October Reads

Here's my list:

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf-3.5/5

A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee-3/5

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe-3/5

The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne-3/5

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson-1/5

Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber 3.5/5

Sein Language by Jerry Seinfeld 2/5

Focus on the 90% by Darci Lang 4/5

Jean Val Jean as told by Soloman Cleaver 4.5/5

Dark Tower I - The Gunslinger by Stephen King 4/5

A Quiver Full of Arrows by Jeffrey Archer 1/5

Orkanpartyt - Östergren, Klas 3/5
Fra smørhullet - Hammann, Kirsten 3/5
The Stream of Life - Lispector, Clarice 5/5
80 romaner för dig som har bråttom - Lange, Henrik 4/5
A Scanner Darkly - Dick, Philip K 4/5
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Hamid, Mohsin 3/5
Falling Man - DeLillo, Don 4/5
Amberville - Davys, Tim 2/5
One Good Turn - Atkinson, Kate 4/5

Bit of a strange mix this month.

Reliving my childhood with some old Brit-Com Collections:

Strontium Dog: Agency Files: V1 - Alan Grant/John Wagner
Strontium Dog: Agency Files: V2 - Alan Grant/John Wagner
Strontium Dog: Agency Files: V3 - Alan Grant/John Wagner
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files: V4 - Alan Grant/John Wagner
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files: V5 - Alan Grant/John Wagner
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files: V6 - Alan Grant/John Wagner
Charley's War: V2 - Pat Mills
Charley's War: V3 - Pat Mills
Charley's War: V4 - Pat Mills

A fair few Jeeves and Woosters from the gorgeous ‘Everyman Wodehouse’ range:

Much Obliged, Jeeves
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
Carry On, Jeeves
The Inimitable Jeeves
My Man Jeeves

The rest were mainly bits’n’bobs from Slavic literature:

Selected Poems - Osip Mandel'shtam
The Futurological Congress - Stanislaw Lem Review
Pan Tadeusz - Adam Mickiewicz Review

Plus:

Naïve. Super – Erlend Loe

Kenny Shovel said:

A fair few Jeeves and Woosters from the gorgeous ‘Everyman Wodehouse’ range:

Much Obliged, Jeeves
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
Carry On, Jeeves
The Inimitable Jeeves
My Man Jeeves

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Kenny, do you have any idea how many are published in that range? I like them but haven't bought any. (Don't really know where to start, to be honest.)

The newest in the range that I have, is 'The Inimitable Jeeves’, which was published in spring this year. At that point they had 52 in total. Given they seem to be putting out four new titles each quarter, they must be up to 60 by now. I think Wodehouse wrote about 90 books all told, so at £10.99 a go it may be necessary to cherry pick.

I’m in the same boat as you regarding the order to read them in. Some like the golf stories don’t really sound like my cup of tea. But I felt on relatively safe ground with the Jeeves and Wooster books. I just jumped straight in and got through them at random, but with hindsight, and regardless of them being fairly formulaic, it would have probably been a better idea to go through them in the order they were written, as the later books make reference to previous events. Wikipedia has a page that provides all that info.

As for his other stuff, the Blandings books seem highly thought of, but anything beyond that is a mystery to me. I did once read a Psmith novel, but that was 20 years ago and I can't remember much about it.

K_S

Kenny Shovel said:

The newest in the range that I have, is 'The Inimitable Jeeves’, which was published in spring this year. At that point they had 52 in total. Given they seem to be putting out four new titles each quarter, they must be up to 60 by now. I think Wodehouse wrote about 90 books all told, so at £10.99 a go it may be necessary to cherry pick.

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Knowing me I'll probably treat them like Pokemon, in that I've got to get them all. I've went through Amazon and added all of them to my wishlist; that way I can track what I've bought and what not, given how similar some titles are.

As best I can remember...these books are the ones I read in October:

The Dragon of Never-was by Ann Downer and Omar Rayyan

Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George

No One Noticed the Cat by Anne McCaffrey

And then there were None by Agatha Cristie

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Fairest by Gail Carson Levine

Horns & Wrinkles by Joseph Helgerson and Nicoletta Ceccoli

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 4/5
The Snowman - Jo Nesbø 5/5
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini 4/5

Slow month for me:

I finished The Stand by Stephen King, and am still on World Without End by Ken Follett.

lol I registered just to post on this topic
October:
The Thirty-Nine Steps 4/5
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation 5/5
The Book of Lost Things 1/5