Jan 5, 2009 9:02:53 PM
Last year I continued to increase over previous years with 43 books under my belt, including the rest of In Search of Lost Time. This year I'm aiming for at least 50.
January
1. Shakespeare's Christmas - Charlaine Harris
2. Gridlock - Ben Elton
3. Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
February
4. An Ice Cold Grave - Charlaine Harris
5. Gulliver's Travels - Johnathan Swift
March
6. End of Mr. Y - Scarlett Thomas
7. Spook Country - William Gibson
8. Silent is the Grave - Deanna Raybourne
9. The Horns of Elfland - Ellen Kushner, ed.
10. The Scent of the Night - Antonio Camillieri
April
11. The Leopard - Giuseppe di Lampedusa
12. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
13. Shakespeare's Counselor - Charlaine Harris
14. Skeleton in the Grass - Robert Barnard
15. PvP Volume 1: PvP at Large - Scott Kurtz
16. Rude Mechanicals - Kage Baker
May
17. The First Casualty - Ben Elton
18. Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris
June
19. Islands in the Net - Bruce Sterling
20. Dancer's Rise - Jo Clayton
21. Alain de Botton - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
22. When you are engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris
23. The Whitby Witches - Robin Jarvis
24. Yum Yum Dim Sum (World Snacks) - Amy Wilson Sanger
July
25. Thursday Next: First Among Sequels - Jasper Fforde
26. Saturn's Children - Charles Stross
27. The Terracotta Dog - Andrea Camilleri
28. Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith
29. An Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennet
August
30. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
31. Chart Throb - Ben Elton
32. Moon Called - Patricia Briggs
33. The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse - Robert Rankin
34. The Ladies of Grace Adieu - Susanna Clarke
35. Morality for Beautiful Girls - Alexander McCall Smith
36. The Witches - Roald Dahl
September
37. The Kalahari Typing School for Men - Alexander McCall Smith
38. Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris
October
39. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
40. The Full Cupboard of Life - Alexander McCall Smith
41. Black Man - Richard Morgan
December
42. Popco - Scarlett Thomas
43. Firebirds - an anthology
44. The Shape of Water - Antonio Camillieri
45. Johnathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels - Liz Bellamy ("Critical Studies of Key Texts")
46. All Together Dead - Charlaine Harris
47. Black Butterfly - Mark Gattis
Posted by webcowgirl @ Jan 5, 2009 9:02:53 PM [Link]
Jan 5, 2009 8:59:50 PM
Last year I bought 66 books - a real drop over previous years. I was in New York and picked up a few right at the start of the year - um - but I haven't bought any quite yet.
February
1. Frommer's Sicily*
March
2. The Scent of the Night* - Andrea Camilleri
3. Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde - R. L. Stevenson
April
4. Fragrances and Flavors of Sicilian Cuisine - Grafiche Milan Cards, ed
5. Eating in Sicily) - Bonechi (ed)
6. Sicilia in Bocca* - Antonio Cardella
7. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work* - Alain De Botton
8. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
9. The Lost Continent - Bill Bryson
May
10. The Terracotta Dog* - Andrea Camillieri
11. The Double - Jose Saramago
12. Moon guide to Scotland
13. The Scottish Islands: Skye and the Western Isles - James and Deborah Penrith
14. Devon, Cornwall & Southwest England - Lonely Planet
June
15. The Witches - Roald Dahl
16. Dead Famous - Ben Elton
17. The Sunday Philosophy Club* - Alexander McCall Smith
18. Chart Throb* - Ben Elton
19. Past Mortem - Ben Elton
20. The Shape of Water* - Andrea Camilleri
21. The Collector Collector - Tibor Fischer
22. The City and the City - China Mieville
23. Saturn's Children* - Charles Stross
24. PopCo* - Scarlett Thomas
July
25. Tears of the Giraffe* - Alexander McCall Smith
26. Casanova's History of my Life - John Julius Norwich
27. Eroticism & Art - Alyce Mahon
28. 20th Century Erotica (Volume II) - Gilles Neret (Taschen)
