Just thought I’d give a little update on my reading progress. I’m still mostly listening to audios this month (and still painting). I knocked out another two Pulitzer winners, The Good Earth and The Age of Innocence, both of which I enjoyed more than last month’s two Pulitzers. I am also slowly reading Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. I’m enjoying it so far but only get to read it for about 30 minutes each night.
As most of you know, the Booker longlist was announced and I’ve made some plans to at least read Brooklyn by Colm Toibin and The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters and possibly The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey. I am also interested in How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall and Love and Summer by William Trevor, but neither of them will be released until September. It’s really frustrating to not be able to have access to these at the library yet. I know I can use The Book Depository, which I love and have used many times before, but I’m sort of in a spendthift mood right now. I’ll probably just wait to see which ones make it to the shortlist and go from there.
Do you have any Booker favorites yet?
I actually ordered Wolf Hall and The Children’s Book from Amazon UK months ago. I’m still working my way through The Children’s Book (haven’t done more than read a few pages of Wolf Hall) and so far am really enjoying it. But the more I read the more I have the feeling that it will probably all end badly! Both good books, but I’m wondering if they’ll go in a completely different directions this year – I’ve also heard good things about I, Cheetah.
I think that both The Good Earth and The Age of Innocence are wonderful. I love Atwood, but I lost steam on Alias Grace about half way through. I put it down for several months before going back to it. I would like to give it another go from beginning to end. Then again there are too many other things to read, I don’t know when I will ever feel like I can go back and re-read anything.
I’ve just started getting into audiobooks myself, as my commute just got a little longer with my new job. I find that I’m enjoying it more than I thought I would, and I even think it might help me like some books more than I normally would…
I’ll have to take a look at the Booker list when I get a chance and see what’s on it. I have a feeling I probably won’t have read anything on it, but we’ll see!