All About Books discussion

What will you be reading in January?

I'm a mood reader so who's to say... but currently my plan is:

Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Die Zeit ist kaputt: Die Lebensgeschichte des Erich Kästner
The Best Men
The Starless Crown
The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes

I will begin at least one new book in January, as part of a New Year's Resolution: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus . The resolution is to read Perlstein's entire quadrology on American conservatism—about 3500 pages' worth. Assuming they are anywhere near as good as I expect them to be, of course.

In January I'll also be continuing a few that I am currently reading:
▪ How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
▪ The Office of Historical Corrections
▪ The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?

Plus I'm about to start Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers.

And we'll see what else.

Good question!
I'm really thinking with what to start my bìnext year!
Let's see, up to now these are my first intentions - to be changed!
Edmund de Waal Letters to Camondo
Chris Offutt Out of the Woods
Cees Nooteboom Venezia. Il leone, la città e l'acqua
Pip Williams The Dictionary of Lost Words

finish up, already in progress:

✔ The Chimes by Charles Dickens
✔ The Call of the Wild by Jack London

likely:

✔ The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
✔ The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne
✔ The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
✔ Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
✔ The Magpie Lord by K.J. Charles

maybe, if time permits:

✔ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
❒ The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
❒ Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

unplanned reads:
✔ A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
✔ Meditations On The Insatiable Soul: Poems by Robert Bly
✔ Odour of Chrysanthemums by D.H. Lawrence
✔ how the poor die by George Orwell

Won't fit this month - will need to read later:
❒ The Hungry Ghosts by Shyam Selvadurai
❒ The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
❒ Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura

Greg, I enjoyed the otherworldly weirdness of Annihilation a lot. Also it was nice to see a linguist as a major character. I recommend the book!

My plan is to reread Perfume by Patrick Süskind. I first read this when I was 15; while I still remember quite a lot it has been such a long time ... I was a different person back then :)
Other books on my tbr:
Invisible Women (nonfiction)
Brightly Burning (fantasy)
The Rats of Perth (bookclub read, it is a crime novel, which is not a genre I gravitate towards, but I 'm going in with an open mind and zero expectations)

Sam wrote: "Greg, I enjoyed the otherworldly weirdness of Annihilation a lot. Also it was nice to see a linguist as a major character. I recommend the book!"

Thanks Sam, good to hear!

The movie was fascinating and quite lovely, and some friends have said good things about the book it was based on. Now you have as well! I am looking forward to it!

Greg wrote: "finish up, already in progress:

❒ The Chimes by Charles Dickens
❒ The Call of the Wild by Jack London

likely:

❒ [book:The 100-Year-Old Ma..."

So many there I studied during university, would love to revisit The Chimes by Charles Dickens, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Alannah wrote: "So many there I studied during university, would love to revisit The Chimes by Charles Dickens, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu"

My memory is so bad that I really enjoy the re-reads! :)