At the start of 2009 I tried my very best to read American Pastoral but never finished. I carried it around to places, got affirmation from hip people (as an aside, I recently learned from a twelve year-old that hip people don’t say hip) but one hundred pages into it, I just couldn’t do it. But I was able to knock off the list below (including a few others I never finished) with stars (five being best…
American Pastoral (never finished)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, two stars
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (I was in a Chinese phase), four and half stars
Rain of Gold, four and three quarters stars
White Oleander, four and half stars
Ham on Rye,(not by choice, it was a book club selection)negative sixteen stars
Wonder Boys, three stars
Hope’s Boy, three stars
The Same Kind of Different as Me, three and half stars
A Love Undetected (never finished…)
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, four and half stars
Losing my Religion, three and half stars
About a Boy, three and quarter stars
Jayber Crow, four stars
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, five stars
The Unlikely Disciple, three stars
The Time Traveler’s Wife, three and half stars
The White Tiger, three and a quarter stars
Olive Kitteridge, four stars
Homeland (never finished…)
Wishing and Hoping, in process…
Next year, I’ll read more and I’ll keep you guys posted as I go along.
Monday, December 28, 2009
A Year in Pages
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That's quite a list! Be sure to read our 2010 One City One Story novel, "Gardens of Water".
That is quite a list !!
In what format(s) did you read these?
what? negative stars? is ham on Rye the first Bukowski you have ever read. I have read like 8+ of his books and I love them. Do you think your expectations were too high? Did you know anything about him before you started Ham? We need to discuss dear cousin!
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