August
29. Eric of Melnibone - Michael Moorcock
30. London Stories - London Walks
31. Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects
32. Black Man - Richard Morgan*
33. Managing Expectations: Working with People Who Want More, Better, Faster, Sooner, Now!
September
34. Surviving the Top-ten Challenges of Software Testing: A People Oriented Approach
October
35. The Dante Club - Nathaniel Pearl
November
36. Time Out's "Madrid"
37. Tears of Eros (exhibition catalog)
38. 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom - Alan Moore
39. Time Out's "Istanbul"
December
40. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies - Alexander McCall Smith
41. Frommer's Istanbul Day by Day
42. Black Butterfly: A Lucifer Box Novel - Mark Gattis
* = read it
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Jan 5, 2009 8:55:39 PM
Last year I saw a whopping 93 shows. I have no such intentions this year, but who knows what will happen?
January
1. No Man's Land - Duke of York Theatre
2. It's Behind You - Union Theatre
3. Entertaining Mr. Sloane – Trafalgar Studios
February
4. Three Days of Rain – Apollo Theatre
5. Die tote Stadt – Royal Opera House
6. A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Southwark Playhouse
7. Into the Little Hill – Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House
8. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Union Theatre
9. Twelfth Night – Donmar at Wyndham’s Theatre
10. Carousel – The Savoy Theatre
March
11. Les 7 Doigts de la Main’s “Traces” – Peacock Theatre
12. Over There – Royal Court Theatre
13. Estrella Morente – Sadler’s Wells 2009 Flamenco Festival
14. “Mujeres” (Merche Esmeralda, Belen Maya, Rocio Molina) – Sadler’s Well’s Flamenco Festival 2009
15. Antonio Gades’ Company’s Carmen – Sadler’s Wells
16. Stovepipe – National Theater/Bush Theater at West 12, Shepherds Bush
17. Twelfth Night -Shochiku Grand Kabuki at the Barbican
18. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: The Musical – Palace Theatre
April
19. Romeo Castellucci’s Inferno and 20. Paradiso – Barbican (Spill Festival)
21. Orlando al Giardino Incantato di Drogantina - Teatro dei Pupi (Marionette/Puppet Theater) Syracuse/Siracusa, Piccolo Teatro dei Pupi
22. Dama Rovenza assedia Parigi - Palermo Puppet Museum
23. Title Unknown - Vicenzo Argento e Figli Marionette Show - Palermo
24. Birmingham Royal Ballet’s “Pomp and Circumstances” (Serenade/Balanchine, Enigma Variations/Ashton, ‘Still Life’ at the Penguin Cafe/Bintley) – London Coliseum
25. Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas – Royal Opera House
26. Kneehigh Theatre’s “Don John – Battersea Arts Centre
27. Dimetos - Donmar Warehouse
28. A View from the Bridge - Duke of York’s Theatre
29. Peer Gynt – National Theatre of Scotland and Dundee Rep Ensemble at the Barbican
May
30. Mixed Bill (Les Sylphides, Sensorium, The Firebird) – Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House
31. The Great Game (part 1) – Tricycle theatre
32. Tiger Lillies - New Players Theatre
33. Jordi Savall - Wigmore Hall (London)
34. New Works in the Linbury (spring 2009) – Linbury Studio
35. Giselle – Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House
36. The Harp Consort’s “The English Dancing Master” – Lufthansa Festival of the Baroque, St. John’s Smith Square
37. Northern Ballet’s Mixed Programme (As Time Goes By, Angels in the Architecture, A Simple Man) – Sadler’s Wells
38. “A Choice Collection” – Emma Kirkby, Jakob Lindberg, Steven Devine – Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music 2009 at St. John’s Smith Square
39. Phantasm - St. John's Smith Square
40. Sondheim’s “Company” - Union Theatre Southwark
41. Aunt Dan and Lemon – Royal Court Theatre
42. Sturmhöhe (Wuthering Heights) – Bern:Ballett at the Royal Opera House
43. Exquisite Corpse - Southwark Playhouse
June
44. Diaghilev tribute - Royal Opera House
45. Phedre - National Theatre
