Reading through the end of March 2012

Here is what I have read so far this year.  Almost 30 books under the belt.  Perhaps 120 this year?  Doubtful. All of the art in this post is by the very talented Michael Sowa.  His work can be found here.

 

2012 reading

Jan

 

The yellow Dog by Georges Simenon

Voltaire’s calligrapher by Pablo de Santis

A man’s place by Annie Ernaux

A History of the world in 100 objects by Neil MacGregor

The Seamstress and the Wind by Cesar Aira

Captain Bligh’s Portable Nightmare by John Toohey

420 Characters by Lou Beach

The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano

The Trees in Winter by D.E. Sievers

Prince Henry the Navigator by P.E. Russell

Feb

Bligh by Anne Salmond

Hector and the Search for Happiness  by  Francois Lelard

Three Trapped Tigers  by  G. Cabrera Infante

Selected Stories  by  William Trevor

A Brief History of Thought by  Luc Ferry

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas  by  J. M. Machado de Assis

The Monsters  by  Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler

The Housekeeper and the professor  by  Yoko Ogawa

Writers gone Wild   by  Bill Peschel

March

Gustave Caillebotte: Urban impressionist by various authors

The Armies by Evelio Rosero

Varamo by Cesar Aira

Never Any End to Paris by Enrique Vila-Matas

How Literature Works: 50 key concepts  by  John Sutherland

True Lies: Narrative Self-Consciousness in the Contemporary Spanish Novel by Samuel Amago

Rosebud: the story of Orson Welles by David Thomson

Terrestrial Intelligence  edited by  Barbara Epler

April

Quiet  by  Susan Cain

My Two Worlds  by  Sergio Chejfec

 Next time, a post about the passing of Antonio Tabucchi, a true loss to literature.