Chioland

Enthralling. I'm reading this slowly as I'm gonna be sad when it's over.

A Woman Reading by Gwen John

I've got mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand I really enjoy Atwood's writing, her prose is just fantastic, on the other, I'm not into the story and I'm not caring at all for any of the charatcters, especially the main one. Jimmy is such a bore and the psychopath of Crake is just much of a typified genius-gone-mad. and Orynx is just a manic pixie dream type of girl, too one-dimensional...  bah, maybe I'm just not really into dystopian fiction, though I have yet to read The Handmaid's Tale.

I feel it's such a pity that I'm not loving this book, I really wanted to like it, but perhaps my opinion will change as I finish this one... We'll see.

Really creepy book. Worth to read but I was not satisfied with the end and with the lack of info about the main topic of the story: *spoiler* the death of 4 member of the Blackwood family. Also I expected a little more depth into the characters but I'm still mentally saying WTF, so yeah, I'm definitely reading more Shirley Jackson. Next Stop: The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery.

By the by, how awesome is the first edition cover??!

Many books to tackle next year. Many classics and moderns classics. Others must be re-read and re-examined. All in all, 2014 will be a year of lots of reading, like usual :)

I tend to create lists that I never follow afterwards, but I enjoy so much the process of thinking which books I want to read that I'll just post this up and we'll see by the end of the year how many I actually read.

Must Read Books (in no particular order):

1. 1. Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
   2. The Secret History by Tartt
   3. Rayuela by Cortázar
   4. Middlemarch by Eliot
   5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
   6. As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
   7. Emma by Austen
   8. Cranford by Gaskell
   9. The Handmaid's Tale by Atwood
   10. Cheerful Weather for a Wedding by J. Strachey
   11. The House of Mirth by Wharton
   12. The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
   13. Little Women by Alcott
   14. The Hours by Cunningham
   15. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
   16. Los Detectives Salvajes by Bolaño
   17. Tess of D'Uberviless by Hardy
   18. The Woman in White by Collins
   19. The Hound of Baskervilles By Doyle
   20. Save me the Waltz by Z. Fitzgerald
   21. The Tenant of  Wildfell Hall by A. Brontë
   22. The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
   23. This Side of Paradise by F. S. Fitzgerald
   24. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Sparks
   25. Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl
   26. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by Blake
   27. Lyrical Ballads by W. and Coleridge (re-read)
   28. Storni's Complete poems
   29. Much Ado about Nothing by Shakespeare
   30. Salome by Wilde
   31. Sarah Kane's Complete Plays
   32. Waiting for Godot by Beckett
   33. Frankenstein by M. Shelley

       

Up to now I'm loving this novel. It's hilarious and touching at the same time, such a fun read.