Over the past few years my love for reading has not only manifested in
reading the printed word (and sniffing the pages and sleeping with them) but in a book-purchasing addiction too.
Whenever I am happy, gloomy, bored, or busy with one too many tasks to
do but I feel like procastinating, and I have a little money that is
burning a hole in pocket, I can't resist buying books, books, more and
more books. Even if I can't really afford them nor money- neither
timewise, even if I already have a dozen books waiting to be read. I
need them, I must have them, I cannot live without them surrounding
me. I never have the heart to leave them on the shelf in the store, even
if I know that I'll get to them only in a year or three. Hence, my once
tiny "to read" pile has kept growing and my addiction has gotten
quite out of hand.
Then a few months ago I ran out of shelf-space and I received a new
bookcase. When I started to divide my books into an "already read" and a
"to read" pile, I quickly realized that I had only read about one
third of my books, while the "to read" pile took up an entire
bookcase and contained over a hundred volumes. That was the moment when
it occurred to me to quit this crazy addiction of mine, and start
actually reading my books, instead of only purchasing and abandoning
them to the shelves.
So in 2012 I will try not to purchase any more books (or as few as I
possibly can), and read as many volumes from my "to read" pile as I
can. Hopefully I will conquer at least 50 books by the end of the year.
Here is the previously mentioned pile:
- My Hollywood by Hugh Loudon
- Savage Beautfy by Nancy Millford
- White Oleander by Janet Fitch
- What a Woman Must Do by Faith Sullivan
- Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath
- Wintering by Kate Moses
- Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Distruction by Sue Townsend
A Year in Provance by Peter Mayle- Empire Falls by Richard Russo
- The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
- Holy Fools by Joanne Harris
- Blue Eyed Boy by Joanne Harris
- My Lates Grievance by Elinor Lipman
- Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh
- A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
- Little Men and Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott
Anna Wintour: Front Row by Jerry Oppenheimer- Long Way Round by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
- Long Way Down by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
- A Life in Letters by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Starter for Ten by David NichollsThe Gilmore Girls Companion by A.S. Berman- Hester Among the Ruins by Binnie Kirshenbaum
- The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
- My Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
- The Sweetest Thing by Fiona Shaw
Cuba by Emily Barr- The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
- The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Dutchess by Amanda Foreman
- My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
- Down Under by Bill Bryson
- Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald
Coco Chanel by Axel Madsen- The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- 127 Hours by Aron Ralston
The Hours by Michael Cunningham- The Good Life by Jay McInerney
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddThe Boys Are Back in Town by Simon Carr- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell- The Constant Gardener by John le Carré
- Hunger by Knut Hamsun
- Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet by Shyama Perera
- Cash: The Autobiography of Johnny Cash by J. Cash and Patrick Carr
Nanny Returns by Nicola Kraus and Emma Mclaughlin- Jigs and Reels by Joanne Harris
- While Mortals Sleep by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler- A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott
- The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde
- Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee- Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott
- The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery- The Puffin Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Madame Bovary by Flaubert
Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren WeisbergerIn Her Shoes by Jennifer WeinerNotes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- The Evil Seed by Joanne Harris
- Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This? by Marion Meade
The Help by Kathryn Stockett (borrowed)Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Hungarian Books:
- A nap szerelmese by Dallos Sándor
- Aranyecset by Dallos Sándor
- Régimódi történet by Szabó Magda
Mondják meg Zsófikának by Szabó Magda- Álarcosbál by Szabó Magda
- Blaha Lujza naplója
- Színek és évek by Kaffka Margit
- Halálos tavasz by Zilahy Lajos
- A férfi mind őrült by Török Rezső
- Pixel by Tóth Krisztina
- Úri Muri by Móricz Zsigmond
- Körhinta by Sarkadi Imre
- Jöttem, láttam... Vesztettem? by Székely Éva
- Franciadrazsé by Vass Virág
- Lolával az élet by D. Tóth Kriszta
- A szerelem könyvei by Salinger Richárd
- Dafke by Lugosi Viktória
Books bought in 2012:
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude SteinThe Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate JacobsA Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway- The Last of the Savages by Jay McInerney
- Anne's of House of Dreams by L. M. Montgomery
- The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman by Sue Townsend
- The Nice and Good by Iris Murdoch
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shrivel
- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (I accidentally bought it twice...)
Chocolat by Joanne Harris- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- Anne of Windy Willows by L.M. Montgomery
- Hungary by Lonely Planet books
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith- Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
- Good English! /Oxford
- Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
- Cranford & Other Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Vanity Fair by Thackeray
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Peaches by Jodi Lynn AndersonLock & Key by Sarah DessenBlackberry Wine by Joanne HarrisLove and Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson- Grace Williams Says it Loud by Emma Henderson
Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle- Acquired Tastes by Peter Mayle
Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs by Jeremy Mercer- Off the Road by Carolyn Cassidy
- Cleaving by Julie Powell
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. Lee- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters by John Steinbeck
- Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
- Childhood, Boyhood, Youth by Tolstoy
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides- A Thousand Days in Tuscany by Marlena de Blasi
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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