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Two books received today
01.24.05 (12:43 am)   [edit]
I received two books from bookrings/rays today:
The Time Traveller`s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Bella Tuscany by Frances Mayes
The first is quite popular among Bookcrossers and I was curious for some time about it. Now it finally came to my hands.The second is a companion to Mayes` first book about Italy, "Under the Tuscan Sun". It was a delightful reading, especially for me, provoking sweet memories of my numerous visits to this wonderful country.


I`ve almost finished "True Notebooks" by Mark Salzman which is indeed an unordinary book. I`m also reading another library book, "Journey to the Stone Country" by Alex Miller. The story is situated in Australia. Annabelle is betrayed by her husband with whom she has had a long-lasting and loving relationship. She decides to leave for a while to visit an old friend and take her time to figure out how is she going to live from now on. It is a typical "returning to the roots" woman`s story.She meets a man there who helps her to reconnect with her past and re-eastablish the magic and primordial relation with her native land. I`m not sure if I`m going to finish this one. Nothing really interesting happens in the novel. But it`s not a bad read, though.
 
Bought a book today
01.19.05 (11:06 am)   [edit]
Today I bought the Bulgarian translation of "The Curious Incident with A Dog at Night-Time" by Mark Haddon. Read few pages. Looks intriguing!

Update 01/22

Read the whole book in one hour.Very good,very human and moving!
 
84, Charing Cross Road
01.15.05 (3:18 pm)   [edit]
Yesterday I saw the old movie "84,Charing Cross Road", with Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft. I liked it(suprisingly)very much. I think it is difficult to make a script from a novel based on correspondence but the slow rythm of the movie corresponded with my mood yesterday evening, so I was left with good thoughts about it. I haven`t read the book yet; I liked the presence of books in the movie-you could almost smell them! It is also a story of an unusual relationship between the extravagant American writer and the employee of Marks and Co. bookshop. It was touching and nice. I would like to read the book,too.

And about my readings,I received "True Notebooks" bu Mark Salzman yesterday,and started reading immediately. Very interesing.
 
Books I read so far
01.14.05 (1:59 am)   [edit]
I liked the idea of keeping track of my books, so I`m going to do it also through this year.

This month I read:

"Blue Suburbia" by Laurie Lico Albanese(good)
"Ladies` Detective Agency NO.1" by Alexander M.Smith(good light reading)
"My Brother, for example" by Uwe Timm(very good)
"A Gathering Light" by Jennifer Donnelly (good).
"The Curious Incident with A Dog at Night-Time" by Mark Haddon (very good!)
"The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4" by Sue Townsend (good)
"Simon Rattle-The Making of A Conductor"(non-fiction,ve ry interesting for musicians)
"The Time Traveller`s Wife"by Audrey Niffenegger (excellent!)
"The Color Purple" by Alice Walker (very good)
"84 Charing Cross Road" by Helene Hanff (good)
"Case Histories" by Kate Atkinson (good)
"Notes On A Scandal" by Zoe Heller (very good)
"Fruit of the Lemon" by Andrea Levi (not bad)
"Dance Dance Dance" by Haruki Murakami (excellent!)
"The Light of The Day" by Graham Swift (average)
"Zelda`s Cut" by Philippa Gregory (excellent)
"Perfectly Correct" by Philippa Gregory (very good)
"If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things" by Jon Mcgregor (very good)
"True Notebooks" by Mark Salzman (very good!)
"All the Finest Girls" by Alexandra Sexton (average)
"Fallen Angels" by Tracey Chevalier (very good)
"Mission London" by Alek Popov
"The Storyteller`s Daughter" by Saira Shah
"Around the World in 80 days" by Michael Palin
"English Correspondence" by Janet Davey
"The Amateur Marriage" by Anne Tyler
"The "Good-luck" Shop" by Goran Petrovich
"Sputnik Sweetheart" by Haruki Murakami(wonderful)
Bill Bryson`s African Diary
"Lighthousekeeping" by Jeanette Winterson (good)
"Not a Word from Gurb" by Eduardos Mendessa (good)
I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn (good)
"The Pilot`s Wife" by Anita Shreve (good)
"Post Office" by Charles Bukowski
"The Heirs"(Kikundji) by Yukio Mishima
"Italian Education" by Tim Parks

36 books read in 2005 so far
(updated 05/23)
 
"Ladies` Detective Agency"- first book finished in 2005
01.07.05 (9:07 am)   [edit]

The first book I read and finished this year is "Ladies` Detective Agency No.1" by Alexander Smith. It was a quick and pleasant read; a bit too superficial and simple but there is a charm in it, definitely.


Now I started reading "Am Beispiel meines Bruders" by Uwe Timm ("For example, my brother", I read it in Bulg.translation). This is a story about writer`s brother who served as a soldier in SS brigade during the Second World War and died from his wounds when he was 19. Uwe Timm tries to understand why Carl became a soldier, how did he view the war, the Russians, the killings. This is also a memory about his parents and about himself as the younger one.


I also continue to read "Blue Suburbia" and "A Gathering Light".
 
Books I started the New Year with
01.03.05 (11:45 am)   [edit]
Currently reading:

"Blue Suburbia" by Laurie Lico Albanese (touching and beautiful,written in white verses)
"Dance,Dance,Dance" by Haruki Murakami
"A Gathering Light" by Jeniffer Donnelly (very interesting!)