Project: Literature
 
Learning:
The Journey of a Lifetime
or
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I have 2 tables to monitor my reading of Literature. The first table is a list that I have been maintaining for a few years that identifies the books that I have bought but have yet to read. The list is fairly long, indicated that my reach exceeds my grasp. It also implies that I can ease up on buying such books and focus on reducing the list. A count indicates that I have 50 books in this list at the beginning of 2007, only 3 of which were bought in 2006. I am adding a fourth column to the table where I can indicate that I have read the book. This is much better than deleting the book from the table since doing so removes it from awareness that it was once there.

The second table is a list of books that I have read this year.

Book

Date Bought

Author
Title
Read
July 10/02 Dave Eggars A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Aug 28/07
  Rudy Wiebe The Temptations of Big Bear  
Dec 28/02 Wayne Johnston The Navigator of New York Jun 09/07
Dec 29/02 Barbara Kingsolver Prodigal Summer  
  Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov May 22/07
       
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  
Feb. 15/03 Andrew Miller Oxygen Jun 13/07
April 1/03 David Mitchell Number 9 Dream Aug 17/07
June 28/03 Isaac Adamson Dreaming Pachinko Jun 22/07
Oct 20/03 Ann-Marie MacDonald The Way the Crow Flies  
Oct. 24/03 E. M. Forster Howards End Aug 06/07
  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 Aug 21/07
May 24/04 Monique Proulx The Heart is an Involuntary Muscle Jan 24/07
  Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex  
July 08/04 Norman Levine The Ability to Forget  
  Norman Levine By a Frozen River Jun 30/07
August 21/04 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 Jul 31/07
  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 Feb 07/07
  Virginia Woolf Selected Works Jan 14/07
Sept 16/05 Italo Calvino Difficult Loves  
  Italo Calvino The Baron in the Trees Mar 23/07
Sept 20/05 Wayson Choy All That Matters  
  Beth Powning The Hatbox Letters  
Sept 27/05 Miriam Toews Swing Low  
Oct 07/05 Sandra Birdsell Children of the Day  
  Alice Munro Runaway Mar 15/07
Nov 04/05 Pierre Berton Prisoners of the North  
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 Sep 22/07
Mar 21/06 Stephen Donaldson The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Sep 08/07
June 15/06 Cao Xueqin The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days (vol. 3)  
Oct 3/06 Mark Haddon A Spot of Bother Jan 30/07
       
Mar 08/07 Jeffery Deaver The Bone Collector May 31/07
  Jeffery Deaver The Coffin Dancer Jun 04/07
Mar 12/07 Orhan Pamuk Snow  
  Orhan Pamuk Istanbul  
Mar 19/07 J. R. Moehringer The Tender Bar  
  Rudy Wiebe Of This Earth Apr 01/07
  Ishmael Beah A Long Way Gone May 27/07
  Leonard Cohen Book Of Longing Jun 01/07
Mar 28/07 Cormac McCarthy The Road Apr 04/07
  Haruki Murakami Kafka On The Shore Jul 24/07
Apr 25/07 Michael Ondaatje Divisadero Dec 28/07
  Walter Isaacson Einstein  
May 16/07 Wayne Grady Where the Silence Rings Jun 09/07
  Wayne Grady Dark Waters Dancing to a Breeze  
  Lee Iacocca Where Have All the Leaders Gone? Jun 06/07
May 22/07 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five Jun 14/07
Jun 10/07 Jeffery Deaver The Empty Chair Jul 02/07
Jun 11/07 Don McKay Deactivated West 100 Jul 25/07
Jun 14/07 Don McKay Strike/Slip Sep 10/07
July 24/07 Anton Chekov The Undiscovered Chekov: 43 New Stories  
  Sei Shonagon The Pillow Book  
  Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle  
July 31/07 Alexander Pushkin Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works  
  Alexander Pushkin The Collected Stories  
Aug 07/07 Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls  
  Nikolai Gogol The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol  
Aug 19/07 Haruki Murakami South of the Border, West of the Sun  
  David Mitchell Cloud Atlas  
  Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses  
  Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children  
  Ismail Kadare The Successor  
  Jed Rubenfeld The Interpretation of Murder  
Aug 26/07 Mary Lawson The Other Side of the Bridge  
Sep 15/07 Elliot Perlman Three Dollars Sep 27/07
  Richard Flanagan The Sound of One Hand Clapping Oct 16/07
  John Banville The Untouchable Oct 08/07
Oct 04/07 Les Murray Selected Poems  
  Sheryl McCorry Diamonds and Dust Oct 10/07
  Ivan Turgenev First Love Oct 08/07
  Omar Khayyam The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Oct 08/07
Oct 17/07 Edited by All Valleau & Jack Finnbogason The Nelson Introduction to Literature Oct 27/07
Nov 02 /07 Bob Dylan Dylan on Dylan Nov 09/07
Dec 11/07 Elliot Perlman Seven Types of Ambiguity Dec 22/07
Dec 13/07 Ken Follett The Pillars of the Earth  
  Ken Follett World Without End  
  Elizabeth Hay Late Nights on Air  
  Bryce Courtney Sylvia  
  Antony & Cleopatra Colleen McCullough  
       

The following table lists the books I have read in 2007.

