update on the shelf of shame
I had a New Year’s resolution of reading 50 books in a year... But I’ve done it in half a year!
1. Electric Dreams – Phillip K. Dick
2. Dark Alchemy: Magical Tales from Masters of Modern Fantasy – (several authors)
3. Los diarios del diablo – M.J. Weeks
4. La porta dels tres panys – Sònia Fernández-Vidal
5. Nausicää 1 – Hayao Miyazaki
6. Nausicää 2 – Hayao Miyazaki
7. Nausicää 3 – Hayao Miyazaki
8. Nausicää 4 – Hayao Miyazaki
9. Jessica Jones: Alias – Brian Michael Bendis
10. Pecado – Laura Restrepo
11. Uncle Scrooge & Donald Duck – Don Rosa
12. A lion among men – Gregory Maguire
13. Pare de rates – Joan Barceló i Cullerés
14. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
15. Más allá del planeta silencioso – C.S. Lewis
16. My solo exchange diary – Nagata Kabi
17. Claudine – Riyoko Ikeda
18. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
19. La Belle Sauvage – Phillip Pullman
20. Grimm Tales – Phillip Pullman
21. Positively Queer – Auraboo
22. Viidakon Tuliainen – R.L. Stine
23. Left hand of darkness – Ursula Le Guin
24. Orange is the new black – Piper Kerman
25. Orlando – Virginia Wolf
26. Los ojos del dragón – Stephen King
27. Teoria King Kong – Virginie Despentes
28. Big Mushy Happy Lump – Sarah Andersen
29. Chewie and the Porgs – Kevin Shinick/Fiona Hsieh
30. Cris & Cris – Maria Felicitas Jaime
31. El bosque profundo – Sofia Rhei
32. Nueve cuentos malvados – Margaret Atwood
33. The scarecrow and his servant – Phillip Pullman
34. Los escarabajos vuelan al atardecer – Maria Gripe
35. Ewald Tragy i altres textos de joventut – Rainer Maria Rilke
36. Un pavo rosa – Diana Gutiérrez
37. El príncep i el captaire – Mark Twain
38. The Ghost Prison – Joseph Delaney
39. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
40. Heidegger i un hipopòtam travessen les portes del cel – Daniel Klein / Thomas Cathcart
41. Nälkäpeli – Suzanne Collins
42. Else & Barbulette – Susana Arrabal
43. A feast of sorrows – Angela Slatter
44. Pandora – Anne Rice
45. La expedición – Stephen King
46. El misterio del cuarto amarillo – Gaston Leroux
47. Moss Dash – Apila Pepita
48. The bride was a boy – Chii
49. 10 Dances – Inouesatoh
50. Hän on kannoillasi – R.L. Stine
Some were borrowed, but most were from my Shelf Of Shame (that is still...very full bc I keep buying books or taking them from bookcrossing spots at the library).
Some of them (like the Stephen King ones) had been there since I was 14yo. Others (like 4, 13, 40, and 46) had been gifts from relatives who only knew I liked to read and had no idea of which genre.
I’m not gonna comment on the classics in here, I liked some and some I didn’t, and I’m not willing to disclose which ones. Probably 23 was my favourite of this group though.
The Finnish titles I had already read in either English or Spanish, and re-read them in Finnish to practice the language. 21 and 47 are by independent Finnish artists/authors and in English, they have queer themes and are cool.
I liked most of the mangas (5,6,7,8,16,17,48,49) and some of the comics (28,29).
Was a bit disappointed with the Phillip Pullman books that weren’t n.19, but mostly bc I expected something different when I bought them.
Special mentions:
A feast of Sorrows, I found second hand for free and it was really, really good, and up my alley in what I’m interested right now: new fairy tales, with women protagonists, and just damn thrilling.
Nueve cuentos malvados, surprised me because the protagonists of the tales were elderly people, an age group that I’ve barely read about, and it was an interesting persepective.
El bosque profundo is a collection of microtales and it was!!! so!!! good!!! Sadly it’s in Spanish and hasn’t been translated yet. I’m half-way through another book of the same author and I’m liking it a lot.
Most of the books I have left now are very thick, so I won’t be able to read them as quickly, but maybe I could try to aim for 25 more books before the end of the year? But it’s a soft objective because I have already read so much. I’m currently re-reading Good Omens (which doesn’t count) and I have like, three more books started, the rest of the Hunger Games in Finnish, etc.
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A poco a poco si rende conto che è stato un sogno, soltanto un sogno, quindi nulla. Ciò non gli dà requie. «Quando sono sogni?» si chiede ad alta voce. E racconta al signor von Kranz, che lo visita verso sera: «La vita è così grande e dentro ci sono così poche cose, sempre le stesse, una ogni eternità. Questi trapassi impauriscono e stancano. Una volta, da bambino, andai in Italia. Non ne so molto. Ma laggiù, quando in campagna si chiede a un contadino: "Quant'è lontano il paese?". "Una mezz'ora" dice quello. Il successivo dice lo stesso e lo stesso il terzo, come se si fossero messi d'accordo. Si cammina tutto il giorno, senza essere arrivati al paese. Lo stesso è nella vita. Ma in sogno tutto è vicinissimo. Non abbiamo nessuna paura. Noi siamo fatti per il sogno, non abbiamo gli organi per la vita, ma siamo pesci che vogliono volare. Che fare?».
Ewald Tragy - Rainer Maria Rilke
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