The great book hunt was on last night as I think about books to read for November's German Literature Month. Seeing as November is just a few days away I've been thinking of what I might incorporate into my current reading. Of course my potential reading pile will end up being bigger than my reading time will allow, but it is always good to have choices, right? I'll share my choices in the next few days.
Since I spent a chunk of my evening shifting books to find the missing title . . . actually I knew where it was, but of course it was on the bottom of a pile and in the pile least accessible . . . I am going to cheat today and just share some bookish things I have come across in the last week or so.
I've been so off in my own little world that I forgot that yesterday was the Booker Prize announcement. Paul Beatty is the first American to win the award for his novel The Sellout. It is a book I have picked up and contemplated reading but so far have not managed it. This should give the book a 'little boost (though I think he has already won a number of prizes, or been longlisted in any case).
I love this article on a Reader's Journey Through Transition and the reflections on a lifetime of reading. I'm glad to know that I am not alone in my search for meaning and understanding of myself and the world around me can be done (granted trial and error, but then, that's life) through the pages of books.
Another list of Women Writers We Should Know. Some of them I do know but I am thrilled to see some new to me authors. The world has just widened a little bit more.
Perfect timing on this--women crime novelists working to change the genre, as I am just now embarking on a crime-reading-spree and the lady sleuths and authors will be joining me.
How many of these Must-Read Feminist Books have you gotten to? Me? Far too few.
I plan on reading Henry Green very soon and already have my first NYRB reissue on my bedside pile.
Did I ever share these bookish pins with you? I have been hoarding the link in my email inbox. I really want one. I am leaning towards Little House on the Prairie or 100 Years of Solitude (a book I really must reread and have been thinking about lately).
I renewed my NYRB Classics book subscription. Another year chock full of good book mail is forthcoming I am delighted to say! They already sent my freebie read for renewing, which is The Jeffersonian Transformation: Passages from the 'History' by Henry Adams. Maybe this will give me the little push that I need to finally embark on a little US history/Colonial Literature binge/project in the new year (it's probably too soon to think of 2017 reading projects . . . ?).
I am still determined hopeful that I can clear off that NYRB 2016 subscription backlog of books. I will make a valiant effort in any case. I am wondering which two books are on their way as we close out the year. I am wondering which is the November book, and I think this one might be the likely choice. If so, less than 300 pages and a novel translated from the German as well as a WWI novel. Promising.
I have some end of the year tidying to do--in more ways than one--blog-wise and reading-wise. A few last days of October to take a few deep breaths and then roll out my end of the year plans (such as they are). Two months left in the reading year. Yikes. Where does that need for tidiness come from anyway? I can't help myself. A little realistic (?) assessment of what I want to achieve in the next 61 days . . . (Do you think about these things, too, or am I just a little OCD when it comes to books?).