Currently Reading: The Luck of Ginger Coffey by Brian Moore (RABCK from maid-of-kent) Principles of a New Science by Giambattista Vico The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens The Warden by Anthony Trollope (audiobook)

Recently Finished Reading:
June
Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock
Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
Jacob by Jacquelyn Frank
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

May
The Mauritius Command by Patrick O’Brian (audiobook)
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson (audiobook)
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
Antimatter by John Vornholt
That Summer in Paris by Morely Callaghan (RABCK from Dunzy)

April
Exit Lines by Reginald Hill (audiobook)
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster (audiobook)
Woodsmen of the West by Martin Allerdale Grainger

March
The Imperialist by Sara Jeannette Duncan
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier (audiobook)
Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare

February
The Pearl by John Steinbeck (audiobook)
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies (audiobook)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare
Warchild by Esther Friesner
Q is for Quarry by Sue Grafton

January
The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie
Deadheads by Reginald Hill (audiobook)
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie(audiobook)
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Sweet Revenge by Diane Mott Davidson

My Year in Review for 2010

Mount To Be Read (this includes expected Bookrings, gifts and trades, as well as planned follow-ups of books I’m currently reading and those long collecting dust on my bookshelf):

From other BCers:
Poets Between the Wars (RABCK from gypsysmom; after Thirty Acres)
Genesis: A Living Conversation (caught in the wild)
Papers of Samuel Marchbanks (RABCK from Dunzy)
Ten Little Indians (FS-VBB from LyekkaMarengo)
The Witches of Eastwick (RABCK from LyekkaMarengo)
Anansi Boys (RABCK from LyekkaMarengo)
The Master and Margarita (RABCK from LyekkaMarengo)
A Month in the Country (RABCK from hippolein)
The Eiger Sanction (RABCK from UnwrittenLibra)
A Complicated Kindness (RABCK from BananaBrianna)
The Trial (RABCK from Dunzy)
Dubliners (RABCK from tokorua)
Good to a Fault (RABCK from CynthiaA)
The Fatal Shore (trade from oppem)
The Qu’ran (RABCK from Nagwan)
Clara Callan (trade from Dunzy)
The Palace of Illusions (RABCK from nancynova)
Crackpot (RABCK from mrsgaskell)

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Books on Hold
In A Dark Wood Wandering by Hella S. Haasse
The Papacy, 1073-1198: Continuity and Innovation by I. S. Robinson*
A Happy Pocket Full of Money by David Cameron
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (audiobook)

Bookrings:

I had signed up for rings subsequently stalled permanently by keithneese, meryl662001, littlemoonbeam, DianeO, MoonFruit, riverwillow. Many of my own books have been permanently stalled by ldpaulson.
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Book Rings I’ve Started:
(*note: teacher57 has changed her id back to reader1107; all records have been updated accordingly)

Barometer Rising by Hugh MacLennan (Book #1 in my CanLit project) Back Home!!
Children of My Heart by Gabrielle Roy (Book #3 in my CanLit project) Back Home!!
Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood (Book #4 in my CanLit project) Back Home!!
Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies (Book #5 in my CanLit project) Back Home!!
The Whirlpool by Jane Urquhart (Book #12 in my CanLit project) Back Home!!
What’s Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies (Book #8 in my CanLit project) Back Home!!
Next Episode by Hubert Aquin (Book #11 in my CanLit project) Back Home!!
Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock (Book #13 in my CanLit project) Back Home!!
The Immaculate Conception by Gaétan Soucy (Giller finalist 2006) Back Home!!
The Perfect Circle by Pascale Quiviger (Giller finalist 2006) RABCKed to ajsmom to release
The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies (Book #15 in my CanLit project) Back Home!!
De Niro’s Game by Rawi Hage (Giller finalist 2006) Back Home!!
Island by Alistair MacLeod (Book #7 in my CanLit project) Back Home!!
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod (Book #9 in my CanLit project) Back Home!!
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam (Giller winner 2006) Back Home!!
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (Book #21 in my CanLit project) Back Home!!

The Blue Mountains of China by Rudy Wiebe (Book #6 in my CanLit project) Lost?
The History of Emily Montague by Frances Brooke (Book #10 in my CanLit project) Stalled by ldpaulson
The Mountain and the Valley by Ernest Buckler (Book #14 in my CanLit project) Stalled by ldpaulson
The Tomorrow-Tamer by Margaret Laurence (Book #16 in my CanLit project) Stalled by ldpaulson
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies (Book #17 in my CanLit project) Stalled by ldpaulson
The Fire Dwellers by Margaret Laurence (Book #18 in my CanLit project) Stalled by ldpaulson

Wacousta by John Richardson (Book #19 in my CanLit project)
Order of go:
sent August 7/07
1. molekilby (Wales, UK) – arrived August 13/07; sent September 14/07
2. Nu-Knees (North Yorkshire, UK) – arrived September 17/07; sent October 2/07
3. bibliotreker (Pennsylvania, USA) – arrived October 9/07; sent December 11/07
4. Bug2004 (Nebraska, USA)*skipped*
5. ldpaulson (California, USA) *skipped*
6. eicuthbertson (British Columbia, Canada) – arrived January 1/08; sent February 29/08
7. tantan – arrived March 16/08; (Queensland, Australia)
… Back to Ibis3 (Ontario, Canada)