Date Start

Author

Date

Title of Novel
Date End
Nov 27/06 Julia Briggs 2005 Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life Jan 14/07
Nov 30/06 Virginia Woolf 2005 Selected Works of Virginia Woolf - Jacob's Room Jan 02/07
Dec 28/06 Alice Munro 2006 The View From Castle Rock Jan 01/07
Jan 07/07 Virginia Woolf 2005 Selected Works of Virginia Woolf - Orlando Jan 07/07
Jan 10/07 Virginia Woolf 2005 Selected Works of Virginia Woolf - The Waves Jan 11/07
Jan 13/07 Virginia Woolf 2005 Selected Works of Virginia Woolf - Three Guineas Jan 13/07
Jan 14/07 Virginia Woolf 2005 Selected Works of Virginia Woolf - Between the Acts Jan 14/07
Jan 17/07 Jonathan Raban 1999 Passage to Juneau Jan 21/07
Jan 22/07 Monique Proulx 2003 The Heart is an Involuntary Muscle Jan 24/07
Jan 25/07 Mark Haddon 2006 A Spot of Bother Jan 30/07
Jan 31/07 Michael Winter 2004 The Big Why Feb 07/07
Feb 07/07 Helen McCullough 1988 The Tale of the Heike Feb 25/07
Feb 26/07 Jeffrey Deaver 2006 The Cold Moon Mar 03/07
Mar 08/07 Alice Munro 2004 Runaway Mar 15/07
Mar 16/7 Umberto Eco 2002 Baudolino Mar 21/07
Mar 22/07 Italo Calvino 1959 The Baron in the Trees Mar 23/07
Mar 24/07 Rudy Wiebe 2006 Of This Earth Apr 01/07
Apr 02/07 Cormac McCarthy 2006 The Road Apr 04/07
Apr 05/07 Fyodor Dostoevsky 1990 The Brothers Karamasov May 22/07
May 23/07 Ishmael Beah 2007 A Long Way Gone May 27/07
May 28/07 Jeffery Deaver 1997 The Bone Collector May 31/07
Jun 01/07 Leonard Cohen 2006 The Book Of Longing Jun 01/07
Jun 02/07 Jeffery Deaver 1998 The Coffin Dancer Jun 04/07
June 05/07 Lee Iacocca 2007 Where Have All The Leaders Gone? Jun 06/07
Jun 06/07 Wayne Johnston 2002 The Navigator of New York Jun 09/07
Jun 09/07 Wayne Grady 2007 Where the Silence Rings Jun 09/07
Jun 13/07 Andrew Miller 2001 Oxygen Jun 13/07
Jun 14/07 Kurt Vonnegut 1969 Slaughterhouse-Five Jun 14/07
Jun 16/07 Ann Patchett 2001 Bel Canto Jun 18/07
Jun 19/07 Isaac Adamson 2003 Dreaming Pachinko Jun 22/07
Jun 23/07 Norman Levine 2000 By a Frozen River Jun 30/07
Jun 30/07 Jeffery Deaver 2000 The Empty Chair Jul 02/07
Jul 02/07 Alexander Pushkin 1830 Eugene Onedin Jul 03/07
Jul 04/07 T. J. Binyon 2002 Pushkin: A Biography Jul 16/07
Jul 17/07 Haruki Murakami 2005 Kafka on the Shore Jul 24/07
Jul 25/07 Don McKay 2005 Deactivated West 100 Jul 25/07
Jul 29/07 Franz Kafka 1993 The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories Jul 31/07
Aug 01/07 E. M. Forster 1910 Howards End Aug 06/07
Aug 07/07 David Mitchell 2001 Number 9 Dream Aug 17/07
Aug 18/07 W. O. Mitchell 1984 Since Daisy Creek Aug 21/07
Aug 22/07 Dave Eggers 2001 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Aug 28/07
Aug 29/07 Stephen Donaldson 1996 The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Book One. The Wounded Land Aug 31/07
Sep 01/07 Stephen Donaldson 1996 The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Book Two. The One Tree Sep 05/07
Sep 06/07 Stephen Donaldson 1996 The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Book Three. White Gold Wielder Sep 08/07
Sep 09/07 Don McKay 2006 Strike/Slip Sep 10/07
Sep 11/07 Marcel Proust 1992 The Captive. v 5 of In Search of Lost Time Sep 21/07
Sep 22/07 Latifa 2002 My Forbidden Face Sep 22/07
Sep 23/07 Elliot Perlman 1998 Three Dollars Sep 27/07
Sep 28/07 John Banville 1997 The Untouchable Oct 08/07
Oct 08/07 Omar Khayyam 12 C The Rubaiyet of Omar Khayyam Oct 08/07
Oct 08/07 Ivan Turgenev 1860 First Love Oct 08/07
Oct 09/07 Sheryl McCorry 2007 Diamonds and Dust Oct 10/07
Oct 11/07 Richard Flanagan 1997 The Sound of One Hand Clapping Oct 16/07
Oct 17/07 Al Valleau & Jack Finnbogason (Eds.) 2004 The Nelson Introduction to Literature Oct 27/07
Oct 28/07 Marcel Proust 1992 The Prisoner. v 6 of In Search of Lost Time Nov 01/07
Nov 02/07 Bob Dylan 2006 Dylan on Dylan Nov 09/07
Dec 11/07 Elliot Perlman 2003 Seven Types of Ambiguity Dec 22/07
Dec 24/07 Michael Ondaatje 2007 Divisadero Dec 28/07
Dec 29/07 J. R. Moehringer 2006 The Tender Bar