy - Bad Heir Day
Homerus - De Odyssee
Hugo, Victor - De Klokkenluider van de Notre Dame
Japin, Arthur - De Grote Wereld
Jong, Oek de - Hokwerda's Kind
Levin, Ira - Een kus voor je sterft
Ludlum, Robert - The Bourne Supremacy
Ludlum, Robert - The Tristan Betrayal
Martel, Yann - Life of Pi
Niffenegger, Audrey - The Time Traveler's Wife
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Picoult, Jodi - My Sister's Keeper
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Pullman, Phillip - De tijger in de put
Pullman, Phillip - Het raadsel van de robijn
Pullman, Phillip - De schaduw in het noorden
Rankin, Ian - Watchman
Rendell, Ruth - Het Stille Huis
Ross, Thomas - Beestachtig
Rymer, James Malcolm - Sweeney Todd
Shakespeare - Hamlet
Sheehan, James - De Burgemeester van Lexington Avenue
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Siebelink, Jan - Suezkade
Simenon, George - Maigret en het lijk bij de sluis
Simenon, George - Maigret en het wespennest
Stoker, Bram - Dracula
Tolkien - De Silmarillion
Tolkien - De Hobbit
Tolkien - De Reisgenoten
Tolkien - De Twee Torens
Tolkien - De Terugkeer van de Koning
Velde, Jacoba van - De grote Zaal
Verhoef, Esther - Erken Mij
Verne, Jules - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Wallace, Edgar - Het Spook van Garre Castle
Wyndham, John - Science-fictionverhalen 4
Wyndham, John - De Triffids komen
Zavón, Carlos Ruiz - De Schaduw van de Wind
The Poison Diaries
~Where Rainbows End - Cecelia Ahern
Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen
~The Wizard Of Oz - L. Frank Baum
#Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow
~The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Fanny Hill - John Cleland
Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
~Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
Silas Marner - George Eliot
The Pillars Of The Earth - Ken Follett
A Scots Quair - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
~Deep Fear - Debi Gliori
Paper Towns - John Green
The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
The Green Mile - Stephen King
Sex, Drugs And Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman
Lady Chatterly's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
Small Island - Andrea Levy
~The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader
~The Silver Chair
~The Last Battle - C.S. Lewis
~The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
~The General In His Labyrinth - Gabriel García Márquez
Ariel - André Maurois
Daughter Of Venice - Donna Jo Napoli
Starter For Ten - David Nicholls
~Ways To Live Forever - Sally Nicholls
The Time Traveler's Wife
Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffeneger
The Tiger's Wife - Téa Obreht
Forgotten - Cat Patrick
Keeping Faith
Second Glance
Vanishing Acts
The Tenth Circle
Change Of Heart
Handle With Care
House Rules - Jodi Picoult
Witch Child
Sorceress - Celia Rees
Holes - Louis Sachar
Enigma - Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
GemX - Nicky Singer
Angel Blood - John Singleton
Safe Haven - Nicholas Sparks
#The Red And The Black - Stendhal
~The Lord Of The Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Angel - L.A. Weatherly
Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen
~The Wizard Of Oz - L. Frank Baum
#Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow
~The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Fanny Hill - John Cleland
Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
~Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
Silas Marner - George Eliot
The Pillars Of The Earth - Ken Follett
A Scots Quair - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
~Deep Fear - Debi Gliori
Paper Towns - John Green
The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
The Green Mile - Stephen King
Sex, Drugs And Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman
Lady Chatterly's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
Small Island - Andrea Levy
~The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader
~The Silver Chair
~The Last Battle - C.S. Lewis
~The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
~The General In His Labyrinth - Gabriel García Márquez
Ariel - André Maurois
Daughter Of Venice - Donna Jo Napoli
Starter For Ten - David Nicholls
~Ways To Live Forever - Sally Nicholls
The Time Traveler's Wife
Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffeneger
The Tiger's Wife - Téa Obreht
Forgotten - Cat Patrick
Keeping Faith
Second Glance
Vanishing Acts
The Tenth Circle
Change Of Heart
Handle With Care
House Rules - Jodi Picoult
Witch Child
Sorceress - Celia Rees
Holes - Louis Sachar
Enigma - Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
GemX - Nicky Singer
Angel Blood - John Singleton
Safe Haven - Nicholas Sparks
#The Red And The Black - Stendhal
~The Lord Of The Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Angel - L.A. Weatherly
Read Searching for Virginia Dare (Marjorie Hudson) 29 July 2012
including the ebooks on my kindle (but not including all the non fiction ones I downloaded just as they were free)
Have now read High Fidelity, but also need to read Pride and Prejudice, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, and Interpretor of Maladies.
18/2 started with Sandra Brouwn - Kourova clona.
The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
To read:
The Secret of Platform 13- Eva Ibbotsen
Drovers Road Collection- Joyce West
An Ideal Husband- Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance- Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere's Fan- Oscar Wilde
Salome- Oscar Wilde
High Fidelity- Nick Hornby
The Awakening- Kate Chopin
The Secret of Platform 13- Eva Ibbotsen
Drovers Road Collection- Joyce West
An Ideal Husband- Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance- Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere's Fan- Oscar Wilde
Salome- Oscar Wilde
High Fidelity- Nick Hornby
The Awakening- Kate Chopin
Finished:
Mockingjay
Mockingjay
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