As I mentioned last time, this post from Joel Miller has inspired me to actually plan my summer reading and not run around aimlessly, which is my default setting.
Nice to see the Good Soldier. I've never read any Christie. I'll be curious what you think. I've read two Dorthy L Sayers which I enjoyed, but Christie has that connotation of stuffiness I've been hesitant to visit.
Let's see if I finish these this summer. It seems like a summer of classics:
* The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer - I've read a quarter to a third of these in Middle English. I'm going to read the whole set in Modern English.
* The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - related to detective and crime fiction. I'm curious about precursors to 20th century crime.
* Niebla (Mist) (1914) - Miguel de Unamuno - Looking forward to reading another Spanish classic. Will take me a little longer since I'll read it in Spanish.
I'm sure a few other things. The stack is too big to even plan beyond this.
Plan? I choose my books randomly from a list I've created and keep adding to (currently at 369)! My Goodreads.com 'Want to Read' list has 570 books, but there's probably some overlap. Currently about to finish Tales from the New Twilight Zone by JMS, and a couple of hours ago finished The Space-Time Juggler by John Brunner, and am reading Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter (excellent!); The Ghost Story Omnibus (Joseph French, ed.); Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories on Kindle; Father of Lies by Bruce Duncan; Enigma From Tantalus, by John Brunner; Future Tense (Isaac Asimov, ed.); Xenocide, by Orson Scott Card on audiobook; and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For graphic novel, the film of which I just watched after randomly choosing the it from my Films-To-See list (223 films on there at the moment). After the movie, I went up to my office, and there it was sitting on my chair, so of course I had to read it.
As to your list, I read The Styles book two years ago – awesome, for a first novel! In high school, I bought Curtain from the Scholastic Book Club, and since it was the last Poirot novel, I decided I had to read all the other Poirot books first, so it's still unread. The Divine Comedy should be good. I enjoyed Inferno (at the same time as The Affair at Styles, actually); cleverly written as political criticism of the author's contemporaries, I learned. That John Andrew Bryant book on your list looks interesting.
So far, my response hasn't fit your motif, so if I had to choose summer books (randomly just chosen from my lists, of course), they would be:
1. The Book of Skaith, by Leigh Brackett
2. The Shack, by William Paul Young
3. The Jewels of Aptor, by Samuel R. Delany
4. The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman
5. Imager, by L. E. Modessit, Jr.
6. Men Don’t Read, by Andy Wolverton
7. Watership Down, by Richard Adams
8. My Man Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse
9. Like Family, by Paula McLain
10. The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
11. Harlan Ellison’s Seven Against Chaos, by Paul Chadwick
12. The Light Fantastic, by Terry Pratchett
13. Shadrach in the Furnace, by Robert Silverberg
14. The Reasonableness of Christianity, by John Locke
15. Canterbury Tales (started it; returned it to the library unfinished)
Nice to see the Good Soldier. I've never read any Christie. I'll be curious what you think. I've read two Dorthy L Sayers which I enjoyed, but Christie has that connotation of stuffiness I've been hesitant to visit.
Let's see if I finish these this summer. It seems like a summer of classics:
* The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer - I've read a quarter to a third of these in Middle English. I'm going to read the whole set in Modern English.
* The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - related to detective and crime fiction. I'm curious about precursors to 20th century crime.
* Niebla (Mist) (1914) - Miguel de Unamuno - Looking forward to reading another Spanish classic. Will take me a little longer since I'll read it in Spanish.
I'm sure a few other things. The stack is too big to even plan beyond this.
Plan? I choose my books randomly from a list I've created and keep adding to (currently at 369)! My Goodreads.com 'Want to Read' list has 570 books, but there's probably some overlap. Currently about to finish Tales from the New Twilight Zone by JMS, and a couple of hours ago finished The Space-Time Juggler by John Brunner, and am reading Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter (excellent!); The Ghost Story Omnibus (Joseph French, ed.); Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories on Kindle; Father of Lies by Bruce Duncan; Enigma From Tantalus, by John Brunner; Future Tense (Isaac Asimov, ed.); Xenocide, by Orson Scott Card on audiobook; and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For graphic novel, the film of which I just watched after randomly choosing the it from my Films-To-See list (223 films on there at the moment). After the movie, I went up to my office, and there it was sitting on my chair, so of course I had to read it.
As to your list, I read The Styles book two years ago – awesome, for a first novel! In high school, I bought Curtain from the Scholastic Book Club, and since it was the last Poirot novel, I decided I had to read all the other Poirot books first, so it's still unread. The Divine Comedy should be good. I enjoyed Inferno (at the same time as The Affair at Styles, actually); cleverly written as political criticism of the author's contemporaries, I learned. That John Andrew Bryant book on your list looks interesting.
So far, my response hasn't fit your motif, so if I had to choose summer books (randomly just chosen from my lists, of course), they would be:
1. The Book of Skaith, by Leigh Brackett
2. The Shack, by William Paul Young
3. The Jewels of Aptor, by Samuel R. Delany
4. The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman
5. Imager, by L. E. Modessit, Jr.
6. Men Don’t Read, by Andy Wolverton
7. Watership Down, by Richard Adams
8. My Man Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse
9. Like Family, by Paula McLain
10. The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
11. Harlan Ellison’s Seven Against Chaos, by Paul Chadwick
12. The Light Fantastic, by Terry Pratchett
13. Shadrach in the Furnace, by Robert Silverberg
14. The Reasonableness of Christianity, by John Locke
15. Canterbury Tales (started it; returned it to the library unfinished)
16. Hell House, by Richard Matheson
17. Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges