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Learning: 2006 Literature Index |
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| Introduction | ||||
The following table was begun on December 2, 2002. It is a list of books that have been purchased but not yet been read, beginning with the Date November 29, 2002. I have added it to this page for 2006 on May 18 since it will now form the basis for much of my reading for the remainder of the year.
Book Date Bought |
Author |
Title |
| July 10/02 | Dave Eggars | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius |
| Rudy Wiebe | The Temptations of Big Bear | |
| Dec 21/02 | Dan Simmons | Worlds Enough & Time |
| Dec 28/02 | Wayne Johnston | The Navigator of New York |
| Dec 29/02 | Barbara Kingsolver | Prodigal Summer |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov | |
| Jan. 11/03 | Alan Cumyn | Burridge Unbound |
| George Fetherling (Ed.) | The Vintage Book of Canadian Memoirs | |
| Jan 18/03 | V. S. Naipaul | Beyond Belief |
| Feb. 12/03 | Royall Tyler (trans.) | Japanese No Dramas |
| April 1/03 | David Mitchell | Number 9 Dream |
| June 28/03 | Isaac Adamson | Dreaming Pachinko |
| Oct 20/03 | Ann-Marie MacDonald | The Way the Crow Flies |
| Oct. 24/03 | E. M. Forster | Howards End |
| Anton Chekhov | Ward No. 6 and Other Stories | |
| Oct. 25/03 | William Faulkner | Absalom, Absalom! |
| Nov. 23/03 | M. G. Vassanji | The In-Between World of Vikram Lall |
| Feb. 23/04 | W. O. Mitchell | Since Daisy Creek |
| Apr. 27/04 | J. M. Coetzee | Disgrace |
| May 18/04 | D. R. MacDonald | All the Men are Sleeping |
| May 24/04 | Monique Proulx | The Heart is an Involuntary Muscle |
| Jeffrey Eugenides | Middlesex | |
| July 08/04 | Norman Levine | The Ability to Forget |
| Norman Levine | By a Frozen River | |
| August 16/04 | John Metcalf | Standing Stones |
| August 21 /04 | Ian Rankin | A Question of Blood |
| John Bemrose | The Island Walkers | |
| Louis de Bernieres | Birds Without Wings | |
| Oct. 10/04 | Rumi | Mystical Poems of Rumi 2 |
| Franz Kafka | The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories | |
| J. M. Coetzee | Age of Iron | |
| Don DeLillo | Libra | |
| Oct. 22/04 | John Milton | Paradise Lost |
| June 13/05 | Monica Ali | Brick Lane |
| July 23/05 | Khaled Hosseini | The Kite Runner |
| Sept 13/05 | Cintra Wilson | Colors Insulting to Nature |
| Sept 14/05 | Salvador Plascencia | The People of Paper |
| Michael Winter | The Big Why | |
| Eileen Coughlan | Grizzly Lies | |
| Virginia Woolf | Selected Works | |
| Sept 16/05 | Italo Calvino | Difficult Loves |
| Italo Calvino | The Baron in the Trees | |
| Italo Calvino | The Castle of Crossed Destinies | |
| Sept 20/05 | Wayson Choy | All That Matters |
| Beth Powning | The Hatbox Letters | |
| Sept 27/05 | Miriam Toews | Swing Low |
| Sept 30/05 | Kurt Vonnegut | Breakfast of Champions |
| Oct 07/05 | Sandra Birdsell | Children of the Day |
| Alice Munro | Runaway | |
| Nov 04/05 | Pierre Berton | Prisoners of the North |
| Jennifer Niven | Ada Blackjack | |
| Asne Seierstad | A Hundred and One Days | |
| Dec 29/05 | Cao Xueqin | The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days (vol. 2) |
| Cao Xueqin | The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days (vol. 4) | |
| Cao Xueqin | The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days (vol. 5) | |
| Mar 11/06 | Latifa | My Forbidden Face |
| Mar 21/06 | Stephen Donaldson | The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant |
The following tables list books in the order in which they were read. THE primary question is to determine, for each story, is the level of detail and time to take to create a set of notes. Many (most?) novels do not require a set of notes. "A job not worth doing is not worth doing well". If there are notes, the title will contain a link to those notes.
| Date Start |
Author |
Date |
Title of Novel |
Date End | Image | Notes |
| Dec 30/05 | Cao Xueqin | 1973 | The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days (vol. 1) | Jan 25/05 | ||
| Jan 26/06 | Martin Lukes | 2005 | Who Moved My Blackberry? | Jan 29/05 | No |
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| Jan 30/06 | Paulo Coelho | 2004 | And On the Seventh Day | Feb 03/06 | No |
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| Feb 10/06 | Frank McCourt | 2005 | Teacher Man | Feb 12/06 | No |
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| Feb 17/06 | Alain De Botton | 1997 | How Proust Can Change Your Life | Feb 20/06 | Yes |
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| Mar 01/06 | Alberto Manguel | 2004 | A Reading Diary | Mar 03/06 | Yes |
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| Mar 13/06 | George and Weedon Grossmith | 1892 | The Diary of a Nobody. | Mar 13/06 | No |
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| Mar 13/06 | Joyce Carol Oates | 2004 | The Tattooed Girl | Mar 18/06 | No | |
| Mar 22/06 | Roald Dahl | 1991 | The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl | Mar 30/06 | No | |
| Mar 25/06 | Bruce Chatwin | 1989 | What Am I Doing Here? | Apr 11/06 | No | |
| Apr 26/06 | Virginia Woolf | 2003 | A Haunted House: The Complete Shorter Fiction | Apr 29/06 | No | No |
| May 01/06 | Max Gallo | 2004 | Napoleon: The Song of Departure (vol. 1) | May 06/06 | No | No |
| May 06/06 | Max Gallo | 2004 | Napoleon: The Sun of Austerlitz (vol. 2) | May 08/06 | No | No |
| May 09/06 | Max Gallo | 2004 | Napoleon: The Emperor of Kings (vol. 3) | May 10/06 | No | No |
| May 13/06 | Max Gallo | 2005 | Napoleon: The Immortal of St Helena (vol. 4) | May 17/06 | No | No |
| May 18/06 | Virginia Woolf | 2003 | The Mrs. Dalloway Reader | Jun 03/06 | No | No |
| Jun 04/06 | Jack Whyte | 1992 | A Dream of Eagles: The Skystone (Book I) | Jun 08/06 | No | No |
| Jun 09/06 | Jack Whyte | 1993 | A Dream of Eagles: The Singing Sword (Book II) | Jun 17/06 | No | No |
| Jun 18/06 | Douglas Coupland | 2005 | JPod | Jun 19/06 | No | No |
| Jun 19/06 | Jack Whyte | 1994 | A Dream of Eagles: The Eagles' Brood (Book III) | Jun 25/06 | No | No |
| Jun 26/06 | Jose Saramago | 2006 | Seeing | Jul 01/06 | No | No |
| July 02/06 | David Bergen | 2005 | The Time In Between | Jul 04/06 | No | No |
| July 05/06 | Jane Urquhart | 2005 | A Map of Glass | Jul 08/06 | No | No |
| July 09/06 | Italo Calvino | 1983 | Mr. Palomar | Jul 11/06 | No | No |
| Jul 12/06 | Kristjana Gunnars | 2002 | Silence of the Country | Jul 12/06 | No | No |
| Jul 12/06 | Eileen Coughlan | 2005 | Grizzly Lies | Jul 16/06 | No | No |
| Jul 16/06 | Stephen Donaldson | 1977 | "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever: Lord Foul's Bane" | Jul 22/06 | No | No |
| Jul 23/06 | Stephen Donaldson | 1977 | "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever: The Illearth War" | Jul 29/06 | No | No |
| Jul 30/06 | Stephen Donaldson | 1977 | "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever: The Power That Preserves " | Aug 01/06 | No | No |