I love to read but many of the books I 'read' these days are audio books because of how much I travel for work. My reading habits are a bit chaotic, and it seems I either binge a book in a couple weeks or take years of stopping and starting. However, since I started tracking my reading 5 years ago I've gotten much better at not leaving books on the back burner. I love to learn about and read history, science fiction, biographies, essays, politics, philosophy, popular science, and more. Recently I've become interested in reading classics too.
I consider the day a book is acquired to be when I start reading it. This is mostly for motivational purposes, otherwise I will get distracted by new books. I will likely move away from this system in 2025.
I love the concept of Bookyrm, and after tracking my reading in spreadsheets for the past 5 years I have now moved it all to Bookwyrm.
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20% complete! Jayp has read 4 of 20 books.
An existential detective story by one of France's most popular modern writers, set in a …
Not like any book I've read before. Starts off as a murder mystery before going in a couple other directions, all centered on the life of one man and his interaction with the people in a small alpine village. The book leaves you with a lot to think about. I look forward to reading more by Jean Giono.
I picked up A Time of Gifts during a NYRB sale. The blurb made it sound like an interesting and relaxing little travel journal. Somehow I completely missed when it was that the author started his sojourn across Europe to Constantinople.
Given the time we're currently living through, the author's description of pre WW2 Germany and the people he interacted with acquires an even deeper level of significance.
Putting that aside though, it's an extremely interesting and often funny travel journal. I can't wait to read the next volume.
An existential detective story by one of France's most popular modern writers, set in a mid-nineteenth century mountain village, available …
Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, and Lord Nelson, …
La invención de Morel (American Spanish: [la imbenˈsjon de moˈɾel]; 1940) — translated as The Invention of Morel or Morel's …
Amis’s debut novel, published in 1954, is a satire on academia. The protagonist is a bored and disinterested history lecturer …
Inverted World (The Inverted World in some editions) is a 1974 science fiction novel by British writer Christopher Priest. The …
Mouchette (French: Nouvelle histoire de Mouchette) is a 1937 novel by the French writer Georges Bernanos. It tells the story …
Gabriel García Márquez: Clandestine in Chile (2009, New York Review Books)
An account of the clandestine sojourn of Miguel Littín, a noted filmmaker exiled from his native Chile, as he secretly …
John Williams: Butcher's Crossing (2007, New York Review Books)
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri …
I strongly disliked this book during most of my read through, but by the end I was teary-eyed.