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock (Book #20 in my CanLit project)
Order of go:
sent August 13/07
1. Thursday5 (Columbus, OH) – arrived August 21/07; sent September 8/07
2. Maurean (Atlantic Beach, FL) – arrived September 26/07; sent October 8/07
3. Bug2004 (Nebraska, USA) – arrived October 11/07; sent November 28/07
4. bibliotreker (Pennsylvania, USA) – arrived December 6/07; December 15/07
5. molekilby (Wales, UK) – arrived December 21/07; sent January 8/08
6. GateGypsy (Yukon, Canada) – arrived March 7/08
7. Timber77 (Manitoba, Canada)
… Back to Ibis3 (Ontario, Canada)

Book Rays I’ve Started:
The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola
Order of go:
sent December 28/06
1. Sheepseeker (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany) – arrived January 3/07; sent January 7/07
2. nuriayasmin (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) – arrived January 17/07; sent February 6/07
3. OpheliaPhillips (North Yorkshire, UK) – arrived February 9/07; sent February 10/07
4. juhturo (Budapest, Hungary) – arrived March 1/07; sent April 25/07
5. okyrhoe (Athens, Greece) – arrived May 11/07; sent around July 19/07
6. rootmartin (Massachusetts, USA) – arrived July 26/07;
7. charlenemartel (Quebec, Canada)

Books of (Bloom’s) Western Canon that I’ve read: vide http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtbloom.html
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Bible (King James Version)
The Apocrypha
Mahabharata
Bhagavad-Gita
Ramayana
Homer. Iliad; Odyssey
Hesiod. Works and Days; Theogony
Sappho. (I’m assuming that this refers to her poems, which I’ve read)
Pindar. Odes
Aeschylus. Oresteia; Seven Against Thebes; Prometheus Bound; Persians; Suppliant Women
Sophocles. Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone; Electra; Ajax; Women of Trachis; Philoctetes
Euripides. Cyclops; Heracles; Alcestis; Hecuba; Bacchae; Orestes; Andromache; Medea; Ion; Hippolytus; Helen; Iphigenia at Aulis
Aristophanes. The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata; The Knights; The Wasps; The Assemblywomen
Herodotus. The Histories
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian Wars
Plato. Dialogues
Aesop. Fables
Virgil. Aeneid; Eclogues;
Ovid. Metamorphoses; The Art of Love;
Petronius. Satyricon
Apuleius. The Golden Ass
Augustine, Saint. City of God; Confessions
Beowulf
Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron
Machiavelli, Niccolň. The Prince
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales;
More, Sir Thomas. Utopia
Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene
Shakespeare, William. Sonnets; A Lover’s Complaint; Venus and Adonis; Lucrece; The Passionate Pilgrim; The Turtle and the Phoenix; Richard III; The Comedy of Errors; Titus Andronicus; Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Taming of the Shrew; Richard II; Love’s Labour’s Lost; Romeo and Juliet; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; King John; The Merchant of Venice; Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; Henry V; Julius Caesar; Much Ado About Nothing; As You Like It; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Hamlet; Twelfth Night; Troilus and Cressida; All’s Well That Ends Well; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth; Measure for Measure; Antony and Cleopatra; Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Cymbeline; The Winter’s Tale; The Tempest; Double Falsehood
Milton, John. Paradise Lost; Samson Agonistes
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield
Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe
Richardson, Samuel. Pamela
Fielding, Henry. Joseph Andrews
Froissart, Jean. Chronicles
Voltaire. Candide
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. The Sorrows of Young Werther
Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables
Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary
Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Mansfield Park; Persuasion
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Cranford
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein
Dickens, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; David Copperfield; The Adventures of Oliver Twist; A Tale of Two Cities; Bleak House; Hard Times; Nicholas Nickleby; Great Expectations
FitzGerald, Edward. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. The Man Who Was Thursday
Butler, Samuel. Erewhon
Collins, Wilkie. The Moonstone; The Woman in White
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Kidnapped; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Treasure Island
Stoker, Bram. Dracula
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Fairy Tales
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; Billy Budd
Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di. The Leopard
Calvino, Italo. If on a winter’s night a traveler
Hardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge
Wells, H. G The Time Machine; The War of the Worlds
Forster, E. M. Howard’s End; A Passage to India.
Woolf, Virgina. Mrs Dalloway
Joyce, James. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt. The Visit
Hamsun, Knut. Pan
Márquez, Gabriel Garcia. One Hundred Years of Solitude
Tutuola, Amos. The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads’ Town
Davies, Robertson. The Rebel Angels; The Deptford Trilogy
Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome; The House of Mirth
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby
Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood
Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita; Pale Fire.
Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman