The Tattered Page

I’m currently reading Ngugi waThiongo’s Wizard of the Crow, an interesting if weighty tome with a plot so circuitous I haven’t figured out an easy way to summarize it yet. Needless to say it deals with a wizard, and the political machinations of a fictitous African nation, but no crows.

Okay, I didn’t mean to take this long to get back to you with my TBR reading list, but with my recent MO of months between posts a week is pretty darn good.  So, in no particular order here they are:

1. Christopher Isherwood – The Berlin Stories
2. Ngugi waThiongo – Wizard of the Crow
3. Ivy Compton-Burnett – Manservant and Maidservant
4. William Golding – The Lord of the Flies
5. Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange
6. Jean Rhys – Wide Sargasso Sea
7. Mark Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
8. Bessie Head – A Question of Power
9. Bruce Chatwin – In Patagonia
10. Nadine Gordimer – July’s People
11. Julian Barnes – Flaubert’s Parrot
12. Beryl Bainbridge – The Birthday Boys

I know we have the choice for alternates, but really all these books must be read this year anyway, so it’s not exactly a TBR challenge as it is an M(ust) BR one!

To be honest, I’ve tried reading challenges in the past and haven’t been entirely successful, but this may be my year! I have books I need to read – lots of them – and I could definitely use motivation. Challenges make the going fun, in a check a title off the list kind of way. So my first challenge is TBR 2011, referring of course, to that eternal Mount To Be Read, the continually growing pile of books that I’d like to – or need to – read before the end of the year.  So I’ve thrown my hat into the ring, coming up soon – the list!