46. England - Whitechapel gallery
47. Been So Long - Young Vic
48. Ballets Russes Program (Apollo, Le Spectre de la Rose, The Dying Swan, Faun(e), Schéhérazade) - English National Ballet at Sadler's Wells
49. Kursk - Young Vic
50. Doll's House - Donmar Warehouse
51. Eonaggata - Sadler's Wells
52. English National Ballet School and Central Ballet School of London - City of London Festival on the steps of St. Pauls
53. Forbidden Broadway - Menier Chocolate Factory
July
54. Royal Ballet School Summer Program - Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House
55. Time and the Conways - National Theatre
56. Last Seen - Slung Low at the Almeida Theatre
57. English National Ballet School summer show - Sadler's Wells
58. All male Pirates of Penzance - Union Theatre
59. The Mountaintop - Trafalgar Studios
60. Carlos Acosta and Friends - London Coliseum
61. La Cage Aux Folles - London
62. Ghosts - Arcola
August
63. Jerusalem - Royal Court Theatre
64. Swan Lake - Mariinski Ballet
65. “Spike Milligan’s 'Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall'” – Hampstead Theatre
66. State Fair - Finborough Theatre
67. Hamlet - Wyndham Theatre (Donmar West End)
68. A Streetcar Named Desire - Donmar Theatre
September
69. Alan Cumming’s “I Bought a Blue Car Today” – Vaudeville Theatre
70. The Pitman Painters – National Theatre
71. The Mysteries - Garrick
72. The Brandstrup/Rojo project – Linbury Theater
73. An Inspector Calls – The Novello Theatre
74. Jordi Savall's Hesperion XXI - "Jerusalem, City of Peace" - Teatro Piccolo
75. Insane in the Brain – Bounce at the Peacock Theatre
October
76. Scottish Ballet, Sadlers Wells (Mixed rep)
77. Enron, Royal Court
78. Annie Get Your Gun, Young Vic
79. Mayerling, Royal Ballet
80. Grand Macabre, ENO
81. Comedians, Lyric Hammersmith
82. In the Spirit of Diaghilev, Sadlers’ Wells
83. Clockwork Quartet’s Chocolate Steampunk Evening, The Horse Hospital
84. Cirkus Cirkor
85. Terror 2009 - Theatre of Horror and Grand Guignol (a quartet of spooky plays) at the Southwark Playhouse
86. Silence of the Lambs the Musical, Baron’s Court Theatre
87. Money, Shunt
88. They Only Come at Night , Barbican
89. Michael Clark Company, “Swamp” and “come, been, gone” (the Bowie/Iggy/Lou Reed dances), Barbican
November
90. Inherit the Wind – Old Vic
91. Marionette “Out of the Heart of Darkness” – Movingstage at the Puppet Barge
92. Music from the Forbidden City, Le Baroque Nomade - Brighton Early Music Festival at the Brighton Royal Pavillion
93. Les Arts Florissants Monteverdi Madrigals - Islington Union Chapel
94. Habit of Art - National Theatre
95. Birmingham Royal Ballet’s “Quantum Leaps” Program – Sadler’s Wells
96. Cyrano – Birmingham Royal Ballet at Sadler’s Wells
97. Nation – National Theatre
98. Sleeping Beauty - Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House
99. Royal Ballet's Mixed Bill (Agon, Sphinx, Limen) - Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House
100. Aakash Odedra & Yuko Inoue - Svapnagata Festival at Sadlers Wells
101. Sweet Charity - Menier Playhouse
102. ROH2 Firsts 2009 (Nicola Conibere, Mualla, Aurelie, El Toro Theater) – Linbury Studio
103. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Novello Theatre
December
104. Cock - Royal Court
105. Carlos Acosta – Apollo and Other Works (Faun, New Apollo, Suite of Dances, Apollo) – Sadler’s Wells
106. Showstopper the Musical - Drill Hall
107. Not So Silent Night - Rufus Wainwright and Friends at the Royal Albert Hall
108. Misanthrope - Comedy Theatre
109. A Christmas Carol - Southwark Playhouse
110. Trio Medieval - Wigmore Hall
111. Aladdin - New Wimbledon Theatre
112. Nutcracker - Royal Ballet
113. Chicago - Cambridge Theatre
114. Messiah - Academy of Ancient Music at Cadogan Hall
115. Aladdin - Hackney Empire
116. Sandy Toksvig's Christmas Spectacular - Southbank Center, Queen Elizabeth Hall
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