Another month gone by, and goodness we’re already up to April! Can you belive it?!
This is what March and books and I looked like:
A MONTH OF READING: March 2011:
Books Bought:
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, by Jared Diamond
The Best Australian Stories: A Ten-Year Collection, by Black Inc
Room, by Emma Donoghue
Books Borrowed/Received:
Library:
The Transformation and other stories, by Franz Kafka
Marsden on Marsden, by John Marsden
Mr Wittgenstein’s Lion, by Kevin Brophy
Poemcrazy, by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
Notes of a Dirty Old Man, by Charles Bukowski
Explorations In Creative Writing, by Kevin Brophy
Gifted: (Dad was kind enough to buy my school books. Thanks Dad!)
The Old School, by P.M Newton
In My Skin, by Kate Holden
To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
Disgrace, by J.M Coetzee
Oblivion, by David Foster Wallace
In The Penal Colony, by Franz Kafka
The Instant of my Death, by Maurice Blanchot
Demeure: Fiction and Testimony, by Jaques Derrida
Sixty Lights, by Gail Jones
Elizabeth Costello, by J.M Coetzee
The Arrival, by Shaun Tan
Books Read:
Brokeback Mountain, by Annie Proulx
To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
In The Penal Colony, by Franz Kafka
Sixty Lights, by Gail Jones
In My Skin, by Kate Holden
Reading:
Consolations of Philosophy, by Alain de Botton
The Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger
Aspects of the Novel, by E M Forster
Sam van Zweden 
01/04/2011 at 10:03 pm
Wow, that’s a mighty interesting list. I’m jealous of your March/April/year.
‘Collapse’ is the only one on my list, less dreamy than the rest but more practical in my current circumstances.
Happy reading days to you.
02/04/2011 at 6:14 am
Yeah I”ve been meaning to read ‘Collapse’ for yonks, I had a lecturer who was obsessed with it and has built a philosophy around similar ideas (as I’m sure many have); I finally found it at a used-book stall a few weeks ago, so I’m looking forward to curling up with it over the holidays!
03/04/2011 at 3:42 pm
I read To the Lighthouse in a class on Modernism I took a number of years ago. I think we read it between Portrait of the Artist and As I Lay Dying, two texts which, at the time, I was much more taken with. But of those, it’s actually To the Lighthouse which has remained with me and become important. Time passes.
03/04/2011 at 6:57 pm
Yeah, it’s part of a course called “Realism to Post-Modernism” to me (Modernism, obviously, included in that span)… My first encounter with Woolf and I found it really hard-going…
A difficult thing; I can’t tell if I’d get anything out of it just reading it in my own time, or if I should just hope to have more on course reading lists in future. What an awful way to work my way through “classics”!