Recent Book Activity

Back in grade 10 Japanese I chose the screen name megami no ushi but mixed up the order for possesives ending up the goddess' cow rather than goddess of cows. Regardless I've kept the name since it flows much better.

Personal challenge: to read something by every Nobel Literature prize winner available in English.

Completed: Herta Müller, Harold Pinter,Gao Xingjian, Kenzaburo Oe, William Golding, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Yasunari Kawabata, Salvatore Quasimodo, Albert Camus, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Halldor Laxness, Enest Hemingway, William Faulkner, TS Eliot, Luigi Pirandello, William Butler Yeats, Giosue Carducci, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Bjomstjerne Bjornson, Doris Lessing, Hermann Hesse, Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee, Mario Vargas Llosa, Rudyard Kipling. (25)

In hand, TBR: Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Mikhail Sholokhov, Selma Lagerlöf (5)

Still to get: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, Orhan Pamuk, Elfriede Jelinek, Imre Kertész, Günter Grass, José Saramago, Dario Fo, Wislawa Szymborska, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Octavio Paz, Camilo José Cela, NAGUIB MAHFOUZ, Joseph Brodsky, Wole Soyinka, Claude Simon, Jaroslav Seifert, Elias Canetti, Czeslaw Milosz, Odysseus Elytis, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Vicente Aleixandre, Eugenio Montale, EYVIND JOHNSON, Harry Martinson, Patrick White, Heinrich Böll, Pablo Neruda, Samuel Beckett, MIGUEL ANGEL ASTURIAS, Shmuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, GIORGOS SEFERIS, John Steinbeck, IVO ANDRIC, Saint-John Perse, Boris Pasternak, Winston Churchill, François Mauriac, Pär Lagerkvist, Bertrand Russell, André Gide, Gabriela Mistral, JOHANNES V. JENSEN, Pearl Buck, ROGER MARTIN DU GARD, Eugene O'Neill, Ivan Bunin, John Galsworthy, ERIK AXEL KARLFELDT, Sinclair Lewis, Thomas Mann, Sigrid Undset, Henri Bergson, GRAZIA DELEDDA, George Bernard Shaw, WLADYSLAW REYMONT, JACINTO BENAVENTE, Anatole France, Knut Hamsun, KARL GJELLERUP, Romain Rolland, Rabindranath Tagore, Gerhart Hauptmann, Maurice Maeterlinck, , VERNER VON HEIDENSTAM, PAUL HEYSE, RUDOLF EUCKEN, FREDERIC MISTRAL, JOSE ECHEGARAY, THERDOR MOMMSEN. (73, names in capitals I need help finding)

Not in English??: Sully Prudhomme, Henrik Pontoppidan, Carl Spitteler, Frans Eemil Sillanpää (4)

I've taken V. S. Naipaul off my list due to his recent comments in the London Evening standard. I don't care to taint my mind with the ramblings of a mysogynistic douchebag.