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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
I spent the better part of the afternoon finishing up my 2019 reading spreadsheet...
...and I was hoping you guys would share some of yours.
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You put me to shame as I hardly ever know what book I will be reading next let alone beyond that. I do throw the books I would like to choose my next read from onto my tablet but that now has close to 500 books on it
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But I can say what my first book to finish in 2019 will be and that is
The British in India by David Gilmour as I have just started that and will likely not finish until in the New Year. Now I was somewhat relying on stuartjmz's positive comments when choosing it but now that I have started it no book can be bad if Billy Connolly is mentioned in the first sentence, and further in the author states that the subjects
"...will be looked at in the context of their time and not from the vantage point of a usually smug present" a lesson some readers could perhaps adopt too.
So, that is my definite reading list for 2019. But I may get to Pevear's translation of
War and Peace; I read
War and Peace years ago while at university but is worth another go in a fresh translation.
Mmmmm, might get to Ayn Rand's
The Fountainhead as I recently read her
Atlas Shrugged which I quite liked and found that I could read it, taking a detached apolitical viewpoint, as just a story.
What else, I think I am into confusion territory on that.