What are you planing to read in September?

[My name is red]

Things never go as they are planned when it comes to literature but may be you have a few books in your mind...
Last month i had to focus on my studies so i tried to keep myself from reading so hard that my list is kinda ready for september.

First i wish to finish the book i've already started:In Cold Blood.(But I'm not really sure because i found 'the american family' and 'the american house'picture really boring in the book and i usually do in general.)
And the others;
Almost Transparant Blue by Murakami
Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Billiards at half past nine by Heinrich B?ll
The Ogre by Michel Tournier
Maybe;
The Gambler by Dostoyevski

And i'd like to finish a book i've abandoned before for no reason;Lily of the Valley by Balzac

I woud appreciate if you share what you think of these books if you've read.

[Bjorn]

Almost Transparant Blue by Murakami
Looking forward to your thoughts on this, since I've been meaning to read it for ages; the only other Ryu Murakami novel I've read (though I've seen one or two movies based on his scripts too) is In The Miso Soup (http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/asian-oceanic-literature/88-murakami-ryu-miso-soup.html), which I really liked - he's sort of the Palahniuk to Haruki Murakami's Auster.


The Gambler by Dostoyevski
Very highly recommended. I read it years ago and remember it as an autobiographical, yet very sober look at addiction and the underlying psychology of wanting. Of course, with Dostoevsky, there's no such thing as a bad book.

[Bjorn]

As for my own plans...

Currently reading Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks.

Hope to get through
Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery, Bahaa Taher
I Curse The River Of Time, Per Pettersson
Gramatica Obscura, Nanok
Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
Notes On The Cuff, Michail Bulgakov

[My name is red]

Looking forward to your thoughts on this, since I've been meaning to read it for ages; the only other Ryu Murakami novel I've read (though I've seen one or two movies based on his scripts too) is In The Miso Soup (http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/asian-oceanic-literature/88-murakami-ryu-miso-soup.html), which I really liked - he's sort of the Palahniuk to Haruki Murakami's Auster.


Very highly recommended. I read it years ago and remember it as an autobiographical, yet very sober look at addiction and the underlying psychology of wanting. Of course, with Dostoevsky, there's no such thing as a bad book.
oh thank you i'd definitely keep these in mind and I'll let you know when i read Almost Transparant Blue

[miercuri]

I love making plans in spite of the fact that I almost never stick to them. The September menu is the following:
The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan
The Line of Beauty - Allan Hollinghurst
The Famished Road - Ben Okri
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters

[Daniel del Real]

Almost Transparant Blue by Murakami


I read this one a few years ago and for me it was like a Japanese Clockwork Orange. Very good book actually with a slight touch of Camus.

[Daniel del Real]

I love making plans in spite of the fact that I almost never stick to them.

I'm just like you miercuri, but anyway here's what I've planned.

Contemporary Latin American Writers:
Horacio Castellanos Moya, Roberto Bola?o, Enrique Vila-Matas, Javier Mar?as, Mario Bellat?n, Luis Sep?lveda

Books I just ordered from my college library:

Kobo Abe The Face of Another
Bernardo Atxaga Obabakoak
Sandor Marai Embers

[Omo]

I'll dive into the pencil area of Robert Walser ( =the stuff he wrote while living in mental hospital). Since I always read several books at once (usually a thicker volume at home, and smaller books on the way to work, or poetry collections), my reading repertoire will be completed by books from various authors I pick up spontanously.

Today I finished the first book of September: Den Oprichnika by V. Sorokin. Rather disturbing.

[My name is red]

So far,i haven't read anything on my September list.haha:D

[Omo]

I'll dive into the pencil area of Robert Walser [...]

Denk' gar nicht dran, bei ihr zu sein

Denk' gar nicht dran, bei ihr zu sein
Sie mit so sch?chternen und schwanken
Gedanken liebend zu umranken.
Ich bin f?r sie ja viel zu fein.

Ruf' all die Tr?ume mir herein,
die auf[ge]flatterten und blanken,
die blindlings ihr zu F??en sanken,
O, wie erscheint sie mir nun klein.

Nie will ich recht mehr an sie denken,
und wenn mir vor Augen sie tritt,
soll sie die ihr'gen vor mir senken.

Ihr scheuer und verlogner Schritt
erz?hlt ja offen, wie sie litt.
Will ihr nichts Z?rtliches mehr schenken.

Did you know Robert Walser wrote sonetts? ;)