Now, for 2007. Beginning with a very very big book called Saving Magdalene. I am one of the lucky 2 to have received the erm, not quite, box of pages to, er, scribble upon... i will give a full report and where exactly to find the thing IF... okay, if. ...
So far, this year (2006):
1.+2. the first 2 narnia books. i didn't like them, at all, so i stopped for now.
3. Maldoror by Lautreamont. Overwhelmingly grotesque.
4. Picnic at Hanging Rock, recommended by Katie, I am believing that a creepy 60's film will do more for the tale than words.
5. The Damned. Another sickening pile of words, but quite amazing - so far.
6. Coraline - a good enough reprieve from the torment of maldoror and gilles de rais, and the murderous maids et al.
7. ALL THE NAMES by JOSE SARAMAGO. so.fucking.good. And then
8. Blindness. And now i think i must break temporarily from Jose Saramago, and return return to
9.Ocean Sea... And Ocean Sea, the story was the same and good. And then came
10.I Served the King of England by Hrabal, a worthy fight. Then,
11. Emile Zola Lssommoir. A fight, amazing description, a dreadful tale of disgust. Hmmmm... 11. Diderot, then MORE
12. Saramago, The Stone Raft. Then, of course, I read
13. Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos which, though curious, was rather boring overall. Now onto 14. 20th century Russian short stories, prose, et al. Then
15. Treasure Island, though with pirate, the either all bad or all good characters weren't worthy, either, of adoration.
16. The Tale of the Unknown Island by, er, Jose Saramago READ IT READ IT READ IT. Really short and absolutely incredible. Now, again again again
17. Huysmans - With the Flow. 18. Gunter Grass - Cat and Mouse. Katz und Maus. Fantastic. The writing, the Mahlke. somethinghappened, somethingwentwrong. suddenlytherewas all of this space. 19.Italo Calvino - Mr. Palomar. 20. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 21. Dostoyevski, The Idiot. i love. F.D. I love. 22. Incredibly, I have just discovered the memoirs of my Great Auntie Mary Cline Dilts. 23. Bill Bryson's A Brief History of Nearly Everything. 24. The Eyes of the Amaryllis by Natalie Babbitt, a good book to read whilst at sea. 25.The Arabian Nights! Most curious, this bit! It is a nice thick paged olde thing with fantastic illustrations. 26.The Geographers Library or something by someone. Dumb. 27.The Boy Detective by i don't remember who borrrring. 28. Oracle Night by Paul Auster - good enough. 29. Back to the best... The Adolescent by Fyodor. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and how the reading dimishes... | 
