Preamble
My experience in my early 30s is that I have this chaotic life, with little time to reflect and think outside the immediate sphere of reaction; only at night and through reading, do I have a chance to explore other places. I’ve wasted the small slivers of this ‘my time’ in the past year. A resolution for the year ahead is to read more, and for that reason i’m keeping a rolling log below of books read to remind myself to be more of a book worm…
So in essence this page is self-serving. Sorry.
To make small amends I’m also keeping a list of AMAZING books at the bottom, as i remember them.
Embracing the digital book.
I first tried ebooks in 2010ish on an ipad. Being able to carry and sync loads of books on a single light device, on the move makes sense.
However, the: reflective, eye draining screen; limited battery, and host of other attention seeking apps meant I was never able to immerse myself fully in a book and I slowly gave up reading.
I bought a kindle paperwhite in December 2013 and the reading experience is simply much better and it rights many of the wrongs i experienced with the ipad.
/ Preamble over.
Reading list – Dec 2013 to present
I’ll cross something out if I started reading it and gave up.
DEC 2013
Iain Banks – Espedair Street. [9/10]
Huruki Murakami – Pinball, 1973. [6/10]
Haruki Murakami – Sputnik Sweetheart. [8/10]
Haruki Murakami – Underground [Did not complete]
Jeffrey Eugenides – Middlesex. [8/10]
JAN 2014
Natsume Soseki – Sanshiro [did not complete]
FEB 2014
Fail
MARCH 2014
Fail
APRIL 2014
Ian Banks – The Quarry. [8/10 – very enjoyable but not in the same league as The Crow Road, Stonemouth, Espedair Street]
Amazing books list (books i’ve read at least 2 times – [aka 10/10]).
Gregory David Roberts – Shantaram.
Haruki Murakami – Norwegian Wood; The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
Alexander Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo.
John Masefield – The Box of Delights
George Orwell – 1984
Ernest Hemingway – For Whom the Bell Tolls
Iain Banks – The Crow Road
Michael Ondaatje – The English Patient
John Le Carre – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Joseph Conrad – Lord Jim
Graham Greene – The Quiet American; Our Man in Havana; The End of the Affair
to be continued..