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Old 01-01-2015, 11:36 AM   #53
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Seattle, US
Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Kobo Libra 2
Goal: To buy no more than one ebook a week.

I wasn't going to participate in this thread since reading lots of books is no challenge for me. But what is hard, since I have become an ebook hoarder, will be to limit my purchases to a book each week and to buy only books I plan to read immediately. So this is where I'll track those purchases.

Spoiler:
Books that have been read are in italics.

1. A Test of Wills - Charles Todd; $1.99
2. The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden - Jonas Jonasson; $1.99
3. The Son - Philipp Meyer; $3.99
4. Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels; $9.99
5. Jar City - Arnaldur Indridason; $2.99
6 West with the Night - Beryl Markham; $7.79

7. Archie Meets Nero Wolfe - Robert Goldsborough; $1.99
8. Us - David Nicholls; $2.99
9. The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown; $2.99
10. Long Day's Journey into Night - Eugene O'Neill; $1.14
11. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck; $8.63
12. Three Horses - Erri De Luca; $4.81
13. Silk - Alessandro Baricco; $7.99
14. The Diabolical Miss Hyde - Viola Carr; $1.99
15. Fire Shut Up in My Bones - Charles M. Blow; $2.16
16. Semper Fidelis - Ruth Downie; $1.06
17. Vimy - Pierre Burton; $.72
18. Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett; $3.07
19. The Last of the Doughboys - Richard Rubin; $1.99
20. The Anodyne Necklace - Martha Grimes; $1.99
21. The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein; $1.99
22. Tirra Lirra by the River - Jessica Anderson; $9.57
23. Seek the Fair Land - Walter Macken; $3.24
24. The Armchair James Beard - James Beard; $2.99
25. As Always, Julia - Joan Reardon, editor; $1.99
26. Silenced - Kristina Ohlsson; $1.99
27. The Old Silent - Martha Grimes; $1.99
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Charles Van Doren's Joy of Reading includes a 10-year reading plan. My reading (mostly re-reading) challenge is to complete these books on the Year #1 list:

1. The Iliad by Homer (Fagles translation)
2. The Odyssey by Homer (Mandelbaum translation from Penguin Classics)
3. The Orestia by Aeschylus
4. Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone by Sophocles
5. Hamlet by Shakespeare
6. Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neil
7. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Beyond those two goals, the plan is to just carry on reading and enjoying books.

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