What a nice (and white!!) Christmas I had! It all can be pretty much summed up in two words: eating and reading! :) I had thought to save rereading Orlando by Virginia Woolf until 2010 as it was my plan to read it for the GLBT Challenge. In the end I simply could not wait. Especially not after I finished reading Suzanne Raitt's book Vita & Virginia: The Work and Friendship of V. Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf just a few days before Christmas. There is a chapter in the book about Orlando and it helped me read the novel with new eyes. I also read Amir D. Aczel's non-fiction book The Cave and the Cathedral: How a Real Life Indiana Jones and a Renegade Scholar Decoded the Ancient Art of Man. Despite the really stupid name, the book was an interesting read. I also read Clisson and Eugenie by Napoleon Bonaparte. Yes, the Napoleon Bonaparte. It seems he liked to avoid getting bored while in military camp by writing. The story itself is very short, but the book contains also information about Napoleon as a writer and info about the reconstruction of the story from various fragments. On Monday I finished Astrid and Veronica by Linda Olsson. I'm now halfway through my suffragette level aim in the Women Unbound Challenge! Which leads us nicely to today's post. I've decided to join What's in a Name 3 Challenge.
What's in a Name? is a challenge hosted in 2010 for the first time by Beth F. The aim of the challenge is to read in 2010 one book in each of the six categories chosen by Beth. There should be one book with a name that includes 1. FOOD, 2. BODY OF WATER, 3. TITLE, 4. PLANT, 5. PLACE, and 6. MUSIC TERM. It is not necessary to name the books one is going to read beforehand, but I just could not help myself to make a list of possible novels. These are such fun categories. I thought to make a list of 6 X 5 books, but ended up with 6 X 10! I will not include links to these titles, as it would take too much time to link them all. Here goes:
1. FOOD
-Aimee Bender: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
-Laura Esquivel: Like Water for Chocolate
-Joanne Harris: Chocolat
-Joanne Harris: Five Quarters of the Orange
-Lauren Liebenberg: The Volumtuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam
-Kate O'Brien: The Land of Spices
-Gaile Parkin: Baking Cakes in Kigali
-Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows: The Guernsay Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
-Rosie Wilde: Life Is Too Short to Frost a Cupcake
-Jeanette Winterson: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
2. BODY OF WATER
-Alessandro Baricco: The Ocean
-George Mackay Brown: Beside the Ocean of Time
-Paulo Coelho: By the River Piedra, I sat Down and Wept
-Carol Goodman: The Lake of Dead Languages
-Kate Grenville: The Secret River
-Ha Jin: In the Pond
-Kang Kyong-ae: From Wonso Pond: a Korean Novel
-Joyce Carol Oates: The Falls
-Vita Sackville-West: No Signposts in the Sea
-Virginia Woolf: The Waves
3. TITLE
-Boris Akunin: The Winter Queen
-Bernardine Evaristo: The Emperor's Babe
-Claire Massud: The Emperor's Children
-Issui Ogawa: The Lord of the Sands of Time
-Elizabeth Peters: The Laughter of Dead Kings
-Kate Pullinger: The Mistress of Nothing
-Anne Rice: Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt
-Antal Szerb: The Queen's Necklace
-Sue Townsend: The Queen and I
-Oscar Wilde: The Duchess of Padua
4. PLANT
-Alexande Dumas: The Black Tulip
-Anne Dunlop: The Pineapple Tart
-Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose
-Amitav Ghosh: Sea of Poppies
-Jaroszlaw Iwanszkiewicz: The Birch Grove and Other Stories
-Katharine McMahon: Rose of Sebastopol
-Deborah Moggach: The Tulip Fever
-L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Windy Willows
-Haruki Murakami: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
-Fan Wu: February Flowers
5. PLACE
-Monica Ali: Brick Lane
-Lewis Crofts: The Pornographer of Vienna
-Steven Galloway: The Cellist of Sarajevo
-Anne Holt: Death in Oslo
-Thomas Mann: Death in Venice
-Yann Martel: The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamations and Other Stories
-Domnica Radulescu: Train to Trieste
-Steven Saylor: Roma: The Novel of Ancient Rome
-Mahbod Seraji: Rooftops of Tehran
-Angel Wagenstein: Farewell Shanghai
6. MUSIC TERM
-Simon Boswell: The Seven Symphonies: A Finnish Murder Mystery
-Petina Gappah: An Elegy for Easterly
-Rosamond Lehmann: Invitation to the Waltz
-Rosamond Lehmann: A Note in Music
-Rumer Godden: A Fugue in Time
-Linda Olsson: Sonata for Miriam
-Alyson Richman: Swedish Tango
-Joseph Roth: Radetzky March
-Dumitru Tsepeneag: Vain Art of the Fugue
-M. G: Vassanji: The Assassin's Song
That's it. Some of the above I have already read, but maybe some of you will find my suggestions useful.
Yesterday I watched the first two movies of the Millennium-trilogy in a row. I have not read the books yet and had been saving the films for after I had read the books, but then just could not wait with them either. Now I'm reading the last book of the series, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, as I want to know how the story ends. The name of the third book (as well as the first one) is actually something completety different both in original Swedish and in Finnish translation (I'm reading it in Finnish) than in English.
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